Abstract: A process for flash spinning polymethylpentene alone or as a blend with polyethylene or polypropylene using various spin agents having essentially zero or very low ozone depletion potential.

Abstract: An apparatus for mixing a first liquid with at least a second liquid includes a tank having a mixing chamber to which is connected a first and a second supply line from each of a first and a second source of liquid. A gross control valve disposed in each of the first supply lines and a fine control valve disposed in each of the second supply lines. A noncontacting detector measures the total volume of liquid present in the mixing chamber. A controller, operable in response to signals output from the detector representative of the total volume within the mixing chamber as continuously measured by the detector, actuates in accordance with a predetermined sequence the gross and the fine control valves in the respective first and second supply lines from the first source and from the second source in accordance with a predetermined sequence.

Abstract: A composition providing stain resistance to stone, masonry and other surfaces is provided comprising a mixture of a fluoroalkyl phosphate and a fluoroacrylate polymer.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a stitched pile surface structure is disclosed. The apparatus has a plurality of transversely spaced needles forming a needle array, with each needle having a predetermined width dimension (142D). The needles in operation being movable to penetrate a backing at a plurality of needle penetration points as the backing is conveyed along a path of travel through the apparatus. A plurality of laterally adjacent sinker fingers extends forwardly in the direction of travel. Each needle is disposed laterally intermediate adjacent fingers. Each finger has a forward end thereon. The sinker fingers extend forwardly in the direction of travel past the needle penetration points, the height dimension of at least that portion of each finger that extends forwardly past the needle penetration points being uniform. In addition, the fingers have a base region, with adjacent fingers being spaced from each other by a lateral spacing distance (132) not greater than 1.

Abstract: An apparatus for breaking and separating particles preferably having a mathematical average length to diameter ratio of 1.0 to 4.0, and compositions comprising such particles. The apparatus comprises a cylindrical screen (1) and a hub (7). Upon relative rotation of the screen (1) and the hub (7), reject particles are flung radially outwardly and expelled through openings (4) in the screen (1).

Abstract: This invention concerns the preparation of polymers of low polydispersity and/or controlled molecular weight and architecture employing living free radical polymerization initiated by an alkoxyamine initiator or nitroxide plus, optionally a free radical initiator, the polymer produced thereby; selected nitroxide and alkoxyamine initiators; and a process for making the initiators; the polymeric products being useful in protective coatings.

Abstract: An interpolymer consisting essentially of units derived from vinyl fluoride and at least two highly fluorinated monomers, at least one of the highly fluorinated monomers introducing into the polymer a side chain of at least one carbon atom. Films from these interpolymers have substantially reduced haze, low surface tension, and can be made to form solutions in common polar organic solvents that are stable at room temperature. The extremely low surface tensions obtained with these interpolymer films provide enhanced stain resistance and improved release properties compared to polyvinyl fluoride or known vinyl fluoride interpolymers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a packing system for unit loads which can be stacked in a plurality of adjacent piles or piles stacked on top of each other to form a substantially stable pile consisting of at least two stacked layers of unit loads. The invention is characterized in that spacers are provided between at least two successive stacked layers so that both stacked layers are vertically interspaced; at least one device is provided on top of and below the stack to protect at least partially the external contour of the unit loads located in the top and lower stack position; at least one fixing device encompassing the other periphery of the stack is included so that it encompasses the stack in such a way that the unit loads in a stack position are pressed against the unit loads in a directly and vertically adjacent stack position; and the fixing device extends over the protection device.

Abstract: System and method for transacting with graded prices by users based on a network are disclosed, which classify users who wishes to purchase goods through electronic commerce business sites into predetermined grades by predetermined criteria and provides graded prices information with respect to the same goods by classified grades.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for realizing personal shops in electronic commerce business. It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus for realizing personal shops in an electronic commerce business, which enables users to use shopping malls easily and conveniently by presenting contents screens fit for the member specialties by members and recommending goods suitable for the purchase pattern of the users.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a sputtering target which comprises sub-stoichiometric titanium dioxide, TiOx, where x is below 2 having an electrical resistivity of less than 0.5 ohm.cm, optionally together with niobium oxide, which process comprises plasma spraying titanium dioxide, TiO2, optionally together with niobium oxide, onto a target base in an atmosphere which is oxygen deficient and which does not contain oxygen-containing compounds, the target base being coated with TiOx, which is solidified by cooling under conditions which prevent the sub-stoichiometric titanium dioxide from combining with oxygen.

Abstract: A sprayable coating composition that contains at least one soluble film-forming silicon-containing compound having, on average, more than one fuctionalized silicon group, a volatile organic carrier, a polymer microparticle component, and a catalyst; a substrate coated with the composition; a process for coating the substrate to provide a protective finish; the finish-protected substrate; certain oligomeric compounds and a process therefor.

Abstract: A method of hair depilation using an Nd:YAG laser which causes local heating at the hair bulb due to the absorption of the oxyhemoglobin contained in the capillaries. The Nd:YAG laser operates at 1060 nanometers. Each pulse is a special pulse having a first portion and a second portion, where power output in the first portion is 20 times greater than power output in the second portion. That way, the first portion of each pulse is used to quickly heat up the tissue to a damaging temperature, and the second portion maintains that temperature to cause hair removal for the tissue.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel process for the preparation of condensed melamine phosphates, and to melamine pyrophosphate prepared by this process having improved thermal stability as a flame retardant.

Abstract: A carbon-dioxide pump for tires which comprises a dispensing head which is provided with a nosepiece for coupling to the tire valve which is connected to a threaded hole for the hermetic fixing of a bottle of carbon dioxide and to a sliding hole for a needle-equipped pin for piercing the membrane of the bottle which is rigidly coupled to a flow control element of the frustum-shaped type which can be actuated manually so as to rotate in order to hermetically close the bottle after piercing the membrane, a shell for containing the bottle which is screwed hermetically onto the head and on which a handgrip is slidingly fitted with the interposition of guiding and sliding sealing elements which are suitable to provide a short manual pump in which the air compressed by the movement of the handgrip flows between the shell and the bottle and is fed to the nosepiece through a nozzle which is closed by a valve system provided in the head.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel spider silk protein analogs derived from the amino acid consensus sequence of repeating units found in the natural spider dragline of Nephila clavipes. More specifically, synthetic spider dragline has been produced from E. coli and Bacillus subtilis recombinant expression systems wherein expressions from E. coli is at levels greater than 1 mg full-length polypeptide per gram of cell mass.

Abstract: Solvent extraction of one or more metal ions from an aqueous solution in the presence of hydrocarbon-soluble aminomethylenephosphonic acid derivatives.

Abstract: Process to separate linear 5-formylvaleric acid from a mixture of 5- and 3- and 4-formylvaleric acids, wherein the separation is performed by fractional extraction with two immiscible solvents of which one solvent is an aqueous solvent and the other solvent is an organic solvent, in which the organic solvent has a higher or lower affinity for 5-formylvaleric acid than its affinity for the 3-formylvaleric acids and for the 4-formylvaleric acid. Furthermore the invention relates to an improved process to prepare ∈-caprolactam starting from a mixture of branched and linear formylvaleric acids or starting from pentenoic acid.