This invention concerns a process for making alkanols which comprises contacting a mixture of CO and H2 at a pressure of 500 psig or greater and at a temperature of at least 150 DEG C. with a catalyst system comprising a ruthenium-containing compound and a halogen-free titanium or zirconium-containing compound dispersed in a low melting quaternary phosphonium or ammonium base or salt.

PURPOSE:To improve the rate of utilization of an active material as well as a cycle life by providing a proper diameter hole in any one of positive and negative electrode plates or in both of them. CONSTITUTION:A hole of a diameter of from 0.2 to 2.0mm is provided in any one of positive and negative electrode plates for lead battery or in both of them. With such arrangement, even if lead sulfate i...

Cylindrical blanks are formed into wheels, each with an integral shaft; and one of the shafts is shrunk into the other one in order to complete the set. Each wheel may have an integral, outwardly extending bearing hub.

The invention pertains to a process and device for the gripping at a storage station, transfer and placement of a sheet of flexible plastic material at the stacking station in an automatic production process for compound structures, especially compound panes. In accordance with the process, the sheet made of flexible plastic material is grasped by suction connected to a swinging stamp, first exert...

A method for removing adhesive strips in the edge region from mitred and folded construction elements made of plate-shaped workpieces, in particular from chipboards, fibre boards or similar boards is described, in which the strip material is initially at least partially warmed by means of a hot gas and subsequently processed and removed in a mechanical manner.

Addition of H and a radical I' (R<1> = org. carbon radical; R<2> = H, R<1>; R<3> = C1-C4-alkyl) onto olefinically or acetylenically unsaturated compounds II (Y = H or together a further bond; n = 0 or 1; A, B = -CO-O-; -O-CO-; -CRR-O-; -CR-NR-; R = H, C1-C4-alkyl, identical or different; R<4>, R<5> = H, org. radical; A + B (n = 1) or A + B (n = 0) can be linked to give a 5- or 6-me...

In a bark-chopping machine provided with a rotary body, bark is shredded by the action of cutting blades (5), which are attached to the rotary body (2) by means of pivot pins, and opposing blades (7) firmly attached to a fixed body (3). In order to obtain a bark-chopping machine which is robust and very rarely needs to be serviced, the rotary body (2) carries baffle blades (4) attached in one piec...

The compositions comprise about 80 to about 97% by weight of the refractory particles of, for example, tungsten carbide. The particles are bonded within an alloy matrix of between about 5 and about 50% nickel, sufficient carbon to avoid the formation of detrimental carbon deficient or excess carbon phases and a balance of about 95 to about 50% iron by weight. In a preferred embodiment, the alloy m...

PURPOSE:To restrict operating mistake and to perform a desired direction conversion by discriminating that a measured running distance during an operation reaches to a predetermined purpose running distance and informing the discriminating result. CONSTITUTION:When a push button type switch S is pressed in case that a change gear operating lever 22 of a transmitter 20a is in a neutral position, by...

PURPOSE:To prevent the runaway of a microcomputer system by providing a discriminating circuit outputting a control signal interrupting a power switch to the said power switch when a reset signal is interrupted within the initial reset time. CONSTITUTION:The initial reset circuit 2 outputs a reset signal (r) as soon as the power switch 4 is closed. The discriminating circuit 3 supervises the signa...

PURPOSE:To prevent runaway due to faulty initial reset circuit by allowing a discrimination circuit to interrupt an output switch inserted to an output circuit so that the operation output of a CPU is fed to the system. CONSTITUTION:When a CPU reset pulse r2 is interrupted before an initial reset time (t) is elapsed because of a fault of a CPU initial reset circuit 2 and then given again, since no...

PURPOSE:To recover immediately the runaway state by providing a timer circuit outputting a time-over signal, starting mask-disable processing without fail when the timer circuit is reset and checking a microprogram counter. CONSTITUTION:When a runaway of a CPU2 is a runaway by which a signal S1 is generated form an I/O interface 4 within a prescribed time, a timer 6 is reset on every occasion. Whe...

A frangible or breakaway valve for use in a flexible tube. The valve comprises two parts: a tubular portion with a closed end and an elongated, generally rigid handle breakably attached to the closed end. The elongated handle has projections which frictionally contact the interior surface of the flexible tube and prevent the elongated handle from moving back into a closed position once the elongat...

An improved antistatic coating for a polyester support bearing a photographic layer is applied in two coatings using conventional coating equipment. The first coating contains an electrically conductive polymer and optionally a binding agent; the second coating contains a crosslinking agent.

A self-sealing pneumatic tire that has an inner surface provided with a layer of sealant and a plurality of edge strips that partially overlap the sealant layer to retain the sealant in position during construction and operation of the tire. Construction is simplified by utilizing a laminate structure incorporating such edge strips and also comprising an air impermeable elastomer strip, the center...