Abstract: A method of checking elevator installations with a car, an elevator drive and an elevator controller with a memory avoids or at least reduces errors by a person carrying out the check and enables convenient and reliable checking of the elevator installation. A check program including all steps necessary for the check is set up on the basis of stored configuration data of the elevator installation in the elevator controller and in dependence on a selected mode of operation. In addition, the steps are displayed in a predetennined sequence on an indicating and control unit and necessary inputs for working down the steps are input by way of the indicating and control unit.

Abstract: A method and a device for maintenance of an elevator or escalator installation includes an interface for connection of a controller of the installation with a display and control unit for display of operating parameters or for input of control commands and data, and connection equipment for creating a data connection with a maintenance center. Data and parameters stored in the maintenance center can be transferred to the display and control unit by the data connection after an identification check. A fault log with a specification of operating faults and/or a specification of the replacement parts coming into question for rectification of the operating faults can be produced, which is transferred by the data connection from the display and control unit to the maintenance center, can be produced for example to cause ordering of missing replacement parts.

Abstract: A method and a device for maintenance of an elevator or escalator installation includes an interface for connection of a controller of the installation with a display and control unit for display of operating parameters or for input of control commands and data, and connection equipment for creating a data connection with a maintenance center. Data and parameters stored in the maintenance center can be transferred to the display and control unit by the data connection after an identification check. A fault log with component designations, which is transferred by the data connection from the display and control unit to the maintenance center, can be produced in dependence on a comparison between operating parameters and transferred data and parameters.

Abstract: A method of checking elevator installations with a car, an elevator drive and an elevator controller with a memory avoids or at least reduces errors by a person carrying out the check and enables convenient and reliable checking of the elevator installation. A check program comprising all steps necessary for the check is set up on the basis of stored configuration data of the elevator installation in the elevator controller and in dependence on a selected mode of operation. In addition, the steps are displayed in a predetermined sequence on an indicating and control unit and necessary inputs for working down the steps are input by way of the indicating and control unit.

Abstract: The invention relates to an immunoassay apparatus, comprising a dry, porous substrate having at least two sections (1, 2), communicating with one another in the moist state by capillary action, wherein the first section (1) has a marked detection reagent for the substance to be detected and the second section (2) has an immobilized binder reagent for the substance to be detected, and wherein the reaction product comprising the substance to be detected and the marked detection reagent migrates by capillary action from the first section into the second section in the moist state, and is characterized in that the marked detection reagent is a dye-carrying reagent for nicotine or cotinine.

Abstract: The present invention provides a test apparatus and methods for the detection of pharmacologically active compounds from body fluids, in particular from saliva. The invention test apparatus prevents the aqueous solution of the analyte(s) from flowing underneath the nitrocellulose membrane and ensures that even the smallest amounts of the aqueous solution of the analyte(s) are collected and pulled into and through the test strip by capillary action. The invention test apparatus provides sensible and rapid detection of the analyte(s) in the aqueous solution.

Abstract: The invention relates to a furnace having an inner wall, an outer wall and a heat insulation arranged in between. The heat insulation is foamed up in situ, and hardened, from a mass which contains,per 100 parts by weight of a reactive solid (stone-forming component),40-250 parts by weight of a water-containing hardener which effects the hardening reaction of the reactive solid (stone-forming component) in the alkaline region,40-250 parts by weight of fillers and a blowing agent.The reactive solid used is preferably a reactive solid from the group comprisingI finely dispersed oxide mixture containing amorphous silica and alumina,II a glassy, amorphous electrostatic precipitator ash,III ground calcined bauxite,IV electrostatic precipitator ash from lignite-fired power stations,V undissolved, amorphous SiO.sub.2, especially from an amorphous, disperse-pulverulent, dehydrated or water-containing silica or from high-temperature processes (silica fume), andVI metakaolin.

Abstract: An apparatus for regulating the length of divisional spacings of a metal band comprises at least two workpiece conveying roller pairs spaced from one another in the direction of the workpiece length and arranged for holding and advancing the workpieces in the direction of workpiece length; a scanning device for determining the actual length of the workpieces during the conveyance thereof by the workpiece conveying devices; an evaluating device receiving, from the scanning device, signals representing the actual lengths of the workpieces; and a length correcting device receiving, from the evaluating device, signals representing correctional values and for varying the length of the workpieces at a location between the roller pairs as a function of the correctional values. A heat treatment device heats the running band to a temperature sufficient to maintain the band in a red-hot state at the length-correcting location.

Abstract: An inorganic, aqueous molding composition is described which can be hardened at low temperatures into molded parts having a high flexural stress at break.The molding composition is produced from electrostatic precipitator ash of high-temperature coal-burning power plants, this ash containing 45-55% by weight of vitreous SiO.sub.2 in addition to Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, or from calcined bauxite by reaction with an alkaline alkali silicate solution at a low temperature; fillers being optionally present.

