Abstract: A sheet-like article including fibers and carbon nanotubes and/or carbon nanohorns adhering to the surface of the fibers in a uniformly dispersed state without agglomeration to form a network structure on the fibers. The sheet-like article is preferably made by converting the fibers and a dispersion of the carbon nanotubes and/or carbon nanohorns by a wet papermaking process. To use cellulose fibers as main fibers provides a good sheet-like article.

Abstract: The present invention provides a slip sheet that protects a planographic printing plate in which the coefficient of static friction between corresponding surfaces of the slip sheet that contact an image-forming surface of the planographic printing plate is 0.35 or less, the surface strength of the slip sheet is 15 or more, or the Clark stiffness of the slip sheet is 20 to 50. In a production process of the planographic printing plate, the image-forming surface and the slip sheet are adhered by suitably charging, and following their lamination, the charge rapidly dissipates resulting in favorable separation, discharge characteristics and storage characteristics in an automatic plate feeder. In addition, sticking between the slip sheet and the image-forming surface during heat treatment can also be prevented simultaneously. This slip sheet is particularly effective for planographic printing plates of the heat mode type and photon mode type on which images are formed by exposure to laser light.

Abstract: An oil-resistant sheet material having low resistance to air permeability and being excellent oil resistance, and particularly, being able to be suitably used as a packaging material for food containing edible oil. The oil-resistant sheet material includes at least one coating layer that contains starch and/or polyvinyl alcohol and a fatty acid on at least one side of a substrate in a solid content of 0.5 to 20 g/cm2. When the coating layer further contains a crosslinking agent, the oil resistance is improved. A coating layer that contains a fatty acid as a main component or a coating layer that contains polyvinyl alcohol as a main component may be further applied to the above-mentioned coating layer to form at least two coating layers.

Abstract: An ink jet recording paper capable of compatible with high speed ink jet printers is provided. By using, as a fiber material, mercerized pulp obtained by applying an alkali treatment to pulp, an ink jet recording paper of high ink absorption speed and high ink coloring density is formed. Since the paper itself has excellent ink absorption speed, there is no requirement for applying coating for improving the ink absorption and it can be used as non-coated type ink jet recording paper.

Abstract: An oil-resistant sheet material which has low resistance to gas permeation and excellent oil resistance and is suitable especially for use as a packaging material for foods containing an edible oil. The oil-resistant sheet material is obtained by forming at least one coating layer from a material comprising a hydrophobized starch and a crosslinking agent on at least one side of a base in an amount of 0.5 to 20 g/m2. By incorporating a fatty acid and/or polyvinyl alcohol into this coating layer, oil resistance is improved. A coating layer comprising a fatty acid as the main component or a coating layer comprising polyvinyl alcohol as the main component may be formed on that coating layer. Thus, a coating layer composed of at least two layers may be formed.

Abstract: A sheet material, a production method therefor and a drying apparatus is provided wherein a heating gas comprising mainly superheated steam is blown directly to reach the sheet internal water content via a permeable belt for restricting free shrinkage of the sheet, to give instantaneous evaporation (pressure flow) and form a porous sheet. A wet sheet 35 is clamped between an externally heated rotor 1 having heated gas blowing ports 19 for blowing heated gas from an outer peripheral direction, and a permeable endless fabric belt 36 which moves in synchronous with the rotor under a tension capable of restraining dry shrinkage of the sheet material, to thereby give rapid direct moisture evaporation and form a porous sheet.

Abstract: Fluorescent particles strongly fluorescing upon irradiation with ultraviolet rays, as well as a process for producing the same, are provided. A water-insoluble fluorescent dyestuff and/or pigment fluorescing upon irradiation with ultraviolet rays and a powdery material including starch, cellulose, other polysaccharides and sugars are mixed and granulated. The surface of granules of the powdery material may be coated with the fluorescent dyestuff and/or pigment. In granulation or coating, a resin having reactive groups reacting with the hydroxyl groups of the powdery material is used in combination, whereby particles excellent in water resistance can be obtained. Further, the interaction between an anionic binder contained in the granules and a cationic material contained in the coating layer or between a cationic binder contained in the granules and an anionic material contained in the coating layer can be utilized to confer water resistance on the particles.

