Abstract: A cleaning card has a flat, semirigid base with a first and second material mechanically bonded to the side surfaces thereof. The first material is an abrasive substantially impenetrable material and the second material is a soft spunlaced fabric of high absorptive capacity. The differences in physical qualities of the first and second materials allow for one card to be used both as frequent cleaning card as well as a corrective cleaning card and provides a cleaning card that enables operation of the machine quickly after cleaning thereof.

Abstract: A controlled release device useful for the release of vapors or liquids to the surrounding of the user is described. The device is a multilayered laminate consisting of a reservoir layer which incorporates an active compound, such as a nasally delivered therapeutic medication or insect repellant, an impermeable membrane layer adjacent the reservoir layer and a diffusion rate limiting membrane layer adjacent the reservoir layer. The device preferably includes an adhesive layer for adhering the device to skin or a surface and an ornamental decorative layer.

Abstract: A fibrous bonded sheet material, suitable for conversion into plug wrap for the filter plug in a filter cigarette, is formed by treating a fibrous base web with a polymeric binder (e.g. polyvinyl alcohol), a wet-strength resin (e.g. a polyamide-polyamine-epichlorohydrin resin) and a ketene dimer (e.g. an alkyl ketene dimer). The wet-strength resin may be wholly or partially replaced with a cross-linking agent (e.g. glyoxal). The resultant sheet material exhibits favourable characteristics of air permeability with resistance to the bleedthrough of adhesives used in the production of wrapped filter plug material.

Abstract: A compostable, biodegradable foam core board has a facing sheet adhered to a foam core sheet made of a foamable biodegradable material selected from a polyvinyl alcohol polymer, a starch-based thermoplastic polymer, a polylactic acid polymer, and other foamable, biodegradable polymers having structural rigidity when foamed. The foam core sheet has selected structural properties including a foam core weight in a preferred range of 30 to 50 lbs/msf, a foam density in a preferred range of 1.5 to 9 lbs/ft.sup.3, and a foam cell size in a preferred range of 0.30 to 0.70 mm. In one example, the foam core material is composed of a mixture of a polyvinyl alcohol polymer and high-melt-index polystyrene as a structural polymer additive. In another preferred example, the foam core material contains a blend of destructurized starch, polyethylene, polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl acetate, and glycerol as a plasticizer.

Abstract: A molded part formed of a liquid or pasty materials has a prepared outside surface for adhering to another molded part having a similar adhering surface. A prepared foil with individual members protruding from two opposite surfaces is placed in the mold before the molded part is poured. The protruding members on one side of the foil are bonded into the molded part. When the molded part is removed from the mold, the protruding members on the other side are exposed and can receive a suitable bonding agent whereby this molded part can be secured to another similar molded part.

Abstract: A light weight molding compound comprises an inner layer constituted by a thermosetting resin including a hollow filler, cloth layers constituted by woven or non-woven fabric adhered on the both surfaces of the inner layer, and surface layers constituted by a thermosetting resin including reinforcing fiber and integrally connected to the both surfaces of the inner layer by way of the cloth layers. The light weight sheet molding compound has superior surface quality to be painted after molding.

Abstract: A sandwich type composite adhesive construction in a simpler form, composed of a central release liner having a permanent adhesive layer on one side thereof and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer on the other side preferably separated therefrom by a release coat or member, and at least one release member on said adhesive layers but in a more complex form containing additional carrier layers or strengthening members including at least one or more support layers between two layers of permanent pressure sensitive adhesive. This adhesive construction provides a product, such as a pipe insulation that has unique properties and is cost effective.

Abstract: A tear resistant film comprises more than five layers situated one on the other in a parallel array. The layers are individually selected from a stiff polyester or copolyester, a ductile polymeric material, and optionally, an intermediate material. The stiff polyester or copolyester is oriented in at least one direction. Tear resistance may be measured in a Graves area test and reflects the ability of the film to absorb energy. The films of the invention are useful in many articles including security control laminates for glazing members.

Abstract: A pressure sensitive adhesive composition is provided for use on cellulosic substrates which will not become tacky under high temperatures, lose adhesive properties due to contact with silicone oils, "block" when stacked prior to printing, or lose bond-forming ability with age. Non-thermoplastic pigment particles and a compound selected from the group consisting of a natural rubber latex, a graft copolymer of natural rubber and acrylic monomer and a blend of the natural rubber latex and the graft copolymer are mixed together to form an adhesive with a glass transition temperature in the range of -10.degree. to -78.degree. C., a dielectric constant of about 2.25 to 2.62 and a green strength of 0.05 to 0.75 p.s.i. The adhesive may also optionally contain a chloroprene-methacrylic acid copolymer latex and a vinyl-methacrylic acid copolymer latex.

Abstract: An adhesive tape is provided for overcoating splices in polymer coated metal tapes, which comprises a plastic film that serves as recoating material, a layer of adhesive applied to one face of this film and covered by a releasing tape which is peeled-off when required to expose the adhesive tape which is then applied onto the area of the splice to overcoat the same. The adhesive is crosslinkable by application of heat and is crosslinked during a subsequent cable jacketing operation, thereby forming a strong bond between the non-coated metal tape in the splice area and the recoating plastic film.

