Abstract: A device for the exchangeable and partial fixing of ceramic or natural stone wall and floor lining elements, such as borders, tiles, plates, and similar, on tiled faces, including a bar of substantially U-shaped cross-section which can be fastened to the wall surface between two rows of tiles, and on which the wall and floor lining elements can be detachably fastened between first and second legs extending from a U-shaped portion of the bar. The first leg is movable with respect to the second leg so that a distance between the first and second legs can be varied.

Abstract: In a device for controlling a plug (5) of a metallurgical vessel (1), in particular a distributing launder of a continuous casting installation, with a plug (5), which can be raised and lowered and which is supported in a support frame which is movable relative to the metallurgical vessel (1), the support frame for the plug (5), which can be raised and lowered, is supported outside of the metallurgical vessel (1) displaceable in a direction crosswise to the lifting direction of the plug (5) and can be releasably locked together with the metallurgical vessel. By means of this a simple separation of the plug mechanism (9) and the metallurgical vessel (1) is possible without operational elaboration and an exchange of the metallurgical vessel (1), for example, is made possible without having to dismantle the entire plug mechanism (5, 9).