Abstract: Copolymers of glycidyl acrylate and allyl glycidyl ether and terpolymers derived from addition of glycidyl methacrylate to the polymerizable mixture, having an inherent viscosity within the range of about 0.09 to 0.28 and an epoxy equivalent of at least about 0.64 per 100 g. of polymer are provided which upon admixture with a catalyst which is a radiation-sensitive aryldiazonium salt of a complex halogenide, provides compositions suitable for use in a dry photopolymer positive imaging process. In the process, the polymer which is non-tacky at room temperature, together with the catalyst is applied to a substrate and exposed to an energy source for example, electromagnetic radiation through a transparency or mask. Following exposure, the coating is heated to the softening point of the unexposed portion of the coating and a powder or toner is applied thereto, the toner being adhered to only the tacky, non-exposed area of the coating, resulting in a pigmented image.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 26, 1976
Date of Patent:
July 11, 1978
Assignee:
American Can Company
Inventors:
Sheldon Irwin Schlesinger, Ronald J. Boszak
Abstract: A system for the reconstitution of a food and beverage concentrate comprising combined knife and nozzle means selectively movable between a retracted position and an extended position, in which latter position the combined knife and nozzle means pierces the removable lid of a container of concentrate and is operative automatically to inject a predetermined amount of heated water into the container to reconstitute the concentrate. Upon movement to retracted position means is automatically operative to rinse the combined knife and nozzle means.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 4, 1976
Date of Patent:
June 27, 1978
Assignee:
American Can Company
Inventors:
John K. Harvey, Jr., Morris T. Watson, Constantine F. Economy, Robert J. LeFevre
Abstract: A leak detecting device for identification of can tops and similar workpieces with leak holes has a compressed gas supply chamber providing a source of compressed gas for testing the workpieces for leaks. An acoustic testing chamber is mounted adjacent the gas supply chamber. A sealing press is provided between the chambers for holding a workpiece in a gas tight manner so that one side of the workpiece faces the compressed gas supply chamber in a gas tight relationship and the other side of the workpiece faces the acoustic testing chamber in a noise tight relationship. A valve is provided on the compressed gas supply chamber and is operable to admit compressed gas from the gas supply chamber to the side of said workpiece facing the compressed gas supply chamber. An ultrasonic microphone is disposed within the acoustic testing chamber and is adapted for detecting gas noise created by gas passing through a leak hole in the workpiece.
Abstract: An article transport system employs a rail assembly and a holder rotatably mounted on a conveyor. The assembly is comprised of a series of interconnected, axially-aligned, generally cylindrical members, which are relatively free to move independently of one another. Relative movement of the holder and rail assembly causes, through frictional engagement therebetween, the uniform rotation of an article mounted on the holder; the system has particular utility for transporting decorated can shells through ultraviolet curing ovens.
Abstract: A carton, adapted for use in heating a product, is provided with openings to permit gas and heat flow. An integrally formed section of an outer panel of the carton serves to cover the openings, and is readily removed prior to use of the carton. As an additional feature, the panel in which the removable section is formed may also provide elements which can be positioned to function as legs to elevate the carton above a supporting surface.
Abstract: Copolymers of glycidyl acrylate and allyl glycidyl ether and terpolymers derived from addition of glycidyl methacrylate to the polymerizable mixture, having an inherent viscosity within the range of about 0.09 to 0.28 and an epoxy equivalent of at least about 0.64 per 100 g. of polymer are provided which upon admixture with a catalyst which is a radiation-sensitive aryldiazonium salt of a complex halogenide, provides compositions suitable for use in a dry photopolymer positive imaging process. In the process, the polymer which is non-tacky at room temperature, together with the catalyst is applied to a substrate and exposed to an energy source for example, electromagnetic radiation through a transparency or mask. Following exposure, the coating is heated to the softening point of the unexposed portion of the coating and a powder or toner is applied thereto, the toner being adhered to only the tacky, non-exposed area of the coating, resulting in a pigmented image.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 26, 1976
Date of Patent:
May 23, 1978
Assignee:
American Can Company
Inventors:
Sheldon Irwin Schlesinger, Ronald J. Boszak
Abstract: A unitary paperboard blank for forming a tray with point-of-use flip-up partitions. The blank has an extension flap attached to the top edge of one of the side walls along a breakaway line of weakness. The extension flap has one or more divider panels formed therein depending upon the number of compartments desired in the tray. The side wall with its attached extension flap is folded over the bottom panel and the extension flap is glued to the inside surface of the bottom panel. The side wall is then broken away from the extension flap and the tray then formed on conventional tray forming equipment.
Abstract: Valuable new and widely useful compositions of matter are comprised of products having enhanced solubility and increased dispersant and the like surfactant activity which products are ozonated (so as to be oxidized) lignosulfonate derivatives beneficially including ozonated units of alkaline oxidized, hydrolyzed, partially desulfonated lignosulfonates.
Abstract: The method of making a compartmentalized paperboard tray with one or more point-of-use flip-up partitions. The tray is produced from roll stock paperboard by feeding one web over another, adhering the webs together at selected areas and then cutting and scoring the adhered webs together to provide a flat tray blank which may be set up on standard tray forming equipment.
Abstract: Polymerization of polymerizable compositions comprising mixtures of lactones with monomeric or prepolymeric epoxides is effected by mixing such compositions with radiation-sensitive aromatic diazonium salts which decompose upon application of energy such as electromagnetic radiation to release Lewis Acid to initiate polymerization of said monomers.