Abstract: A composite sheet of a flexible release liner, which is useful in high speed operations is described. The release liner is coated on one side with a crosslinkable high release coating formulation comprising (a) a silicone-acrylate release component; (b) an acrylate-containing crosslinking agent, such as a silicone-acrylate crosslinking agent having a higher acrylate content than the (a) silicone-acrylate, trimethylolpropane triacrylate or epoxylated trimethylolpropane triacrylate; and (c) an acrylic ester monomer or oligomer selected from the group consisting of octyl acrylate, isodecyl acrylate, stearyl acrylate and lauryl acrylate, specifically the (c) acrylate is free of silicone and more than two acrylate groups per molecule.

Abstract: A sleeve label for application to the peripheral exterior of an article such as a gas cylinder, including a flexible label sleeve having a circumference and a central axis, and first and second portions parallel to its axis and extending the length of the label sleeve; an elongated, stiff strip having first and second edges extending the length of the strip, and having an inner face and an outer face; the first sleeve portion being attached to the strip to extend from and be flexible about the first edge of the strip, and the second sleeve portion being attached to the strip to extend from the inner face at a location intermediate the edges of the strip; the strip being on the exterior of the label sleeve, with the second edge of the strip and the outer face of the strip being exposed; the strip being pivotable about its first edge to flex the sleeve at and about the first edge of the strip to turn the outer face of the strip inwardly against the label sleeve and simultaneously pull a segment of the sleeve ou

Abstract: An elastic laminated sheet of an incrementally stretched nonwoven fibrous web and elastomeric film and method of making are disclosed. The elastic laminates are especially useful in diapers, surgical gowns, sheets, dressings, hygienic products and the like.

Abstract: A self-adhesive article which is produced by forming an adhesive layer from an adhesive consisting essentially of a polymer which is soluble in or swellable by an iso-thiocyanate, impregnating the adhesive layer with an iso-thiocyanate to provide a biocidal self-adhesive, and applying the biocidal self-adhesive to at lesat one surface of a base material. A high concentration of the iso-thiocyanate can be held in the adhesive layer, and the self-adhesive article is put to uses intended for the purpose of providing bactericidal, fungicidal and microbiocidal effects in building and food-related fields and the like.

Abstract: Abrasion resistant polyester film useful in glazing structures having improved adhesion of the abrasion resistant coating to the polyester film are provided by applying an acrylic based primer composition to the polyester film and an overlying coating of a polysiloxane containing less than 23.times.10.sup.-6 mole per gram of alkali metal cations.

Abstract: A photoluminescent retroreflective sheeting for use in structures when a power outage occurs. Guidance systems are made from this sheeting to mark exits and escape routes as well as possible hazards and safety devices. The novel sheeting includes photoluminescent properties that glow in the dark as well as retroreflective properties that retroreflect light incident upon the same sheet such that only one sheet has to be used rather than individual sheets with separate properties.

Abstract: The present invention requires less natural timber for the fabrication of a cardboard having high resistance to tearing by incorporating at least two layers from cellulose, in between which a woven-fabric layer or scrim from natural or synthetic fibers is disposed, wherein the cellulose layers and the scrim are configured as composite members formed in the moist state.

Abstract: A securing tape for securement to a foreign body including an elongated tape having first and second sides, a base portion on the tape, adhesive on the first side of the tape for securing the base portion to a foreign body, a tab having a fixed end and a free end with the tab being formed by cutting it out of the tape while leaving the fixed end integrally attached to the base portion, an opening in the base portion being formed in the location from which the tab was cut of the tape, an outer end on the opening remote from the fixed end of the tab, a relocating arrangement for effectively relocating the free end of the tab and the outer end of the opening relative to each other to permit the free end of the tab to be secured relative to the base portion, and securing structure for securing the free end of the tab to the base portion.

Abstract: An air baggage tag readable by a bar code reader is composed of a recording layer, a substrate, a pressure sensitive adhesive layer, and release paper, wherein the substrate has a laminate structure composed of (A.sup.1) a fine void-containing stretched thermoplastic resin film and (A.sup.2) a substantially void-free uniaxially stretched thermoplastic resin film having a transverse Elmendorf tear strength of at least 80 g, the thickness of the uniaxially stretched thermoplastic resin film (A.sup.2) is from 10 to 60% of the total thickness of the substrate, and the recording layer is provided on the side of the stretched thermoplastic resin film (A.sup.1) opposite to the stretched thermoplastic resin film (A.sup.2) and has printed thereon a bar code. The baggage tag has high tear strength while exhibiting satisfactory printability and therefore, when attached to each piece of air baggage, is not easily torn apart even on being pulled.

Abstract: A method for producing a decorative sheet having an adhesive layer on its back surface, which comprises coating the back surface of a decorative sheet comprising a printed pattern paper with a resin liquid which is liquid at room temperature according to a direct method, and then drying the coating of said resin to form an adhesive layer.