Patents Assigned to I
  • Patent number: 5000898
    Abstract: A process for making oriented, shaped articles of lyotropic polysaccharide/thermally-consolidatable polymer blends by orienting spinnable dopes containing fiber-forming polymers being at least about 55% and less than about 80% lyotropic polysaccharide and at least about 20 percent and less than about 45% thermally-consolidatable polymer and removing the solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Carmen A. Gabriel, E. Renee Perusich
  • Patent number: 5000599
    Abstract: A writing implement or the like is provided with a deformable grip for shape conformance in accordance with anatomical contours of the individual user, thereby providing enhanced user comfort with minimum fatigue during use. The deformable grip is located on the body of a writing implement in a position for grasping with the user's fingertips during normal use of the writing implement. The deformable grip is adapted to undergo substantial localized deformation in response to light manual pressure applied by the user's fingertips to conform geometrically with the shape of the user's fingertips in a custom fit manner, thereby providing a highly comfortable grip with a unique, novelty feel. The deformable grip is further adapted for retention of the deformed geometry for at least a substantial period of time, for example, at least about five seconds or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: Boyd I. Willat
    Inventors: Michael L. McCall, Boyd I. Willat
  • Patent number: 5000824
    Abstract: An improved pulp of oriented polyethylene fibrids is provided. The pulps have fibrids which average no longer than 1.2 mm, have a drainage factor of at least 2.5 sec/g, are capable of forming wet-laid sheets of uniform opacity and preferably have an agglomeration number of less than 2. The pulps are particularly useful as synthetic papers, in reinforced cement articles, in reinforced resin articles and in reinforced gaskets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: David M. Gale, Robert G. Joseph
  • Patent number: 5001150
    Abstract: Non-dusty water-dispersible mancozeb granules (90%>100 micron diameter) are produced by a new process characterized by spray drying an aqueous slurry of .gtoreq.60% solids consisting of maneb or maneb dihydrate (5 microns, 50% 2-5 microns), a water soluble zinc salt and other formulation adjuvants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Warren H. Yap
  • Patent number: 5001287
    Abstract: A process for treating an impure mixture consisting essentially of at least one olefinic impurity and at least one saturated halocarbon selected from fluorocarbons and fluorohydrocarbons by contacting the mixture with a source of hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst, whereby the olefinic impurity is converted to a hydrogenated form thereof, to produce a treated mixture consisting essentially of the hydrogenated form of the olefinic impurity or impurities and the saturated halocarbon or halocarbons from the impure mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Richard E. Fernandez, V. N. Mallikarjuna Rao
  • Patent number: 5000809
    Abstract: A process for forming a composite that is useful as an exterior vehicle part in which a layer of a coating composition is applied to a flexible smooth glossy polymeric carrier sheet and dried and laminated under heat and pressure to a flexible polymeric substrate to form a laminate, the carrier sheet is removed and the laminate is thermoformed into a three dimensional structure and a rigid thermoformable plastic is adhered to the thermoformed laminate to form the composite; the coating compsition used in the process that forms the exterior finish on the composite has a film forming binder which is in an organic liquid carrier is of a polyesterurethane and a multifunctional crosslinking agent of an epoxy compound or an organic polyisocyanate; whereinthe polyesterurethane is formed by reacting a hydroxy functional polyester with a hydroxy containing carboxylic acid and an organic polyisocyanate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Paul L. Adesko, Jeffery W. Johnson, Patrick L. Spain, Keith L. Truog
  • Patent number: 5001000
    Abstract: A process for making a rigid composite structure with a thermoplastic polymer surface by:a. thermoforming a thermoplastic polymeric sheet into a three dimensional structure; the sheet has primary glass transition temperature that is at least 10.degree. C. greater than the molding temperature of step c. below;b. placing the thermoformed structure and a charge of sheet molding compound (SMC) in a mold andc. heating the charge and thermoformed structure under pressure in the mold to cure the SMC and to adhere the SMC to the thermoformed structure, where the molding temperature is at least 10.degree. C. below the primary glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic polymeric sheet;the resulting composite structure which can be finished with a paint or a layer of clear coat and color coat also is part of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Frank Rohrbacher, Patrick L. Spain, Roger A. Fahlsing
  • Patent number: 5001141
    Abstract: N-[2-(2-oxo-1-imidazolidinyl)ethyl]-3-phenylurea and analogs are useful for protecting against oxygen-derived free radical damage in mammals, by inducing endogenous antioxidant enzymes, including superoxide dismutase, in mammals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Janet S. Kerr, George A. Boswell
  • Patent number: 5000899
