Abstract: A refrigerated merchandiser including a case defining a product display area. The case includes a canopy defining an electrical raceway, and a panel that defines aesthetic fascia for the canopy. The panel is coupled to the canopy and movable between a first position enclosing the electrical raceway and a second position providing access to the electrical raceway. The panel is cantilevered outward from adjacent a front of the canopy in the second position.

Abstract: An extraction or absorbent pad that can be used to pick up spills and/or to remove spots from a surface. The absorbent pad has a core made of a super absorbent polymer laminate, a fluid impervious sheet positioned on one side of the core and a non-woven sheet positioned on the opposite side of the core from the fluid impervious sheet. A handle is provided on the pad to assist with transporting the pad without touching the portion of the pad that absorbs fluids.

Abstract: A refrigerated merchandiser including a case defining a product display area. The case includes a canopy defining an electrical raceway, and a panel that defines aesthetic fascia for the canopy. The panel is coupled to the canopy and movable between a first position enclosing the electrical raceway and a second position providing access to the electrical raceway. The panel is cantilevered outward from adjacent a front of the canopy in the second position.

Abstract: A refrigerated merchandiser including a case defining a product display area. The case includes a canopy defining an electrical raceway, and a panel defining aesthetic fascia for the canopy. The panel is coupled to the canopy and movable between a first position enclosing the electrical raceway and a second position providing access to the electrical raceway. The panel is self-supported in the second position.

Abstract: A refrigerated merchandiser including a case that defines a product display area and that has a base defining an air inlet disposed adjacent the product display area. The merchandiser also includes a canopy that has an air outlet located adjacent the product display area, an air passageway fluidly connecting the air inlet with the air outlet, and a louver coupled to the canopy and positioned across the air outlet to direct an airflow into the product display area. The merchandiser also includes a louver retainer that is coupled to the canopy to support the louver. The louver retainer defines a cutout through which a portion of the louver is exposed to facilitate at least one of installation and removal of the louver from the canopy.

Abstract: An extraction or absorbent pad that can be used to pick up spills and/or to remove spots from a surface. The absorbent pad has a core made of a super absorbent polymer laminate, a fluid impervious sheet positioned on one side of the core and a non-woven sheet positioned on the opposite side of the core from the fluid impervious sheet. A handle is provided on the pad to assist with transporting the pad without touching the portion of the pad that absorbs fluids.

Abstract: Described are a method and a device for signaling information relevant for the operation of a motor vehicle which make it possible for the vehicle's driver to receive information about the vehicle's optimum engine efficiency. The specified information is thus formed by an operating point of a drive unit of the vehicle. A haptic signal is formed at a control element of the vehicle, an accelerator pedal in particular, as a function of the operating point.

Abstract: A method and a device for signaling several items of information relevant for operating a motor vehicle are provided, which are registered by the driver of the vehicle in a particularly reliable manner, and which do not distract the driver from the traffic. To this end, different items of information are represented by unambiguous haptic signals, particularly having a maximum, at different positions of a control element of the vehicle, particularly an accelerator pedal.

Abstract: In a method for operating a motor vehicle, a target region is determined which is disposed forward of the motor vehicle and an operating recommendation (36) is outputted to the driver in dependence upon the detection. An arrival probability (PCOL) of the motor vehicle at the target region can be determined and the operating recommendation (36) is outputted to the driver when the arrival probability (PCOL) reaches at least a limit value (PLIM) (42).

Abstract: Described are a method and a device for signaling information relevant for the operation of a motor vehicle which make it possible for the vehicle's driver to receive information about the vehicle's optimum engine efficiency. The specified information is thus formed by an operating point of a drive unit of the vehicle. A haptic signal is formed at a control element of the vehicle, an accelerator pedal in particular, as a function of the operating point.

Abstract: A method and a device for signaling several items of information relevant for operating a motor vehicle are provided, which are registered by the driver of the vehicle in a particularly reliable manner, and which do not distract the driver from the traffic. To this end, different items of information are represented by unambiguous haptic signals, particularly having a maximum, at different positions of a control element of the vehicle, particularly an accelerator pedal.

Abstract: In a method for operating a motor vehicle, a target region is determined which is disposed forward of the motor vehicle and an operating recommendation (36) is outputted to the driver in dependence upon the detection. An arrival probability (PCOL) of the motor vehicle at the target region can be determined and the operating recommendation (36) is outputted to the driver when the arrival probability (PCOL) reaches at least a limit value (PLIM) (42).

Abstract: A process for producing coarse-grained sintered magnesia. The starting material is an active, reactive pulverulent magnesium oxide having a grain size of <0.15 mm and green compacts are formned from this magnesium oxide by pelletising on a granulating disc at a material throughput of less than 250 kg of MgO/m.sup.2 disc area and per hour, which are subsequently subjected to sinter-firing at high temperature.

