Abstract: A method of processing cellulose sausage skins is disclosed in which sausage skins are filled with contents to make sausages, the cellulose sausage skins are removed from the sausages, the removed sausage skins are dissolved to form a recycled cellulose dope, and new sausage skins are formed from the recycled cellulose dope. Dissolving sausage skins under soda cellulose Q condition for subsequent reuse is specifically described. In addition, forming a dissolved cellulose feed stock for use in producing sausage skins employing cavitation and a solvent is disclosed.

Abstract: A biodecomposable or biodisintegrable moldable material which comprises a mixture of 10-70 vol. % of a natural high molecular substance, 30-70 vol. % of a thermoplastic resin and 0-45 vol. % of a filler.

Abstract: An image transferred material is disclosed, which is produced by transferring an image layer carried on a support to a medium, wherein an interlayer is provided between the image layer and the medium.

Abstract: The adhesive composition of the invention exhibits an adequately controlled adhesive bonding strength when paper sheets coated therewith are bonded together to be adaptable to subsequent separation of the bonded sheets of paper by peeling. The essential ingredients of the adhesive composition include: (a) a rubber latex; (b) a silica gel powder having a specified average particle diameter; and (c) a starch, preferably, having a specified particle diameter, e.g. wheat starch, each in a specified weight proportion. In addition to the good balance between the reliability of the adhesive bonding and subsequent peelability, the paper sheet coated with the adhesive composition is prevented from a decrease in the adhesiveness even when the surface is contaminated with a silicone oil and from the troubles due to blocking when adhesive-coated sheets are stacked one on the other with the adhesive-coated surfaces in direct contact with each other.

Abstract: A lightweight, biodegradable packaging material and method for manufacturing the same. The product is made from an initial or starting material which is principally corn grit that is mixed with a binding agent and water extruded under heat and pressure and allowed to expand to form the packaging material.

Abstract: A laminated structure comprising at least two non-adhesive layers and at least one adhesive layer wherein the adhesive layer is made of a composition stabilized against thermal crosslinking and consequent reduction of its melt index, comprising a uniform dispersion of antimony oxide in a blend of a matrix polymer which is a dipolymer of ethylene with an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid or a terpolymer of ethylene with an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid and with another ethylenically unsaturated comonomer, carbon dioxide or sulfur dioxide; and organo-halogen fire-retardant; and a stabilizing polymer which is a high melt index copolymer of ethylene with acrylic or methacrylic acid. Such laminated structures include laminates used in packaging and building construction.

Abstract: A biodegradable shaped product comprising an expanded modified flour product preferably having at least 40% by weight amylose content and containing about 2% or more by weight of an inorganic water soluble salt, said expanded product having a low density, closed cell structure with good resilience and compressibility.Another embodiment provides a biodegradable packaging material comprising an expanded, low density, closed cell modified flour product, the flour preferably having at least 40% by weight amylose content and containing about 2% or more by weight of an inorganic water soluble salt, and the expanded product having a bulk density of less than about 2.0 lb/ft.sup.3, a resiliency of at least about 50%, and a compressibility of from about 100 to 800 g/cm.sup.2.

Abstract: A wood composite baseball bat is formed by overlaying a central core of foamed plastic or extruded aluminum with an inner layer of resin-impregnated fiber knitted or woven cloth and then an outer layer consisting of longitudinally extending planks of resin-coated wood veneer. The article is formed by covering the core with the synthetic material impregnated with uncured resin. While the resin impregnating the fibrous material is still unset, the core member is placed within split molds lined with resin-coated strips of wood veneer and the molds are pressed together while the resin is allowed to set to form a unitary mass.

Abstract: Novel duct tapes comprising a water-impermeable sheet backing carrying, in order, a cloth material and an adhesive layer, wherein the backing is embossed in order to lower the density and thereby render a duct tape of a given thickness more cost-effective.

