Abstract: The present invention provides devices for glass melt devlivery and methods for using these devices. In these devices, a delivery nozzle comprising at least one platinum group metal material is directly heated by electricty. To facilitate heating, a cylindrical heating ring is mounted in ceramic base. The device's construction ensures a regulatable heating of the nozzle and the melted glass flux.

Abstract: A process for the production of tubular structural parts fabricated from PGM materials and having circumferential undulating bulges by forming from smooth-walled tube pieces. A smooth-walled tube piece (1) is inserted into a cylindrical forming die (2) with an internal diameter that corresponds substantially to the external diameter of the tube piece and that has radial undulating recesses (3). This die is provided at both axial ends with a press tool (4,5) that tightly seals the tube ends. The space that is thus formed is completely filled with an hydraulic fluid (6), and an hydraulic internal pressure is then produced by exerting an axial compression via the press tools (4,5) in such a way that under simultaneous shortening of the tube piece bulges (7) are formed in the wall of the latter that correspond to the recesses (3) of the forming die (2).

Abstract: The disclosure involves an X-ray daylight cassette with shortened unloading times. The cassette, which has a film insertion slot on one side, contains two intensifying screens, one of which is affixed to the pressure plate so that the screen has edge zones that are not bonded to the pressure plate on the two long dimensions and optionally, on the short dimension opposite the film insertion slot.