Abstract: A method of removing a coating containing aluminium and chromium in combination with cobalt from a nickel base alloy substrate. The coated substrate is immersed in a solution containing the following constituents (by weight):Ferric Sulphate; 6-14%Hydrochloric Acid; 3.5-11%Water; RemainderWhen substantially all of the coating has been dissolved, the substrate is removed from the solution.

Abstract: In a method for feeding reinforcing strand when making a tubular product of plastic or other synthetic material, comprising supplying helically a supporting strand during rotation of a tube blank and applying a longitudinal reinforcing strand to the blank, the longitudinal reinforcement strand is in form of pieces cut off from a continuous strand after abutment thereof against the supporting strand. The continuous strand gradually displaces the cut off lengths of strand during the rotation of the tube blank. An apparatus for carrying out the method comprises means for feeding support helically around a rotating tube blank, means for feeding portions of additional reinforcing strand oriented in the direction of the tube blank to place the portions between the supporting strands and the tube blank, and means for cutting off said axially orientated reinforcing strands. The cutting is carried out when the strand portion is held by at least one supporting strand.

Abstract: A recording tape applicator has a card with an edge forming an abutment surface, a release sheet secured to the card and extending outward beyond the abutment surface, and a strip of magnetic recording tape adhesively supported by the release sheet on the side opposite the card. The recording tape is spaced from and accurately parallel with the abutment surface of the card, and the release sheet has a slit extending longitudinally along the middle of the recording tape so that an outer portion of the release sheet can be removed to expose about half of the tape. The card is then abutted against an object, and the tape is pressed against a face surface of the object to align the tape accurately with the edge of the object. Then the card and the remaining release sheet is pulled away from the tape, and the whole tape is pressed against the object and trimmed if necessary.

Abstract: The invention is a replacement tread for installation on a tire casing and the method of installing the tread. The replacement tread includes an endless, pre-molded central tread portion having a relaxed diameter less than the inflated diameter of the tire casing. Integral shoulder wings extend downwardly from the central tread portion and define a circular bottom edge. The shoulder wings bias the bottom edges against the tire casing effecting a seal.To install the replacement tread, the tread area of the tire casing is prepared and the tire casing inflated. The replacement tread is expanded and released onto the tire casing. Tension forces hold the replacement tread closely against the tire casing. The tread is stitched under pressure forces to remove entrapped air and to effect a fluid seal between the shoulder wings and the tire casing. Finally, the replacement tread and the tire casing assembly is cured or bonded.

Abstract: A process for injection molding a crown of a vehicle tire from one composition and the sidewalls from a different composition involves the steps of shaping the reinforcing structure in the mold, injecting a first composition over one side of the reinforcing structure to form a crown with a tread and injecting a second composition to form the sidewalls with an interface within the proximity of the edges of the reinforcing structure. In a preferred embodiment, the tire has the configuration of the one disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,805,868. The annular reinforcing structure is shaped to be generally convex but concave towards the tread along its edges.

Abstract: An apex is cohered to the bead wire bundle or core to form a unitary bead assembly. The core is supported on a rigid continuous planar surface. The apex strip in endless form is supported on the uninflated inflatable cylindrical surface of a turn-up bladder arrangement. Inflation of the bladder arrangement turns or rolls the apex angularly outward to surround the bead core and into an appropriate radial orientation and shape. The bladder action is found to cohere the apex-core so strongly together that conventional roller stitching is not required.

Abstract: A simple low cost building arbor having a wide range of axial length or bead set length variation. The arbor has no moving parts which are not of rubber or rubber-like material and is operable by air pressure alone. An expandable ring expands, by air pressure, to hold a bead ring in axial position and independently a turn-up bladder is expanded to turn a ply sleeve end about the bead ring. Operating air is conducted, in all axially selected positions in the range, not by tubing but by air transfer chambers connecting the bladder and a sleeve associated with the expandable ring with passage in the center shaft.The present invention relates to a building arbor for tires and like articles.The principal object of the invention is the provision of a simple, low cost building arbor actuable solely by fluid pressure to position an inextensible bead ring about a ply in cylindrical form on the arbor and to turn the ply ending about the bead ring.

Abstract: A hockey stick is manufactured from a molded blade, a pultruded glass fiber shaft and a molded end cap. The interchangeable blade is made from a polycarbonate or wood. The shaft is hollow and made from glass fiber strips and rovings which are pulled through a heated die after being impregnated with a suitable resin to produce a shaft of rectangular section and of even wall thickness. The blade has a special tongue connection means on the supported end which snuggley fits into the end of the shaft and is adherred thereto by an adhesive such as an epoxy resin. The cap is cup-shaped and is preferably molded from a hard plastic and is adherred to the opposite end of the shaft from that supporting the blade to cover the end threreof. The cap could also be made from an elastomeric material to be frictionally retained in position over the shaft end. The use of the adhesive material makes certain that the cap will remain in place.

Abstract: A rapidly curable phenol-formaldehyde resin is provided in the form of an emulsion which has particular utility in panel board production, particularly waferboard production.

Abstract: Organic holographic recording media comprise organic photosensitive compounds such as .alpha.-diketones, quinones and nitro compounds in sucrose benzoate as host.

Abstract: A face of a sheet, e.g. of glass, is moved past an extrusion nozzle to deposit a plastic filament adjacent a first edge thereof. The movement is interrupted when a corner is reached. The nozzle and sheet are moved away from each other to detach the filament adjacent the corner and the sheet is rotated to present its next edge to the nozzle while retaining the continuity of the filament. The nozzle and sheet are then returned to depositing position and the relative movement resumed to deposit the filament adjacent the next edge. The apparatus includes means for raising the sheet from conveyor belts and raising the extrusion devive by a greater amount, and then turning the sheet by a suction cup arm, the sheet being supported by rollers during the turning. A detector monitors the position of the sheet and controls the operation of the apparatus.