Abstract: A single layer non-woven fabric suitable for use as a cotton bale covering that is a single layer batt formed of cross-lapped fiber, having a structure compacted by needle tacking, and being thermally bonded by thermally set low melt thermoplastic material intermixed throughout the batt, and stitch bonded throughout the batt. A process for producing this non-woven fabric that includes forming a webb of fiber, cross-lapping the web to form a batt, needle tacking and stitch bonding the batt, and providing low melt thermoplastic material that thermally bonds the fiber in the batt upon heating.

Abstract: A multi-ply film including a thermoplastic polymeric substrate, and a vinylidene chloride polymer top-coat have a primer which anchors the substrate to the top-coat. The primer is a copolymer of one or more acrylic comonomers and a cross-linking copolymerizable comonomer having pendant free hydroxyl groups or groups convertible to free hydroxyl groups.

Abstract: An edhesive tape has a flexible carrier web that has a low-adhesion face formed with a predetermined pattern of dimples, each of which contains a plurality of electrically conductive particles that can either be loose or bound together into clusters by a binder. An adhesive layer covers said face and deposited particles and can be a pressure-sensitive adhesive or a heat-activatable adhesive. When the adhesive layer is separated from the carrier web, it carries along the particles. When the particle-bearing adhesive layer is used to bond together two arrays of electrodes, facing pairs of the electrodes are electrically interconnected either by single particles or by clusters of the particles. When a binder is used to bind the electrically conductive particles into clusters, the binder can add to the strength of the adhesive bond between the electrode-bearing surfaces.

Abstract: An adhesive composition and accompanying tape wherein the adhesive is a water-soluble, pressure-sensitive adhesive mass consisting ofa) 100 parts by weight of at least one water-soluble copolymer of 55 to 90%-wt of at least one vinylcarbonic acid, 5 to 35%-wt of at least one hydroxyalkyl (meth-) acrylate, 1 to 15%-wt of at least one N-substituted (meth-)- acrylamide derivative of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are the same or different and can represent an alkyl wherein one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 can also be a hydrogen atom, and R.sub.3 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and 0.05 to 10%-wt of at least one vinylcarbonic acid salt,b) 50 to 200 parts by weight of at least one water-soluble softener including a polyoxyalkylene group having a molecular mass of up to 1000 andb) 0.1 to 8 parts by weight of a cross-linking agent.

Abstract: A reinforced mica paper includes reinforced mica paper as a base material obtained by mechanically pulverizing muscovite mica or phlogopite mica to form scaly mica and making the scaly mica into paper, a reinforcing material layer formed on at least one surface of the base material, and an adhesive coated on and impregnated in the reinforcing material layer and consisting of a mixture obtained by mixing arbitrary amounts of a silicone resin, aluminum hydroxide, aluminum silicate, potassium titanate, and a soft mica powder. A method of manufacturing the reinforced mica paper is also disclosed.

Abstract: A sorptive article that is made of one or more fibrous web elements enclosed within a fibrous web casing and that may be used for absorbing liquid material.

Abstract: A combined splicing tape and peg board for connecting ends of continuous feed computer paper to facilitate changing between different paper products or to add leaders so that the first serial numbered check or invoice is not lost to the feed process. The apparatus enables non-continuous feed paper products, such as envelopes or checks, to be integrated into a continuous feed paper flow. Continuous feed paper products are abutted at their ends on the adhesive side of a previously mounted tape. Non-continuous feed products are mounted on the tape and then onto the front side of the continuous feed paper in the printer. Spaced holes in the computer paper are freely received by rigid pegs positioned and sized for proper alignment of the edges of the paper. The tape has spaced holes for proper alignment over the edges of the paper. In one embodiment the tape holes are slightly smaller than the pegs to retain the tape on the board.

