Abstract: A set for mechanical processing suspended fibrous material includes a die plate having receiving openings in a predefined arrangement for insertion of blade-shaped processing elements which jut out on a process side and are flowed onto by the fibrous material. The blade-shaped processing elements have each a plurality of foot regions in longitudinally spaced-apart relation, which pass through the die plate and jut out from the die plate on a process-distal. At least some of the foot regions of the processing elements reach into associated receiving grooves of a base plate on the process-distal side. As an alternative, transverse stiffening elements are arranged substantially orthogonally in the longitudinal direction of the processing elements such that the transverse stiffening elements stabilize the foot regions of the processing elements on the process-distal side.

Abstract: A set for mechanical processing suspended fibrous material includes a die plate having receiving openings in a predefined arrangement for insertion of blade-shaped processing elements which jut out on a process side and are flowed onto by the fibrous material. The blade-shaped processing elements have each a plurality of foot regions in longitudinally spaced-apart relation, which pass through the die plate and jut out from the die plate on a process-distal. At least some of the foot regions of the processing elements reach into associated receiving grooves of a base plate on the process-distal side. As an alternative, transverse stiffening elements are arranged substantially orthogonally in the longitudinal direction of the processing elements such that the transverse stiffening elements stabilize the foot regions of the processing elements on the process-distal side.

Abstract: A set for mechanical processing suspended fibrous material includes a die plate having receiving openings in a predefined arrangement for insertion of blade-shaped processing elements which jut out on a process side and are flowed onto by the fibrous material. The blade-shaped processing elements have each a plurality of foot regions in longitudinally spaced-apart relation, which pass through the die plate (2) and jut out from the die plate on a process-distal. At least some of the foot regions of the processing elements reach into associated receiving grooves of a base plate on the process-distal side. As an alternative, transverse stiffening elements are arranged substantially orthogonally in the longitudinal direction of the processing elements such that the transverse stiffening elements stabilize the foot regions of the processing elements on the process-distal side.

Abstract: A set for mechanical processing suspended fibrous material includes a die plate having receiving openings in a predefined arrangement for insertion of blade-shaped processing elements which jut out on a process side and are flowed onto by the fibrous material. The blade-shaped processing elements have each a plurality of foot regions in longitudinally spaced-apart relation, which pass through the die plate (2) and jut out from the die plate on a process-distal. At least some of the foot regions of the processing elements reach into associated receiving grooves of a base plate on the process-distal side. As an alternative, transverse stiffening elements are arranged substantially orthogonally in the longitudinal direction of the processing elements such that the transverse stiffening elements stabilize the foot regions of the processing elements on the process-distal side.

Abstract: The throughput of a reactor for producing alkali cellulose and/or a cellulose derivative can be increased by using a granulated cellulose-based material for the preparation of alkali cellulose and/or a cellulose derivative. Cellulose derivatives of essentially the same quality can be produced as in known processes wherein powdered cellulose-based material is used for alkalization and derivatization.

Abstract: The present invention refers to the use of screens comprising at least two layers of different mesh or pore size in a cellulose powder preparation method as well as to said method, wherein grinding the cellulose pulp and sieving the obtained particles can be carried out on-line.

Abstract: The present invention relates to thermoplastic foams in which .beta.-ketocarboxylic acids, .beta.-ketocarboxylic acid esters or tert.-butyl esters of organic acids are used as the foaming agents.

Abstract: A thermoplastic molding composition suitable for the preparation of foam is disclosed. The composition comprises a thermoplastic resinous component and a foaming agent which includes A) (i) 0.01 to 4.8% alumina hydrate (aluminum hydroxide) in combination with (ii) 0.01 to 4.8% of an acidic additive or B) 0.01 to 4.8% of the reaction product of said (i) and said (ii), the percentages being relative to the weight of the composition to be foamed. The invention is based on the finding that the foaming of the composition does not lead to any significant reduction in molecular weight of the resinous component or to troublesome discoloration of the foam, even during its re-extrusion.

Abstract: A method of foaming thermoplastic aromatic polycarbonates is disclosed. Accordingly, a polycarbonate resin is mixed with 0.01 to 10%, the percent being relative to the total weight of polycarbonate resin and polysaccharide, of a particular polysaccharide and the mixture then processed thermoplastically without the application of negative pressure in an extruder, at temperatures of 180.degree. C. to 320.degree. C., or in an injection molding machine, at temperatures of 190.degree. C. to 330.degree. C., to obtain foamed molded articles.

