PATENTS

2111. MANNESMANNRÖHREN-WERKE AND RUHRCHEMIE A. G. Apparatus for the Production of Synthetic Hydrocarbons From Oxides of Carbon and Hydrogen With the Use of Solid Contact Masses. British Patent 464,242, Apr. 14, 1937. Chem. Abs., vol. 31, 1937, p. 6518.

Apparatus comprises a cooling device that includes at least 5 rows of cooling tubes superposed 1 row on the other at a small distance apart and having at least 5 tubes in each row, together with flat plates arranged perpendicular to the tubes and positioned at a few mm., for example, 7 mm., from each other, the tubes extending through each of the plates, and the plates and portions of the tubes extending therethrough being enclosed in a jacket. Cooling liquid is circulated through the tubes. The solid contact masses are arranged between the plates.