Abstract: Flameproofing additives for plastics materials consisting of a coating- and carrier material. The coating consists of metal oxides, the carrier of organic compounds, in which halogen is bound to carbon. The combination of the two components of the flameproofing additives has an inhibiting action on the fire and gives plastics materials an effective fire protection according to the invention, for example, V-2 to V-0 according to UL 94.

Abstract: A smokable product based on cellulose and combustion-modifying substances, containing(a) 0.1-10% by weight, based on the total weight of the smokable product, of finely divided solids, the average particle diameter of which is less than 2.mu., in a distribution which is heterogeneous over the cross-section of the smokable product, with an enrichment in or on the surfaces, and(b) 0.5-15% by weight, based on the total weight of the smokable product, of salts of monobasic or polybasic carboxylic acids. The product being prepared by saturating, spraying or coating a combustible, prefabricated material which is based on cellulose and optionally contains fillers customarily used in smokable products and which can be used as a smokable product with a dispersion of solids, the average particle diameter of which is less than 2.mu., in a solution of salts of monobasic or polybasic carboxylic acids.

Abstract: Contact lenses and scleral lenses formed of mixtures consisting essentially of(1) from 99 to 70% by weight of a cellulose ester of one or more aliphatic carboxylic acids, and(2) from 1 to 30% by weight of an ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer containing from 30 to 98% by weight of incorporated vinyl acetate.