Abstract: Passenger seat assemblies including net backrests are described. An example passenger seat assembly can include a lower frame (14) configured to support a seat bottom (36) of the passenger seat. The passenger seat assembly can also include a backrest frame (18) attached to the lower frame (14) and configured to support a backrest assembly. The backrest assembly can include a backplate (16) disposed adjacent an aft side of the backrest frame (18). The backrest assembly can also include a net material (22) attached to the backplate (16) at a first attachment location (46a) on an aft surface of the backplate (16), extending around a forward side of the backrest frame (18), and attached to the backplate (16) at a second attachment location (46b) on the aft surface.

Abstract: Passenger seat assemblies including net backrests are described. An example passenger seat assembly can include a lower frame (14) configured to support a seat bottom (36) of the passenger seat. The passenger seat assembly can also include a backrest frame (18) attached to the lower frame (14) and configured to support a backrest assembly. The backrest assembly can include a backplate (16) disposed adjacent an aft side of the backrest frame (18). The backrest assembly can also include a net material (22) attached to the backplate (16) at a first attachment location (46a) on an aft surface of the backplate (16), extending around a forward side of the backrest frame (18), and attached to the backplate (16) at a second attachment location (46b) on the aft surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to an enantiomerically enriched chiral compound comprising a transition metal M, which comprises four, five or six coordinating groups of which at least one pair is linked together to form a bidentate ligand, in which M is directly bound via one single ?-bond to a carbon atom of an optionally substituted and/or optionally fused (hetero)aromatic ring of said bidentate ligand and in which M is directly bound to a nitrogen atom of a primary or secondary amino group of said bidentate ligand, thereby forming a metallacycle between said bidentate ligand and the metal M, said metal M being selected from the metals of groups 8 and 9 of the Periodic Table of the Elements, in particular iron, ruthenium, osmium, cobalt, rhodium, or iridium. The chiral compound can be used as a catalyst, preferably in an asymmetric transfer hydrogenation process.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrolyte for the electrodeposition of aluminium from aprotic solvents containing a compound of the formula: N(R1)4X.(m-n-o)Al(C2H5)3.nAlR23oAlR33, wherein R1 is a C1 to C4 alkyl group, X is F, Cl or Br, m is equal to 1 to 3, preferably 1.7 to 2.3, n is equal to 0.0 to 1.5, preferably 0.0 to 0.6, o is equal to 0.0 to 1.5, preferably 0.0 to 0.6, R2, R3 is a C1 or C3 to C6 alkyl group, wherein R2 is unequal to R3, in an organic solvent. A further object of the invention is a method for producing the electrolyte, a method for coating and the coated material parts.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for electrolytic coating of materials with aluminum, magnesium or aluminum and magnesium alloys. The method is characterized in that the material is pretreated by being immersed in an electrolytic solution, where it is anodized, the electrolytic coating being performed immediately after in the same electrolytic solution.

Abstract: The invention relates to a coated workpiece comprising a substrate, a metallic layer applied to said substrate, and a layer containing a aluminum/magnesium alloy applied to the intermediate layer. The invention also relates to a method for producing this coated workpiece.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for separating metals and/or metal alloys from metallo-organic electrolytes and depositing the same on products (7), said device comprising at least one coating section (3) for coating the products (7), at least one other treatment section (2,4), and at least one lock chamber (20,40) for introducing and discharging the products (7) into and out of the device (1) essentially without permeation of oxygen and/or humidity. The inventive device is provided with at least one siphon rinsing unit (60,61) comprising a separating element (53,54) for the gas-related separation of the other sections (2,4) of the device from the coating section (3), or for sealing said other sections (2,4) in relation to the coating section (3), and at least one hood part (5) that can be flooded with an inert gas and tightly surrounds essentially the coating section (3), the at least one siphon rinsing unit (60,61), and the at least one other treatment section (2,4).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of sodium hydride, wherein a carbonaceous compound is incorporated in a melt which includes sodium hydroxide or a mixture of one or more alkali metal hydroxides in the absence of oxygen and moisture and is heated at a temperature above the decomposition temperature of sodium hydride of 420° C., and the reaction product is subsequently separated at temperatures of ≦420° C. outside the reaction medium.

Abstract: A device for the electrodeposition of aluminum and/or aluminum alloys from organometallic electrolytes containing alkylaluminum complexes on materials to be coated, said device consisting of a supporting frame with a stand and transportation bearings, at least one plating barrel, at least one drive unit for the plating barrel, and one or more holding arms for the plating barrel, characterized in that the drive unit (3) is arranged in an encapsulated gas-tight housing, the plating barrel (13) has a perforated inner tube (15) arranged along the longitudinal axis thereof and open at its side, so that, when placing the device in an electrolyte container, the lateral openings are arranged directly opposite the electrolyte feed in the electrolyte container, the plating barrel (13) consists of a material which is stable both in aqueous and organometallic electrolytes at temperatures up to 110° C.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to processes and devices for performing the processes comprising electroplating one or more metallic or non-metallic continuous products with metals or metal alloys in a continuous process from aprotic electrolytes free of water and oxygen, wherein the continuous product is passed through a lock system (1) into an encapsulated coating plant under inert gas atmosphere, and the following steps are performed at temperatures ≦120° C.: activating the continuous product to be coated; rinsing the continuous product to be coated; contacting the continuous product to be coated; electroplating the continuous product to be coated using a metal or metal alloy; drying the coated continuous product; discharge of the coated continuous product from the plant through a lock system.

