Abstract: A drainage tube (drainage split for the ureter) with mandrin and auxiliary tube, designed so that all three elements can be connected with each other by screwing in such a manner that, upon insertion into the body tubes, such as for example the ureter, they form functionally a unit of a stability such that the three elements, upon insertion, when slid in either direction, cannot be separated from each other.

Abstract: A method for recognition of the power stroke of an internal combustion engine is proposed, in which recognition as to whether a cylinder is currently in the power stroke is possible by means of camparison of a signal that is synchronous with the crankshaft angle and a signal that is modulated by the combustion events of the engine.

Abstract: An indwelling urethral catheter arrangement for the prevention of ascending bacterial infection which is of such a design that, on the one hand the bacteria are flushed downwardly by urine permitted to flow along the inside of the urethral wall and, on the other hand, the entire urinary stream is conducted, with the aid of a condom-like sheath fittable over the tip of the penis, to the outside of the catheter arrangement; in this fashion soiling of the patient's clothing will be avoided regardless of the flushing provision.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for strengthening geological formations in underground mining or other operations introducing into the formation which is to be strengthened mixtures of a polyisocyanate component (a) and a polyol component (b) which react together to form polyurethanes, characterized in that the polyol component (b) is based on mixtures of (i) organic polyhydroxyl compounds having hydroxyl numbers of about 100 to 600 and (ii) dihydric alcohols having a molecular weight of 62 to about 150, component (ii) being present in an amount of about 0.01 to 20% by weight, based on the total quantity of component (b).

Abstract: A first control unit of a multiple function control system for a motor vehicle engine controls a function, such as fuel injection, for which it is desirable to provide an engine load signal measured by the amount of air drawn or forced into the engine per unit of time, determined by what is generally known as an air quantity meter. A second control unit of the control system controls the timing of an electrical ignition system for which it has been conventional to supply an engine load signal derived from a pressure transducer.

Abstract: An endoscope for resecting tissue inside body cavities, the principal feature of which is that the endoscopic tube contains a shaft carrying a grinding or milling head, which allows precise removal of scar tissue or other fairly firm tissue under endoscopic control without leaving irregular or thermally damaged wound sites.

Abstract: A holding device which is adapted to be flanged to a machine for filling and for automatically twisting off sausages and which acts on the front end of a twist-off nozzle of the machine via a brake ring housing for effecting automatic twisting off. For providing, on the one hand, a possibility of exactly positioning the holding device relative to the twist-off nozzle and for maintaining, on the other hand, the twist-off nozzle in a condition in which it is always accessible for the purpose of fitting new caterpillar sausage skins, the holding device is provided with a support tube, which is supported in a guide link in a manner free from play and which permits the brake ring housing of the holding device to be pivoted away in the case of a movement taking place in the horizontal direction of a pivotable lever, said support tube having, in addition, the effect that the position which has once been adjusted is re-established when the brake ring housing is pivoted back.

Abstract: Guiding mandrin for drainage ducts featuring a wedge that by being pushed in or pulled out of the split tip of the mandrin tube will cause said tip to increase or reduce its diameter according to requirement. Hereby, a firm contact between guiding mandrin and drainage duct can be established which will significantly facilitate the handling of the drainage duct.

Abstract: A sausage skin storage and feeder apparatus comprises a storage container for storing a plurality of layers of shirred sausage casings, an upwardly sloping bottom wall in said container, a conveyor disposed along the bottom wall for transporting the bottom layer of casings upwardly to a discharge location, the upper layers of casings rolling backward in the container, a chute extending from the discharge location to a loading location opposite a stuffing horn and means for dispensing casings onto the stuffing horn.

Abstract: Shaped or unshaped synthetic resins having about 0.01-5% by weight of stabilizers where the stabilizers are bisamides of quadratic acids having the general formulas I and/or II as follows: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4, are identical or different, and represent(A) hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted alkyl or alkenyl residues of 1-22 carbon atoms, one or more of which can also be substituted by hetero atoms;(B) unsubstituted or substituted cycloalkyl or cycloalkylalkylene residues;(C) unsubstituted or substituted aryl and arylalkylene residues;(D) 3- to 8-membered, unsubstituted or substituted rings which contain one or more hetero atoms and which can optionally be connected to the nitrogen atoms of Formulae I and II by way of alkylene groups;(E) furthermore the groups --NR.sub.1 R.sub.2 and/or --NR.sub.3 R.sub.4 represent 3- to 8-membered, unsubstituted or substituted rings which optionally contain additional hetero atoms; and(F) respectively R.sub.1 and R.sub.3 or R.sub.2 and R.

Abstract: An opto-electronic antenna system includes a plurality of transmitting/receiving antennas disposed over a prescribed geometrical surface such as a sphere. To the antennas are optically coupled transmitter/receiver units such as photo-detectors or laser transmitters. The antenna units are scanned electronically according to their position on the geometrical surface by supplying to the individual units, signals differing in phase in accordance with the position of the antenna with which the units are associated both in the vertical and horizontal directions. An evaluation circuit is associated with each unit for determining the azimuth and elevation directions of received radiation. The antennas are constructed of a multitude of lenses having a hexagonal shape.

Abstract: Photographic transparencies are successively severed from the leading end of film strip by means of an oscillatory knife and simultaneously guided by surfaces on the knife to a mounting station at which the transparencies are inserted in slide frames.

Abstract: An opto-electronic antenna system includes a plurality of transmitting/receiving antennas disposed over a prescribed geometrical surface such as a sphere. To the antennas are optically coupled transmitter/receiver units such as photo-detectors or laser transmitters. The antenna units are scanned electronically according to their position on the geometrical surface by supplying to the individual units, signals differing in phase in accordance with the position of the antenna with which the units are associated both in the vertical and horizontal directions. An evaluation circuit is associated with each unit for determining the azimuth and elevation directions of received radiation.

Abstract: The apparatus serves to weld together the two parts of a slide frame which is made of plastics material and consists of a base part and a cover part, and to align the welded frames on carrying and centering rods. The apparatus comprises two feed wells, from which tracks extend to an ultrasonic welding horn, and downwardly flaring two centering wells, which succeed the ultrasonic welding horn and are provided each with a plunger disposed above the track.