Abstract: A sheet material, a production method therefor and a drying apparatus is provided wherein a heating gas comprising mainly superheated steam is blown directly to reach the sheet internal water content via a permeable belt for restricting free shrinkage of the sheet, to give instantaneous evaporation (pressure flow) and form a porous sheet. A wet sheet 35 is clamped between an externally heated rotor 1 having heated gas blowing ports 19 for blowing heated gas from an outer peripheral direction, and a permeable endless fabric belt 36 which moves in synchronous with the rotor under a tension capable of restraining dry shrinkage of the sheet material, to thereby give rapid direct moisture evaporation and form a porous sheet.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a thread-inserted window paper produces paper in which a thread is exposed to windows which are intermittently formed, and have clear contours, and in which thread is exposed surely at the window portions to make the thread clearly recognizable visually. The method is capable of being carried out with a relatively simple apparatus. Wet paper (1) in which a thread (T) is embedded in the paper layer is guided while being in intimate contact with a center roll (3) having protrusions (2) arranged on the surface thereof intermittently at a predetermined distance, the surface of the wet paper on the protrusions is frictionally rubbed by a friction roll (4) thereby moving fibers at the surface of the wet paper on the protrusions to form exposed portions of the thread intermittently on the surface of the wet paper and the wet paper is then dried by a customary method.

Abstract: A record sheet for use in an electro-coagulation printing method, which comprises a base sheet and a layer provided thereon composed of at least one filler selected from the group consisting of alumina sol, boemite, pseudo boemite, synthetic amorphous silica, silica sol and colloidal silica and a binder, wherein said record sheet satisfies the following properties; (i) a wet time of the record sheet obtained from a liquid absorption curve of pure water measured by a dynamic scanning absorptometer being not more than 15 milliseconds, (ii) an absorption coefficient of the record sheet obtained from a liquid absorption curve of pure water measured by a dynamic scanning absorptometer being at least 10 ml/m2s−½, and (iii) a contact ratio of the record sheet with the coagulated colloids measured by a specular reflection smoothness tester under a pressure of 40 kg/cm2 with a ray having a wavelength of 0.

Abstract: A super microfibrillated cellulose having an arithmetic average fiber length of 0.05 to 0.1 mm, a water retention value of at least 350%, a rate of the number of fibers not longer than 0.25 mm of at least 95% based on the total number of the fibers as calculated by adding up, and an axial ratio of the fibers of at least 50. The super microfibrillated cellulose is produced by passing a slurry of a previously beaten pulp through a rubbing apparatus having two or more grinders which are arranged so that they can be rub together to microfibrillate the pulp to obtain microfibrillated cellulose and further super microfibrillate the obtained microfibrillated cellulose with a high-pressure homogenizer to obtain the super microfibrillated cellulose. A coated paper produced with a coating material containing the super microfibrillated cellulose, and a tinted paper produced from a paper stock containing the super microfibrillated cellulose as a carrier carrying a dye or pigment are also provided.

Abstract: In the present invention, in a process in which a fiber suspension supplied in a flat layer manner is subjected to natural dehydration, pressure dehydration, or suction dehydration, while circulating a cylindrical suction cylinder, and thereby, dehydration slowly proceeds and a paper web is formed, and this paper web is moved to an endless felt by means of a suction couch roll to produce paper, a tapered suction roll sleeve 6, the outer peripheral surface of which is cylindrical and the inner peripheral surface of which has an inclination identical to that of the outer circumference of the tapered suction roll cell 5 is attached and detached, and thereby, it becomes easy to conduct the attachment and detachment of various types of wires wound on tapered suction roll sleeve 6.

Abstract: A liquid electrophotographic development sheet wherein a polyethylene resin or a resin including polyethylene such as a polyethylene ionomer as a main component is present on at least one of the surfaces of a substrate sheet is provided. The development sheet can find wide application such as a newspaper, a magazine, a commercial publication, various publications, a poster, a postcard and an envelope, due to its excellent transfer-fixing property.