Abstract: A method of foaming thermoplastic aromatic polycarbonates is disclosed. Accordingly, a polycarbonate resin is mixed with 0.01 to 10%, the percent being relative to the total weight of polycarbonate resin and polysaccharide, of a particular polysaccharide and the mixture then processed thermoplastically without the application of negative pressure in an extruder, at temperatures of 180.degree. C. to 320.degree. C., or in an injection molding machine, at temperatures of 190.degree. C. to 330.degree. C., to obtain foamed molded articles.

Abstract: The invention relates to a thermoplastic molding composition comprising(A) from 10 to 98 parts by weight of a polydiorganosiloxane-polycarbonate block copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of from 10,000 to 200,000 and containing from 75 to 97.5 wt. % of aromatic carbonate structural units and from 25 to 2.5 wt. % of polydiorganosiloxane structural units;(B) from 2 to 90 parts by weight of a thermoplastic, aromatic polycarbonate having a weight average molecular weight of at least 10,000, andcontaining bifunctional carbonate structural units corresponding to ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently represent hydrogen, halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.6 cycloalkyl, C.sub.6 -C.sub.10 aryl or C.sub.7 -C.sub.12 aralkyl;m represents an integer of from 4 to 7,R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, which may be selected individually for each X, independently represent hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl; andx represents carbon,with the proviso that, on at least one atom X, R.sup.3 and R.sup.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of compounds containing reversibly blocked and, optionally, free alcoholic hydroxyl groups, characterized in that organic compounds containing at least one alcoholic hydroxyl group, but otherwise being inert under the reaction conditions are reacted at 0.degree. to 140.degree. C. with N,N'-disubstituted 5-acylimino-imidazolidine diones. The present invention also relates to the use of these compounds for the production of polyurethanes.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of resol resins by reacting bisphenol A with 1.2 to 1.8 moles of formaldehyde in the presence of n-butanol or isobutanol and in the presence of a tri-alkali metal phosphate as a catalyst, and their use, optionally combined with epoxy resins, for the preparation of deep-drawable, sterilizable and chemically resistant lacquer films.

Abstract: An air-drying and oven-drying lacquer binder based on a copolymer having copolymerized units of5 to 40% by weight of styrene,10 to 50% by weight of at least one hydroxyalkyl(meth)acrylate with 2 to 4 carbon atoms in the alkyl group, and10 to 40% by weight of at least one (meth)acrylic acid ester with 1 to 10 carbon atoms in the alcohol component, esterified with10 to 50% by weight, based on the copolymer and drying fatty acid and dicarboxylic acid anhydride, of a drying fatty acid,from 10 to 70 mole % of the hydroxyl groups of the incorporated hydroxyalkyl(meth)acrylate units having been esterified with the drying fatty acid and thereafter from 0.5 to 20 mole % of the hydroxyl groups of the incorporated hydroxyalkyl(meth)acrylate units having been reacted with from 0.

Abstract: An alkyd resin stoving lacquer with decreased loss of reactive diluent yields outstandingly hard coatings if a reactive diluent mixture comprising a lactam and a hydroxyl compound is used.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of multinuclear phenols alkylated in the nucleus, wherein bisphenol A is reacted with a phenyl alkenyl compound in the presence of a catalytic quantity of aluminium phenolate and resols obtained from said alkylated phenols.

Abstract: A freeze dryer for the freeze drying of, for example, comestible products such as fruit juices and coffee, comprises a sublimation chamber having a heating plate upon which the products are disposed and an ice condenser spaced from the heating plate and upon which the moisture driven out of the product sublimes in the form of ice. According to the invention between the heating place and the ice condenser a heat pump is disposed so that the heat transferred to the ice condenser is returned via the heat pump to the heating plate.

Abstract: Non-aqueous polyester and alkyd resin stoving lacquers containing .epsilon.-caprolactam as a so-called reactive diluent with a high solids content and containing correspondingly small quantities of volatile solvents and yield excellently hard coatings which are not brittle.

Abstract: Stoving lacquer systems having a high solids content contain a binder consisting of carboxyl and hydroxyl group-containing polyester or alkyd resin including an .epsilon.-caprolactone as a "reactive diluent", and an aminoplast resin as a cross-linking agent.