Abstract: In a device for examining anterior sections of the eye, based on the Scheimpflug principle, an electric receiver is provided in the imaging-beam path for electronic evaluation of results of the examination. Various meridian sections in the patient's eye are produced by means of a rotatable prism. A fixation object and a graticule in the illumination beam path enable easy reproducibility of measurement results, as well as facilitating follow-up examinations which seek to observe the same eye for changes, from one examination to a later examination.

Abstract: For the manufacture of heat exchanger tubes having a metal strip (tangential surface) welded to the surface of the tube, the metal strip is fastened to the surface of the tube by through-welding with welding current of alternating value.

Abstract: Optical filters, e.g. for reflecting infrared radiation while passing visible light radiation is made by applying to the silver reflective coating a protective coating of a metal oxide by magnetron cathode sputtering and only thereafter is the dereflective layer applied by magnetron cathode sputtering. The protective coating-oxygen partial pressure and coating rate are substantially less than the dereflective coating-oxygen partial pressure and coating rate. Apparently the protective coating prevents damage to the reflective coating.

Abstract: The invention contemplates apparatus for simultaneous photometric observation of a plurality of elements in a liquid sample, wherein a dilute solution of the sample is atomized and fed to an elongate steady flame and wherein light from a hollow-cathode lamp, and containing at least one narrow-band emission line of one of the elements to be determined, is directed through the flame; plural photoelectric receivers, each with an associated filter unique to a line characteristic of a different specific element to be determined, are disposed to respond to light passing through the flame or to light emitted by the flame, as the case may be. The detected outputs of the receivers are fed to a computer for evaluation, the outputs of emission receivers being first electronically processed for the effective removal of "dust flashes" in the flame.

Abstract: Apparatus for crystallizing an amorphous material which is in granular form involves admitting the granular synthetic resin into a vertical crystallization zone and permitting the granular resin to descend through this zone under the influence of gravity. A counterflow of hot gas is passed through the descending granular resin and heats the latter to a temperature at which it transforms from an amorphous to a crystalline state. Once the granular resin has passed through the crystallization zone, it is subjected to abrasion for the purpose of separating crystalline particles which adhere to one another. An apparatus for carrying out the method includes a vertical vessel which extends outwardly and downwardly and which may be of rectangular or circular cross-section. An inlet for granular material and an outlet for spent gas are provided at the top of the vessel. An outlet for the crystallized material and an inlet for hot gas are provided at the bottom of the vessel.

Abstract: This invention relates to an anchoring arrangement comprising a plug of a two-component adhesive adapted to be received in a hole in a receiving material, said adhesive being hardenable after the intermixing of the two components and at least one component thereof being micro-encapsulated and in intimate mixture with the second component, and an anchoring rod for an arrangement rupturing said micro-capsules upon insertion into said hole.

Abstract: A hardenable molding composition containing a sulfochlorinated polyolefin or sulfochlorinated olefin copolymer and a crosslinking agent, said crosslinking agent being an organic derivative or mixture of organic derivatives of titanic acid, e.g., the reaction product of a titanic acid ester with a chelating agent such as a .beta.-dicarbonyl compound, an acetic acid ester or a polyhydroxy compound. Molding compositions of the invention can contain conventional additives, fillers, solvents, plasticizers, flameproofing agents, thixotropic agents and/or adhesivizing agents and the like.

Abstract: A corrosive liquid such as sulphuric acid is concentrated using two spaced concentric tubes. A film of the acid flows down the inside of the inner tube and hot flue gases contact the outside of the outer tube. Advantageously, the inner tube transmits radiant energy, e.g. is made of quartz, so the outer tube heats the inner tube by radiation. This absence of mechanical stress on the inner tube increases its life. The water vapor is taken off at the top of the inner tube and concentrated solution at the bottom. If desired, the tubes could be reversed with the flue gases going through the inner tube and the outer tube being of quartz with the liquid flowing on its outside.

Abstract: A multi-stage apparatus suited for concentrating sulphuric acid comprising at least one high temperature stage and one low temperature stage, the high temperature stage including a surrounding wall defining a flue gas channel, means for delivering hot flue gas to said channel, and means for withdrawing from said channel cooled flue gas, the flue gas heating said surrounding wall which in turn imparts heat to material to be heated thereby, the low temperature stage including a heat exchanger with a first flow path for a heating agent and a second flow path for a material to be heated thereby, means for supplying the said second flow path material to be heated, means for withdrawing from said second flow path material after having been heated therein, and means for withdrawing from said first flow path spent heating agent, the means for withdrawing cooled flue gas from said flue channel of said high temperature stage forwarding heat from said cooled flue gas to said first flow path of said low temperature stage

Abstract: This invention relates to an anchoring arrangement comprising a two-component adhesive adapted to be received in a hole in a receiving material, said adhesive being hardenable after the intermixing of the two components and at least one component thereof being micro-encapsulated and in intimate mixture with the second component, and an arrangement rupturing said micro-capsules upon insertion into said hole.

Abstract: A high methane gas which can be substituted for natural gas is produced from a primary gas made by the gasification of coal, tar, or heavy residual oil under superatmospheric pressures. The primary gas is purified to remove catalyst poisons and is scrubbed to remove carbon dioxide to a residual content below 2% by volume. The water vapor to carbon monoxide volume ratio of the scrubbed gas is adjusted to 0.55 : 1 to 1 : 1 and is then passed through a reaction zone containing a shift conversion catalyst and a methanation catalyst in a volume ratio of approximately 1 : 4 to 1 : 10. The scrubbed gas entering the reaction zone enters the reaction zone at a temperature of 300.degree.-500.degree. C.

Abstract: To increase the degree of separation of liquid droplets from a stream of gas by means of a separator consisting of a packet of wire gauze arranged in a pipe, the packet is subdivided along its height by discharge channels arranged transverse to the direction of flow.

Abstract: A gas which can be substituted for natural gas is produced from a raw gas containing hydrogen and carbon oxides which is produced by the gasification of coal, tar or heavy residual oils under superatmospheric pressure. The raw gas is cooled, purified to remove catalyst poisons, particularly sulfur compounds, and then subjected to methanation and at least two stages in contact with nickel catalysts under pressures of 5-100 bars and at temperatures in the range of 200.degree.-500.degree. C. The product gas from the preceding methanation stage is reacted in the last methanation stage in contact with a catalyst which is indirectly cooled by a gas flowing in a countercurrent to the gas to be reacted.

Abstract: A reactor for catalytically converting gases containing carbon oxides, hydrogen and water vapor into methane under elevated temperatures and pressures. The reactor includes a substantially cylindrical outer shell which is provided at opposite end faces with a gas inlet and a gas outlet. An inner vessel contains part of the catalyst volume for the reactor which is impermeable to gas adjacent to the gas inlet. The inner vessel has a substantially cylindrical shell which defines a flow passage with the inner surface of the outer shell of the reactor and has openings for the radially inward passage of the gas mixture to be reacted. A perforated central gas-collecting tube containing no catalyst is positioned in the inner vessel and one or preferably two additional catalyst beds are positioned between the inner vessel and the gas outlet.