Abstract: A fuel composition comprising (a) a major amount of an internal combustion engine hydrocarbon fuel containing at least one alcohol, it being provided that MTBE is substantially absent from the fuel and (b) a friction modifying amount of a reaction product of at least one natural or synthetic oil and at least one alkanolamine is provided. Also provided is a method for operating an engine employing the fuel composition therefor.

Abstract: A gluing, sealing and coating compound based on a styrene copolymer is characterized in that the styrene copolymer mainly contains styrene and in that it contains an aromatic compound-free polyalkylene oxide and/or its fatty derivative. These non-toxic plastcizers are easily tolerated and increase stickiness, elasticity and stretchability. These compounds are therefore suitable as binders for producing glues, coatings and sealing compounds.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for adhesive bonding a PVC surface comprising cleaning a PVC surface with an aqueous alkaline cleaning composition and applying an adhesive to the cleaned PVC surface.

Abstract: Adhesive systems are useful for bonding wrap-around labels using an overlap adhesive in their application to blown plastic containers, more particularly plastic bottles. The adhesive system includes reactive contact adhesives based on multifunctional macromonomer compounds curable in steps by different reaction mechanisms, which may also be present mixed with one-stage reactive mixture components.

Abstract: A method and system are provided for detecting various vascular conditions using an occlusive arm cuff plethysmograph. The system includes data acquisition hardware, including the occlusive arm cuff plethysmograph, for obtaining arterial and endothelial function data from a patient, processing means utilizing application or analysis software for analyzing the arterial and endothelial function data, and a database of computer models, such as brachial artery pressure versus lumen area curves (P-A curves) and brachial artery pressure versus compliance curves (P-C curves), developed by analyzing data for a plurality of subjects where their vascular conditions were known. The processing means diagnoses and predicts various vascular conditions pertaining to the patient by comparing or correlating the analyzed arterial and endothelial function data with the computer models stored within the database and presents the findings on a display.

Abstract: A rubber composition is disclosed wherein the rubber composition contains at least (a) a rubber component; (b) a silica filler; (c) a coupling agent; (d) a cure-enhancing amount of at least one polyalkylene oxide; and (e) at least one high molecular weight thiuram disulfide. The compositions may also include suitable amounts of other ingredients such as carbon black, antiozonants, antioxidants, etc.

Abstract: A cyanoacrylate adhesive contains an added ester, the ester used being at least one partial and/or full ester of monobasic or polybasic aliphatic carboxylic acids containing 1 to 5 carbon atoms directly attached to one another and monohydric to pentahydric aliphatic alcohols containing 1 to 5 carbon atoms directly attached to one another, the number of carbon atoms directly attached to one another in the other aliphatic groups being at most three where one aliphatic group contains 4 or 5 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Monoesters of fatty acids containing at least 12 carbon atoms may replace a considerable percentage of conventional plasticizers based on phthalic acid esters, alkyl sulfonic acid esters of phenol or other known plasticizers in plastisol compositions. The methyl and/or ethyl esters of fatty acids of renewable fats and oils, such as tall oil fatty acids, rapeseed oil fatty acids, linseed oil fatty acids or safflower oil fatty acids, are preferably used for these secondary plasticizers. These plastisols are preferably used as adhesives, sealing materials or coatings in automobile construction.

Abstract: A flexible, multilayered transfer tape is described which contains an auxiliary support, a layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive and a binder containing a white-pigmented transfer layer having greater adhesion to the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer than to the auxiliary support. The transfer layer, which contains a binder in addition to a white pigment, is present between the auxiliary support and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The transfer tape is characterized in that a non-white pigment is present in finely dispersed form in either or both of a polymer-bonded interlayer and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The polymer-bonded interlayer may be situated between the white-pigmented transfer layer and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer or in the white-pigmented transfer layer itself. Such transfer tapes have significantly improved covering capacity as compared to transfer tapes in which only the white-pigmented transfer layer is tinted.

Abstract: A composition useful as a sealant in the automotive industry, particularly the paint shop area, is provided which comprises a plastisol, a wax and, optionally, a rheological additive, wherein the amount of wax exceeds the amount of rheological additive on a weight-by-weight basis. The composition will self-level during its application in the automobile assembly at a wide range of temperatures such that a smooth and uniform surface possessing no major imperfections is formed upon cooling of the composition.

Abstract: One-component, heat-curing reactive compositions based on liquid rubbers containing reactive olefinic double bonds and optionally solid rubbers and vulcanization systems based on sulfur have high maxima of the acoustic loss factor over a broad in-use temperature range of around +10° C. to +40° C. in their vulcanized state. These compositions optionally contain fine-particle thermoplastic polymers as an additional component. The compositions are suitable for use as acoustically damping adhesives, sealing compounds or coating compositions.

Abstract: A cast polyurethane elastomer possessing a resilience of at least about 50 percent and a clarity index of at least 80 percent is obtained by subjecting to polyurethane elastomer-forming conditions a polyurethane elastomer-forming reaction mixture comprising: a) an isocyanate selected from the group consisting of diphenyl methane diisocyanate, isocyanate obtained from the reaction of polyether diol with MDI and mixtures thereof wherein at least a major proportion by weight of the diphenyl methane diisocyanate is the 4,4′-diphenyl methane diisocyanate isomer; b) at least one polyether diol; and, c) at least one diol chain extender of the general formula: HO—(CH2)x—OH wherein x is an integer from 5 to about 16.

Abstract: A two-step process for producing a difunctional organic compound is provided which comprises:a) reacting a cycloalkanone with a 2-substituted-1-alkene in the presence of an enamine catalyst to produce the corresponding substituted cycloalkanone intermediate and,b) subjecting the intermediate reaction product to ultraviolet radiation in the presence of a solvent to form the difunctional organic compound of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R4 is derived from the solvent and is hydroxyl, --NH.sub.2 or OR.sup.5, andwherein R, R1, R2, R4, R.sup.5, and x are as defined in the specification.