Abstract: There is disclosed a method for producing,2,2-dibromo-2-nitroethanol. The method comprises first reacting tris(hydroxymethyl)nitromethane in aqueous solution with an alkali and then reacting the product of said first reaction with bromine.

Abstract: A phenyltriazole compound having the formula: ##STR1## wherein X is a lower alkyl group having all or a part of hydrogen atoms substituted by fluorine atoms, and each of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 which may be the same or different, is a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 form together with the adjacent nitrogen atom a pyrrole ring or an ethoxymethylideneamino group.

Abstract: A phenyltriazole derivative of the formula: ##STR1## wherein X is a halogen atom, an alkyl group, a halogen-substituted alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a nitro group, a phenoxy group, an amino group, a cyano group, a 1-pyrrolyl group or a halogen-substituted alkoxy group, Y is a C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 alkyl group which may be substituted by halogen, alkoxy, alkylthio, alkylsulfonyl, alkoxycarbonyl or carbamoyl, a methyl-substituted cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylsulfinyl group or a 2-methyl-1,3-dithiolan-2-yl group, Z is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a halogen-substituted alkyl group, an alkoxyalkyl group, an alkenyloxyalkyl group, a methyl group, an alkylsulfinyl group, an alkylsulfonyl group, a phenyl group, a ##STR2## group, wherein each of R.sup.1 and R.sup.

Abstract: A sheet distributing apparatus comprises a keyboard for keying in a name on sheet mail and a processor which encodes the keyed-in name in accordance with a look-up table. The processor is instructed to input a number address when there is the same name and to input a block name when there is the same name with the same number address. The processor then encodes the name in accordance with the number address or a combination of the number address and block name. The encoded name is printed on the sheet mail by a code printer. The printed encoded name is read by a code reader so that a mail sorter distributes the sheet in accordance with the encoded name.

Abstract: When the number of pieces of postal matter stacked at a stacking section in a sorter with an automatic push-out apparatus of the invention reaches a number which allows a push-out operation before or after a full-stack operation, the postal matter is transferred to a corresponding empty tray. The postal matter which is to be stacked at this stacking section during the push-out operation is stacked at a preliminary stacking section. After the stacking section is restored, the postal matter stacked at the preliminary stacking section is transferred to the empty tray.

Abstract: The invention provides a sorter with an automatic push-out apparatus. The postal matter is transferred to an empty tray after the corresponding stacking section is full of postal matter. When the number of pieces of postal matter to be stacked at the stacking section within a push-out time duration is above or below a predetermined value before a full-stack status of the stacking section, a control circuit and detectors operate to transfer the postal matter to a corresponding empty tray.

Abstract: Novel thioureidobenzene compounds having the general formula ##EQU1## wherein R and R' are lower alkyl groups and X is oxygen or sulfur atom is prepared by reacting a compound having the general formula ##EQU2## wherein Y is chlorine or bromine, with a compound having the general formula ##EQU3## wherein M is ammonium or an alkali metal. These compounds have high miticidal and fungicidal activity.