Abstract: This invention relates to emulsion type adhesive compositions which include a metal neutralized copolymer of a conjugated diene and an ethoxylated alkylamine salt of a styrene sulfonate, wherein the sulfonated copolymer has about 5 to about 125 meg. of sulfonate groups per 100 grams of the sulfonated copolymer, and about 25 to about 200 parts by weight of a hydrocarbon resin of a petroleum or coal tar distillate, having about 5 to 6 carbon atoms, the hydrocarbon resin being composed of aliphatic dienes and monoolefins per 100 parts by weight of the neutralized sulfonated copolymer.

Abstract: A biodegradable shaped product comprising an expanded high amylose starch product having at least 45% by weight amylose content, said expanded product having a low density, closed cell structure with good resilience and compressibility.Another embodiment provides a biodegradable packaging material comprising an expanded, low density, closed cell starch product, the starch having at least 45% by weight amylose content and the expanded product having a bulk density of less than about 2.0 lb/ft.sup.3, a resiliency of at least about 50%, and a compressibility of from about 100 to 800 g/cm.sup.2.

Abstract: A biodegradable shaped product comprising an expanded high amylose starch product having at least 45% by weight amylose content, said expanded product having a low density, closed cell structure with good resilience and compressibility.Another embodiment provides a biodegradable packaging material comprising an expanded, low density, closed cell starch product, the starch having at least 45% by weight amylose content and the expanded product having a bulk density of less than about 2.0 lb/ft.sup.3, a resiliency of at least about 50%, and a compressibility of from about 100 to 800 g/cm.sup.2.

Abstract: The invention provides a pressure sensitive adhesive composition suitable for skin contact and comprising a polymer, copolymer or mixture of polymers and/or copolymers and optionally usual additives, and further comprising 1-20% by weight, based on the total amount of the composition, of at least one silane compound. Preferably the silane compound contains at least one amino functional group. Further the invention relates to a pressure sensitive adhesive tape and medical accessories provided with the above described adhesive composition.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention a novel composite compression and support dressing is disclosed. This dressing comprises an extensible bandage having a stretchable hydrocolloid adhesive composition laminated thereto.

Abstract: A white board comprises a front surface layer composed of a polyester film having undergone a hard coat treatment and a rear surface layer composed of a sheet-like magnet. The white board can be easily attached to and detached from steel walls, glass plates, etc. and stored in a rolled state when not in use.

Abstract: A masking tape for EMI shielding applications comprising an adhesive layer, a metal foil layer adhered to the top of the adhesive layer, two or more adhesive strips running parallel to the edges of the tape and extending the length of the foil along the strips are preferably inset from the outer edges of the foil so as to form a stepped or notch-like configuration. A mask layer is attached to the top of the strips. The mask alone or the mask and strips are designed to be removed after use. The tape is applied to a substrate such as a computer cabinet, the cabinet is then sprayed with a paint or finish coat and the mask is removed to reveal a conductive metal foil surface to which a conductive EMI shield can be mounted.

Abstract: An invention relates to a pressure-activatible correcting tape, which has a conventional carrier and a lift-off layer for removing typed or printed type images, the lift-off layer containing a wax, a binder and optionally further additives. This correcting tape is characterized in that the lift-off layer contains approximately 5 to 35% by weight of butyl rubber, approximately 30 to 90% by weight of wax and approximately 0.1 to 5% by weight of a dispersent having a dispersing action in an aqueous medium for the aforementioned substances. The lift-off layer can be produced by means of an aqueous coating liquid, which is environmentally advantageous compared with organic dispersents. This correcting tape can be used without restriction and independently of the type of typewriter.

