Abstract: A powder coating installation comprising a cabin having walls made of a non-conductive plastic material. The lower part of the cabin has a V-shaped section and terminates in a collecting channel which is connected to a suction device. The installation further comprises a cleaning device with a hollow frame, the form of which compliments the contours of the internal form of the cabin and which comprises gas outlet holes along its periphery. The frame is connected to a source of pressurized fluid, e.g., air. The cleaning device further comprises cleaning means such as sponges, cloths and the like, which may be provided on the same frame or on a separate frame. Use of a non-stick, non-conductive cabin and of the cleaning device enables the installation to be easily and quickly color converted and eliminates much of the previously wasted colored powder.

Abstract: An apparatus for photochemically processing a silicon wafer placed in a reactive gas by an illuminating energy for etching or film forming purposes. The apparatus includes a reaction chamber in which the silicon wafer is positioned and the reaction chamber is filled with a gas which is photochemically reactive to the illuminating energy. An opening is formed through the wall of the reaction chamber and the silicon wafer is positioned within the chamber apart from the opening. Condensing means for condensing the light energy from the illuminating energy radiating means at around the opening and directing the same into the chamber is arranged outside the chamber.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for applying adhesive to the open ends of containers having oppositely disposed front and rear wall panels, oppositely disposed side panels, and a center line parallel to the front and rear wall panels and aligned with the center of the side wall panels. The apparatus includes a conveyor for moving the containers along a line of movement through an adhesive application area. The containers are substantially immovably supported during adhesive application procedures. A pair of rotary adhesive applicators apply adhesive to the edges and portions adjacent such edges of an open end of the containers. These rotary adhesive applicators each have a central axis which is oriented in a non-normal relationship to at least one of the center line and line of movement of such containers, and are arranged relative to the conveyor such that as the containers pass the applicators, such applicators contact the edges of an open end of the container panels.

Abstract: A magnetic brush applicator for use in an electrographic reproduction apparatus for applying a magnetic developer to a recording element comprises a cylindrical non-magnetic sleeve having a rotatably driven magnetic core piece positioned therein. According to the invention, the axis of rotation of the magnetic core piece is displaced from the sleeve axis, such displacement being toward a development zone at which the applicator applies developer to the recording element. In a preferred embodiment, the rotational axis of the core piece lies in a plane passing through the sleeve axis, such plane being angularly displaced with respect to a second plane connecting the sleeve axis and the line of closest contact between the sleeve and recording element. Such angular displacement is between 0.degree. and 20.degree. in a direction upstream of the second plane as determined by the directioh of core piece rotation.

Abstract: A spray gun for applying a film to a workpiece has a spray head provided with an annular nozzle designed to discharge material which is to undergo pneumatic atomization. A second annular nozzle surrounds the pneumatic material discharge nozzle and is designed to discharge atomizing air for pneumatic atomization of the material issuing from the pneumatic material discharge nozzle. The spray head is further provided with an additional material discharge nozzle designed to discharge material which is to undergo hydrostatic atomization. The hydrostatic material discharge nozzle is disposed centrally of, and is surrounded by, the pneumatic material discharge nozzle. The hydrostatic material discharge nozzle forms a first spray of hydrostatically atomized material while the annular nozzles form a hollow conical second spray which surrounds the first spray when both sprays are on simultaneously.

Abstract: A process is provided for for cationically charge modifying a microporous filter membrane, wherein the membrane is a substantially symmetrical isotropic, hydrophilic, organic polymeric microporous filter membrane, preferably nylon, having a microstructure throughout the membrane. The process comprises bonding a primary charge modifying amount of a water soluble cationic charge modifying agent to substantially all of the membrane microstructure, without substantial pore size reduction or pore blockage. The charge modifying agent is a reaction product of a polyamine with epichlorohydrin, the reactive product having (i) tertiary amine or quaternary ammonium groups, and (ii) epoxide groups along a polyamine chain, the epoxide groups capable of bonding to the microstructure of the membrane.

