Abstract: A device (1) for cleaning the external auditory canal, which device (1) includes a guide sleeve (30), with a proximal outlet portion (31) for partial insertion into the auditory canal, and an instrumentation rod (10) that can be guided axially through the guide sleeve (30). At a proximal end region, the instrumentation rod (10) has a cleaner (20) with at least one circumferentially extending cleaning element (21) which is elastically expandable in a radial direction. An internal cross section of the proximal outlet portion (31) is smaller than an external cross section of the cleaning element (21) in a radially expanded state.

Abstract: A device (1) for cleaning the external auditory canal, which device (1) includes a guide sleeve (30), with a proximal outlet portion (31) for partial insertion into the auditory canal, and an instrumentation rod (10) that can be guided axially through the guide sleeve (30). At a proximal end region, the instrumentation rod (10) has a cleaner (20) with at least one circumferentially extending cleaning element (21) which is elastically expandable in a radial direction. An internal cross section of the proximal outlet portion (31) is smaller than an external cross section of the cleaning element (21) in a radially expanded state.

Abstract: A cotton bud with a rod-like grip body and with a bud body that is arranged at least at one free end of the grip body. The rod-like grip body is a biologically degradable extrusion body, and includes natural fibers embedded into a material matrix.

Abstract: A cotton bud with a rod-like grip body and with a bud body that is arranged at least at one free end of the grip body. The rod-like grip body is a biologically degradable extrusion body.

Abstract: A cotton bud with a rod-like grip body and with a bud body that is arranged at least at one free end of the grip body. The rod-like grip body is a biologically degradable extrusion body, and includes natural fibres embedded into a material matrix.

Abstract: The production plant for bulk goods essentially includes a feed side for raw material, a processing unit for the material and a removal side for the processed products. In plants with a high output, the individual units of the plant run at a very high speed, causing wear and, as a result, disruptions to the process. It is therefore the object to step down the plant units running at a particularly high speed without thereby reducing the output. In the illustrative case of a plant for producing cotton sticks, this object is achieved by reducing the speed on the primary side and increasing the loading. When the speed of the primary chain is halved and the loading of blanks and wads is doubled, the same output is achieved with a significantly more moderate speed.

Abstract: For operation of contact-less identification media in a system with contact applications for contact cards, an initialized converter module is connected in series as a read/write station. This converter module, on the one hand, executes a contact-less communication with initialized contact-less identification media and, on the other hand, a contact communication at a contact card interface to a host computer or to an application computer for the communication with a contact application of the system and the converter module translates the contact-less communication with respect to communication rules and information into a contact communication with contact information and vice versa and the initialization of the converter module is defined in a hierarchic authorization system. This makes possible a particularly simple and efficient introduction of contact-less identification media into existing contact card systems and—installations.

Abstract: For the operation of contact-less identification media RF-IM in a system with contact applications C-App for contact cards C-IM, an initialised converter module C-RF is connected in series as a read/write station. This converter module, on the one hand, executes a contact-less communication K-RF with initialised contact-less identification media RF-IM and, on the other hand, a contact communication K-C at a contact card interface S to a host computer H or to an application computer App-uP for the communication with a contact application C-App of the system and the converter module translates the contact-less communication K-RF with respect to communication rules and information I-RF into a contact communication K-C with contact information I-C and vice versa. This makes possible a particularly simple and efficient introduction of contact-less identification media RF-IM into existing contact card systems and—installations.