Abstract: A super microfibrillated cellulose having an arithmetic average fiber length of 0.05 to 0.1 mm, a water retention value of at least 350%, a rate of the number of fibers not longer than 0.25 mm of at least 95% based on the total number of the fibers as calculated by adding up, and an axial ratio of the fibers of at least 50. The super microfibrillated cellulose is produced by passing a slurry of a previously beaten pulp through a rubbing apparatus having two or more grinders which are arranged so that they can be rub together to microfibrillate the pulp to obtain microfibrillated cellulose and further super microfibrillate the obtained microfibrillated cellulose with a high-pressure homogenizer to obtain the super microfibrillated cellulose. A coated paper produced with a coating material containing the super microfibrillated cellulose, and a tinted paper produced from a paper stock containing the super microfibrillated cellulose as a carrier carrying a dye or pigment are also provided.

Abstract: A liquid electrophotographic development sheet wherein a polyethylene resin or a resin including polyethylene such as a polyethylene ionomer as a main component is present on at least one of the surfaces of a substrate sheet is provided. The development sheet can find wide application such as a newspaper, a magazine, a commercial publication, various publications, a poster, a postcard and an envelope, due to its excellent transfer-fixing property.

Abstract: A liquid electrophotographic development sheet wherein a polyethylene resin or a resin including polyethylene such as a polyethylene ionomer as a main component is present on at least one of the surfaces of a substrate sheet is provided. The development sheet can find wide application such as a newspaper, a magazine, a commercial publication, various publications, a poster, a postcard and an envelope, due to its excellent transfer-fixing property.

Abstract: Anti-falsification paper is provided in which a thread is exposed at window portions provided on the surface of the paper, and which does not produce any cockles even when wound up continuously in a roll and has good appearance in terms of design. This anti-falsification prevention paper is combination paper having at least two paper layers including an outermost layer and an inner layer. Window portions are formed in the outermost layer at intervals in a longitudinal direction of the paper. In the window portions there are formed watermarks of letters or pictures, and a thread inserted between the outermost layer and the other layer is exposed at these window portions. The ratio between the length (X) of the window portions in the longitudinal direction of the paper and the length (Y) in the same direction of non-window portions between the window portions is set at 3:1 to 1:2 to securely prevent the formation of cockles during the winding of paper.

Abstract: The present invention provides a record sheet used in an electro-coagulation printing method for forming characters and images on a cylinder as an electrode with an ink which coagulates with electric charge and for transferring the characters and images to the record sheet, wherein the wet time is 15 milliseconds or less, obtained from the absorption curve of pure water measured by a dynamic scanning absorptometer. Preferably, the record sheet has 5 ml/m.sup.2 s.sup.-1/2 or more absorption coefficient, and more preferably, has contact ratio measured by a specular reflection smoothness tester under a pressure of 40 kg/cm.sup.2 with a ray having a wavelength of 0.5 .mu.m is 40% or more. The record sheet can be used for various print sheets, in particular, for business form sheets and newspaper sheets.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuously forming plate articles which can be installed in a low factory building, which can sufficiently press, heat and dry a mixture of materials, and which can manufacture surface-treated plate articles with high efficiency at a low cost. The mixture is introduced into an introducing chamber, and at the same time, decorative films are fed into the introducing chamber on both sides of the mixture. A semi-finished product made up of the mixture and decorative films are fed between a pair of horizontal hot plates to form it into a strip article. The strip article thus formed is cooled and cut into a plurality of plate articles provided with decorative layers on both sides.

Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus for picking up a ream of packaged sheets of a desired kind from a plurality of reams of one or more kinds stacked up on a respective one of cells in an automated warehouse and loading the picked-up ream of packaged sheets on a pallet. In the invention, a pick-up device, having a picking, gripping and pulling mechanism and a discharging and stacking mechanism, is located at a position adjacent to a respective cell by traveling the pick-up device horizontally and/or vertically. The pallet is located at a prescribed position. The pick-up device is operated to pick-up the ream of packaged sheet of the desired kind from the plurality of reams of one or more kinds stacked up on a respective cell. Specifically, the picking, gripping and pulling mechanism is operated to pick upwards and grip the ream of packaged sheets to pull the same, and the pulling and piling mechanism is operated to withdraw the pulled ream of packaged sheets and stack the same on the pallet.