Abstract: A transport method for temperature-controlled products, a transport container, a conditioning device or filling device, and a control software are proposed. In a method for transporting temperature-controlled products, a transport container containing a product having a product weight is supplied with a preconditioned thermal mass before the start of transport, the quantity of the thermal mass supplied being computationally calculated in advance on the basis of thermodynamically and/or logistically relevant data such as product weight and/or the starting location and destination and/or the estimated transport time and/or weather data at the starting location and/or at the destination and/or between the starting location and destination and/or a temperature range to be maintained.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for collecting and disposing of waste (1), in particular household rubbish. Waste is separately collected and sorted at the place at which it is produced in plastic bags (3a, 3b, 3c) provided with appropriate distinguishing markings (2a, 2b, 2c) in accordance with recycling criteria. Portions of waste (4) are packaged by closing and vacuum-sealing the plastic bags, and the closed and vacuum-sealed bags that contain the various types of waste are placed together at random into at least one common garbage container (5) and transported to a central collecting point where the plastic bags are sorted according to their markings for final disposal and/or recycling.

Abstract: A hydromassage device for use in a bathtub includes a battery casing to hold electrical batteries, preferably chargeable batteries, which are connected to a drive motor for a pump, where a pump casing, a motor casing and a battery casing are connected to one another and at least one of the casings is equipped with a holding arrangement for attaching the device to the wall of the tub. The battery casing and the motor casing are separate, detachably connected waterproof casings, the battery casing and the motor casing having on their outer walls contact members forming contacts with each other when in the operating state the two casings are connected to each other, in each casing forming contact pairs, to which the batteries or the drive motor are connected. In the operating state, at least one sealing arrangement gives the region of the contact pairs a waterproof seal.

Abstract: A whirlpool system includes a basin defined by basin walls; a pipe system including a central conduit and nozzles coupled to the central conduit and situated in the basin walls and having nozzle outlets directed to the basin; a pressure generator coupled to the central conduit for supplying the nozzles with water and/or air; a mist generator for generating a fluid mist under influence of temperature at normal atmospheric pressure; and an intake conduit coupling the mist generator to the central conduit in a zone of the pressure generator for disinfecting the pipe system and the basin.