Abstract: A device for collecting urine includes a container kept at vacuum, an interface locatable at the urethral opening of a person and a pump operable to create a vacuum within the container. A sensor senses the presence of urine at the interface and opens a valve to allow the pumping of urine from the interface to the container.

Abstract: A rubber composition is disclosed containing an ethylene-propylene-nonconjugated diene copolymer rubber (or a blend of an ethylene-propylene-nonconjugated diene copolymer rubber and a diene rubber), a specific alkoxysilane compound, and amorphous silica powder having a specific surface area of 50 to 100 m2/g (BET adsorption). The vulcanized rubber is prepared by vulcanizing such a rubber composition. The rubber composition is excellent in dynamic characteristics and also in mechanical characteristics, dynamic fatigue resistance and thermal aging resistance. It also can provide a vulcanized rubber having the above-mentioned effects.

Abstract: A device for collecting urine includes a container kept at vacuum, an interface locatable at the urethral opening of a person and a pump operable to create a vacuum within the container. A sensor senses the presence of urine at the interface and opens a valve to allow the pumping of urine from the interface to the container.

Abstract: A rubber composition is disclosed containing an ethylene-propylene-nonconjugated diene copolymer rubber (or a blend of an ethylene-propylene-nonconjugated diene copolymer rubber and a diene rubber), a specific alkoxysilane compound, and amorphous silica powder having a specific surface area of 50 to 100 m2/g (BET adsorption). The vulcanized rubber is prepared by vulcanizing such a rubber composition. The rubber composition is excellent in dynamic characteristics and also in mechanical characteristics, dynamic fatigue resistance and thermal aging resistance. It also can provide a vulcanized rubber having the above-mentioned effects.

Abstract: The invention relates to mixtures including resorcinol and silica which are used as adhesion promoters for improving the adhesion between textile or metal strength carriers and rubber or plastics. The mixtures in accordance with the invention exhibit a sharply limited sublimation behavior with regard to the resorcin.

Abstract: A process for the production of plastic and rubber compositions filled with carbon black in which an organosilicon compound is used and is reacted in situ with the carbon black. The organosilicon compound is selected from the following formulae:(R.sup.1.sub.n --(RO).sub.3-n Si-(Alk).sub.m --(Ar).sub.p).sub.q (B)(I)R.sup.1.sub.n --(RO).sub.3-n Si-(Alkyl) (II)orR.sup.1.sub.n --(RO).sub.3-n Si-(Alkenyl) (III)in whichB=--SCN, --SH, --Cl--NH.sub.2 (where q=1) or --S.sub.x -- (where q=2),R=a C.sub.1-4 alkyl or C.sub.1-4 alkoxy group or a phenyl group,R.sup.1 =a C.sub.1-4 alkyl group or a phenyl group,n=0, 1 or 2,Alk=a difunctional, linear or branched C.sub.1-6 hydrocarbon radical,m=0 or 1,Ar=a C.sub.6-12 preferably C.sub.6 arylene radical,p=0 or 1, with the proviso that p and n cannot both be 0,x=a number from 2 to 8,Alkyl=a monofunctional, linear or branched unsaturated C.sub.1-20 and preferably C.sub.2-8 hydrocarbon radical,Alkenyl=a monofunctional, linear or branched unsaturated C.sub.2-20 and preferably C.sub.

Abstract: The invention relates to mixtures including resorcinol and silica which are used as adhesion promoters for improving the adhesion between textile or metal strength carriers and rubber or plastics. The mixtures in accordance with the invention exhibit a sharply limited sublimation behavior with regard to the resorcin.

Abstract: Moulding materials vulcanizable by means of the action of heat which contain a thiocyanatopropyltrialkoxysilane and a method of their manufacture are disclosed.

Abstract: Moulding materials are disclosed which are vulcanizable by means of the development of heat, and are provided with aluminum- and/or magnesium hydroxide in a flame-resistant manner and contain a thiocyantopropyltrialkoxy silane.

