Abstract: Polyether urethane foams that are heat laminatable are prepared by incorporating within the foam an effective amount of an organophosphorus additive. This organophosphorus additive can be an organophosphite, an organophosphonate, an organophosphate, and a mixture thereof. This foam can also include an halogenated flame retardant.

Abstract: The applicator for inserting a pessary into the uterus, which pessary comprises a chain combined with a distal coil screwable into the base of the uterus. The applicator has an inner shaft, which received the chain in its leading end, installed in an outer shaft and with its leading end securing the nearer of the coil in a formlocked or forcelocked manner, as well as a handle at the opposite end of the shaft whose rotation and axial displacement allow screwing the coil out of the outer shaft and into the base of the uterus to the extend of its longitudinal dimension. The outer and inner shafts are withdrawable from the uterus with respect to the screwed-in coil and chain which are to be released, after completion of the application.

Abstract: Rigid polyurethane foams which exhibit constant or slightly decreasing strain with an increasing stress in compression are prepared employing from 30 to 60 parts of an alkoxylated toluenediamine polyol per 100 parts of polyol mixture. These foams may be employed in shoring up geological formations.

Abstract: Ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers having a melt index of 2,000 to 7,500 and containing from 10 to 22% vinyl acetate are useful in hot melt road marking compositions containing from 1 to 30% of the EVA copolymer; from 0 to 29% by weight of a binder resin; and from 0 to 5% by weight of a plasticizer, the balance of the composition typically comprising from 70 to 80% by weight of aggregates, made up of particulate materials such as sand and/or fillers and/or pigments such as calcium carbonate and titanium dioxide.

Abstract: Fast curing adhesives which are free of solvent and have high heat resistant bonding strength composed of mixtures of polyols, polyepoxides and polyisocyanates are described.

Abstract: This invention is an improvement in a process for preparing a polyurethane backed substrate whereby a reacting polyurethane forming mixture comprising at least one polyahl and at least one polyisocyanate as applied to a substrate and subsequently curing thereon to form an attached polyurethane backing. The improvement which is this invention comprises employing an organoiron or organobismuth catalyst for said polyurethane forming mixture. The organoiron or organobismuth catalyst is employed in an amount such that the polymer forming mixture exhibits the viscosity of not greater than about 20,000 cps 2 minutes after the polyahl and polyisocyanates are contacted in the presence of said catalyst at 20.degree.-50.degree. C. and the polyurethane forming mixture cures to a tack free state at an elevated temperature in the presence of said catalyst in less than about 8 minutes.

Abstract: New compounds which are salts of the formula A.sup.+ B.sup.- where A.sup.+ is a quaternary ammonium cation and B.sup.- is a tetrahedral boron-oxygen complex anion are prepared from boric acid by reaction with a hydroxyl compound and a quaternary ammonium hydroxide. The salts are used as catalysts to prepare carbodiimides and isocyanurates from isocyanates which can be in the form of foamed resins.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the prevention of pressure sores at an unfeeling part of a person's body involves applying to the unfeeling part of the person's body a pressure-sensor cell which senses the pressure thereat, applying to a feeling part of the person's body a discomfort-generator cell, and connecting the pressure-sensor cell to the discomfort-generator cell such that the pressure sensed by the former at the unfeeling part of the person's body is transmitted by the latter to the feeling part of the person's body.

Abstract: Package and tank stable, low temperature self-curing, cation-active aqueous soluble or dispersible coating compositions are prepared by copolymerizing blocked meta-isopropenyl-.alpha.,.alpha.-dimethylbenzyl isocyanate (m-TMI) with various vinyl unsaturated monomers optionally in the presence of epoxy-amine adduct. These cation-active polymers when acidified or partially acidified provide aqueous solutions or dispersions especially useful as low temperature curable vehicles in cathodic electrocoating.

Abstract: Thermoplastic hot melt compositions and process for forming such compositions are disclosed. The compositions comprise a polyurethane having at least one plasticizer reacted therein formed by heating a reaction mixture comprising at least one isocyanate having a functionality less than about 2, at least one long chain polyol, at least one chain extender and the at least one plasticizer at a temperature of at least about 330.degree. F. where the components are present in an amount as defined in the specification. The process is adequately reflected by the above language.

Abstract: This invention relates to reaction injection molded elastomers derived from high molecular weight amine terminated polyethers and/or high molecular weight polyols, a chain extender, a polyisocyanate, an epoxy silane coupling agent, and untreated filler material. The reaction injection molded (RIM) elastomers of this invention are useful, for example, as automobile body parts.

Abstract: A catalyst composition for improving the reaction-cure rate of polyurethane compositions derived from poly aliphatic isocyanate compounds and poly-hydroxyl bearing compounds is disclosed. The catalyst composition consists essentially of(a) from about 25 to about 75 parts by weight of lead naphthenate; and(b) from about 75 to about 25 parts by weight of at least one dialkyltin dicarboxylate compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is selected from C.sub.1 to C.sub.8 alkyl and R' is selected from C.sub.1 to C.sub.18 alkyl, based upon 100 parts by weight of said catalyst composition.The catalyst compositions promote sufficiently rapid cure rates such that injection moldable poly aliphaticisocyanate-based polyurethane compositions may be provided. In a preferred embodiment, new and improved integral skin foam polyurethane compositions are disclosed which may be reaction injection molded to form integral skin foam shaped articles exhibiting ultraviolet light resistance and improved colorability.

