Abstract: Method for separating paper fibers and contaminants for mixtures containing water, fibers, contaminants, paper or cardboard pellets, wherein the mixture is subjected firstly to a screening, secondly to a mashing and then thirdly to a further screening with addition of water, subsequent to which the pulp retained by the screen is evacuated.

Abstract: A glass-plate working apparatus 1 includes a glass plate carrying-in section 2; a glass plate bend-breaking section 3; a glass plate peripheral-edge grinding section 4; and a glass plate carrying-out section 5. The glass plate bend-breaking section 3 is provided with a supporting device 7 for supporting a glass plate 6 from the glass plate carrying-in section 2; a bend-breaking head device 11 for forming a main cut line 8 for bend-breaking and an edge cut line 9 on the glass plate 6, and for pressing positions 10, 10 on the glass plate 6 so as to bend-break the glass plate 6; and a bend-breaking head moving device 12 for moving the bend-breaking head device 11. The glass plate peripheral-edge grinding section 4 is provided with a supporting device 13 for supporting the glass plate 6; a grinding head device 15 for grinding a bend-broken edge 14 of the glass plate 6; and a grinding-head moving device 16 for moving the grinding head device 15.

Abstract: A robot installation for painting objects inside a painting booth (CA) having walls (WA, WB) isolating the object (AU) to be painted from the surroundings, is suitably integrated in the booth walls in order to save interior booth space and achieve a robot operation better adapted to the painting process. The installation includes at least one main robot shaft (RS) associated with a painting tool and protruding through at least one slot (LS) penetrating the booth walls for servo-controlled movements along such slots and possibly also in the direction of and/or about the axis of the shaft. Servo-drive means are disposed for controlling the robot shaft movements in accordance with a preprogrammed motional pattern for the painting tool, including tracking of a travelling object to be painted. The slot is disposed on a rotatable element e.g.

Abstract: By kneading a composition containing a filler and an organic forming binder, extruding the composition, baking the composition in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, there is obtained a first baked lead containing, as a binder, a carbon obtained by the carbonization of the organic forming binder. Then, by heating the first baked lead in an oxidizing atmosphere to remove the binder carbon, there is formed a second baked lead composed of at least the filler. The pores of the second baked lead are impregnated with a solution containing perhydropolysilazane, subjecting the lead to a heat treatment in an inert atmosphere or an ammonia gas atmosphere to form a third baked lead containing the resultant silicon nitride. Finally, ink is filled into the pores of the third baked lead to provide a baked color pencil lead.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for decontaminating aqueous paper pulp comprising a decontaminating cell. The decontaminating cell has an upper light contaminate collection hood and/or a lower heavy contaminate collection trough. Paper pulp is provided to the cell under a pulp head sufficient to purge the contaminates therefrom.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for decolorizing paper pulp containing colored fibers. The paper is first pulped and subjected to fine screening. The screened pulp is then dispersed at a temperature in excess of 100.degree. C. and a pressure exceeding one atmosphere absolute pressure. Prior to the dispersing step a first agent (a reducing agent or oxidizing agent) is introduced to the pulp. A second agent is introduced to said pulp after introduction of the first agent. The second agent is an oxidizing agent when the first agent is a reducing agent, and a reducing agent when the first agent is an oxidizing agent. Finally, the dispersed pulp is recovered after the colored fibers are decolorized.

Abstract: The invention consists of soft, bulky tissue products that result from the presence of a debonder/softening agent in the outer layers of the tissue and creping under "closed" pocket conditions. The debonder/softening agents belong to a group of organic chemicals that include several imidazolinium quaternary compounds. These chemicals do not adversely interfere with adhesion, unlike most debonders, to the drying surface of the tissue machine. They can, therefore, be placed in the outer layers of the tissue that contact the dryer surface and improve creping. The tissue can then be creped off of the drying surface using a closed pocket, that is a pocket angle of less than 80 degrees. The closed pocket creping normally produces a thicker, less dense tissue but with coarse crepe. Closed pocket creping and the presence of most debonders in the dryer side layers would be expected to also produce coarse crepe structures.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for improving the ash characteristics of a paper wrapper for a smoking article and for improving the ash characteristics of the smoking article itself. Specifically, it has been unexpectedly discovered that the ash characteristics of a paper wrapper are noticeably improved when a calcium carbonate filler having a median particle size of from about 0.15 microns to about 0.5 microns is incorporated into the paper. Paper wrappers made with the calcium carbonate particles of the present invention have superior ash characteristics in comparison to paper wrappers incorporating calcium carbonate particles of larger or smaller sizes. Further, the ash characteristics of the paper are improved without having to alter total filler levels in the paper.

Abstract: A board composed of a lignocellulosic material and the modification thereof as the substantial components and having good mechanical strength, even when the board does not contain any components derived from an additive, by utilizing the autoadhesion of a specified lignocellulosic substance. This board is produced by molding under heat and pressure a lignocellulosic substance containing at least 30 weight % of a malvaceae bast plant, being substantially free from any component derived from an adhesive, and has a strength value of more than 100 as defined by the following formula (I): 0.48.times.Y/X.sup.2, wherein Y is a bending strength (kgf/cm.sup.2) and X is a density (g/cm.sup.3). A particulaly preferable example of the plant is the kenaf.

