Abstract: A fuser component useful in electrostatographic machines, having an optional substrate, an optional intermediate and/or adhesive layer, and a layer of a high temperature plastic such as epoxy, polyketone, polyether, polyamide, and polyparabanic acid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrophotographic system, having a member which includes a surface layer and also may include a base layer. The surface layer is prepared from a surface layer composition which includes a fluoroelastomer and a boron nitride filler coupled with a silane.

Abstract: A pressure belt useful in electrostatographic machines, having a polyimide substrate, an optional intermediate and/or adhesive layer, and an outer polyimide layer.

Abstract: A fuser member having a polyimide substrate, and thereover, an outer layer with from about 61 to about 99 volume percent fluorocarbon.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrophotographic system, having a member which includes a surface layer and also may include a base layer. The surface layer is prepared from a surface layer composition which includes a fluoroelastomer and a boron nitride filler coupled with a silane.

Abstract: A fuser component useful in electrostatographic machines, having a substrate, an optional intermediate and/or adhesive layer, and an outer polyimide layer.

Abstract: A fuser component useful in electrostatographic machines, having an optional substrate, an optional intermediate and/or adhesive layer, and a layer of a high temperature plastic such as epoxy, polyketone, polyether, polyamide, and polyparabanic acid.

Abstract: A polymeric printing member for use in a printing machine is provided. The polymeric printing member includes a substrate and a coating applied to the substrate. The coating is applied to the substrate by rotating the substrate about its longitudinal axis and applying the coating from an applicator to the substrate in a spiral pattern in a controlled amount so that substantially all the coating that exits the applicator adheres to said substrate.

Abstract: A polymeric printing member for use in a printing machine is provided. The polymeric printing member-includes a substrate and a coating applied to the substrate. The coating is applied to the substrate by rotating the substrate about its longitudinal axis and applying the coating from an applicator to the substrate in a spiral pattern in a controlled amount so that substantially all the coating that exits the applicator adheres to said substrate.

Abstract: A low load fuser member for heating and fusing high quality toner images onto an image carrying substrate is provided. The low load fuser member includes a soft, low durometer and thermally non-conductive first elastomeric material member for forming a relatively large fusing nip at a relatively low load; a second and thermally conductive elastomeric material forming an intermediate layer over the first elastomeric material member; and a toner image release layer formed over the intermediate layer for facilitating release of fused toner images.

Abstract: A polymeric printing member for use in a printing machine is provided. The polymeric printing member includes a substrate and a coating applied to the substrate. The coating is applied to the substrate by rotating the substrate about its longitudinal axis and applying the coating from an applicator to the substrate in a spiral pattern in a controlled amount so that substantially all the coating that exits the applicator adheres to said substrate.

Abstract: A guide for leveling the flow of a coating from a nozzle onto a generally cylindrical substrate of a polymeric printing component in a printing machine is provided. The substrate is rotated about its longitudinal axis by a turning apparatus having a axially movable slide for mounting the nozzle to the slide. The coating is spirally applied to the substrate. The guide includes a member operably associated with the slide and moves with the slide. The member has a surface parallel to and slightly spaced from the periphery of the substrate so as to assist in evenly distributing the coating on the periphery of the substrate.

Abstract: Apparatus and method is described for dewatering sludge obtained from a flotation tank, which efficiently handles the sludge and avoids the need for adding polymers to reflock the sludge. The sludge dewatering portion includes a conveyor (40, FIG. 1) which has an uppath portion (42) that receives sludge that is dropped over a cliff (32), the conveyor having a downpath portion (44) which firmly compresses the sludge as it continues to move along the conveyor. The conveyor preferably extends at an incline to the horizontal with the downpath portion lying higher than the uppath portion, and with a fluid conduit lying under the conveyor and carrying liquid downwardly along the incline to a pump (74) that pumps the liquid along a return conduit (80) back to the flotation tank. One conveyor includes an elongated shaft (50, FIG.