Abstract: A finely powdery magnesium hydroxide especially suitable as a flame-retardant filler for plastic compounds, in which the particles are provided optionally with a thin coating of a surfactant. The grain size of the magnesium hydroxide, measured by laser diffraction, is below 10 .mu.m. The median value of the grain size is greater than 0.8 .mu.m, and the maximum of the median value of the grain size is 3 .mu.m. The contents of water-soluble ionic impurities, viz. Ca.sup.++, Na.sup.+, K.sup.+, SO.sub.4 --, Cl.sup.-, of the magnesium hydroxide are below the following limits (in parts by weight): Ca.sup.++ <1000 ppm, Na.sup.+ <20 ppm, K.sup.+ <20 ppm, SO.sub.4 --<1500 ppm, Cl.sup.- <1000 ppm. The contents of Mn, Cu and Ni are below the following limits (in parts by weight): MnO<100 ppm, NiO<100 ppm, CuO<10 ppm.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of pure magnesium oxide, especially suitable for the preparation of refractory products, from magnesium silicate and magnesium hydrosilicate materials such as olivine, serpentine, garnierite, or the like, the starting material being decomposed (digested) with hydrochloric acid, the residues being separated from the decomposition slurry and the sesquioxides to be regarded as contaminants and other contaminants being precipitated from the crude brine thus obtained by the addition of crude serpentine as a pH increasing substance, the precipitates being separated and the magnesium chloride solution thus obtained being subjected to thermal decomposition, particularly by spray calcination, whereby magnesium oxide is obtained and hydrogen chloride is recovered.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the recovery of magnesium oxide of high purity in which the magnesium oxide is obtained by thermal decomposition of a magnesium chloride brine previously purified. The magnesium chloride brine itself is obtained by decomposition of impure starting material with hydrochloric acid and purified before the thermal decomposition. In doing so the brine obtained by the decomposition is first concentrated and the separation of the impurities is effected only then. Calcium is separated in form of calcium sulfate. Optionally calcium sulfate and other impurities may be separated together.

Abstract: In an industrial process of preparing high-purity magnesia from an impure magnesium-containing starting material, wherein the starting material is dissolved in HCl and the resultant acidic solution is subjected to a multistep treatment for precipitating the impurities out of the solution, the precipitate is separated from the residual purified magnesium chloride solution, and the magnesium chloride is thermally decomposed to obtain magnesia, the purified magnesium chloride solution is first concentrated and sulfate ions are then added thereto to precipitate calcium ions from the concentrated solution as calcium sulfate.

Abstract: A control for the amount of a gaseous fluid absorbed in a liquid flowing through an absorption column comprises a gage in an outlet from the absorption column for the liquid having the gaseous fluid absorbed therein, an auxiliary absorption column of a substantially smaller capacity than that of the absorption column and receiving a comparatively small amount of the gaseous fluid in addition to the liquid, another gage in an outlet from the auxiliary absorption column for the liquid having the gaseous fluid absorbed therein, the gages measuring respective parameters which are a function of the amount of the gaseous fluid absorbed in the liquid in the respective outlets and producing output signals corresponding to the respective parameters, a comparator connected to the gages for receiving the output signals and comparing them to produce a control signal, and a flow control in the inlet for the gaseous fluid or the liquid of the absorption column, the flow control being connected to the comparator and control

Abstract: An aqueous solution of magnesium chloride is sprayed into a kiln chamber where it is countercurrently heat treated by a stream of hot gas produced by flames projected into the chamber by burners. Calcined material is removed from the bottom of the kiln chamber and the hot gas stream and any treated material carried thereby is removed from the top of the chamber. Material carried by the hot gas stream is separated therefrom in a cyclone separator and the separated material is returned to the kiln chamber through a zone heated to a temperature in the range of the temperature in the kiln chamber.

Abstract: Magnesia of very high purity is produced industrially from a magnesite waste material wherein impurities are present in such amounts that the weight ratio of the precipitable hydroxide ions, calculated as the sum of Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 + Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 + Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3 + Mn.sub.3 O.sub.4 to the sum of SiO.sub.2 + TiO.sub.2 + B.sub.2 O.sub.3, is at least 1 : 3. The starting material is dissolved in hydrochloric acid of 15-32% concentration, the impurities are precipitated by adjusting the pH of the acidic solution to 4 - 9, and the purified magnesium chloride solution is thermally decomposed into magnesia and hydrochloric acid gas, the latter being recycled to form the hydrochloric acid of the stated concentration for dissolving the starting material.