Abstract: An ostial occlusion device forms an hermetic seal around the tubal ostium of the uterotubal junction and includes a hub fabricated from a non-porous material having a circumferential edge and upper and lower surfaces. A locator pin is oriented perpendicular to and extends outward from the lower surface of the hub and is insertable into the fallopian tube at the uterotubal junction to center the hub about the tubal ostium. A ring of porous material surrounds the circumferential edge of the hub and includes an exposed lower surface which contacts the tissue surrounding the tubal ostium and receives fibroblast ingrowth to create an hermetic seal around the tubal ostium. This hermetic seal isolates the fallopian tube from the uterine cavity and renders the female reproductive system infertile.

Abstract: Lacquer for coatings protecting against stone chipping, containing pigments, fillers, binders consisting of a mixture of film forming, hydroxyl-containing polyesters and aliphatic and/or cycloaliphatic polyisocyanates which are blocked with acetoacetic acid alkyl esters and have an average functionality of at least 2.5, organic solvents and conventional lacquer additives, which lacquer contains certain polyesters having an average hydroxyl functionality of from 2.5 to 6 and a hydroxyl content of from 2 to 6% by weight and containing from 15 to 50% by weight (aliphatic content) of aliphatic groups which have at least 4 to 20 carbon atoms in an unbranched chain, the proportion by weight of this aliphatic group content in the polyester to the benzene ring content in the polyester, calculated as the sum of the weight of carbon atoms of the benzene rings and of the hydrogen atoms attached to these carbon atoms (aromatic content) is from 1 to 2.5, and a process for its preparation and its use.

Abstract: Isocyanate-derived foams are prepared from an isocyanate, catalyst, blowing agent, foam stabilizing surfactant and at least two active hydrogen-containing compounds wherein one of the active hydrogen-containing compounds is an alkylene oxide polymer having an equivalent of at least 300 and being composed of at least about 10 weight percent, based on a total weight of the polymerized alkylene oxide in the polymer, of a polymerized ethylene oxide.

Abstract: There are disclosed herein lactone-polyester polyols which are derived from lactones, resinous polyols thereof, and coating compositions formulated therewith. The polyester polyols are typically prepared by reacting a large excess of low molecular weight polyols with lactones or functional equivalents thereof. The polyols are employed in amounts sufficient to produce reaction products containing a significant amount of unreacted polyols which can be subsequently removed by means such as vacuum distillation.

Abstract: A resilient polyurethane elastomer structural member is made from (A) a prepolymer prepared from a composition consisting essentially of 2.60 moles to 2.80 moles of 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate, and about 0.23 mole to about 0.31 mole of a low molecular weight triol, per 1.0 mole of polyoxytetramethylene glycol, and (B) hydroquinone di-(.beta.-hydroxyethyl) ether, as a chain extender. This polyurethane elastomer can be used to make annular missile shock isolator pads useful for the land based, MX (Peacekeeper) missile.

Abstract: The surface of a polymer material is modified by adding to the material a block copolymer. The block copolymer has a hydrophilic polymer portion and a polymer portion which is compatible with the polymer material to be modified. The block copolymer can be easily syntheized in the presence of a polymeric peroxide and can easily and permanently modify the surface of the polymer material.

Abstract: A tracer composition is described whereby a nonradioactive photon emitter is coupled to a ligand, antigen or antibody for use in various immunoassay methods of analysis. The photon emitters employed are bioluminescent proteins such as firefly or bacterial luciferase as well as other luciferases from various species. To synthesize the new tracer, these photon emitters are coupled to antigens or antibodies using coupling agents such as glutaraldehyde, CNBr, carbodiimide and others. The coupling method may also include intermediate materials such as polysaccharides, polypeptides, polyacrylamides and others coupled between the photon emitter and the antigen or antibody.Methods are described for using this tracer in both competitive and noncompetitive immunoassays to detect proteins, hormones, drugs, viruses and the like. Detection is accomplished by activating the tracer in a bioluminescent reaction and measuring the emitted light by photometric instruments or by photographic film.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for producing moulded blanks by hot-pressing metal powder, preferably spherical metal powder, inside a thin-walled capsule comprising an outer sleeve (2), an insertion sleeve (4) disposed approximately centerally inside the latter, a base (3) and a cover (5), inside which one separable mould (1) of solid material may be inserted. The mould (1) and the two sleeves (2, 4) are dimensioned in such a way that between the inner insertion sleeve (4) and the mould (1) there is formed a mould cavity into which the metal powder may be poured. After the metal powder is poured in, the still open capsule is subjected to a preliminary compression by means of vibration. The capsule is subsequently closed in a gas-tight manner by means of the cover (5). Then the metal powder inside the capsule is subjected to a heat-isostatic pressing at an elevated pressure and an elevated temperature of approximately 1000.degree. to 1200.degree. C.