A high melt flow rate, high impact, visbroken polymeric material is disclosed which comprises a first component which is selected from the group consisting of block copolymers of propylene and ethylene, reactor-made intimate mixtures of propylene and randomly oriented copolymers of propylene and ethylene, and blends of polypropylene and randomly oriented copolymers of propylene and ethylene, and t...

An apparatus for discriminating and sorting out defective plastic bottle crates from sound bottle crates comprising driving means for urging an indenter or contact tip provided at the tip of a vibrating rod of an ultrasonic hardness tester into steady contact in indented state with a bottle crate, detecting means for detecting resonant frequency of said vibrating rod which is varied by the urging ...