Abstract: Disclosed is a tape for polishing the surface of a substrate of a magnetic recording medium, and a thin-fineness filament obtained by dissolving a dissolving component of a dissolution-decomposition type composite yarn consisting of a nylon component and the dissolving component is used as piles of a flocked cloth, warps of a fabric, and webs of a nonwoven fabric. The polishing tape of the present invention can noticeably improve the surface roughness of the polished substrate.

Abstract: A composite tool comprising a supporting part of a metallic material having a first composition and a working part of a metallic material having a second composition which is different from the first composition, a process for the manufacture thereof and a method of cutting an austentic alloy article with this composite tool. The supporting part of the composite tool is made of a tenacious iron-based material, and the working part is made of a precipitation harden iron-cobalt-tungsten alloy. The parts are joined by a metallic connection.

Abstract: A drill resistant plate, which presents a rough surface of hardened particles to drilling attack, and which tends to snap or destroy drill bits before they can began drilling. The plate is made by brazing hard particles into a matrix of brazing material attached to a steel plate. Nickel-Silver brazing material is used to form the matrix on the steel plate, and tungsten carbide particles of 8-10 mesh are secured within the matrix, with the hard particles of tungsten carbide partially exposed, presenting a roughened surface with angular pieces of tungsten carbide to the drilling attack.

Abstract: A cutting tool having cutting edges made of a high speed tool steel exhibiting very high wear and anti-chipping resistances, and sufficient toughness is provided. The high speed tool steel consists essentially of by weight C:0.6 to 1.8%, Si:1.2% max, Mn:0.5% max, Cr:3.5 to 5.0%, Mo:10% max, W:21% max, V:2 to 4% and Co:7 to 10%, the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, and the steel of the cutting edge comprise MC-type carbide grains each having a maximum equal value diameter of a circle ranging substantially 5 to 14 &mgr;m, and the MC-type carbide grains having an equal value diameter of the circle ranging substantially 5 to 14 &mgr;m have a ratio between short and long diameters ranging over substantially 0.3.

Abstract: Abrasive articles comprising a cured thermosetting binder and abrasive grains. The binder is prepared with a poly-functional molecule comprising at least two functional groups selected from the group consisting of carboxyl and anhydride, and a crosslinking agent which is selected from the group consisting of a mono(hydroxyalkyl)urea comprising a single urea group, a single hydroxyl group, and at least two carbon atoms disposed between the urea group and the hydroxyl group, and 2-oxazolidone. The abrasive articles comprise bonded, nonwoven or coated abrasive articles.

Abstract: A coated product comprises a thermoplastic sheet support bearing on at least one surface an adhesion promoting cured layer comprising a composition of:1) 30-80% by weight individually dispersed colloidal metal oxide particles, preferably silica, alumina and/or zirconia particles of average particle size 10-100 nanometers,2) 20-70% by weight crosslinked polymer matrix derived from one or more polyethylenically unsaturated monomers, and3) a photoinitiator.Preferred embodiments of this invention include coated abrasive product in which the primed surface of the support layer is coated with a thermosetting binder containing abrasive particulates, and tape products in which the primed surface of the support layer is coated with a pressure-sensitive adhesive or magnetic media.

Abstract: A composite abrasive filament, including at least one preformed core at least partially coated with a hardened, abrasive-filled thermoplastic elastomer, exhibits increased abrading life over previously known abrasive filaments. Also disclosed are methods of making such filaments and using such filaments in article form to abrade a variety of workpieces.

Abstract: An abrasive article having a sheet-like structure having at least one major surface having deployed thereon a plurality of individual abrasive composites, each abrasive composite comprising a plasticizer and a plurality of abrasive particles dispersed in a binder, wherein said binder is formed by polymerizing a binder precursor and said plasticizer being combined with said binder precursor prior to said polymerizing in an amount of 30 to 70 parts plasticizer per 100 parts by weight of the combined binder precursor and plasticizer. There is also a method of using such as abrasive article to reduce the surface finish of a workpiece and a process of making the abrasive article.

