Abstract: A rollover protection device for the passengers of a vehicle having a body and a lateral bulkhead includes a structural unit adapted to be mounted on one side of the vehicle body lateral bulkhead. The structural unit includes at least one extendible rollover bar, and a module beam being connectable in a force transmitting fashion with the lateral bulkhead and the vehicle body. The module beam extends crosswise to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle in an upper region of the lateral bulkhead, and at least one force transmission member contains the at least one rollover bar. The at least one force transmission member supports the module beam at the vehicle body bottom.

Abstract: The process is used for tempering preforms made of a thermoplastic material; the preforms are to be blow molded. The preforms are provided with a temperature profile along a circumference. The temperature profile is generated by differentially heating strip-shaped regions, which extend in the direction of a longitudinal axis of the preform. A step-by-step tempering for the purpose of temporally sequential thermal conditioning of different regions of the preform is carried out with movement phases and rest phases. A carrier device is rotated by the interactions of a gear and a matching gear for initiating rotational movements. The preform is moved, motionless with regard to the rotational direction, through the tempering zone at least along a portion of the transport path before the start of the engagement of the gear with the matching gear.

Abstract: A roll bar for vehicles, in particular for topless motor vehicles, which can be fixedly or retractably attached to the vehicle. The roll bar is of a shell type construction having at least one main substantially flat surface provided with shaped convex portions having shape, size and geometrical arrangement to withstand a plurality of different load directions and/or kinds of load acting on it in the event of an accident.

Abstract: A rollbar for an open sports car which extends over the width of the vehicle, having a basic shell body which follows the rollbar shape and consists of molded two-dimensional material with longitudinal ribbings which are alternately raised toward the exterior and interior side of the rollbar. The rollbar shell is integrally formed from a pressed molding of fibrous composite plastic or metallic material and can include stiffening inserts which extend over at least part of the longitudinal extrusion of the shell. An anti-abrasion material can be integrally connected or embedded into the surface of the shell. The rollbar is light weight, optimally designed for individual types of loads and can be integrated into the car body in an esthetically appearing manner.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of cyclic depsipeptides having 18 ring atoms of the general formula (I) ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 to R.sup.6 have the meaning given in the description, and to their optical isomers and racemates, in medicine and veterinary medicine for combating endoparasites, to their preparation, and to new cyclic depsipeptides having 18 ring atoms.

Abstract: New cyclic depsipeptides having 18 ring atoms, of the general formula (I) ##STR1## in which R represents hydrogen, straight-chain or branched or cyclic alkyl having up to 8 carbon atoms,and their optical isomers and racemates,and their use for combating endoparasites in the field of medicine and veterinary medicine.

Abstract: The invention relates to new pseudopeptides having an antiviral action, oft he general formula (I) ##STR1## with the meanings given in the description for the substituents, to a process for their preparation and to their use as antiviral agents, in particular against cytomegaloviruses.

Abstract: A method of treating a patient to reduce or prevent an acute or chronic inflammation or an ischaemic state which comprises administering to such patient an effective amount therefor of efomycin A, E or G.

Abstract: Cardioactive compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.8 and R.sup.14 and R.sup.15 can be hydrogen or various organic radicals.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of microbiologically prepared compounds and their mixtures, which are called efomycins, as performance promoters in farm animals and processes for their preparation, and furthermore new efomycins and their mixtures as new chemical compounds. The invention also relates to microorganisms which can be used for the preparation of the efomycins and their mixtures.

Abstract: The blowing wheel and preferably the heating wheel as well as a large blow molding machine are rotatably supported in a centerfree peripheral bearing means. The heating and blow wheels are constructed as wheel rings to provide a profile free of distortion, wobbling motions or, respectively, peripheral vertical deviations of the wheels are thus prevented and the delivery of parisons of thermoplastic material for processing on the wheels takes place with high accuracy.