Abstract: An absorbent structure for collecting and retaining exuded fluids from food products such as meat and poultry is disclosed herein. The structure has a fluid permeable top sheet and a fluid impermeable bottom sheet with an absorbent core of pulp coform material located therebetween. In a preferred embodiment the periphery of the top and bottom sheets are sealed to form a pouch and the pulp coform material is stratified into a first top layer and a second bottom layer. Superabsorbents such as carboxymethylcellulose may be added to the coform material to aid in fluid retention. In the preferred embodiment the superabsorbent is located in the bottom layer of pulp coform while the top layer of the pulp coform is substantially devoid of the superabsorbent.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive tape for masking selected areas of an article such as a printed circuit board during high temperature operations such as wave soldering comprises a polymeric film coated with a layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive, both film and adhesive being resistant to temperatures up to 250.degree. C. for up to 5 seconds and being soluble in a fluorocarbon solvent such as a trichlorotrifluoroethane solvent. More particularly the film and adhesive are resistant to temperatures up to 260.degree. C. for up to 25 seconds.The polymeric film, which is a novel self-supporting film, may suitably comprise a polymethacrylate other than poly(methyl methacrylate) e.g. poly(butyl methacrylate), or ethyl cellulose or polyvinylpyrrolidone.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pressure-sensitive adhesive compositions comprising tackified elastomeric copolymers or block copolymers, e.g., based upon styrene/isoprene, having a novel condensed phase structure wherein polymer branches occur along the polymer backbone, either at a predetermined location or at random locations. The invention also provides sheet materials coated with the adhesive compositions. The polymers of the present invention are made by a method which comprises the step of reacting, under polymerization conditions, hydrocarbyl lithium initiator, at least one anionically polymerizable compound, and an organometallic-substituted styrene condensing agent. The reactants may be added simultaneously to produce a copolymer with polymer branch segments randomly located along the polymer backbone or sequentially to produce a copolymer with branches located at the same predetermined location along the polymer backbone.

Abstract: A seal member has a sealing portion, length control members and a heat activated member securing the length control members to the sealing portion. The length control members prevent excessive elongation of the sealing members during installation when the sealing member is applied by automated equipment.

Abstract: A moldable, putty-like adhesive mass is disclosed comprising a blend of (1) an acrylate terpolymer adhesive containing a hydrophilic macromolecular moiety and (2) a reinforcing material which is a carbonylamido group containing polymer. The adhesive blends are moisture vapor permeable and non-water swellable. They are useful in many medical applications.

Abstract: Use of cellulose fibers of natural origin as an admixture to polyvinyl chloride is disclosed. Structurally modifying a polyvinyl article by admixing cellulose fibers limits heat shrinkage thereof and results in improved surface characteristics and/or mechanical characteristics. A polyvinyl article is provided which is comprised of polyvinyl chloride and from 1 to 40 wt. %, preferably from 3 to 20 wt. %, cellulose fibers having a fiber thickness ranging from a finite thickness to about 40 .mu.m and a fiber length ranging from twice the fiber thickness to about 400 .mu.m, preferably from about 80 .mu.m to about 400 .mu.m.

Abstract: There is disclosed a cloth-like tape substrate. The substrate is made from an essentially unbonded cellulose web having a breaking length between about 0.71 km and 2.66 km which is saturated with a soft rubber-like polymer, coated with a low stiffness polymer, and then embossed. The unbonded web is formed from at least 25% by weight of pulp having R.sub.10 values greater than 94%. The soft rubber-like polymer has a glass-transition temperature between -50.degree. C. and 0.degree. C. and the low stiffness polymer coating has a tensile modulus less than 1,000 MPa.

Abstract: An interior material for cars comprising a web in which at least 3% by weight of a rayon fiber is contained, of which one side surface is impregnated with a binder and which has a 20% modulus of 1 to 15 kg/5 cm. width in both longitudinal direction and transverse direction, a base material laminated on the binder-impregnated surface of the web and a resin print laminated on the other side surface of the web. The interior material can be easily subjected to molding such as deep drawing since no space is generated between a base sheet and a non-woven fabric. Further, since the interior material has an excellent flame resistance, it can be suitably used as an interior material such as a ceiling material, a door trim board or a pillar garnish material.