Abstract: Copolymers of glycidyl acrylate and allyl glycidyl ether and terpolymers derived from addition of glycidyl methacrylate to the polymerizable mixture, having an inherent viscosity within the range of about 0.09 to 0.28 and an epoxy equivalent of at least about 0.64 per 100 g. of polymer are provided which upon admixture with a catalyst which is a radiation-sensitive aryldiazonium salt of a complex halogenide, provides compositions suitable for use in a dry photopolymer positive imaging process. In the process, the polymer which is non-tacky at room temperature, together with the catalyst is applied to a substrate and exposed to an energy source for example, electromagnetic radiation through a transparency or mask. Following exposure, the coating is heated to the softening point of the unexposed portion of the coating and a powder or toner is applied thereto, the toner being adhered to only the tacky, nonexposed area of the coating, resulting in a pigmented image.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 26, 1976
Date of Patent:
February 28, 1978
Assignee:
American Can Company
Inventors:
Sheldon Irwin Schlesinger, Ronald J. Boszak
Abstract: A method and apparatus for cold lidding open-top containers with roll-stock elastomeric film by holding a web of the film in air-tight relation across the bottom of a lidding chamber and about its periphery, evacuating the lidding chamber to stretch the web thereinto, inserting the top of the container into the lidding chamber, and releasing the stretched web over the top of the container whereby the inherent restorative characteristic of the web causes it to quickly contract, i.e. "snap" onto the periphery of the container to form a dynamic seal. The removal of the lidded container from the apparatus causes the container to be moved against a tripper plate to ready the apparatus for lidding the next container. The minimum recovery factor of the stretched film web should be about 85% of its original size.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 13, 1976
Date of Patent:
January 31, 1978
Assignee:
American Can Company
Inventors:
Richard Patrick Mitchell, Thomas Mathew Gorshe
Abstract: An adhesive formulation has a desirable balance of high initial tack, good dry strength, good release, and low tack upon ultimate exposure. It is particularly well suited for securing coupons to carton blanks. The formulation is butyl latex-based and includes a paraffin wax and a lower polyolefin.
Abstract: Copolymers of glycidyl methacrylate and allyl glycidyl ether having pendant epoxy groups, having an inherent viscosity of at least about 0.25, preferably within the range of about 0.25 to about 0.38, and an epoxy equivalent of at least about 0.65 epoxide equivalent per 100g. of polymer are provided which upon admixture with a radiation-sensitive aryldiazonium salt provide compositions which exhibit improved sensitivity, curing rates and other properties. Articles for recording and storing information from a laser source and other articles such as microfilm are derived from such compositions by subjecting a coated substrate to an energy source of sufficient intensity to decompose the radiation-sensitive catalyst and thus effect polymerization via the epoxy groups of the copolymer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 18, 1976
Date of Patent:
January 31, 1978
Assignee:
American Can Company
Inventors:
Sheldon I. Schlesinger, Veronica Cochran
Abstract: Valuable new and widely used compositions of matter are comprised of products having enhanced solubility and increased dispersant and the like surfactant activity which products are resulfonated units of alkaline oxidized, hydrolyzed, partially desulfonated lignosulfonates.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 29, 1976
Date of Patent:
January 17, 1978
Assignee:
American Can Company
Inventors:
William John Detroit, Michael Elliot Sanford
Abstract: A laboratory stand assembly includes a stand having a post, a sample holder bracket mounted on the post, a sample holder disengageably supported on the holder bracket, a probe mounting member adapted to support a probe, and a probe bracket mounted on the post which supports the probe member in both of two alternate positions. The stand assembly is especially suited for use in connection with the analysis of solder compositions, wherein a probe is inserted into a heated solder sample to monitor its cooling characteristics.
Abstract: Tubular container bodies having a lap side seam, obtained by uniting a resin and an adhesive bondable therewith, are produced by applying the bonding resin to the limited lap area of body blanks moving in a continuous stream and applying heat to the limited lap area to cure the resin in less than one second; the resin may be so applied that the raw metal edge of the body blank is also coated. The resin may be subsequently reheated to the final state of cure in which it will bond to the tacky adhesive on the opposed lap margin of the body blank.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 24, 1975
Date of Patent:
December 27, 1977
Assignee:
American Can Company
Inventors:
Kenneth R. Rentmeester, John A. Jurcenko, John D. Welks
Abstract: Wells and like borings into the earth's surface, especially those for the production of petroleum and gas, are very well and efficaciously cemented with cement compositions or pastes containing, as their effective gel control and cement set retardation agent, an additive that is a resulfonated, alkaline oxidized, hydrolyzed, partially desulfonated lignosulfonate product.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 29, 1976
Date of Patent:
December 27, 1977
Assignee:
American Can Company
Inventors:
William John Detroit, Michael Elliot Sanford
Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for high speed wire and/or strip line electroplating of metals such as tin and zinc on a metal substrate by utilizing in the anode assembly therefor a combination of the plating metal as the anode and an anode support comprised essentially of a member selected from the group consisting of tantalum, niobium, and mixtures thereof.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 3, 1973
Date of Patent:
December 20, 1977
Assignee:
M & T Chemicals Inc.
Inventors:
Frederick Walter Eppensteiner, R. E. Woehrle