Abstract: A process for the treatment of the surface of a transparent sheet or film having antilacerative and self-healing properties and the product made thereby, wherein the sheet or film includes a thermosetting polyurethane material employed as an external layer on a laminated glass or laminated plastic sheet or a mixture thereof. The process involves depositing a solution, dispersion or emulsion of wax or a wax-like substance and a silicone oil; or a solution, dispersion or emulsion of wax or a wax-like substance, a silicone oil and a fine-grained polishing agent on the surface of the polyurethane material. The solvent or solvents for the wax or wax-like substances have a boiling range of 40.degree. to 300.degree. C., and the silicone oil is present in an amount of less than 4% by wt. when no polishing agents are present and in an amount of from about 2 to 10% by wt. when fine-grained polishing agents are present.

Abstract: A chemical vapor deposition apparatus includes a gas mixing chamber and a water-cooled reaction chamber with adjustable water-cooled baffle between them. A wafer is clamped face down to a chuck and an inert gas such as helium is forced between the chuck and the wafer to insure proper heat conduction from chuck to wafer. The chuck can be radiantly heated from above and operated in a plasma-enhanced mode. A wafer loading apparatus driven by a computer is isolated by a loadlock during deposition to enhance cleanliness. The chamber can be plasma cleaned to reduce downtime.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing polishing cloths of the class to be used with abrasive powders on a lapping machine is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of impregnating a nonwoven fabric sheet with a solution of polyurethane elastomer, wet-coagulating the impregnated sheet, and heating the resulting microporous composite sheet at a temperature higher than the softening point of the polyurethane elastomer under an essentially uncompressed condition.

Abstract: In a printing machine, a medium applicator disposed downstream of printing units of the machine, in travel direction of a sheet which has been printed, the applicator having three rollers including a first roller for taking up medium from a supply container, a second roller for metering a quantity of the medium to be applied, and a third roller having the same diameter as that of cylinders of the printing units for transferring the medium, includes a rubber lining disposed on the third roller for directly applying the medium onto the printed sheet; the three rollers, during application of the medium, being in constant meshing engagement with a sheet-transferring cylinder; a device for uncoupling the three rollers from the sheet-transferring cylinder, and a separate motor for driving the three rollers when the rollers are uncoupled.

Abstract: During the pre-soldering or tinning of printed circuit boards, as a rule, also the drill holes or bores and, in particular, the through-metallized drill holes are filled in an undesirable manner with solder. This solder must be removed before mounting the electrical components or elements upon the printed circuit boards. A simple apparatus is disclosed for this purpose, affording a faultless de-soldering of the drill holes, without deleteriously affecting the properties of the solder material. The printed circuit boards, in a condition where the solder applied during the pre-soldering operation is still molten, are accelerated at least once and thereafter suddenly brought to standstill in such a fashion that the excess solder is knocked or propelled out of the drill holes.

Abstract: In a process for printing a substrate employing apparatus elements such as printing plates, engraved rolls, wiping blades, transfer rolls, metering rolls, or the like, and printing ink which comes into contact with the elements and substrate, the improvement comprising carrying out the printing with an ink comprising an aqueous system of colorant and water dispersible polymer having carbonyloxy linking groups in the linear molecular structure wherein up to 80% of the linking groups may be carbonylamido linking groups, the polymer having an inherent viscosity of at least about 0.1 measured in a 60/40 parts by weight solution of phenol/tetrachloroethane at 25.degree. C. and at a concentration of about 0.25 gram of polymer in 100 ml. of the solvent, allowing the ink to substantially dry, and subsequently contacting the dried ink with a solution of one or more multivalent cation salts to impart thereto a high degree of resistance to water dispersibility.

Abstract: A coater includes an impression cylinder and a gravure cylinder rotatably mounted. A first pivot arm unit is pivoted on the impression cylinder shaft and supports a pivot shaft. Depending pivot arms on the shaft support an offset cylinder to one side of the impression cylinder and above the gravure cylinder. Nip adjustment units for the pivot arm unit and the depending pivot arms each include a pre-loaded ball bearing lead screw coupled to a slide housing and a separate power cylinder connected to the pivot unit and pivot arms respectively. The power cylinder unit forces the pivot structure into engagement with the lead screw follower which acts as a stop. A stepping motor rotates the lead screw and accurately positions the stop and thereby the pivot structure as a result of the power cylinder units. The lead screws separately control the nip setting of the off-set cylinder relative to the impression cylinder and the gravure cylinders.

