Abstract: A colorant for natural or synthetic resinous or polymeric materials, having the formula A--[SO.sub.2 --N(R.sub.2)--Y].sub.1-4 ; wherein: R.sub.2 is selected for example from hydrogen, methyl, cyclohexyl, phenyl or Y; A is a nonionic metallophthalocyanine chromophore which can be substituted for example with halogen, alkyl.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for the manufacture of a composite camouflage construction having an open mesh net substrate, and a continuous sheet overlying the substrate and bonded thereto along plural spaced lines of attachment, with lobes of the sheet cut to simulate the appearance of leaves and foliage. Apparatus and method includes a sewing station for stitching the sheet along plural spaced lines of attachment to the substrate to form open-ended pockets or channels between the sheet and substrate. The cutting station spaces the sheet from the substrate and a heated cutting wire reciprocates between adjacent lines of stitches to cut the sheet, open the channel, and use a series of loose lobes simultating the appearance of natural objects of a terrain, the fabric is then heated to cause the lobes to shrink and fall out of the plane of the fabric and are folded and creased to increase the openness of the fabric.

Abstract: A poly(oxyalkylene) substituted xanthene colorant is providing having the following structure: ##STR1## where Y is a poly(oxyalkylene) substituent having a straight or branched polymer chain of from 3 to 400 monomer units selected from ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, butylene oxide and glycidol;R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are independently selected from H, C1-C8 alkyl, aryl and Y, provided that if either R.sub.1 or R.sub.2 are Y, the other is not H;R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are independently selected from H, C1-C4 alkyl, C1-C4 alkoxy, Cl, Br and I;X is selected from H, SO.sub.3 --, CO.sub.2 -- and COOR.sub.5, where R.sub.5 is C1-C4 alkyl or aryl; andeach Z is independently selected from SO.sub.3 --, CO.sub.2 --, COOR.sub.6, Cl, and OH, where R.sub.6 is C1-C4 alkyl or aryl, and n is 0, 1, 2 or 3.The colorant is synthesized using a novel poly(oxyalkylene) substituted aminophenol intermediate.

Abstract: Method and apparatus to employ high pressure air to blow the lint, trash, etc. from the reed of a weaving machine in an efficient manner. The apparatus has a plurality of wheels thereon which engage the reed and allow the cleaning head to be readily slid across the loom to project the high pressure air against and through the dents of the reed.

Abstract: A fiber finish composition, which may be applied as an aqueous emulsion, is provided having:(a) from 70 to 95 parts by weight of a polyalphaolefin oil;(b) from 5 to 30 parts by weight of an emulsifier selected from:(i) ethoxylated C.sub.12 -C.sub.36 branched alcohols;(ii) alkoxylated polyhydric alcohols having at least 3 hydroxyl sites which are esterified with C.sub.12 -C.sub.36 fatty acids;(iii) alkoxyated glycerol esters of C.sub.12 -C.sub.36 fatty acids having at least one hydroxyl functionality.

Abstract: The process for chemically modifying metal-free, organic material for improving one or more properties thereof such as water dispersibility, compatibility with other organics, or increased chemical reactivity, wherein the process includes providing material with from 1-6 sulfonylhalide groups or sulfonate ester groups or mixtures thereof, and contacting the material under sulfonamido forming conditions with one or more reactants containing one or more poly(oxyalkylene) moieties, each of the reactants having from 1 to 4 functional amine groups, and each of the poly(oxyalkylene) moieties being comprised of from about 4 to about 200 epoxide reactant residues at least about 50 mole percent of which residues contain 2-4 carbons.

Abstract: A method is provided for the preparation of a conductive composition containing a polymerized aromatic amine wherein the aromatic amine is oxidatively polymerized in an acidic aqueous medium in the presence of an oxidizing agent, a doping agent and an aromatic polyalkyleneoxide in an amount sufficient to stabilize the resulting composition. Preferably, the aromatic amine is aniline or a substituted aniline. Compositions produced by such method are also disclosed. These compositions are useful for treating various substrates to make such substrates conductive.

Abstract: An opacified, semi-crystalline thermoplastic resin composition is provided having a poly(alkyleneoxy) substituted organic chromophore distributed throughout in an amount sufficient to color the resin. The resin composition is particularly useful for molding parts with strict dimensional tolerances as shrinkage of the molded part is minimal.

