Abstract: Perfluoropolycycloalkanes are provided. These perfluoropolycycloalkanes are ring assemblies having (a) at least two perfluorinated cyclohexane rings, (b) at least two perfluorinated fused ring systems, or (c) combinations of at least one perfluorinated cyclohexane ring with at least one perfluorinated fused ring system, each perfluorinated ring or fused ring system being directly joined to another perfluorinated ring or ring system by a single bond and the ring assemblies having a total of at least 13 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Di- and tri-substituted perfluorocycloalkane compounds which have a cyclohexane or decahydronaphthalene nucleus are provided. These perfluorocycloalkane compounds are carbonyl fluorides and derivatives thereof.

Abstract: Decorative sheet material is provided. The sheet material has a thermally bonded nonwoven tissue-like base layer having a web of 20 to 90 weight percent thermally bondable polymeric staple fibers and 10 to 80 weight percent rayon staple fibers and 5 to 50 weight percent thermobonding resin based on the weight of the web, and at least a monolayer of a multiplicity of substantially parallel continuous multifilament acetate yarns substantially covering a first side of said base layer and thermally laminated to said base layer. The second side of said base layer is sufficiently sonically sealable to a base layer of a second sheet material to form durable ribbon asemblies.

Abstract: A method for adhering surfaces together using fast curing epoxy resin compositions is provided. The method includes the steps of mixing together (a) a curable glycidyl ether epoxide group-containing compound, (b) an amino-terminated aliphatic polyether curing agent, (c) a polymeric toughening agent having both a rubbery phase and a thermoplastic phase or being capable of forming, with the epoxide group-containing material, both a rubbery phase and a thermoset phase on curing, and (d) a metal salt catalyst capble of providing an exotherm of at least 20.degree. C.; applying the resulting mixture to a portion of at least one surface; contacting the surface having the mixture applied thereto to a second surface in bonding relationship with the mixture disposed between the surfaces; and curing the mixture.

Abstract: A two-phase ceramic particulate useful as a proppant in hydraulic fracturing operations is provided which comprises a vitreous matrix phase containing a crystalline alumina phase. The new ceramic particles are characterized by:(i) a concentration gradient of alumina which increases from very low in the center to relatively high near the surface of the particles;(ii) a fired density less than about 2.9 g/cc; and(iii) closed cell microporosity.Certain embodiments of the inventive ceramic particulate are also characterized by a Krumbein roundness of at least 0.8 and are chemically stable.The ceramic is made by a process comprising the steps of:a. mixing and pelletizing, with the aid of water, the dry raw materials including a mineral particulate such as nepheline syenite and a binder such as bentonite;b. drying the wet pelletizer product;c. mixing the dried pellets with a parting agent; andd.

Abstract: An epoxy resin composition is provided. This composition contains (a) a curable glycidyl ether epoxide group-containing material, (b) an amino- terminated aliphatic polyether curing agent, (c) a polymeric toughening agent having both a rubbery phase and a thermoplastic phase or being capable of forming, with the epoxide group-containing material, both a rubbery phase and a thermoset phase on curing, and (d) a metal salt catalyst capable of providing an exotherm of at least 20.degree. C.

Abstract: Cationic and non-ionic fluorochemicals, mixtures of cationic and non-ionic fluorochemicals, blends of the mixtures with fluorochemical poly(oxyalkylenes), and compositions of the fluorochemicals with hydrocarbon nonionic surfactants are provided. These fluorochemicals and compositions, in dispersions, emulsions and microemulsions, may be applied to porous fibrous substrates to give oil and water repellancy and soil resistance.

Abstract: Fluorochemical biurets containing one or more monovalent fluoroaliphatic radicals having at least three fully fluorinated terminal carbon atoms and one or more biuret moieties, the radicals and moieties bonded together by hetero atom-containing or organic linking groups are provided. These fluorochemical biurets are useful in the form of aqueous dispersions or emulsions or organic solutions in the treatment of fibrous substrates, such as textile fibers, to impart oil and water repellency.

Abstract: A coating composition is provided. The coating composition is a curable blend of ethylenically unsaturated polyester and ethylenically unsaturated thermoplastic polymers. The composition is capable of providing a thermoplastic, soluble, sandable, intermediate-stage coating and, when cured, a final stage coating which is unaffected by acetone placed on the final stage coating for two hours at 22.degree. C., has a percent haze value of 15% or less, and is unaffected when subjected to a Wet Print Test.

Abstract: A sorbent sheet product, particularly useful for disposal diapers, incontinent devices, and sanitary napkins, is provided. The sorbent sheet product comprises a coherent fibrous web that includes entangled blown polymeric fibers and high sorbency, liquid sorbent fibers intermingled with the blown polymeric fibers. The sorbent sheet product may also contain liquid transport fibers.