Abstract: A sealant tape, which comprises a deformable, tacky butyl rubber strip having top and bottom surfaces, a layer of an elastic abrasion-resistant rubber laminated to said top surface, and a strippable release member covering said bottom surface.

Abstract: Command-cure compositions especially for use in insulated window assemblies permit the composition to be rendered adhesively bonding at a selected time interval after formation of the assembly to firmly bond opposed surfaces of the assembly; a particular adhesive in strip or tape form comprises an adhesive polymer composition which is transparent to curing radiation especially UV, and curable in the presence of the radiation; the curing is inhibited by oxygen; the composition is solvent free and cures to a mass resistant to water; surfaces of the adhesive exposed to oxygen remain tacky and uncured; the adhesive is especially useful in window structures in which adhesion of the tacky surface excludes the cure-inhibiting oxygen and the tacky surface can be cured by UV radiation passing through the window glass.

Abstract: Pultruded marking devices (29,42,45,48,50,55,57,58) made of fiber reinforcement materials (10,14,16,17) embedded in a cured polyester resin matrix that contains about 2% to 25% by weight of cellulose solid particulates. Unidirectional reinforcement materials (10) are the major portion of the reinforcement materials and form about 30% to 60% by weight of the total weight of the marking devices.

Abstract: In a system for protecting metal objects, e.g. pipes intended for inground implantation, from corrosion and/or other degradative forces by wrapping an adhesive tape over the surface thereof, the improvement wherein opposed edges of the tape are tapered.

Abstract: An electromagnetic shielding material comprising an electromagnetic shielding layer which comprises a pyrrole polymer complex consisting of (i) repeated pyrrole or pyrrole derivative monomer units which constitute the main chain of the polymer complex and (ii) aromatic anions bonded to the main chain.

Abstract: The present invention provides a reinforced plastic laminate structure comprising an elongated reinforcing material that is encapsulated by an extruded plastic material that forms a continuous structure around the reinforcing material. The present invention contemplates methods of extruding a tube of plastic material while simultaneously introducing a reinforcing material within the interior of the tube. Thereafter, the tube is flattened so that the interior wall of the tube comes in contact with the reinforcing material to encapsulate the reinforcing material in a continuous structure. The reinforced plastic laminate sheet is made from an apparatus an extruding machine for extruding plastic with an annular die and opening for the extruding tubing. Attached to the extruding machine is a mandrel which feeds a reinforcing material into the center of the annular opening. Pressure rollers flatten the tubing after it exits from the annular die.

Abstract: Pressure-sensitive adhesives comprise blends of acrylate copolymer copositions with polyalkyloxazolines. The blends exhibit enhanced cohesive strength with balanced adhesive properties and are useful as coatings for sheet materials.

Abstract: An electrically conductive adhesive sheet is disclosed which has an electrically conducting property across a thickness thereof and an electrically insulating property along a sheet surface direction. The electrically conductive adhesive sheet comprises an electrically insulating adhesive material and electrically conductive metal powder uniformly dispersed therein. The metal powder has a melting point lower than a certain working temperature, and is flattened by application of pressure between a pair of conductors between which the adhesive sheet is provided. The adhesive material is molten at the certain working temperature and is flown by application of pressure. The adhesive sheet is useful to electrically connect a pair of circuit boards each having a plurality of conductor patterns thereon by bonding corresponding ones through the metal powder as molten, while keeping the neighboring patterns insulated. The circuit board is mechanically integrated simultaneously by the adhesive sheet.

Abstract: A skin adhesive coated sheet material is provided which is coated with a polymer that exhibits an enhanced level of initial adhesion when applied to skin but resists objectionable adhesion build up over time. The skin adhesives are comprised of a macromer reinforced acrylate copolymer which has a creep compliance value at least about 1.2.times.10.sup.-5 cm.sup.2 /dyne. A stable chemical complex of iodine, iodide and a pressure-sensitive adhesive is also provided wherein the adhesive has a creep compliance value of at least about 1.0.times.10.sup.-5 cm.sup.2 /dyne measured when the adhesive composition is substantially free of iodine.