Abstract: An abrasive tape comprises a flexible substrate and an abrasive layer which is overlaid on the flexible substrate and which contains abrasive grains and a binder. The abrasive grains comprise first abrasive grains, which have a mean grain diameter falling within the range of 0.07 .mu.m to 0.40 .mu.m and a Mohs hardness falling within the range of 5 to 7, second abrasive grains, which have a mean grain diameter falling within the range of 0.20 .mu.m to 0.60 .mu.m and a Mohs hardness not lower than 8.5, and fine diamond grains, which have a mean grain diameter falling within the range of 0.5 .mu.m to 3.0 .mu.m. The abrasive tape is used during a polishing process on a laminated type of magnetic head, which is constituted of a nonmagnetic substrate, a magnetic material, and a glass bonding agent. The abrasive tape is suitable for the polishing of magnetic heads, which are to be used for high-density recording with the shortest recording wavelengths of approximately 0.8 .mu.

Abstract: An energy polymerizable composition comprises at least one ethylenically-unsaturated monomer, one of polyurethane precursors, and at least one epoxy monomer, and a curing agent comprising an organometallic compound, and an onium salt.

Abstract: An improved hardened insert and brake shoe adapted for use in bi-directional backstopping clutches is disclosed. The inserts are formed from a base material of high speed alloy tool steel, which is relatively inexpensive and easy to machine. The base material is formed into the desired shape for the insert, then hardened and tempered by conventional processes to achieve a desired hardness. Then, a coating of titanium nitride is applied to the insert by a physical vapor deposition process or a chemical vapor deposition process. The titanium nitride coating provides a very hard surface to the insert, which permits the insert to be used in the backstopping clutch. In an alternative embodiment, the brake shoes are formed in the manner described above, and no inserts are used in the clutch.

Abstract: An improved hardened insert adapted for use in bi-directional backstopping clutches is disclosed. The inserts are formed from a base material of high speed alloy tool steel, which is relatively inexpensive and easy to machine. The base material is formed into the desired shape for the insert, then hardened and tempered by conventional processes to achieve a desired hardness. Then, a coating of titanium nitride is applied to the insert by a physical vapor deposition process or a chemical vapor deposition process. The titanium nitride coating provides a very hard surface to the insert, which permits the insert to be used in the backstopping clutch.

Abstract: A method is described for improving the erosion and abrasion wear resistance and hardness of the internal wear surfaces of structures such as nozzles, jets, ducts, chutes, powder handling tubes, valve housings, conveyors, drill bushings and the like. A substantially pure tungsten layer is chemical vapor deposited on the internal wear surface of the body of the structure followed by a chemical vapor deposited top coating comprising a mixture of tungsten and tungsten carbide. The tungsten carbide is selected from the group consisting of W.sub.2 C, W.sub.3 C, and mixtures thereof and is fine grained, non-columnar and has a substantially layered microstructure. Also described are structures formed by the method.

Abstract: An abrasive is provided having an active phase comprising a sintered product comprising diamond grains, each grain being linked directly to its neighbors by bridging to exhibit a polycrystalline structure, and a support consisting essentially of tungsten carbide. The tungsten carbide support comprises a chromium binder phase including 6 to 15% of carbide. The relative proportions by weight of nickel and chromium of the binder phase vary from 60 to 90% to 40 to 100%, respectively. The abrasive is made by placing a layer of diamond grains into a cupel, covering this layer with a tungsten carbide layer including a nickel-chromium mixture to provide the support, subjecting the stack thus produced to a temperature and a pressure sufficient to cause sintering in the plastic phase of the diamond grains and to assure the binding of the compact thus obtained on the support. Drilling and machine tools can be equipped with the abrasive product of the invention.

Abstract: Multilayer coated cemented carbides excellent in wear resistance and toughness are provided comprising a substrate of cemented carbide, an inner layer contacted with the surface of the substrate, and an outer layer contacted with the inner layer, the inner layer being a single layer and/or laminated layers consisting of at least one member selected from the group consisting of carbides, nitrides, carbonitrides, carboxynitrides, oxynitrides, boronitrides and borocarbonitrides of Ti, and the outer layer being a multilayer with a total thickness of 5 to 20 .mu.m, consisting of a plurality of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 layer each having a thickness of 0.01 to 2 .mu.m, each consisting of an Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 film in which titanium oxide is dissolved or at most 30 vol % of titanium oxide is coexistent and being respectively divided by interlayers each having a thickness of 0.01 to 2 .mu.

