Abstract: The present invention provides a heat sensitive recording material comprising a substrate and a recording layer thereon incorporating a colorless or light-colored basic dye and a color acceptor reactive with the dye to form a color when contacted therewith, the recording material being characterized in that, the basic dye comprises 1 at least one compound represented by the formula below [I] and 2 3-di-n-butylamino-6-methyl-7-anilinofluoran and/or 3-di-n-pentylamino-6-methyl-7-anilinofluoran, and the color acceptor comprises 4,4'-isopropylidenediphenol ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, a, b, c and d are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: Disclosed are a water-sensitive coloring sheet comprising:(a) a substrate and(b) a water-sensitive coloring layer containing a colorless or pale-colored basic dye, a color developing material capable of forming a color on contact with the dye, a densensitizer and a binder, and a method for forming colored image on such water-sensitive coloring sheet by application of water.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material comprising a substrate, an intermediate layer disposed on said substrate and a heat sensitive recording layer disposed on said intermediate layer, characterized in that said intermediate layer contains a pigment of 80 cc/100 g or more in oil absorption as the main constituent and an alkaline pigment of 8 or more in PH value in an amount of 0.1 to 25% by weight on the total amount of the pigments contained in said intermediate layer.

Abstract: A microcapsule-containing ink composition for flexographic printing containing microcapsules, an adhesive and an ink medium, the composition being characterized in that the adhesive includes a polymer composed of a methacrylate or acrylate singly or as its main component and having an average molecular weight of 3000 to 50,000.

Abstract: A developer comprising at least one polyvalent metal salt of a nuclear substituted salicylic acid of the following general formula is provided. ##STR1## In the formula, R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group provided that at least one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is a secondary butyl group, a secondary hexyl group, an isohexyl group, a secondary octyl group, an isononyl group, a secondary decyl group, a secondary dodecyl group or an isododecyl group and the total number of the carbon atoms in R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 is from 9 to 18, M is a polyvalent metal atom, and m is a valence of M. An aqueous dispersion containing the developer and a method for preparing the developer are also described.

Abstract: The invention provides a heat-sensitive recording material comprising (a) a base sheet and (b) a heat-sensitive recording layer formed on the base sheet and comprising a colorless or pale-colored basic dye, a color developing material which develops a color on contact with the dye, and a heat-fusible material, the recording material being characterized in that the basic dye comprises 3-di(n-butyl)amino-6-methyl-7-phenylaminofluoran, and that the heat-fusible material comprises di(p-methylbenzyl) oxalate.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material comprises a recording layer formed on a base sheet where the recording layer comprises a colorless or pale colored basic chromogenic material, a color developing material which develops a color by contacting with said chromogenic material, and a stabilizer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a recording material utilizing the color forming reaction between a colorless or light-colored basic dye and a color acceptor reactive with the dye to form a color and forming on the same or different substrate layer or layers containing the basic dye and the color acceptor conjointly or separately, the recording material being characterized in that the color acceptor is at least one of salicylic acid derivatives represented by the following formula [I] or polyvalent metal salts thereof ##STR1## wherein X is straight-chain or branched-chain C.sub.1.about.12 alkylene or C.sub.5.about.12 cycloalkylene, R is C.sub.1.about.20 alkyl having or not having a substituent or C.sub.2.about.20 alkenyl having or not having a substituent, Y is C.sub.1.about.6 alkyl, C.sub.2.about.6 alkenyl, C.sub.7.about.10 aralkyl or halogen atom, Z is C.sub.1.about.6 alkyl, C.sub.2.about.6 alkenyl, C.sub.7.about.10 aralkyl, C.sub.1.about.

Abstract: A recording material utilizing the reaction between a colorless or light-colored basic dye and a color acceptor reactive with the basic dye to form a color and forming on the same or different substrate a layer or layers containing the basic dye of the color acceptor conjointly or separately, the recording material being characterized in that the color acceptor is at least one of salicyclic acid derivatives represented by the following formula [I] or polyvalent metal salts thereof ##STR1## wherein Ar, R, X, l and m are defined in the specification.

Abstract: The heat-sensitive record material, in which color images are produced by a color-forming reaction between a colorless or pale colored basic chromogenic material and a color developer, comprises a novolac-type epoxy resin or a diphenyl sulfone derivative represented by the formula (III) in the color forming reaction system.In the former case, it is preferable to use a novolac-type epoxy resin represented by the formula (I) together witha a compound represented by the formula (II) and, in the latter case, the desired effects can be obtained by using 3-dibutylamino-6-methyl-7-phenylaminofluoran as the basic chromogenic material. ##STR1## wherein X is halogen or alkyl having C.sub.1 to C.sub.5, and a is an integer of 0 to 4; and n is an integer of 0 to 20, each of R.sub.1 .about.R.sub.6 is hydrogen, halogen, C.sub.1-5 alkyl or C.sub.1-5 alkoxyl, R.sub.7 is ##STR2## R.sub.10 is hydrogen or alkyl; each of p and q is 0 or an integer of 1 to 5; each of r and s is an integer of 1 to 5; each R.sub.8 and R.sub.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat-sensitive recording material comprising:(a) a base sheet;(b) a heat-sensitive recording layer formed on the base sheet land comprising a colorless or pale-colored basic dye and a color developing material which develops a color on contact with the dye; and(c) a protective layer formed on the recording layer and comprising a binder and at least one metal salt selected from the group consisting of magnesium acetate, calcium acetate, aluminum acetate, magnesium formate, calcium formate and aluminum formate.

