Abstract: A method for manufacturing lead grids for battery electrodes includes providing a lead strip at a cutting and ablation station, cutting the lead strip by at least one laser beam that cuts and reduces the thickness of the lead strip to form a lead grid, and supporting the lead strip, at least at the cutting and ablation station, without interfering with the laser beam. The lead strip may be supported in a limited number of discrete positions which are as little as possible coincident with the cutting positions of the laser beam. Alternatively, the lead strip is supported by means transparent to the wavelength of the laser. The laser beam is focused and moved by a generally remote scanning and/or proximity head, preferably mounted on a motion system which controls its position according to a selected cutting path and controls the focal position. The process allows continuous control of the path and/or parameters of cutting and/or ablation by means of software.

Abstract: Process for the stabilization of choline and stabilization of vitamins, in which choline is heated with a mixture of an aldehyde and a nitrogenous compound, preferably formaldehyde and urea, and vitamins are stabilized by addition thereof to said mixture of choline, aldehyde and nitrogenous compounds before the beginning of the stabilizing reaction.

Abstract: An extensible table has a rectangular frame with pairs of longitudinal beams and cross beams, a leg at each corner, and two draw-out plates which can be selectively stacked, and aligned in co-planar condition. The improvement is that each leg has a top recess in which is engaged a male portion of a shoulder element including an upper L-shaped portion defining a cavity to receive the cross beams. Roller means are on one arm of the L-shaped portion to carry the draw-out plates. Each longitudinal beam has on an inner face a mirror-image groove formation in which are received lateral rollers on the draw-out plates.