Abstract: An exhaust gas catalyst support having hollow channels lined with .gamma.-Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 is formed by preparing an inorganic molding composition which actively hardens at 60.degree.-120.degree. C.; the molding composition containing an alkali silicate solution and a solid component reactive with the alkali silicate solution, which component can consist of an oxide mixture with contents of amorphous SiO.sub.2 and aluminum oxide and/or electrostatic precipitator ash from high-temperature coal-burning power plants and/or calcined ground bauxite and/or metakaolin; the hollow channels contained within the exhaust gas catalyst support are formed by reaction of aluminum rods or wires in the alkali silicate solution, with the simultaneous precipitation of alumina hydrate. In a subsequent heating step, the .gamma.-aluminum oxide lining is formed from the alumina hydrate, the lining serving for anchoring and fixation of a catalyst metal within the catalyst support.

Abstract: Facings for use as building components with a solid molded part constituting the visible side and a foam member of an inorganic and/or organic foam can be produced by shaping and heat curing from inorganic, aqueous molding compositions, wherein the molding composition contains a reactive oxide mixture, an alkali silicate solution, optionally alkali hydroxide, and fillers and auxiliary agents.

Abstract: Molded parts having high flexural strength, based on alkali silicates, can be produced by casting and/or press-molding and curing by heating from aqueous molding compositions which are prepared from an oxide mixture containing amorphous silicic acid and aluminum oxide, as well as, optionally, as an additional component, aqueous, amorphous, disperse-powdery silicic acid, dissolved SiO.sub.2, and alkali from alkali silicate solutions, optionally alkali hydroxide or its aqueous solutions and, if desired, fillers, by means of mixing under agitation. By addition of a blowing agent inorganic foamed products can be obtained.

Abstract: A support or base for low-vibration mounting of machines or the like is made by hardening a molding material in a mold. The base contains a hardened inorganic material with a density of 2.2 to 3.0, particularly 2.5 to 2.7 g/cm.sup.3, is made from(a) 15 to 30 weight % of an aqueous 30 to 65% potassium hydroxide-potassium silicate solution in which the SiO.sub.2 :K.sub.2 O molar ratio is 1.0 to 2.0:1;(b) 15 to 35 weight % of an oxide mixture containing amorphous SiO.sub.2 and aluminum oxide and/or hydrated amorphous silicic acid in the dispersed powder form and/or metakaolin;(c) 45 to 65 weight % of inorganic particulate fillers.The potassium silicate solution can be made by dissolving hydrated amorphous silicic acid in potassium hydroxide or its aqueous solution, and in this case, component (b) can consist entirely or partially of metakaolin.

Abstract: Piston rings of asymmetrical cross section are identified by providing a surface marking which extends from one flank face of the piston ring to the outer circumferential face (running face) thereof.

Abstract: An apparatus for deburring a circumferential edge of a workpiece, including a rotary deburring tool having an axis of rotation which is substantially parallel to the tangent belonging to the workpiece edge at a location contacted by the deburring tool.

Abstract: An apparatus for extracting hot die-cast work pieces from a die-casting machine includes a gripping device for gripping newly completed work pieces from the mold halves and a mechanism for moving the gripping device from between the mold halves to a delivery station in such a manner as to reduce the space normally required by other extracting apparatuses. The gripping device moves both axially and pivots about two different axes in moving from its work piece receiving position and its work piece delivery position. A spray head sprays a release agent onto the mold halves while the mold halves are open and is also moved in a space saving manner.

Abstract: An automatically operating casting ladle apparatus for the scooping up and delivery of an exactly measured amount of molten metal to die-casting machines, casting molds, etc., in which an exact positioning of the casting ladle is ensured, on the one hand by control means regulating the depth and the angle of tilt of the ladle in the metal bath on filling, and on the other hand by a compensatory movement to ensure that the point of impact of the stream of molten metal remains fixed at each pouring. The control and drive units are, as far as possible, located outside the radiation range of the crucible, and they are otherwise protected against heat influence by surrounding casings.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for guiding and seating a stirrer shaft for laboratory or industrial glass apparatus which consists of bearings and abutments and makes possible a change in the angle of slope of the stirrer shaft axis in the apparatus, wherein the bearing consists of a smooth disc with a concentrically arranged, spherical recess at whose deepest position there is arranged a conical bore breaking through the disc, and a body with a spherical surface and a central, axial bore which is rotatably fitted in the spherical recess of the smooth disc, whereby the stirrer shaft can be so affixed in the bore of the body, that it projects through the bore in the disc and has a stop in the abutment.