Abstract: Certain benzene-1,2-disulfonic acid derivatives are useful as agricultural chemicals, and in particular as herbicides.

Abstract: Novel improved copolyester binder filaments and fibers consist essentially of the terephthalate of ethylene and diethylene glycols with the mol percent of the latter being in the range of 20 to 45 percent.

Abstract: Coating of aramid filaments with certain polyfunctional aziridines increases interlaminar shear strength of unsaturated polyester matrix composites.

Abstract: Improvement in the catalytic dehydrohalogenation of a halogenated hydrocarbon to an ethylenically unsaturated product with aqueous alkali in a series of reactors in a cascade arrangement, wherein the fresh alkali feed is relocated from the first reactor to a reactor subsequent to the first, and partly spent alkali solution from the last reactor is recirculated to the first reactor, while the ethylenically unsaturated product is recovered from the effluent from the last reactor, and waste brine is removed from the effluent from the reactor immediately preceding that to which fresh alkali is fed. In this manner, the amount of both the alkali and the catalyst can be reduced, and the conversion is increased. Dehydrochlorination of 3,4-dichlorobutene-1 gives chloroprene, which is a valuable monomer for making synthetic elastomers.

Abstract: A machine for finishing substantially cup-shaped blanks that are to comprise the bodies of saucepans or the like has a table on which the blanks slide horizontally, bottom wall down. They are advanced along the table from station to station by a shuttle conveyor comprising opposite horizontal clamping plates that converge edgewise to engage opposite side wall portions of blanks, move forwardly while converged, then diverge and move rearward to an idle position. At one station there is a hole in the table, and each blank is delivered concentrically onto a freely rotatable tail stock which is in a lowered position in said hole with its top surface level with the table surface. The tail stock rises to clamp the bottom wall of the blank against a concentric continuously rotating driver head spaced above the table.

Abstract: Substituted benzothiazolines are used as antifoggants in high speed silver halide emulsions.

Abstract: A ceramic substrate having a conductive pattern coating thereon wherein the coating comprises an admixture of finely divided particles of a noble metal or alloy, a low melting low viscosity glass, a spinel-forming metal oxide and an organo titantate and the process of making same.

Abstract: A radio frequency switch which has input and output diodes and a quarter length impedance inverter interconnecting the diodes. A switch drive signal is clamped to a predetermined voltage between drive signals so that the impedance with respect to the input source remains substantially constant during the entire switch operation.

Abstract: A terminal for establishing electrical contact with the conductive shield of a cable having an aluminized Mylar.RTM. layer surrounded by an outer braid and then a layer of insulation forming a jacket. A ferrule is inserted between the outer braid and the Mylar.RTM. and is locked in place by an insulator displacement device which penetrates the insulation jacket to establish electrical contact with the shield.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a lubricant for use in the drawing and ironing of black plate steel during the manufacture of enclosed containers such as cans. The lubricant comprises an aqueous solution of an active component, such as a major portion of molybdenum disulfide, together with minor amounts of waxes and other materials. In performing the method of the present invention, a lubricant system is employed. The lubricant system comprises a dual lubricant coating. The first, or outside, coating is applied to that portion of the black plate steel which ultimately becomes the outside surface of the can body. The outside coating is applied, such as by spraying or gravure or offset printing, at a rate of about 25 to about 200 milligrams per square foot of steel surface. This coating is dried, as through the use of a heat source, such as infrared heat or hot air. A second, or inside, coating is applied to that portion of the black plate steel which ultimately becomes the inside surface of the can body.

Abstract: A surface treatment for ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer film resulting in an elastomeric, heat sealable film which retains its transparency after release from 200 percent elongation. The treatment comprises irradiation and controlled surface hydrolysis and, optionally, subsequent attachment of mineral particulates to the surface of the film with or without the use of coupling agents.

Abstract: A laminate of a first layer of a lamellar heterogeneous blend of a polyolefin and a condensation polymer incompatible with the polyolefin, and a second layer of a polyolefin, said layers being melt bonded together.

Abstract: A thermionic cathode (FIG. 1) comprises a porous matrix of tungsten (4) impregnated with alkaline earth activator.A coating (5) 1 .mu.m thick is formed on the matrix (4). The coating is of .sigma. phase alloy of molybdenum and osmium.Alternative .sigma. phase alloys are disclosed, and various methods of making cathodes are disclosed.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein X is an imino acid or ester are disclosed as useful hypotensive agents due to their angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition activity.

Abstract: A chalk-fade resistant TiO.sub.2 pigment exhibiting excellent gloss and dispersion that is comprised of TiO.sub.2 particles with a composite coating of dense alumina and boehmite alumina totaling 2-6% by weight alumina based on the TiO.sub.2 and a process for the preparation of such TiO.sub.2 pigment.

Abstract: Process for oxidatively carbonylating toluene to toluic acid, at least 50 mol % of the toluic acid being the p-isomer, said process comprising contacting and reacting, at 110.degree.-250.degree. C., at a pressure of at least 500 psi (3.45 MPa), toluene, carbon monoxide, oxygen and the catalyst ingredients consisting essentially of(a) a compound of rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, platinum, palladium or osmium;(b) a sulfur oxy-acid or a Group Ia or IIa metal salt of a sulfur oxy-acid; and(c) an acid or acid mixture having a Hammett acidity value (--H.sub.o) of greater than 7.0,said catalyst ingredients containing 0.5-30 mol % of (a) and 70-99.5 mol % of (b+c), with the molar ratios of (b/a) and (c/a) each being at least 2, and recovering toluic acid.

Abstract: A radiation-sensitive polyimide precursor composition comprises a polymer of the formula ##STR1## wherein n is a positive integer corresponding to the number of units in the polymer and is sufficiently large to provide the polymer with a number average molecular weight of about 1500-15,000 as determined by vapor pressure osmometry, and wherein for any particular unit in the polymer:.fwdarw.denotes isomerism; R.sup.1 is a divalent aromatic, aliphatic or cycloaliphatic radical containing at least 2 carbon atoms; R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen radical and any organic radical containing a photopolymerizable olefinic double bond; and R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are selected from the group consisting of perfluoro and perhalofluoro aliphatic hydrocarbons having 1 to 8 carbons.

Abstract: An improved, continuous process for the preparation of hydrocyanation catalysts comprising zerovalent nickel complexes with organophosphorus compounds (ligands) by controlling the temperature of the reaction relative to the amount of ligand and conducting the reaction in the presence of a chlorine ion and organic nitrile such as adiponitrile.

Abstract: "Living" polymers and their preparation from acrylic-type or maleimide monomers and organosilicon, -tin or -germanium initiators.