Abstract: A fuser member for fusing thermoplastic resin toner images to a substrate has an aluminum base member and an elastomer fusing surface of a poly(vinylidenefluoride-hexafluoropropylene-tetrafluoroethylene) where the vinylidenefluoride is present in an amount less than 40 mole percent, the elastomer having been cured from a solvent solution thereof with a nucleophilic curing agent soluble in the solution and in the presence of 5 or less than 4 parts by weight of inorganic base per 100 parts of polymer, the inorganic base being effective to at least partially dehydrofluorinate the vinylidenefluoride, and an adhesive layer between the surface of said aluminum base member and the elastomer fusing surface, the adhesive layer having been cured from a solvent solution of a poly(vinylidenefluoride-hexafluoropropylene-tetrafluoroethylene) where the vinylidenefluoride is present in an amount less than 40 mole percent and from about 6 to 20 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of said poly(vinylidenefluoride hexafluoro

Abstract: A floatation separation method is described for separating pieces of fruit or vegetable of the same type, but wherein desirable pieces have a slightly different specific gravity from the undesirable ones, and all have a specific gravity about the same as that of water. The pieces (12, FIG. 3 ) are placed near the surface of a body of water, and a cloud (40) of tiny air bubbles is maintained in the water. As the bubbles float to the surface they encounter the articles and slightly increase their buoyancy. The increase in buoyancy is slight and uniform, so those articles having a density slightly greater than that of the water will remain at the water surface, while those of a slightly greater density cannot be floated by the air bubbles and will sink to the bottom. The cloud of air bubbles is created by allowing air at about atmospheric pressure, to emerge from apertures in a rapidly spinning rotor that open in a direction primarily opposite to the spin direction.

Abstract: A wastewater flotation separation system is provided, which operates effectively with a minimum of maintenance. The apparatus includes a container (12) for holding wastewater, an inlet (14) located at a lower portion of the container, and an aerator (24) adjacent to the inlet for generating air bubbles that cling to waste particles to bring them to the water surface. A skimming apparatus (30) which skims particles off the surface of the wastewater into a sludge receiver (44) includes a beach device (42) with an inclined upper surface (40), and a belt device (34) that moves a series of scrapers (32) along the surface of the water and along the beach device into the sludge discharge. Each scraper includes a flap of resilient material which is bent as it scrapes along the inclined beach surface.

Abstract: A method of using multilayered member for fusing thermoplastic resin toner images to a substrate in a fuser system of the type wherein a polymeric release agent having functional groups is applied to the surface of the fuser member. The multilayered fuser member has in sequential order a base support member, an adhesive layer comprising a copolymer of vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene and at least 20% by weight of the adhesive layer of a coupling agent comprising at least one organo functional silane and an activator, a tie coat layer of active ingredients comprising a copolymer of vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene and an outer elastomeric fusing surface comprising a copolymer of vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene and containing a metal oxide present in an amount sufficient to interact with a polymeric release agent having functional groups to provide an interfacial barrier layer between said fusing surface and toner.

Abstract: A multilayered fuser member for fusing thermoplastic resin toner images to a substrate in a fuser system of the type wherein a polymeric release agent having functional groups is applied to the surface of the fuser member, the fuser member has a base support member, a thermally conductive silicone elastomer layer, an amino silane primer layer, an adhesive layer and an elastomer fusing surface comprising poly(vinylidenefluoride-hexafluoropropylene-tetrafluoroethylene) a metal oxide present in the fusing surface to interact with the polymeric release agent to provide an interfacial barrier layer between the fusing surface and the toner and substantially unreactive with the elastomer, the elastomer having been cured from a solvent solution with a nucleophilic curing agent soluble in the solution and in the presence of 4 parts by weight of inorganic base per 100 parts of polymer, the adhesive layer having been cured from a solvent solution of the above composition from which the fusing surface is cured and from a

Abstract: A wastewater flotation separation system is provided, which operates effectively with a minimum of maintenance. The apparatus includes a container (12) for holding wastewater, an inlet (14) located at a lower portion of the container, and an aerator (24) adjacent to the inlet for generating air bubbles that cling to waste particles to bring them to the water surface. A skimming apparatus (30) which skims particles off the surface of the wastewater into a sludge receiver (44) includes a beach device (42) with an inclined upper surface (40), and a belt device (34) that moves a series of scrapers (32) along the surface of the water and along the beach device into the sludge discharge. Each scraper includes a flap of resilient material which is bent as it scrapes along the inclined beach surface.

Abstract: A multilayered member for fusing thermoplastic resin toner images to a substrate in a fuser system of the type wherein a polymeric release agent having functional groups is applied to the surface of the fuser member. The multilayered fuser member has in sequential order a base support member, an adhesive layer comprising a copolymer of vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene and at least 20% by weight of the adhesive layer of a coupling agent comprising at least one organo functional silaneand an activator, a tie coat layer of active ingredients comprising a copolymer of vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene and an outer elastomeric fusing surface comprising a copolymer of vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene and containing a metal oxide present in an amount sufficient to interact with a polymeric release agent having functional groups to provide an interfacial barrier layer between said fusing surface and toner.