Abstract: A composite compact component made of a composite compact consisting of a diamond or BN powder bonded to a hard sintered alloy base during a sintering operation, and a substrate composed of steel or a hard sintered alloy bonded to the base of the composite compact through a high strength filler metal or alloy having a melting point of at least the liquidus point of the hard sintered alloy base. A process of making set composite compact component is also disclosed as well as a drill bit containing said composite compact component and variations thereof.

Abstract: Improved adherence of oxide wear layers on hard metal or cemented carbide substrates is obtained by providing a thin surface-oxidized bonding layer comprising a carbide or oxycarbide of at least one of tantalum, niobium or vanadium, optionally adding aluminum to the bonding layer, and finally providing an outer oxide wear layer.

Abstract: In a method of making a polishing element a photoresist film 2 is first deposited on a surface of metal stock 1. A photomask 3 is then used to selectively cover portions of the deposited photoresist film 2. Thereafter, portions of the photoresist film 2 which are not covered by the photomask 3 are removed in order to leave exposed patterned portions 5 of the metal stock surface. Gulf-shaped recesses 6 are then etched into the exposed portions of the metal stock surface. The formation of gulf-shaped recesses 6 results from the application of a etchant while the metal stock 1 and the etchant are in physical motion relative to one another. After etching, remaining portions of the photoresist film 2 are removed from the metal stock. A polishing element 10 comprising cutting teeth 11 having acute cutting action angles results.

Abstract: A composite body has a pressed mix base or layer and a thin facing layer formed by casting and bonded to the base and having desired physical properities different from those of the base. This body has utility as a semiconductor substrate with the cast layer providing a substantially defect-free surface for microcircuit formation, or as a cutting tool or the like with the cast layer constituting the hard wear-resistant cutting surface.

Abstract: A box tool joint member of generally tubular configuration is adapted for securement by welding to one end of a steel tube to form a drill pipe. The box tool joint member comprises a body having a cylindrical outer periphery, an internally threaded socket at one end of the body, and a weld neck of smaller outer diameter than the body adjacent to the other end of the body. A tapered transition piece connecting the neck with the adjacent end of the body provides an elevator shoulder. A correlative pin tool joint member is welded to the opposite end of the tube to complete the drill pipe.The box tool joint member has an annular band of hard facing over the outer periphery of the transition piece and extending down over the adjacent part of the weld neck and up around the adjacent part of the body. The hard facing is corrosion resistant and has a smooth finished surface. Underneath the hard facing and extending beyond both ends of the hard facing is an annular butter layer of non-hardenable steel.

Abstract: A coated cemented carbide article comprises a cemented carbide substrate, the surface regions thereof having diffused therein an element such as boron, silicon or aluminum. The article further comprises a coating disposed on the diffused substrate, the coating being a boride such as titanium boride, hafnium boride, zirconium boride or tantalum boride. In another embodiment the coated cemented article further includes an interlayer sandwiched between the diffused substrate and the boride coating, the interlayer being one or more layers formed from the carbides, nitrides or carbonitrides of elements from groups IVb and Vb of the Periodic Table of Elements, and combinations thereof.

Abstract: A metal abrading material formed from acid etching with a resist pattern comprising a plurality of polygonal shapes with accentuated corners dispersed in a pattern chosen to intermix cutting points with planing edges.

Abstract: A composite steel material consisting of two metallically joined steel components having different chemical compositions is disclosed. The first component is a high-speed tool steel or other high alloy tool steel having a carbon activity and a hardness and wear resistance in the same order as that of high speed tool steel. The second component is a steel consisting essentially of 0.40-0.45 weight percent carbon, 0.40-1.00 weight percent silicon, 0.40-1.00 weight percent manganese, 2.5-4.0 weight percent chromium, 0.50-1.50 weight percent molybdenum, 0.20-0.45 weight percent vanadium, balance iron and normal impurities.

