Abstract: Apparatus for transporting rod-shaped tobacco smoke filters, which contain and/or carry particles of charcoal and/or other particulate tobacco smoke filtering and/or flavoring material, wherein a sender directs a series of successive filters lengthwise into a pneumatic conduit extending toward or into a receiving station. A section of the conduit ahead of the receiving station is provided with openings communicating with a collecting chamber. A duct which extends along the section of the conduit is provided with orifices serving to direct jets of a pressurized gaseous fluid into the openings to thus expel loose particles and/or particles adhering to the external surfaces of filters into the collecting chamber. The latter discharges collected particles by gravity flow.

Abstract: Apparatus for transporting rod-shaped tobacco smoke filters, which contain and/or carry particles of charcoal and/or other particulate tobacco smoke filtering and/or flavoring material, wherein a sender directs a series of successive filters lengthwise into a pneumatic conduit extending toward or into a receiving station. A section of the conduit ahead of the receiving station is provided with openings communicating with a collecting chamber. A duct which extends along the section of the conduit is provided with orifices serving to direct jets of a pressurized gaseous fluid into the openings to thus expel loose particles and/or particles adhering to the external surfaces of filters into the collecting chamber. The latter discharges collected particles by gravity flow.

Abstract: Apparatus for transporting rod-shaped tobacco smoke filters which contain and/or carry particles of charcoal and/or other solid particulate tobacco smoke filtering and/or flavoring material. A sender directs a series of successive filters lengthwise into a pneumatic conduit wherein the filters advance toward a receiving station. A section of the conduit has an arcuate shape and advances successive filters from a lower level to a higher level. The underside of the section has an elongated arcuate opening which is overlapped by a cover in such a way that any solid particles which became separated from the filters can be expelled into a neighboring chamber due to fluid pressure in the section as well as under the action of gravity and/or centrifugal force.

Abstract: A hanging file support apparatus having a rectangular top for receiving hanging file folders. The top contains circular support rods of identical cross section fitted into modular cornerpieces having three orthogonal extensions for receiving the rods. A pair of clip-on dividers with a rod extending between them may be attached to the top. The top may be attached to the top edge or inside of a drawer or other workspace through holes in the cornerpieces. The top may also be supported by vertical support rods that are received by the cornerpieces. The vertical rods may be mounted into holes in a drawer, shelf or other workspace. Alternatively, the vertical rods may be mounted into a base comprised of cornerpieces and rods.

Abstract: An interior securing device for a lock of a movable vehicle body part of a motor vehicle includes a Bowden cable provided as a transmitting device which is rigidly connected with a securing knob and is linked to an adjusting element. The Bowden cable is surrounded along its length by a flexible guiding sleeve. Near the securing knob, the guiding sleeve is held fixed to the vehicle body part. Near the adjusting element, the guiding sleeve is held fixed to the lock. The securing device is particularly suitable for use with rear side doors of passenger cars.

Abstract: An internally or externally geared pump for conveying fluids lacking or only having insufficient lubricating ability, includes gearwheels moving in an operating chamber of the pump, conveying fluids and being mounted completely in parts formed of a carbon material. Supports are formed from accurately worked lateral walls and a jacket of the operating chamber formed of the carbon material. The jacket surrounds the gearwheels in the radial direction and is likewise constructed as a support. Chambers on the suction side and on the pressure side for fluid supply and fluid removal, which are necessary for the operation of the pump, are molded into side walls of the operating chamber which is formed of carbon.

Abstract: A soybean variety designated 93B82, the plants and seeds of soybean variety 93B82, methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing the variety 93B82 with itself or with another soybean plant, and hybrid soybean seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 93B82 with another soybean line or plant.

Abstract: A natural circulation reactor, especially a boiling water reactor, includes a reactor pressure vessel, a reactor core and a core jacket disposed within the reactor pressure vessel, surrounding the reactor core and having at least one inlet port and one outlet port for core coolant. A flow path for the core coolant, which is formed between the core jacket and the reactor pressure vessel, leads through the inlet port into the core jacket and has a flow cross section. At least one throttle element is disposed in the flow path for varying the flow cross section in order to regulate the core coolant flow rate. The flow cross section can be both increased and reduced in size by varying the cross sectional area of the throttle element, so that a regulation of the power of the natural circulation reactor is carried out in a simple way and, in an incident, a reduction in power to approximately 40% of the instantaneous reactor power is ensured.

Abstract: A soybean variety designated 93B41, the plants and seeds of soybean variety 93B41, methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing the variety 93B41 with itself or with another soybean plant, and hybrid soybean seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 93B41 with another soybean line or plant.

Abstract: Filter rod sections are transported sideways from a magazine containing a pile of parallel sections toward positions of alignment with the inlet of a pneumatic conveyor and are propelled into the conveyor at a transfer station where they continue to move sideways. In order to avoid damage to sections during propulsion into the conveyor, the duration of complete transfer of successive sections into the inlet is monitored in order to generate signals denoting the intervals of axial advancement of successive sections all the way into the conveyor. Such signals are compared with signals denoting those intervals of sidewise movement of sections past the transfer station during which the sections can move axially without being damaged by the stationary inlet of the conveyor.

