Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the formation, chemistry and application of biologically active compositions. More particularly, the present invention relates to certain dyes, specifically porphyrin and chlorin derivatives, in combination with inventive polymers, i.e. light-cleavable polymers, that can be used as photosensitizer compositions for a wide range of light irradiation treatments such as photodynamic therapy of cancer, infections and other diseases. The dye derivatives may either be adsorbed on, or incorporated in, or attached to specific polymers, which as well form part of the invention.

Abstract: A motor chainsaw has a housing enclosing a motor with actuator and a saw chain. A braking device for the saw chain is positioned in the housing. The braking device has a brake drum and a brake band guided around the brake drum. The braking device has a brake lever connected to the housing so as to be pivotable about a first axis of rotation for moving the brake band from a release position into a braking position. A return kick brake for actuating the braking device is provided. The return kick brake has a ready position and an actuated position in which the brake band is in the braking position. The return kick brake has a hand protection grip, a control lever, and a return kick brake spring for loading the control lever. The control lever, when the return kick brake is moved from the ready position into the actuated position, pivots the brake lever into the braking position.

Abstract: The device for braking an electric drive motor of a hand-held working tool has a safety brake for an immediate stopping of the working tool and an independent mechanical brake for coasting the working tool to a stop after switching off the drive motor. The mechanical brake acts on a rotational part connected to the drive motor and is activated when a switch element for activating the drive motor is released.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a motor-driven chain saw having a housing and a drive motor mounted in the housing for driving a sprocket wheel. The sprocket wheel, in turn, drives a saw chain guided around the periphery of a guide bar. The flat guide bar projects forwardly in the longitudinal direction of the chain saw and has a rearward end facing toward the sprocket wheel. Stud bolts fixed to the housing lie perpendicularly to the guide bar and project therethrough. The stud bolts also extend through a sprocket wheel cover laterally closing off the housing. The stud bolts have projecting free ends carrying respective nuts. In this way, the rearward end of the guide bar can be tightly clamped between the housing and the sprocket wheel cover. The stud bolts have respective other ends facing away from the guide bar which are tightly seated in the engine block of the drive motor. In this way, the loads acting on the guide bar can be taken up without danger of causing fractures in the housing.

Abstract: A motor-driven chain saw is electrically operated by means of a universal motor and has two brake systems operating independently of one another. A mechanical brake system serves as a safety brake and when actuated, the mechanical brake system brings the saw chain to a standstill instantaneously. The second brake system is an electric coasting brake, which when the switch is released stops the saw chain quickly but without recoil. The electrical braking is effected by reversing the polarity of one pole coil of the field winding and short-circuiting it with the rotor winding.

Abstract: An oil pump is disclosed for a motor-driven apparatus and in particular for lubricating the cutting chain of a chain saw. The oil pump has a pump piston that is rotatable about its longitudinal axis and has a control cam for its axial reciprocation, which as it revolves comes into contact engagement with a control bolt. A control slide upon which a biasing force is exerted is associated with the pump piston. The stroke of the pump piston is limited during normal operation by means of the control slide. If an increased amount of lubricating oil is required, the limitation on the piston stroke effected by the control slide is overcome by moving the control slide away from the pump piston counter to its biasing force, so that the pump piston can move through its maximum total stroke as predetermined by the control cam.

Abstract: A chain saw is disclosed having a drive motor which drives the sprocket wheel of the saw chain via a transmission stage. The sprocket wheel rotates in the same direction as the drive shaft of the drive motor and drives the saw chain in such a manner that the portion thereof traversing the lower periphery of the cutter bar moves toward the housing of the chain saw. The saw chain is braked with a braking arrangement which develops a braking moment that causes the chain saw to develop a reaction moment that opposes the kickback moment occurring as a consequence of the kickback action. In this way, the angle through which the chain saw is deflected during kickback is reduced. In addition, a compact configuration of the motor housing of the chain saw is obtained wherein the braking arrangement is kept free of dirt and chips.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a motor-driven apparatus such as a motor-driven chain saw or the like. It includes a lubricating-oil pump and an oil supply for a work tool and is equipped with a device for interrupting the supply of oil to the tool. This facilitates use of the chain saw apparatus with an accessory attachment work tool such as a hedge trimmer, drilling tool or the like for which a flow of lubricating oil is unnecessary.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an air-intake arrangement for a two-stroke engine for use in hand-guided, engine-driven apparatus such as motor-driven chain saws. The air-intake arrangement includes an air filter and a baffle wall for guiding fuel particles that are buffeted back out of the air induction channel by the engine. The baffle wall has a curvature to define a deflector to redirect the fuel particles in a largely gaseous state towards the carburetor. The arrangement provides an optimum air-fuel mixture which is not overrich and a trouble-free operation of the engine.

Abstract: A method for the preparation of nonalcoholic beverages, especially carbonated beverages, and an apparatus for the practice of the method. First a sugar solution of prescribed concentration is prepared by dissolving sugar in deaerated water with an oxygen content below 0.15 mg/l. The sugar solution is adjusted in an additional deaeration to an oxygen content of less than 0.1 mg/l. The deaerated sugar solution can be finally adjusted to a prescribed concentration with deaerated water and carbonated, and finally it is mixed with flavorings specific to the beverage.

Abstract: A portable motor chain saw with a braking device, for stopping the saw chain during recoil, and with a release, for the braking device, which in the release position is operatively connected with a locking mechanism of the braking device. The release is an inertial mass which is freely movable along an acceleration path, with the kinetic energy of the inertial mass in the release position being greater than the resistance force of the locking mechanism. The release is held in the ready position by at least one holder, preferably a spring which extends between the saw housing and the release.