Abstract: A tank furnace for the inertization of non-flammable batch, which contains hazardous substances, metals and less than 10% by weight of carbon, by vitrification with glass forming aggregates by producing a glassy melt. The furnace has a batch charging device and a tank, on the rim of which a furnace crown rests, electrodes for heating the melt, a supply of oxidizing gases to the melt and, as an outlet for the melt, an overflow channel which can be heated. Nozzles are installed in the bottom of the tank to introduce oxidizing gases in order to reduce the eluate values, and the electrodes are immersed in the melt from above. It is preferable to install the nozzles at sloping sidewalls of the tank which slope upwardly and outwardly.

Abstract: A process for preparing a fermented malt beverage wherein brewing materials ere mashed with water and the resulting mash is heated and wort separated therefrom. The wort is boiled, cooled and fermented and the beer is subjected to a finishing stage, which includes aging, to produce the final beverage. The improvement comprises subjecting the beer to a cold stage comprising rapidly cooling the beer to a temperature of about its freezing point in such a manner that ice crystals are formed therein in only minimal amounts. The resulting cooled beer is then mixed for a short period of time with a beer slurry containing ice crystals, without any appreciable collateral increase in the amount of ice crystals in the resulting mixture. Finally, the so-treated beer is extracted from the mixture.

Abstract: A tire soaper apparatus including a soaper station and a conveyor for selectively advancing tires to the soaping station. The soaping station is characterized by a translationally mounted rotator for being moved into engagement with a tire to thereby rotate it, a pivotally mounted soap applicator located above the conveyor for selectively contacting the beads of the tire, and a soap dispensing circuit for selectively providing soap at the soap applicator for applying soap to the beads of the tire. The soap applicator is pivoted into the central opening of the tire and engages, via bead receptacles, each of the beads thereof. The tire is rotated by the rotator rotating against the tread of thereof, wherein the rotator moves translationally toward the soap applicator so that the tire is squeezed therebetween with the beads seated in the bead receptacles and soap transferred to the beads as the tire rotates in relation to the soap applicator.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of dialdehydes and acetals thereof for inhibiting decomposition of peroxide in the production and the treatment of recycled fiber pulp and other fiber pulp.

Abstract: A photochromic glass having colorant incorporated in the glass composition to impart a permanent tint, and having its chromaticity point shifted from the blue-green side toward the red side of the white point in the CIE chromaticity coordinate system, and a method of producing such article by heating the article for a sufficient time, and at a sufficient temperature, in a dilute, hydrogen-containing atmosphere to so move the chromaticity point.

Abstract: A modular die for applying hot melt adhesive onto a substrate comprises (a) a manifold having adhesive and air passages formed therein, (b) a plurality of self-contained and interchangeable die bodies mounted on the manifold, and (c) a die head detachably mounted on each die body. The die heads are selected from melt spraying, meltblowing, and linear bead applicators permitting the application of a variety of adhesive patterns on the substrate.

Abstract: A process of recycling printed paper that contain a coating of a plastic olefin polymer by either (a) treating the deinked paper material with an oxidizing agent and reforming the deinked paper material into paper or (b) reforming the deinked paper material into paper and then treating the reformed paper with an oxidizing agent is described. The deinked paper material consists of fibers containing both cellulose and a plastic olefin polymer; fibers which are a mixture of cellulose fibers and fibers containing both cellulose and a plastic olefin polymer; fibers which are a mixture of cellulose fibers, fibers of a plastic olefin, and fibers containing both cellulose and a plastic olefin polymer; and fibers which are a mixture of fibers of a plastic olefin polymer and fibers containing both cellulose and a plastic olefin polymer.

Abstract: A glass substrate manufacturing method advantageously applicable to magnetic recording disk glass substrates, LCD glass substrates, photomask glass substrates, or optical memory glass substrates. The glass substrate is formed by chemically strengthening a glass substrate by immersing the glass substrate in a chemical reinforcement solution heated and then ion exchanging ions on the surface layer of the glass substrate with ions in the chemical reinforcement solution; removing the substrate from the chemical reinforcement solution and then annealing it to a temperature higher than the crystallization temperature of a molten salt; rapidly cooling the glass substrate at a rate at which the crystallization of the molten salt deposited on the surface of the glass substrate is prevented; and then cleaning the surface of the glass substrate.

Abstract: In a simple car body surface treatment device, the car body (16) is brought into and taken out of the treatment bath (1) exclusively by rotation of a revolving device (2). The car body (16) arranged on a loading carriage (11) is detachably connected to the revolving device (2). In addition, conveyors (12, 13, 17, 18) are provided for carrying the loading carriage (11) on to or away from the revolving device (2). The device is characterized by the conveyors (12, 13, 17, 18) being located outside of the treatment bath (1). The conveyors (17, 18) located in the area of rotation of the revolving device (2) may be moved out of and into this area.

Abstract: There is disclosed a dip coating apparatus including: (a) a single coating vessel capable of containing a batch of substrates vertically positioned in the vessel, wherein there is absent vessel walls defining a separate compartment for each of the substrates; (b) a coating solution disposed in the vessel, wherein the solution is comprised of materials employed in a photosensitive member and including a solvent that gives off a solvent vapor; and (c) a solvent vapor uniformity control apparatus which minimizes any difference in solvent vapor concentration encountered by the batch of the substrates in the air adjacent the solution surface, thereby improving coating uniformity of the substrates.

Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus for improving the uniformity of a liquid curtain in a curtain coating system. The apparatus comprises means for, prior to the coating of the medium, forcing the liquid composition which flows on the forward face of the lip to wet the rear face of the lip of the coating device over a predetermined distance greater than the distance over which the liquid composition would naturally wet the rear face.