Abstract: A plywood panel is provided with a durable and highly weather-proof surface and a plurality of embossed parallel grooves therein for enhancing its appearance. A metal caul plate is formed with the series of spaced apart ridges corresponding to desired grooves in the panel. A moist, spongy fibrous web is placed between the surface of the plywood panel and the surface of the caul plate, with an adhesive coating on either the panel or on the web surface facing the panel. The assembly of the caul plate and the plywood panel with the web therebetween is inserted into a hot press and subjected to heat and pressure and the web is firmly adhesively secured to the panel. The web, as well as the adhesive used for securing the web onto the panel, contains a quantity of thermo-setting phenolic resin so that the covered surface of the panel is durable and highly weather-proof. The original plywood panel may be of low quality and grade, having surface defects and blemishes, all of which are concealed by the covering web.

Abstract: A web of tubular or semi-tubular film is provided with transversely extending weld seams and lines of perforations to define bag sections and it is cooled while being fed to a severing and stacking station where the leading bag section is severed from the film and deposited on a stack of bag sections. The successively severed bag sections are deposited on a lowerable support up to a desired stacking height and they are clamped to the support alternately by a vertically reciprocatable punch and by being pressed against a clamping bar disposed above the support. Each bag is severed from the web of film under the action of lowering the punch and depressed by said punch until its margins come to lie under the clamping bar.

Abstract: A process for preparing a flexible, cured sheet material, the sheet material so prepared, and in particular composition boards with the sheet material as a surface covering, which process comprises: providing a first thin fibrous sheet material impregnated with a curable thermosetting resin; placing onto one surface of the first sheet material a second flexible fibrous sheet material which is capable of absorbing an adhesive material; and subjecting the first and second sheet materials to a high pressure of over about 20 kilos per centimeter square at a thermosetting resin-curing temperature, and for a period of time to bond the surface of the second sheet material to the contacting surface of the first sheet material by the cured resin. The thin sheet material is characterized by a hard, resin-cured surface and capable of absorbing an adhesive material.

Abstract: A flexible, fully cured, resin-impregnated sheet material useful as a surface-covering laminate product, particularly on particle boards, and the process of preparing such sheet material and the laminate product, which sheet material is prepared by providing a thin, fibrous sheet material impregnated with a curable, thermosetting resin; applying onto one surface of the resin-impregnated sheet material a layer of a compatible resin adhesive material; and subjecting the resin-impregnated coated sheet material to high pressures of over about 20 kilos per centimeter square at a resin-curing temperature for a period of time to provide a thin sheet material characterized by a nonporous, cured, resin-rich, face surface free of adhesive, and an adhesive-rich back surface, the sheet material being flexible and capable of being handled without fracture thereof. The flexible sheet material is secured by adhesively bonding the material to a substrate, such as a particle board, for use as a surface covering.

Abstract: A splicing roller device for use in an automatic paper splicing apparatus. The device comprises at least one splicing roller having an adhesive surface and at least one endless belt arranged to pass around the outer surface of the splicing roller and provided with a non-adhesive surface, whereby smooth automatic splicing of two lengths of crude paper is accomplished thus ensuring continuous supply of crude paper to a processing line without lowering of the line speed.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process of forming a photographic element capable of forming a reversal image including a support and two silver halide emulsion layers primarily responsive to a different portion of the visible spectrum upon imagewise exposure of the photographic element. The emulsion layers are positioned to permit iodide ion migration therebetween upon development. Each emulsion layer contains silver halide grains capable of forming a latent image upon imagewise exposure and a hydrophillic colloid suspending the grains. One of the emulsion layers is comprised of silver haloiodide grains. One other of the silver halide emulsion layers additionally contains suspended in the hydrophilic colloid and interspersed with the latent image forming silver halide grains surface fogged silver halide grains which are spontaneously developable independently of imagewise exposure of the photographic element as though exposed to imaging radiation of maximum intensity.

Abstract: Sheet material is moved along its length from a supply to a take-up spool and the material is inspected as it is moved. A garment pattern image is projected on and is moved with the material. The operator determines where the material is to be cut either from the length accumulated on the take-up spool or from the image projected on the material, and if a flaw in the material is detected, the operator determines if the flaw should be removed by identifying the pattern part in the garment from the image projected on the material where the flaw will appear. If the flaw is to be removed, the operator cuts the flaw out and splices the cut ends of material together at splice marks in the image projected on the material. The spools loaded with sheet material with this procedure are loaded in a creel, and the ends of the sheets of material from the spools in the creel are aligned in a vertically stacked arrangement and moved to a cutting apparatus where the garment pattern is cut in the stacked sheets of material.

Abstract: An insulation comprising a polyether polyester thermoplastic copolymer obtained by reacting 1, 4 butane diol terephthalate with terepthalate esters of polytetramethylene glycol is coated over an irregularly configured conductor, such as for example, a tinsel conductor, suitable for use in telecommunications cordage by moving the copolymer through an extruder and along a flow path formed between a core tube and wall of a die cavity. The die cavity adjacent to the throat of the die has a frustoconical portion formed with an approach angle of sufficient magnitude to minimize the pressure drop through the extruder to extrude the copolymer at a temperature slightly above the melting point of the copolymer.

Abstract: Certain radiation sensitive quinone compounds and nitrobenzylidene dyes in photothermographic elements, compositions and processes on exposure to activating radiation, release a species which catalyzes the reduction of silver salt oxidizing agents in the presence of non-light sensitive reducing agents upon heating. The elements, after imagewise exposure, are heated to develop the image.