Abstract: The invention relates to a control means for actuating the valves for supplying pressurized blowing fluid and working fluid to the blow mold stations of the blow wheel of a blow mold machine. The blow wheel comprises a center-free wheel ring of which the outer periphery is rotatably supported on a base. Facing the inner periphery of the wheel ring there is a stationary rail on which carriages are adjustably mounted. The carriages accommodate cams for actuating the plungers of the valves mounted on the wheel ring through a yoke which provides a self-holding action. Thus, adjusting of proper valve operation is facilitated while the operation of the blow molding machine is continued.

Abstract: An animal growth promoter, efomycin G, is obtained by culturing Streptomycetes strain BS 1261. Efomycin G has the following properties:(a) The empirical formula: C.sub.53 H.sub.86 O.sub.18(b) The mass spectrum (fast atom bombardment) Molecular weight+Na.sup.+ : 1033(c) The .sup.1 H-nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum, stated in parts per million, shown in FIG. 1.(d) The .sup.13 C-nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum, stated in parts per million shown in FIG. 2, with chemical shifts of the CC-NMR signals as follows:______________________________________ 170.0 77.9 65.9 32.9 7.0 145.4 73.4 48.5 19.4 144.7 71.2 43.6 19.1 131.9 70.6 41.9 16.8 121.1 70.1 41.1 16.7 99.6 69.9 38.8 15.1 99.5 66.9 38.5 13.4 93.6 66.5 36.2 9.0 93.3 66.4 33.0 8.9 ______________________________________ (ppm values are relative to tetramethylsilane at 0 ppm)(e) A UV absorption maximum at 251-254 nm in methanolic solution(f) The structure according to FIG. 3.

Abstract: Promoting the growth of animals with a novel compound, named annomycin, by cultivation of Streptomyces strain BS 572, DSM 3817.

Abstract: A synchronizing device for the selection of individual knitting needles in a straight and circular knitting machine to operate according to a desired knitting pattern includes a synchronizing rail of a magnetizable material arranged on a stationary selection needle bed and cooperating with a magneto-resistive sensor arranged on a circulating knitting carriage. The sensor includes a permanent magnet whose magnetix flux is directed perpendicularly to the synchronizing rail, and four magneto-resistive webs arranged side by side in the magnetic flux and at right angles to the direction of circulation of the carriage. The webs are connected in a bridge circuit generating positive and negative analog signals which are compared in comparators with fixed threshold values to generate leading and trailing synchronizing pulses. An additional comparator is provided for detecting the direction of circulation of the carriages.

Abstract: A novel antibiotic for combating bacteria and promoting animal growth is obtained by cultivating Streptomyces strain BA 9.

Abstract: A needle selecting arrangement for a knitting machine with a knitting and stitching transmitting cam and a plurality of electromagnetic selecting elements, the arrangement comprises a plurality of spring biased needles each having a needle shaft; comprising at least one switchable displacement cam part arranged to move in front of the knitting and stitching transferring cam; a plate cover having a lower edge and a plurality of openings which are arranged in a stepped manner in association with the selecting elements and normal to a needle bed plane; an arresting rail provided with a plurality of grooves; a plurality of plates having a first side which faces toward the needles and provided at the first side with a substantially spherical end arranged to abut against the needle shaft and with a plate foot cooperating with the displacement cam part, each of the plates having an opposite second side which is fork-shaped and is provided with cam projections for tensioning against the lower edge of the plate cover

Abstract: The flat knitting machine having two pairs of consecutively arranged needle beds and a plurality of knit carriages circulating in one direction above the needle beds and each supporting adjustable control bars cooperating with stationary control plates arranged between the pairs of needle beds, includes a control device for controlling the position of the control bars by means of a plurality of parallel tracks formed in respective control plates to guide the assigned control bar in a plurality of control positions. The ends of respective tracks are arranged in different consecutively arranged sections and each section movably supports a pair of switching flaps or guides activated by separate control members. The control guides in each section are activated simultaneously and independently from one another so that when the advancing control bars leaves one section the latter is ready for readjustment according to the desired position of the control bar in the subsequent carriage.