Abstract: Disclosed is an adhesive composition which contains (1) a polymer selected from acrylonitrile/butadiene copolymers, carboxyl group-containing acrylonitrile/butadiene copolymers, acrylic rubbers, urethane rubbers, chloroprene rubbers, chlorosulfonated polyethylene, ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymers, ethylene/acrylic acid or its ester or metal salt copolymers, ethylene/methacrylic acid ester or metal salt copolymers, thermoplastic polyurethanes, saturated polyesters and polyamides, (2) an epoxy acrylate resin, (3) an acrylic or methacrylic monomer having at least two different functional groups and/or an acrylic or methacrylic monomer of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is H or CH.sub.3 and R.sub.2 is (C.sub.1 -C.sub.18) alkyl or an organic residue containing an aromatic hydrocarbon ring or a heterocyclic ring, (4) an organic peroxide and (5) an imidazole or an amino compound containing at least one tertiary amino group.

Abstract: A skin adhesive coated sheet material is provided which is coated with a polymer that exhibits an enhanced level of initial adhesion when applied to skin but resists objectionable adhesion build up over time. The skin adhesives are comprised of a macromer reinforced acrylate copolymer which has a creep compliance value at least about 1.2.times.10.sup.-5 cm.sup.2 /dyne.

Abstract: A closure material for sealing glass containers comprising a metal foil and a thermally adhesive composition layer formed on one surface of the metal foil and comprising a carboxyl-modified saponified product of ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer and up to 30 parts by weight of an inorganic compound per 100 parts by weight of the carboxyl-modified saponified product, the carboxyl-modified saponified product being prepared by graft-polymerizing a carboxylic acid group-containing unsaturated compound with a saponified product of ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer containing 50 to 97 mole % of ethylene.

Abstract: A tape primer composition that forms a primer coat between a polyethylene film or sheet support and an overlying butyl rubber base adhesive layer is described, said primer composition consisting essentially of a butyl rubber, a polyisocyanate compound, and an organic solvent.

Abstract: A composite board having an excellent vibration-suppressing sound-shielding performance can be obtained by joining a plurality of board materials with each other by the intermediary of a tacky adhesive. This tacky adhesive contains, as its principal components, one or more kinds of polymers selected from the group consisting of natural rubber, synthetic rubbers, various resins (acrylic resin, silicone resin, etc.). A sheet-like base material such as a paper sheet can be used in association with the tacky adhesive layer in the composite board, and such type of composite boards have an excellent vibration-suppressing sound-shielding performance as compared to the composite boards in which the tacky adhesive layer is not associated with a sheet-like material.

Abstract: A transaction enclosure for housing electronic data processing equipment, documentation, valuable articles, banking pay-out and receiving apparatus and the like including a heat resistant housing, and an access and closure with various insulating layers and closure seals.

Abstract: A wound dressing comprising at least one ply of an aerated latex microsized hydroentangled fabric, having an adhesive disposed on at least one surface of the fabric, and a nonwoven fibrous pad material centrally mounted thereon. The present invention has sufficient hydrophobicity in the fabric to be a barrier to liquid borne bacteria while preserving comfort, air permeability, and flexibility therein. In addition to the above properties, the dressing is sterilizable, and will keep the skin beneath the dressing dry.

Abstract: An athletic support fabric having a knit synthetic substrate with an adhesive coated on the face thereof. The substrate has a weft yarn inserted on the face and a non-woven web on the rear thereof, each being held in place by a chain stitch knitted therethrough.

Abstract: Repulpable splicing tape, especially adapted for splicing carbonless paper. The preferred adhesive is a blend of acrylate:acrylic acid copolymer, NaOH and/or LiOH KOH, and certain ethoxylated plasticizing components. A small amount of polyamide-epichlorohydrin crosslinker may also be included.