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a flexible container suitable for use as a water bed for livestock comprises providing a first layer of a flexible polymeric material, applying a mask insert to an inner zone of a first surface of the first layer, the mask insert being arranged spaced from edges of the first layer thereby to define a substantially continuous boundary zone, arranging a second layer of flexible polymeric material to lie adjacent the first layer with the mask insert sandwiched therebetween, and subjecting the assembly so formed to a treatment operation thereby to form a face to face seal between the boundary zone and the confronting surface region of the second layer.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an electrolyte for the electrolytic high-speed deposition of aluminum on continuous products, containing an organometallic aluminum complex of formula (I) MF.2Al(C3H7)3.nAlR3  (I), wherein M=K, Rb, Cs, R=a C3 alkyl group or a mixture of a C3 and a C1-C2 alkyl group, n=from 0.1 to 1, in an aromatic or aliphatic hydrocarbon as solvent.

Abstract: A belt with transverse rigidity is constructed so as to prevent the formation of cracks on the surface layer. Belt includes two pairs of sub-layers which provide transverse rigidity. The layers are staggered with respect to one another in order to allow the belt to be driven by a relatively small diameter drum.

Abstract: Conveyor belt having a carrier body in which are disposed at least three layers, of which two are rigid in respect of deflection in transverse direction and one layer provides longitudinal strength. One of the layers imparting transverse rigidity is combined with the layer imparting longitudinal strength to form one layer consisting of longitudinal and transverse wires. At least the transverse wires are made of high modulus material.

Abstract: Aluminized parts are anodized in an aqueous bath which contains 1050 to 1040 g per L of sulfuric acid with a density of 1.84 and optionally 1 to 100 g of a polyhydroxy alcohol and 1 to 100 g of a multibasic organic acid. The anodizing is carried out at a pH value of less than 1 with a current density of 0.5 to 3 A/dm.sup.2 at 0.degree. to 30.degree. C. The method can be used with partially aluminized parts without destroying the base material.

Abstract: Aluminum materials and aluminized parts are oxidatively anodized at a bath temperature of 0.degree. to 15.degree. C. and preferably, 0.degree. to 10.degree. C. to produce an anodized layer of aluminum oxide more than 4 microns thick, which is hard, abrasion-proof and can be stained. The anodizing is bath used while conducting air free of or low in carbon dioxide through the bath. It is free of substances which limit the oxide layer to maximally a thickness of about 1 micron (forming layer) and contains 10 to 500 g trisodium phosphate or tripotassium phosphate per liter. In partially aluminized parts, no destruction of the base material occurs during the aluminizing.

Abstract: A device for continuously processing an article such as by electroplating including a tank equipped with a horizontally disposed rotating electroplating drum, an entry station disposed for introducing an article to one end of the drum and an exit station for removing the processed article from the drum. The electroplating tank as well as the entrance and exit stations are provided with gas-tight seals so that the device may be utilized for an oxygen-free and water-free aluminum-organic electrolyte for the electrodeposition of aluminum. Preferably, the entrance and exit stations contain liquid locks to prevent the controlled atmosphere above the electrolyte from being contaminated.

Abstract: In a tank of aluminizing electroplating cells which may contain racks for articles, operated with aprotic oxygen-free and water-free organo-aluminum electrolytes, a lining of individual segments coated with resistant materials (enamel or electrolyte-resistant plastics) is provided as an electrically insulating protective device. The outer edges of the side baffles, coated all around, are bent round toward the outside and are held together by connecting straps which are bent round toward the inside. The individual bottom segments coated all around lie on top of each other overlapping in roof tile fashion. The protective device may also include a similarly insulated band arranged all around the cell.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for a remote control receiver, especially a ripple control receiver, which receives remote control signals from a power mains, comprising means for reducing the ambiguity of the response characteristic of the remote control receiver caused by at least one non-linear circuit element connected with the input of a selective receiver section of the remote control receiver.

Abstract: A method of, and apparatus for, the remote transmission of signals over a line, especially via an electrical energy supply network, wherein at the transmitter there is formed from a first auxiliary frequency delivered to the transmitter a signal frequency which is in a predetermined first relationship to the first auxiliary frequency, an auxiliary signal characteristic of the first auxiliary frequency and the signal frequency are transmitted via the same transmission channel or via different transmission channels to at least one receiver, and at the location of the receiver there is formed from the signal characteristic of the first auxiliary frequency a second auxiliary frequency which is in a predetermined second relationship to the first auxiliary frequency, and such second auxiliary frequency is delivered to a sampling filter for controlling its throughpassage characteristics.