Abstract: This invention presents a method for improving and enhancing certain desirable physical and organoleptic properties of baked, whipped, and blended food products. The improvement is achieved by adding to the products, prior to preparation, an effective amount of a ferment produced by the fermentation of dairy product with a culture of Streptococcus diacetilactis, optionally mixed with Streptococcus lactis and/or Streptococcus cremoris.

Abstract: An adhesive for use in cigarette manufacturing which is a natural based starch material having excellent flow or fluidity characteristics and viscosity stability and comprising a mixture of crosslinked starch and a fluidity or converted starch, particularly an acid converted starch, the starches having an amylopectin content of at least 70% by weight and prepared by cooking at high temperature and pressure.

Abstract: This invention is a method of providing a pressure sensitive adhesive having a rapid or fast curing rate along with other suitable adhesive properties and comprises forming the adhesive by reaction of an interpolymer of an alkyl acrylate, ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing one or more carboxylic acid groups and vinyl acetate, with the interpolymer being formed by the slow addition of a uniform mixture of the components and then being reacted with a chelated metal alkoxide.

Abstract: A water resistant, starch-based alkaline corrugating adhesive which includes a polysaccharide graft copolymer containing a reactive aminoethyl halide group.

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: Epoxy compositions having improved toughness and flexibility comprising a polyepoxide of the formula ##STR1## wherein each X is H, allyl or glycidyl, Y is allyl or glycidyl and R is an alkyl of 1 to 4 carbons with there being at least two epoxy groups on the ring modified with a carboxy terminated polymer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an elastic paint composition, having a substantially uniform mixture comprising:(A) a water-based polymer emulsion; containing at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of acrylic esters and methacrylic esters having a glass transition temperature of 30.degree. to -60.degree. C., and(B) (1) a reactive compound dissolved in an organic solvent, selected from the group consisting of a compound having at least three methacryloyl radicals and a molecular weight of at least 200 that becomes hardened by the reaction of their methacryloyl radicals with ultraviolet rays, and(2) a compound having at least one double bond and a molecular weight of at least 300 that becomes hardened by the oxidation reaction at the double bond, wherein the amount of said organic solvent is in the range of 5 to 50 percent, based on the weight of water in said mixture.

Abstract: A permanent fogging system comprising a selected amount of a reactive free-radical polymerizable acrylic or substituted acrylic monomer, a low molecular weight glycol carrier and an effecive amount of a free radical initiator.Another embodiment involves a method of sealing a pipeline by spraying or applying the fogging or misting system described above.

Abstract: A polysaccharide graft copolymer containing a reactive aminoethyl halide group is provided, said copolymer represented by:Sacch--g--(M).sub.a --(T).sub.bwhere Sacch is a polysaccharide base substrate, M is a repeating unit of the formula: ##STR1## where X is halogen and R is hydrogen or alkyl of 1 to 2 carbons; T is an ethylenically unsaturated comonomer, a is at least 1 and b is 0 or 1 or more, with the total of a and b being at least 2.Another embodiment provides preparing this graft copolymer by reacting the monomer in a system that is maintained at a pH level of below 7 to prevent premature reaction of the halogen on the aminoethyl halide group during the grafting procedure.

Abstract: This invention provides water soluble dispersible hydrophobically modified polycarboxylate polymers which are useful as detergent builders and detergent compositions utilizing these novel polymers as builders, the polymers comprise repeating units of the structure: ##STR1## where Z is ##STR2## A is a repeating unit of structure: ##STR3## B is a repeating unit of structure: ##STR4## with typical repeating units r being derived from a monomer: ##STR5## A derived e.g. from acrylic acid and B derived e.g. from styrene.

Abstract: A biodegradable packaging material 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 method of preparing a low density, biodegradable packaging material comprising extruding a starch having at least 45% by weight amylose content, in the presence of a total moisture content of 21% or less by weight, at a temperature of from 150.degree. to 250.degree. C.

Abstract: A method of reducing fuel consumption in an automotive internal combustion engine which comprises operating said engine on gasoline hydrocarbon fuel containing an effective fuel reducing amount of a selected additive which is a hydroxyl-containing ester of a monocarboxylic acid and a glycol or trihydric alcohol, said ester additive having at least one free hydroxyl group.

Abstract: A method and composition for obtaining improved friction reducing properties is provided by a lubricating oil composition and the lubrication of internal combustion engines with said composition which comprises an additive combination of an ester of a polycarboxylic acid with a glycol or glycerol and an ashless dispersant containing a high molecular weight aliphatic hydrocarbon oil solubilizing group attached thereto and a selected amount of free hydroxyl groups.

Abstract: A high viscosity index lubricating oil with improved thermal stability, anticorrosion and antiwear properties and the method for providing such composition which contains a major amount of paraffinic mineral oil basestock and effective amounts of a combination of a basic zinc dialkyl dithiophosphate and 2,6 di-tertiary butyl phenol.

Abstract: This invention involves a method for preparing magnesium and calcium dihydrocarbyldithiophosphates comprising reacting magnesium or calcium in elemental metal form with a dihydrocarbyldithiophoric acid in the presence of an effective amount of a selected lower alkyl alcohol, particularly methanol, as a reaction promoter.

Abstract: This invention involves the preparation of selected metal dithiobenzoates by electrolysis of a substituted dithiobenzoic acid with a metal. It further involves the use of such metal dithiobenzoates as additives in lubricating hydrocarbon compositions.

Abstract: This invention concerns an oil composition comprising a major proportion by weight of an oil having a kinematic viscosity of 5 to 30 cSt at 40.degree. C. e.g. a transformer oil, and a minor proportion by weight of an organo siloxane having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is independently methyl, ethyl or propyl,R.sup.2 is independently a C.sub.10 to C.sub.20 alkyl group andn is 12 to 28.Such oil compositions having low pour points and excellent dielectric properties can be used as electrical oils.

Abstract: A lubricating oil composition having improved friction reducing properties and the method of reducing friction in internal combustion engines by lubricating said engines with said lubricating oil which contains an effective friction reducing amount of a selected hydroxyamide compound.

Abstract: A traction fluid having a lubricant basestock comprising a selected mineral oil composition containing a saturate fraction having a significant portion made up of multiring components of at least three rings and an aromatic fraction which comprises at least 15% by weight of said composition and contains at least 40% by volume of multiring components.