Abstract: Process of improving a sprayed layer on a bearing or tool component subjected to relatively high stresses, characterized in that the layer is remelted by a heat-source in a vacuum chamber, the heating being arranged such that only the layer itself is remelted.

Abstract: Hard-facing of iron and iron base alloy substrates is disclosed using a hard facing material in the form of granules consisting essentially of grains of chemically combined vanadium, tungsten, molybdenum, and carbon bonded by a binder metal of nickel-molybdenum alloy.

Abstract: A method and coating material are provided for improving the wear and abrasion resistance of a composite nickel-base hard facing alloy applied to metal substrates comprising the system Ni-Cr-Si-B having dispersed therein particles comprising tungsten carbide, the improvement residing in controlling the average particle size of tungsten carbide to below 10 microns, e.g. 0.1 to 10 microns, preferably an average size ranging from about 2 to 8 microns (such as 2 to 6 microns), at an average interparticle spacing of less than 15 microns, and preferably less than 10 microns, e.g. up to 5 microns, the hard facing coating produced being further characterized in that the coating exhibits metallographically a substantially uniform structure at the surface thereof with respect to said tungsten carbide particles.

Abstract: A weld metal deposit which is not subject to solidification cracks and which is highly wear-resistant, also to the hot wear to which hot forming tools are subjected is disclosed. The weld metal deposit consists essentially of an air-hardening alloy steel containing 0.55% to 2.0% carbon, 0.2% to 4.0% silicon, 0.2% to 3.0% manganese, 4.0% to 6.5% chromium, 2.5% to 15.0% columbium, 0% to 3.5% strong carbide formers other than columbium, 0% to 0.5% nickel, and the remainder iron with or without incidental impurities. The contents of carbon and columbium have to be in a ratio of one to another as defined by the area indicated in FIG. 1 of the accompanying drawings.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of forming dense protective coatings of co-deposited aluminum oxide and titanium oxide on wear surfaces. The coating is formed by simultaneously reacting an aluminum halide gas and a titanium halide gas with water vapor on a surface maintained at a temperature of about 900.degree. C to about 1250.degree. C. Reaction conditions are maintained to assure mixing of the titanium halide gas with the other reactants only in the reaction zone and compositions of the reactant gases are limited to produce a coating comprising alpha alumina (Al.sub.2 O.sub.3) with about 2% to about 10% hexagonal alpha titanium oxide (Ti.sub.2 O.sub.3) dispersed in the alumina matrix.

Abstract: This invention relates to a cemented carbonitride alloy in which the hard phase consists of[(Group IVa metal).sub.A (Group Va metal).sub.B (Group VIa metal).sub.C ]-(C.sub.X N.sub.Y).sub.Zwherein A, B, C, X and Y are respectively mole fractions, Z is a mole ratio of the metalloid components to the metal components and there are among A, B, C, X, Y and Z the relations ofA + B + C = 1, X + Y = 1,4a + 5b + 6c + 4xz + 5yz .gtoreq. 8.6,0.05 .ltoreq. y .ltoreq. 0.50 and 0.85 .ltoreq. Z .ltoreq. 1.0.the hard phase is combined by at least one binder metal from the iron group and there are in the alloy structure WC phase and the hard phase having the crystal structure B1 and containing Ti in a proportion of at least 20 atomic percent to the metallic atoms.

Abstract: A high-strength, coated cemented carbide product comprising a cemented carbide substrate and a fully dense alpha aluminum oxide coating on the substrate. The coating has a thickness of from 1-20 microns and is firmly and adherently bonded to the cemented carbide substrate through a thin intermediate nonmetallic layer .[.of an iron group metal aluminate.].. The coated product combines a wear resistance substantially as high as aluminum oxide cutting materials and a transverse rupture strength of at least 150,000 p.s.i. The coated product is prepared by passing water vapor, hydrogen gas and an aluminum halide over the substate at a temperature of from 900.degree.-1250.degree. C., the ratio of water vapor to hydrogen gas being between about 0.025 and 2.0.