Abstract: To provide for essentially uniform ultraviolet (UV) irradiation of all the nails of all the fingers of a hand of a user, a radiation source of essentially horseshoe shape is placed within a housing. The plane, in which the radiation source is located, is inclined with respect to the bottom wall (2) of the housing, on which the hand of the user is supported. The radiation is directed to impinge on the nails at about 90.degree.. The nail of the thumb also has radiation impinging at about 90.degree.. The radiation source may be a single, bowed, UV-emitting lamp, or may be built-up of straight lamp sections (12,13), e.g., two lamps along the housing sides for irradiating the thumbs, and one or two lamps across the housing to irradiate the nails of the index finger through little finger.

Abstract: A centrifuge is known which has a rotor bearing a plurality of swinging buckets mounted each on two pivots and sector-shaped inserts secured in place on the axis of the rotor shaft. The inserts have substantially vertical, radially disposed supporting walls which receive the thrust of the pivots and their outer part serves as a centrifugal force-supporting surface in the operating state. Two pivots are associated with each sector-shaped insert. In order to construct a centrifuge with swinging buckets such that it will be distinguished by its simple construction and will not require adjustment of the individual components with respect to one another, a pivot is disposed on each of the two supporting walls of the insert with their free ends confronting one another.