Abstract: A signalling device to make the administering of medical preparations easier, especially to signal the set administering time point of medicines, which contains a house, a data input unit placed in the house, a display unit and memory unit as well as a control unit in connection with these and a power supply, the memory unit has a basic storage register and a personal data storage register wherein the memory unit (30) is supplemented with a time data storage register (32), while the control unit (20) is supplemented with a counting part-unit (21) and comparison part-unit (22), furthermore, the control unit (20) is connected to an alarm part-unit (50), the input (22a) of the comparison part-unit (22) is connected to the time data storage register (33) and the counting part-unit (21), and the output (22b) of the comparison part-unit (22) is directly connected to the alarm part-unit (50) or via the control unit (20).

Abstract: A shipping container for preassembled motorcycles comprises a stepped grid-shaped support structure in the form of a frame-shaped base which resists the flexural forces acting on it when the motorcycle is lashed to the base. The motorcycle can be suitably attached lengthwise in a guide for the rear wheel, by a continuously adjustable wedge element mounted lengthwise on a rolling base on the center of the frame base. When the surface of the wedge is arranged opposite to the direction in which the motorcycle in to be introduced into the shipping container, the rear wedge element can be fitted into a recess on the frame-shaped base to form an entry and exit ramp for the motorcycle, which can be unloaded smoothly from the rolling base of the shipping container to the roadway, which is at a different height. The container is re-usable and can be readily assembled and dismantled. In a preferred embodiment, the frame-shaped base has a box-like casing formed by four detachable walls detachably secured to the base.

Abstract: Copolymers of from 65 to 75%, by weight, of .alpha.-methyl styrene and from 35 to 25%, by weight, of .alpha.-methyl styrene and from 35 to 25%, by weight, of acrylonitrile, obtainable by radical emulsion polymerization, the monomers being metered in during the course of the polymerization, wherein the molar ratio: ##EQU1## of the unreacted monomers in the reaction mixture is maintained during the metering phase between 0.7 and 1.25.

Abstract: Polysegment copolymers with thermoelastomeric properties are obtained by a process, wherein block polymers of the idealised form S.sub.x -B.sub.y, in which S represents structural units derived from styrene, B represents structural units derived from a conjugated diene and x and y are integers, are reacted with sulphur chlorides.The products according to the invention are suitable for the production of shoe soles, hoses, industrial rubber articles and particularly hot melt adhesives.

Abstract: A process for the ring-opening polymerisation of cyclic olefins on catalysts ofA. a halide of a metal of Groups VB and VIB of the Periodic System,B. an organometallic compound of a metal of Groups IIA, IIIA and IVa of the Periodic System, andC. optionally a cocatalyst,Optionally in an inert organic solvent at temperatures of from -70 to +60.degree.C, wherein from 0.1 to 10% by weight, based on monomer, of a compound containing a C=C-double bond in conjugation with a CO-double bond is added during or after polymerisation in the presence of the active catalyst.