Abstract: A method of sealing electrical fittings is provided. The method comprises foaming in situ a removable, flame retardant, solvent resistant, substantially closed cell isocyanurate foam. The isocyanurate foam is prepared from a two-part, liquid, foamable, curable composition, the parts being mixed at the time of application, the composition comprising, in a first part, a prereaction product of an isocyanate and a polyol, and, in a second part, catalyst, chain extending agent, flame retardant agent, and blowing agent. Also provided are an electrical fitting and cable duct or riser sealed with the isocyanurate foam.

Abstract: Ceramic spheroids having:A. a core made by firing raw materials comprising about:50-99.8 parts by weight mineral particulates;0.1 to 50 parts by weight silicon carbide; and0.1 to 15 parts by weight binder (e.g. bentonite); andB. an outer shell comprising Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 or MgO.More alumina or magnesium oxide is contained in the outer shell than in the core. The core of the ceramic spheroid has closed cell microporosity. The inventive spheroids are characterized by a density less than 2.2 g/cc and can be readily made to have a density less than 1 g/cc. These ceramic spheroids combine high strength (due to the tough outer shell) with low density (due to the closed cell microporosity) and have applications (among others) as buoyant water filtration media and low density fillers.

Abstract: A thermal insulating fabric is described. The fabric is a stitch-bonded, fibrous, nonwoven web of microfibers that average about 10 micrometers or less in diameter.

Abstract: A non-woven, non-tufted skeletal mass of fibrous members in a mat-like structure for reducing liquid splash and/or spray in a region likely to be subjected to liquid impact is provided. The mat-like structure contains 75-98 percent by volume of voids and is particularly useful on motor vehicles as a material for mud flaps, mud guard lining, and wheel valances. The mat-like structure may be provided with a gutter or deflector so that water draining from the skeletal structure is deflected to one side. The mat-like structure may be made by needle-puching a fibrous web and the fibrous members may randomly be bonded to each other by use of an adhesive or welds.

Abstract: Described is a raised pavement marker comprised of (referring to FIG. 1) a hollow, flexible, elastomeric body 2, a reflective film 4, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive 3. Raised portion 5 provides back support for the reflective film. The hollow body has a compressive strength of less than about 100 kiloPascals at 25 percent compression so that it yields readily to vehicle wheels traversing the marker, but it regains its approximate original shape after the wheels have passed over it.

Abstract: Stretched surface recording disk (SD) 10 comprises an annular support 12 having raised annular ridges 42 and 28 at its inside and outside diameters 22 and 30 with a base portion 24 in between the two ridges, and an annular recording medium film 14 held in radial tension and stretched across the base portion by adhering the film to attachment surfaces 48 and 36 near the inside and outside diameters respectively. The SD is annealed twice duringmanufacture to relieve stress in the stretched film 14. This annealing results in SD essentially free from track anisotropy and stress distribution anisotropy in the plane of the disk. As a result, data tracks are more stable than in previous SD, track density can be greater, and the SD is generally more reliable.

Abstract: In the illustrated applicators, one of a series of pavement markers is individually dispensed from a carrier web by stripping the web back from the marker while moving the marker into wedging contact between a spring-loaded roller and the pavement. While doing so, the carrier web is kept taut between a brake shoe where it exits a magazine and an overdriven takeup roll which is locked against rotation while the marker is being moved into the wedging contact. Each pavement marker has a flat base which preferably bears a pressure-sensitive adhesive that releasably adheres the marker to the carrier web and bonds the marker to the pavement.

Abstract: A bulk polymerization process for free radical polymerization of vinyl monomers in a wiped surface reactor is disclosed. Referring to FIG. 1; monomer streams 5 (after purification and silica gel column 2) and 7 are combined with free radical initiator 9 to form a premix 16. Pump 18 transfers the premix stream 22 through static mixer 24 into a wiped surface reactor 27. The reactor can be a counter rotating twin screw extruder which produces polymer stream 36 without the need of solvent and using residence times much shorter than prior art solution or emulsion processes.Some unique pressure sensitive adhesive acrylate polymers have been produced. They are believed to have a relatively high degree of branching. The bulk polymerization process permits the manufacture of pressure sensitive adhesive articles by extruding directly from the twin screw extruder onto a substrate.

Abstract: A magneto optical thin film recording medium is disclosed having very high carrier-to-noise ratios and high rotation angles. A transmission electron microscope photomicrograph (at 200,000.times.) of one such medium is shown in FIG. 1. These are multi-phase amorphous materials having magnetic anisotropy perpendicular to the plane of the thin film. They are produced in a triode vacuum sputtering process at vacuums in the range of 4.times.10.sup.-3 to 6.times.10.sup.-4 Torr. By adjusting process parameters such as substrate temperature, anode bias and deposition rate, the properties of the thin film can be altered.

Abstract: Aggregate material is contacted with a fluid agent comprising a hydrophilic urethane prepolymer to form a hydrophilic polyurethane-polyurea polymeric matrix which adhesively bonds the aggregate together as a resilient, integral, water-permeable mass which will sustain plant growth.This is a Reissue of a Patent which was the subject of a Reexamination Certificate No. [B1 3,805,532], dated [Jul. 16, 1985], Request No. [90/000,598], [Jul. 30, 1984].