    Abstract: A elastic fibers are formed from spandex polymer that is prepared by reacting a glycol prepared from a tetrahydrofuran/3-methyltetrahydrofuran copolymer with a diisocyanate and then chain extending the thusly capped glycol with a particular mixture of diamines. The fibers have a highly desirable combination of power, hot-wet creep and heat-set efficiency and can be prepared at high spinning and windup speeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Richard L. Dreibelbis, Nathan E. Houser
  • Patent number: 4999891
    Abstract: A yarn string-up gun is modified to include an entangling jet and a cut-down device eliminating the need to provide entangling jets for joining yarns on each yarn-spinning machine position for intermittent use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Vilas G. Bankar
  • Patent number: 5000875
    Abstract: Tetrafluoroethylene copolymer compositions containing conductive carbon black, graphite fiber or thermally conductive fillers have significantly increased conductivity when the tetrafluoroethylene copolymer has been treated with a fluorinating agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Robert J. Kolouch
  • Patent number: 5000547
    Abstract: Amorphous copolymers of perfluoro-2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxole with at least one fluoro comonomer selected from one or more of ten defined classes having a recited minimum mole proportion of perfluoro-2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxole, in no event less than 65%, have high glass transition temperatures of 140.degree. C. or higher, low indices of refraction, and good physical properties, and low dielectric constants, which make them suitable for cladding optical fibers as well as for many electronics applications, including the manufacture of substrates for circuit boards. They all are soluble at room temperature in perfluoro(2-butyltetrahydrofuran), which makes it practical to apply them as coatings from solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Edward N. Squire
  • Patent number: 5001219
    Abstract: High modulus, high tenacity fibers of poly-p-phenylene terephthalamide (PPD-T) are disclosed along with a fiber heat treating process for increasing the inherent viscosity and the crystallinity index of the PPD-T. Never-dried fibers swollen with water of controlled acidity are heated beyond dryness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Terry S. Chern, Stephan C. De La Veaux, Jacob Lahijani, James E. Van Trump
  • Patent number: 5000606
    Abstract: A drop weight for a tubular writing instrument has a drop weight body consisting of an upper and lower part (20; 22). The lower part (22) has a front support surface for supporting the drop weight body in its front position inside the tubular writing instrument, and the cleaning wire (21) is fixed to the bottom of the upper part (20). The two parts (20, 22) can be axially moved in relation to each other, by means of which the distance between the front support surface and the front end of the cleaning wire (21) can be altered. In this way the projection of the cleaning wire (21) beyond the end of the writing tube (11) can be adjusted. Further, to set the projection of a cleaning wire (103), provided at the front end of a drop weight body (115), beyond the front end of the writing tube (102) of a tubular writing instrument, a bush element (116) having a shoulder area (117), is clampingly fastened on the drop weight body (115 ).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Felgentreu
  • Patent number: 5001257
    Abstract: Perfluorinated acid ion-exchange resins are highly effective catalysts for the isomerization of 3-pentenoic compounds to 4-pentenoic compounds, especially if the catalysts contain a group 8 metal in an oxidation state of at least +2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Patrick M. Burke, Francis J. Waller
  • Patent number: 5001036
    Abstract: This invention relates to a peel-apart photosensitive element comprising a strippable coversheet, a photorelease layer, a photohardenable layer, an elastomeric layer, and a support, which is useful in a variety of image reproduction processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: John H. Choi
  • Patent number: 5001037
    Abstract: Provided is a multilayer, multicolor overlay proof comprising at least one precolored overlay image and at least one toned overlay image, as well as a process for preparing such an overlay proof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Jon W. Matthews, Jeffrey W. Milner, Harvey W. Taylor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4999248
    Abstract: Articles made from amorphous dipolymers of perfluoro-2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxole with tetrafluoroethylene having high glass transition temperatures of 140.degree. C. or higher, low indices of refraction, and good physical properties, and low dielectric constants, include, among others, substrates for circuit boards, composites, sheets and films, optical lenses, and electronic current carrying devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Edward N. Squire
  • Patent number: 4999286
    Abstract: Sulfate reducing bacteria are detected by preparing a lysate so as to release an enzyme essential to derive energy by reduction of sulfate such as adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate reductase (APS reductase), containing the lysate with an antibody for the enzyme, and detecting the presence of the reaction product of the enzyme and the antibody. In one aspect, sulfate reducing bacteria are controlled responsive to such assay. In another aspect, a "test kit" is provided for carrying out the assay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Len J. Gawel, Thomas Ng, James M. Odom, Richard C. Ebersole
  • Patent number: D315503
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Comp.
    Inventors: Richard St. Hart, Jeffrey D. Bransky