Abstract: Method and apparatus to employ high pressure air to blow the lint, trash, etc. from the reed of a weaving machine in an efficient manner. The apparatus has a plurality of wheels thereon which engage the reed and allow the cleaning head to be readily slid across the loom to project the high pressure air against and through the dents of the reed.

Abstract: A novel apparatus and method of patterning a textile fabric comprising fluid jets directed at an angle from the perpendicular line of intersection between the fluid jets and the fabric which eliminates stress lines, troughs and valleys in the fabric by placing a lateral force on the fabric.

Abstract: A method of forming a colored polymer coating on a substrate is disclosed which comprises mixing a reactive polymer, a reactive colorant, and a linking agent, and reacting the linking agent with the reactive polymer and reactive colorant under suitable conditions to form the colored polymer coating. The polymer from which the coating is formed has reactive groups which can react with the linking agent. The reactive colorant has the general formula:R-[polymeric constituent-X].sub.nwherein R is an organic dyestuff radical; the polymeric constituent is selected from polyalkylene oxides and copolymers of alkylene oxides in which the alkylene moiety of the polymeric constituent contains 2 or more carbon atoms; n is an integer from 1 to about 6; and X is a reactive moiety. The linking agent has a reactive group capable of reacting with reactive groups in the polymer and a reactive group capable of reacting with the reactive moiety of the reactive colorant.

Abstract: A cleated dust control mat having a plurality of rows of elliptical cleats located at an angle to the border of the mat with the cleats in each row being parallel to the other cleats in the row and being substantially perpendicular to the cleats in the next adjacent rows of cleats. A second set of small circular cleats is located between the elliptical cleats in each row equally spaced from adjacent elliptical cleats in each row.

Abstract: A method for imparting ballistic resistant characteristics to a textile fabric by placing a polymer film on the fibers of a high tenacity fiber fabric which has a coefficient of friction higher than the coefficient of friction of the high tenacity fibers. The fabric, after the placement of the polymer film is subjected to a high velocity air stream to break up any fiber-to-fiber bonds in the fabric.

Abstract: Method to form a wet mop head from a circular knit interlock by cutting the fabric into a plurality of sections and slitting the ends of each section. Then stacking a plurality of sections one on top the other than wrapping a tape centrally therearound to form a wet mop head when the tape is stitched to the stacked sections.

Abstract: A tetrahedronal packaging machine packaging liquids which has a package-forming member mounted on each heat jaw to maintain the shape of the package being filled. The package-forming member is spring loaded to allow the forming member to be rotated to a second position to provide a different size package of liquid fill.

Abstract: The method of providing an impression fabric in which the fill yarns do not protrude from the plane of the fabric. The impression fabric is a tubular woven fabric in which a plurality of warp yarns is woven in one edge thereof and dissolved by washing after the fabric has been formed.

Abstract: Method to produce a non-woven needled fabric in which the needled fabric includes 10-35% of low melt fusible fibers to aid in holding the non-woven fabric together when passed through and over to melt the fusible fibers and then allow to cool and bind the fabric together.

Abstract: An improved apparatus is disclosed for spraying a liquid marking material onto the surface of a substrate by dividing a stream of the marking material into droplets by an impinging stream of pressurized control fluid directed at the surface to be sprayed. The apparatus comprises a module forming a plurality of first conduits for delivery of the stream of marking material and a plurality of second conduits for delivery of the impinging stream of control fluid. In one embodiment, the module comprises a module body having a plurality of first grooves and a plurality of second grooves and means for enclosing such grooves to form the first and second conduits, respectively. Methods of producing substrates having a sprayed pattern are also disclosed which employ such apparatus.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for real time processing of digitally encoded pattern information suitable for distributing such information to a large number of individual pattern applicators which are grouped into a number of successive arrays. When applied to a patterning process involving the selective application of dye streams to a moving substrate, the disclosed real time processing includes transforming pattern data to corresponding dye contact times, resequencing the transformed data to compensate for physical spacing between arrays, and converting the resequenced data to logical dye stream contact commands to be sent to the individual applicators.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for treatment of relatively moving substrate materials and the novel products produced thereby created by precise application of high temperature pressurized streams of fluid against the surface of the materials to melt and remove material which imparts a recessed channel to the materials that facilitates separation of the materials. The apparatus includes an elongate manifold for receiving heated pressurized fluid, such as air, disposed across the width of the relatively moving material and having a single slit the full width of the substrate for directing the fluid into the surface of the material. The substrate material is treated with an acrylic resin to eliminate jagged or frayed edges either prior to or after the melting and removal process by means of the high temperature pressurized fluid streams.