Abstract: Disclosed are an adhesive sheet comprising a release sheet base material, an undercoat layer formed on the release sheet base material, a release agent layer formed on the undercoat layer, an adhesive layer formed on the release agent layer and a surface sheet formed on the adhesive layer, the adhesive sheet being characterized in that the undercoat layer comprises a water-dispersible acrylate or methacrylate copolymer resin having an emulsifier content of about 2 to about 10 wt. % based on the total amount of the monomers used for preparing the copolymer and which resin has a glass transition temperature of about -60.degree. to about 20.degree. C., and that the release sheet base material having the undercoat layer formed thereon, as a whole, has a bulk density of up to 1.0 g/cm.sup.3, and a process for preparing a release sheet comprising a release sheet base material, an undercoat layer and a relase agent layer.

Abstract: A scanning mode printer operates with an array of heating elements and corresponding photoelectric elements coupled in parallel so that a modulated laser beam scans in line fashion the photoelectric elements to respectively activate each heating element in a thermal head for imaging a heat-responsive medium.

Abstract: An apparatus for determining water content of powder/granule sample including a rectangular waveguide system substantially set up in the upright or vertical disposition, consisting of a microwave transmitting converter, a microwave waveguide, and a microwave receiving converter; the apparatus comprising: a sample container for containing powder or granular sample and being accommodated inside of the microwave waveguide; the waveguide being provided with an inlet hole communicated to the inner space of the cavity resonator at one of side walls, and having a door for opening and closing the hole and a supporting element for the sample container within the waveguide; a buffer weighing system for supporting the hollow waveguide on a supporting table in the upright or vertical disposition and generates electric signals designating the supporting weight; and signal processing means for receiving signal output from the microwave receiving converter and the other signal from said buffer weighing system, storing and a

Abstract: An improved heat-sensitive recording material of the type having a substrate and a heat-sensitive recording layer formed on said substrate, said heat-sensitive recording layer containing a color former and a color developer to color said color former upon contact by heating, characterized in that said substrate comprises an adiabatic foamed polyester resin film containing minutes cavities with an apparent specific gravity in the range of 0.9 to 1.2.

Abstract: The heat-sensitive record materials have, between the base sheet and the recording layer, a middle layer which mainly comprises a binder and at least one pigment having an oil absorption of at leasat 80 cc/100 g measured by JIS K 5101. The middle layer comprises an acrylic thickener in an amount of 0.05 to 5 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the pigment on dry basis.The middle layer is formed by blade-coating on a base sheet a coating composition comprising at least one pigment having an oil absorption of at least 80 cc/100 g measured by JIS K 5101 and a binder, in which an acrylic thickener is comprised in such amount as described above.

Abstract: A paper inserting apparatus comprises a guide bar having a flat guide path containing an upper and a lower surfaces extending parallel to and facing each other for the inserting tape supplied from its source, a tape pusher equipped to the guide bar so as to move slidably thereon within a defined range in the guide path, the tape pusher having an engaging device movable through the guide path for engaging the tape from both the upper and a lower sides by being inserted to the guide path through the upper and lower surfaces, and an elongated flexible elastic sheet or "leaf" which can slide the lower surface of the tape on the guide path and folds and drives the free portion of the tape protruded from the end edge of the guide path so that a portion of the tape is inserted by a defined distance into the sheet area on the upper exposed surface of the top sheet of the stack, reciprocal drive unit operatively connected to the tape pusher for sliding it within the defined range, and a non-return blade provided in th

Abstract: A heat sensitive recording material comprising a substrate and a recording layer thereon incorporating a colorless or light-colored basic dye and a color acceptor reactive with the dye to form a color when contacted therewith, the recording material being characterized in that, as the color acceptor is used at least one compound selected from the group consisting of 4-hydroxy-4'-isopropyloxydiphenylsulfone, 4,4'-(1,3-dimethylbutylidene) bisphenol, 4,4'-(1-phenylethylidene)bisphenol, 4,4'-(p-phenylenediisopropylidene)bisphenol and 4,4'-(m-phenylenediisopropylidene) bisphenol, and to the recording layer is added at least one of a heat-fusible substance represented by the formula [I] ##STR1## wherein X is hydrogen atom, halogen atom, C.sub.1.about.4 alkyl or C.sub.1.about.4 alkoxy.

Abstract: According to the invention, a rotary cutter is provided, which includes a fixed blade having a straight cutting edge and a rotary blade having a spiral cutting edge. The rotary blade is installed for rotation about an axis extending parallel to the cutting edge of the fixed blade, the spiral cutting edge of the rotary blade moving along a path which extends tangentially to said cutting edge of the fixed blade. At least one of the fixed blade and the rotary blade is shorter than the width of a paper strip. Accordingly, the rotary blade and the fixed blade cooperate with each other to partially cut the paper strip widthwise while leaving the opposite end portions uncut. The fixed blade has opposite surfaces extending toward the cutting edge thereof, one of which comprises an inclined surface formed on the paper inlet side of the fixed blade and disposed at an angle less than 60.degree. with respect to the paper strip.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for measuring electric characteristics of sheet-like materials using an instrument which includes a waveguide tube member having one end connected to transmitter for introducing a microwave into the tube member and the other end fully opened, a waveguide terminal member having an opened end facing the opened end of the tube member to form slit of the whole wave guide body constituted from the tube and terminal members and having the other end connected to first microwave detector, and an auxiliary waveguide branching from the wall portion of said tube member adjacent to the slit with the branch-extension end being associated with a second microwave detector.