Abstract: In an hermetically sealed fresh-keeping container for organic substances, in particular foodstuffs, with a dimensionally stable bottom part that incorporates a support surface for the goods that are to be kept fresh, a similarly dimensioned and stable upper part that is mounted on the lower part, above the support surface, so as to be removable. The hood forms a useable space, and a vacuum pump system removes the air within the useable space. The useable space is also delimited by an airproof foil, the edge of which is releasably connected with a wall of the container. A suction opening of the vacuum system is incorporated in this wall.

Abstract: Apparatus for transferring rod-shaped articles from the outlet of a magazine for parallel articles into the inlet of a pneumatic conveyor wherein the articles are moved in the direction of their longitudinal axes comprises a rotary drum-shaped conveyor having a peripheral surface provided with axially parallel flutes. When the rotary conveyor is driven, its flutes advance seriatim past the outlet of the magazine to accept discrete articles which are thereupon moved sideways toward alignment with the inlet of the pneumatic conveyor. A pneumatic ejector system is utilized to propel successive articles from their flutes into the pneumatic conveyor. The apparatus employs a hood having a concave surface which is complementary to a portion of the peripheral surface of the rotary conveyor.

Abstract: Chlorine-substituted aromatic amines are prepared by the hydrogenation of chlorine-substituted aromatic nitro compounds in the presence of a catalyst containing platinum and nickel and/or cobalt on an activated charcoal support, the platinum having been simultaneously deposited and reduced on the activated charcoal support in the preparation of the catalyst. Such catalysts are furthermore prepared, as are catalysts containing noble metals on an activated charcoal support, it also being possible for the latter to be used for the reduction of nitronaphthalenes or nitrotoluenes.

Abstract: In the preparation of chlorinated aromatic amines by reaction of corresponding nitro compounds with hydrogen under pressure, at elevated temperature and in the presence of a solvent and small amounts of a basic compound, fewer by-products are formed by using platinum and nickel and/or cobalt on an active charcoal support.

Abstract: A hydraulically actuated braking apparatus, for spot-type disc brakes is disclosed including a piston having an actuating end, protrudes from the brake housing and which acts on a brake pad. The piston is provided with a shoulder, and a metal ring is mounted on the piston's outside surface. An elastic folded collar is fastened behind the metal ring. The outside surface of the piston has at least one indentation of a specific shape and size in the area of the protruding end of the piston. So as to effect a tight fit of the metal ring on the piston, projections are distributed on the inside circumference of the metal ring on elastic ring elements which elements are axially bent out of the radial plane. Guide surfaces are also distributed at the inside circumference of the ring for fastening the metal ring at the piston in a predetermined position.

Abstract: 1,2-Dichlorobenzene can be prepared by reacting 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene in the gas phase with hydrogen. The reaction is carried out at a temperature from the boiling point of the starting material up to about 400.degree. C. and over a platinum-spinel catalyst.

Abstract: Supported catalysts containing palladium on a support material are improved by added bases which remain on the material. These supported catalysts are useful for hydrogenating optionally substituted phenols to give the corresponding cyclohexanols as the predominant product.

Abstract: The mechanical actuating device for a disc brake has an automatic adjusting device to compensate for wear of the brake pads. The actuating device enables an easy resetting of the adjusting device for brake pad replacement and has a compact construction of all parts. The adjusting spindle extends axially through the actuating device and a clutch secures the adjusting spindle against rotation when the adjusting nut is turned to compensate for wear of the brake pads. To reset the adjusting device for brake pad replacement, the adjusting spindle is turned back by a turning tool.

Abstract: In a direct-current-operated, gas-vortex stabilized high-voltage arc furnace with hollow electrodes and a vortex chamber, the gas to be heated is blown in tangentially to the common axis of the electrodes. In the hollow electrodes, the ratio of the internal diameter of the cathode to that of the anode is 1.6 to 2.5, and the spacing between the electrodes is 0.9 to 0.7 times the internal diameter of the cathode. In the method of operation of the arc furnace, the momentum flow of gas to be heated is at least 10 kg m/s.sup.2, the gas entering into the vortex chamber is at a gas velocity of at least 10 m/s and pressures in the vortex chamber range from 1.5 to 10 bar (absolute).

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for retrieving data contained in binary data signals contains an integration stage that at least partially integrates and limits the binary data signals an outputs sample signals to a following phase control circuit, the sample signals being allocated to the integrated and limited data signals. The integration stage outputs further data signals allocated to the integrated and limited data signals to a decoder stage which retrieves the data by use of reference signals output by the phase control circuit. The time constant in the integration and the pulse duration of the sample signals are varied according to the frequency of the reference signals output by the oscillator. They are varied by use of switch stages that are designed in correspondence with an oscillator in the phase control circuit.