Abstract: This process for making antistatic filaments utilizes a specific mixture of compounds in order to suffuse electrically conductive particles into a filamentary polymeric substrate by forwarding the substrate through a grooved roll-type mix applicator. The mixture comprises a dispersion of the electrically conductive particles in liquid solvent which is a mixture of formic acid and a member selected from the group consisting of an amide, a carboxylic acid other than formic acid, an alcohol, an ester, a ketone, an ether, and a hydrocarbon. The process provides advantages over the prior art in permitting the use of high processing speeds, enabling easy stringup, and allowing the use of knotty and/or slubby filamentary substrates.

Abstract: A saturator of the type comprising a chamber situated between a chamber defining element and a mandrel, in which a web is moved between the chamber defining element and the mandrel to impregnate the web with a saturant contained in the chamber includes a stencil having at least one impermeable region shaped to cover less than the entire web. The stencil is passed through the chamber at the same speed as the web with the stencil juxtaposed against the web such that portions of the web aligned with the at least one impermeable region are not impregnated with the saturant, while other exposed portions of the web are impregnated with the saturant.

Abstract: Arsine or phosphine are thermally decomposed to form a molecular beam of arsenic or phosphorous by using the inside surfaces of a thermal decomposition duct (11) made of quartz or of boron nitride and heated on the outside by radiation from a filament (30). Pierced internal partitions (6a, 6b, 6c, 6d) having successive circumferentially offset holes (6p, 6q, 6r, 6s) increase the decomposition surface area and prevent a molecule from passing through the duct along a straight line.

Abstract: A generator is disclosed herein for producing dendriform patterns or designs on a substrate workpiece employing an electrical device for charging a liquid as it flows between the oppositely charged electrodes over the substrate. The dendriform pattern, shape and growth is controlled by liquid composition, applied voltages, temperature devices, vibratory devices and the like. The electrodes are disposed in fixed spaced relationship over the surface of non-conductive substrate so that the liquid is charged assuming the characteristics of one polarity while a field of opposite polarity is present at the other electrode. The gravity flow of the charged liquid introduces new liquid to the electrode and the counter reacting force field creates the molecular array of dendriform patterns.

Abstract: Wall murals are readily achieved by the do-it-yourself exponent with the use of apparatus contained in a kit. The kit of the invention includes a case which has brackets enabling the case to be supported on a wall or stabilized on a table or the like. Inside the case is a projector and a slide transparency bearing an outline of the intended mural in which different areas are designated according to the color intended for that area. The case includes a series of paint pots each containing a different corresponding colored paint and each bearing the corresponding designation of the paint color. To produce the mural the image of the slide is projected onto the wall and the different areas are painted with a different colored paint in accordance with the indicated designations.

Abstract: A moisture-permeable waterproof coating is formed by coating a fabric with a water-based coating composition containing a film forming polymer and a water-soluble polymer in a proportion of 5 to 70% based on total solids, drying or heating the fabric to form a film thereon; and then treating the resulting film with an aqueous solution of an enzyme which selectively degrades the water-soluble polymer, thereby enzymatically degrading the water-soluble polymer and extracting the degraded water soluble polymer from the film, whereby the film on the fabric is rendered microporous.

Abstract: Semipermeable composite membranes which comprise an interpenetrating polymer network may be prepared by reacting polyethylene glycol with a toluene diisocyanate to form an isocyanate-capped polyether, thereafter admixing the isocyanate-capped polyether with a heterocyclic nitrogen-containing compound to form an interpenetrating polymer network membrane-forming composition, forming a film of the composition on a porous support backing material and curing the resultant composite in a hydrous atmosphere to generate an amine-capped polymer, and subsequently reacting a portion of the isocyanate groups present to form a substituted polyurea which will physically enter the heterocyclic nitrogen-containing compound in the membrane.