Abstract: Bis(2,4-organylthio-s-triazine-6-yl) polysulfides of the general Formula (I) ##STR1## prepared from compounds of the general formula (II) ##STR2## and from an ammonium or alkali polysulfide and the use of such compounds as accelerators in vulcanizable rubber mixtures.

Abstract: A granular material containing zinc oxide and precipitated silica which is readily dispersible in rubber mixtures.

Abstract: A method of preparing pure 3-butenyl triorgano oxysilanes, the intermediate products 3,4-dichlorobutyl triorgano oxysilanes and the use of the final products in rubber mixtures reinforced with silicic acid and vulcanizable with peroxides. 3,4-dichlorobutene-1 and trichlorosilane are used as initial products.

Abstract: Carbon black is reacted with at least one organosilicon compound of the General Formula[R.sup.1.sub.n (RO).sub.3-n Si-(Alk).sub.m -(Ar).sub.p ]q [B](I)R.sup.1.sub.n (RO).sub.3-n Si-(Alkyl) (II)orR.sup.1.sub.n (RO).sub.3-n Si-(Alkenyl) (III),and any excess of said organosilicon compound is extracted with a solvent. The products are useful as active fillers in rubber mixtures, carbon black suspensions and plastic mixtures which can be cross-linked with sulfur or peroxide.

Abstract: A method of granulating resorcinol/silica mixtures which comprises transporting a mixture of resorcinol and precipitated silica by conveyor worms to two pressing rollers whose shafts are attached vertically above one another and whose contact pressure can be varied, compacting said mixture between said rollers, breaking up the compacted mixture with a cake breaker to obtain a granulate with minimum grain size and separating the remaining dusty portion of said mixture. The mixtures can be added to vulcanizable rubber to provide improved adhesion to rubber reinforcements.

Abstract: A two-stage method for the surface modification of natural or synthetic, oxide or silicate fillers using organosilicon compounds of the formulas:[R.sub.n.sup.1 (RO).sub.3-n Si--(Alk).sub.m --(Ar).sub.p ]2 [S] xor[R.sub.n.sup.1 (RO).sub.3-n Si--(Alk).sub.m --(Ar).sub.p SCNin which filler and compound are intensively mixed without the addition of further solvents and the homogenized mixture is subjected in a preheated mixer to the hydrophobing reaction.

Abstract: A method of preparing pure 3-butenyl triorgano oxysilanes, the intermediate products 3,4-dichlorobutyl triorgano oxysilanes and the use of the final products in rubber mixtures reinforced with silicic acid and vulcanizable with peroxides. 3,4-dichlorobutene-1 and trichlorosilane are used as initial products.

Abstract: There is described the use of substituted N-trichloromethyl thiodicarboximides in combination with N,N'-substituted bis-(2,4-diamino-s-triazin-6-yl)-oligosulfides in vulcanizable rubber mixtures in order to improve the vulcanization characteristics and such rubber mixtures.

Abstract: The invention relates to N,N'- and N,N',N'-substituted silyl ureas of the general formula ##STR1## and to their use as antidegradation agents which can not be washed out in polymers, especially rubber.

Abstract: Vulcanizable rubber mixtures which contain at least one halogen rubber, a silicatic filler and a substituted organyloxysilyl-functional thiourea as accelerator.

Abstract: Mixtures of sulfurous triazine compounds and methods of preparing these compounds with the general formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2 =H,R.sup.2 =benzyl,R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 =C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkyl, allyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 cycloalkyl, the latter unsubstituted or substituted with 1-3 methyl groups, 2-hydroxyethyl, 3-hydroxypropyl, 2-hydroxypropyl orR.sup.3 and R.sup.4 (together): C.sub.4 -C.sub.6 -alkylene, --(CH.sub.2 --CHX).sub.2 Y withX=H, CH.sub.3, Y=O,S,S.sub.a : Polysulfide chain with 2-10 S atoms (i.e. 2.ltoreq.a.ltoreq.10), in which the individual polysulfides are present in such concentrations that the statistical average value of "a" is a whole or fractional numerical value in the range from 2 to 5., characterized in that a triazine compound of the general formula ##STR2## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.