Abstract: A metering and mixing device contains a multichamber cartridge and a cartridge holder having a reception container for the multichamber cartridge and a compressed air connection and a connection for an application device. The reception container has an internal tube arranged coaxially to the walls of the cartridge holder and equipped with static mixing elements. The multichamber cartridge contains an upper portion having a directional valve, a middle portion configured as a tubular empty space surrounded by at least two chambers arranged tubularly in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the cartridge, and a lower portion having a piston for each chamber. The multichamber cartridge is arranged in the cartridge holder such that the inner wall of the inner tube of the multichamber cartridge bears, leak-tight, against the outer wall of the tube of the cartridge holder.

Abstract: A metering and mixing device contains a multichamber cartridge and a cartridge holder having a reception container for the multichamber cartridge and a compressed air connection and a connection for an application device. The reception container has an internal tube arranged coaxially to the walls of the cartridge holder and equipped with static mixing elements. The multichamber cartridge contains an upper portion having a directional valve, a middle portion configured as a tubular empty space surrounded by at least two chambers arranged tubularly in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the cartridge, and a lower portion having a piston for each chamber. The multichamber cartridge is arranged in the cartridge holder such that the inner wall of the inner tube of the multichamber cartridge bears, leak-tight, against the outer wall of the tube of the cartridge holder.

Abstract: A testing device and a method for verifying the charge invoicing for a communications device according to time unit intervals is provided. A testing device, which can simulate at least one calling analog terminal and at least one called terminal, is connected to a network node that generates time pulses. At least one predetermined test communications connection is set up and terminated over at least the one network node. Further, the time interval between the beginning of the test communications connection and the generation of a first time pulse is determined and verified to ascertain whether the determined time interval is located within a first predetermined time domain. During the existing test communications connection, time unit intervals of successive time pulses are measured and compared with a predetermined time interval. A further method involving receipt of additional time pulse(s) after the termination of the test communications connection is also provided.

Abstract: A method and system for verifying the connection-related communications data registered by a network node, where the connection-related communications data are used for the calculation of charges includes establishing at least one predetermined test communication connection. By clearing the predetermined test communication connection via the network node and registering a time of an event, the system and method registers the time of at least one additional event for calculating charges at a predetermined measuring point lying outside of the network node. A systematic temporal measuring error is determined. A reference data record containing time-related data and a connection-related communications data record generated is generated. The method corrects the time-related data of the reference data by the ascertained systematic temporal measuring error and compares the reference data record to the connection-related communications data record to determine if a difference lies within a predetermined range.

Abstract: A system and method for ensuring that a digital switching exchange is able to properly collect data on the charges incurred for pay connections by providing a verification of the accuracy of the communications data records generated by the digital switching exchange. A system and method containing at least one test unit that is able to be linked to the digital switching exchange. The test unit includes a device for generating a connection-related reference data record. The digital switching exchange is able to generate at least one connection-related communications data record from transmitted communications elements. The contents of the connection-related reference data record are compared in a system evaluator to the contents of each connection-related communications data record belonging to it.

Abstract: A method and system for verifying the connection-related communications data registered by a network node, where the connection-related communications data are used for the calculation of charges includes establishing at least one predetermined test communication connection. By clearing the predetermined test communication connection via the network node and registering a time of an event, the system and method registers the time of at least one additional event for calculating charges at a predetermined measuring point lying outside of the network node. A systematic temporal measuring error is determined. A reference data record containing time-related data and a connection-related communications data record generated is generated. The method corrects the time-related data of the reference data by the ascertained systematic temporal measuring error and compares the reference data record to the connection-related communications data record to determine if a difference lies within a predetermined range.

Abstract: The invention relates to a testing device and to a method for verifying the charge invoicing for a communications device according to time unit intervals. According to the invention, a testing device, which can simulate at least one calling analog terminal and at least one called terminal, is connected to a network node that generates time pulses. At least one predetermined test communications connection is set up and terminated over at least the one network node (40). In addition, the time interval between the beginning of the test communications connection and the generation of a first time pulse is determined and verified to ascertain whether the determined time interval is located within a first predetermined time domain. During the existing test communications connection, time unit intervals of successive time pulses are measured and compared with a predetermined time interval.

Abstract: A catheter assembly for the treatment of vessels carrying body fluid, comprising an inner catheter provided with a guidewire lumen for receiving a guidewire and an inflation lumen for a balloon provided at its distal end. The catheter assembly further comprises an outer catheter provided with an inflation lumen for a balloon provided at its distal end and a lumen in which the inner catheter is applied shiftable for changing the spacing of the two balloons and which features a larger cross-section than that of the inner catheter so that between the outer wall of the inner catheter and the inner wall of the outer catheter a cross-section employable as an inflation lumen exists and ports into the portion sited between the two balloons.

Abstract: A catheter for treating an obstructed blood vessel comprises an elongated tubular body having an internal lumen, a proximal portion and a distal portion, and includes an inflatable dilatation element on the distal portion thereof. The dilatation element is in communication with the lumen and is adapted to be inflatable and deflatable by the application of a suitable therapeutic tissue dissolving fluid pressurized within the lumen. The dilatation element includes a wall having microporus openings adapted to be permeable by the fluid applied to inflate the dilatation element. The fluid, which is pumped into the interior space of the dilatation element, under sufficient pressure, presses through the microporus wall directly on and into the adjacnet tissue. The fluid tends to dissolve the tissue, thereby treatment time is considerably shortened and the long-term success of the treatment is improved, since the impairing tissue is not only dislodged but also dissolved from the vessel.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of optionally p-chlorine-substituted 2,6-diaminotoluene, which is characterized in that 3,4-dichlorotoluene is dinitrated in the presence of an inert, water-immiscible, organic solvent and/or diluent at temperatures of -10.degree. to +100.degree. C. and is subsequently reduced, optionally after intermediate isolation of the dinitro compound, in the presence of an inert organic solvent and/or diluent and/or of water, with partial or complete splitting-off of the chlorine atoms, to give the diamino compound.2,6-Diaminotoluenes are valuable intermediates for the preparation of diisocyanates and polyurethanes; the 2,6-diaminotoluene is furthermore used for the preparation of dyestuffs and antioxidants.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of hard paper involves impregnating lengths of cellulose-containing material with plasticizer-containing mixture of a phenol-resol resin solution and cresol-resol resin solution according to a one-step method, subsequent drying, and then hardening of the resin-impregnated paper. The impregnating solution employed is a mixture of a 50-80% by weight phenol-resol resin solution with a 40-70% by weight cresol-resol resin solution, to which has been admixed, before impregnation, a plasticizer and additional water. The water is added in amounts of 4-12% by weight, based on the sum total weight of solid resins and plasticizer in the total solution mixture.

Abstract: Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) pipes, which may have a supporting metal mandrel placed therein, are flanged. To this end, use is made of a first implement which is a rigid annular plate having a frustoconical element and a bevelled cylindrical plug slightly smaller in diameter than the PTFE-pipe centrally mounted thereon. The first implement is heated once to 180.degree.-210.degree. C and forced into contact with the PTFE-pipe so that the plug opens thereinto. The PTFE-pipe and the first implement projecting thereinto are caused to rotate for 0.5-3 minutes at a speed of 5-10 rpm and under a contact pressure of 5-20 kg/cm.sup.2 of pipe surface area to be flanged whereby the free end of the PTFE-pipe is flared. The first implement is removed and replaced by a second implement which is a rigid annular plate having a bevelled cylindrical plug substantially equal in diameter with the PTFE-pipe centrally mounted thereon. The second implement is heated once to 180.degree.-210.degree.