Abstract: A power saw, especially power chain saw, in which a sprocket wheel is driven by a motor through the intervention of an intermediate clutch acting as safety clutch, and which comprises a control member for disengaging the intermediate clutch. The control member is by means of an actuating member returnable to its ineffective position. The power saw furthermore comprises a follower member which is movable from an engaged position to a disengaged position and vice versa for respectively connecting and disconnecting the clutch elements of the intermediate clutch. The power saw also includes a clutch with a clutch drum and also has a brake member cooperating with the clutch drum. The brake member is designed as brake band and is looped around the clutch drum.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the carbon dioxide content of fluids, especially beer, is described in which there are two pistons disposed on either side of an expansion chamber, the pistons being in cylinders of different displacement volumes, the pistons being displaceable axially together to effect expansion whereby equilibrium between carbon dioxide in gas and in fluid is established thereby permitting, via pressure measurements, a determination of the carbon dioxide content of a fluid sample.

Abstract: A process for the production of polybutadiene having a high cis-1,4-content by the polymerization of 1,3-butadiene in an aliphatic solvent in the presence of a catalyst consisting essentially of(a) an organoaluminum compound,(b) water, and(c) a cobalt compound soluble in the aliphatic solvent,is improved by the combination wherein the 1,3-butadiene is polymerized at a temperature of 0.degree.-100.degree. C., the aliphatic solvent is hexane; the catalyst consists essentially of(a) diethylaluminum chloride,(b) water, and(c) cobalt octoate, cobalt naphthenate or a mixture thereof;and the catalyst components are added to a mixture of the 1,3-butadiene and the hydrocarbon solvent in the sequence of (a), then (b), and then (c), wherein the mixture is homogenized after addition of each catalyst component.

Abstract: An improvement in a process for introducing carbon dioxide into a liquid flowing through a main line, the improvement residing in withdrawing a portion of said liquid through a by-pass line, introducing carbon dioxide into said liquid while in said by-pass line and returning the carbon dioxide enriched liquid to said main line while adjusting the amount of carbon dioxide introduced into said by-pass line to provide a desired carbon dioxide concentration in said liquid in said main line and a device therefore. The process and device disclosed are especially useful for introducing a gas into a beverage, for example, beer, mineral water, barley water, fruit juices, milk and generally alcoholic and nonalcoholic carbon dioxide containing beverages.

Abstract: A measuring cell for the continuous determination of the carbon dioxide content of a flowing liquid. The cell comprises an inner chamber having a first substantially cylindrical portion, an input conduit for the feeding of liquid to the cell and a discharge line for the removal of the liquid. The input conduit has a portion entering at one end of the first portion tangentially to its peripheral surface and a discharge line has a portion disposed in a direction of the longitudinal axis of the first portion and entering the chamber below the input conduit. The input conduit is constricted at or immediately ahead of the point of entry and a device is disposed within the chamber in the immediate vicinity of the point of entry or directly ahead of the entry of the discharge line for measuring the temperature of the liquid and a second device is disposed at the inner wall of the first portion for measuring the outgassing pressure of the liquid.

Abstract: A sauna stove arrangement with an electric heater and an exit opening for hot air. At a distance above the hot air exit opening, a vertically movable protective cover is provided. A trigger release member is connected to the protective cover and moves within a path of motion of a switch which disconnects the heater. The protective cover is movable downward against the action of a spring, and forms at least part of the lever arm of a beam balance having another lever arm constructed as the trigger for the switch. The protective cover, furthermore, forms the longer lever arm of the beam balance, and the shorter lever arm has a counterpoise which keeps the beam balance in equilibrium if there is no load on the protective cover. The beam balance is supported at a wall adjacent to the sauna stove, and its shorter lever arm projects partially into a recess in the wall in which the switch is located.

Abstract: Disclosed is a braking mechanism for a hand-held, motor-driven chain saw, comprising: a brake drum which rotates with the drive for the saw chain; a braking member positioned to selectively contact the brake drum in order to stop the chain; a lever pivotably mounted on the saw and extending to the vicinity of the guide handle; an arm, preferably a V-shaped rocker arm having a locking recess therein, pivotably connected to the saw and connected to the braking member for selectively moving the braking member into contact with the brake drum upon rotation of the arm into a braking position; a spring connected to the saw and to the arm for biasing the arm toward the braking position; a tongue member pivotably attached to the saw and adapted to be moved in contacting relationship with the arm, and to preferably engage in the locking recess in the arm, to move the arm at least out of the braking position and lock it there; and a cam member, separate from the tongue member, pivotably connected to the saw and respons

Abstract: A control device for the engine of an engine driven saw having a carburetor with a normally closed fuel control or throttle valve and a normally open starting or choke valve. The device includes a selector member which has a "stop" position in which the engine ignition is disabled and an "operating" position in which the throttle valve is freely adjustable. The selector member also has a "warm start" position and a "cold start" position with the throttle valve being held in a position of minimum opening thereby in each position while the starting valve is held closed by the selector member only in the "cold start" position of the selector member.

Abstract: A motor chain saw with a driving sprocket wheel adapted to be driven by a motor through the intervention of a centrifugal clutch, or the like. A safety clutch is arranged in the driving connection between the motor shaft and the driving sprocket and disengageable by a release mechanism. The safety clutch includes at least one disengageable follower member for interconnecting the two pertaining clutch members while being coaxially arranged with the centrifugal clutch and being located adjacent thereto. The safety clutch is arranged on that side of said centrifugal clutch which faces toward the driving sprocket while being located in the driving connection between the centrifugal clutch and the driving sprocket.