Abstract: A dispersion for coating a reflective-transmissive surface comprising a mixture of an aqueous dispersion of polyvinyl acetate resin and an aqueous dispersion of an arcylic resin. When applied to such surfaces--for example, the protective glass or plastic of an electronic screen--the coating reduces reflected glare while maintaining the quality of the image transmitted from the screen being viewed. Methods of making and using the dispersion, as well as surfaces treated with the dispersion, are also disclosed.

Abstract: A so-called "roll mode" technique provides block transfer with a disk-type of direct-access data-storage device (DASD). A set of chained commands for accessing record areas enables rapidly accessing a plurality of records within a given DASD cylinder of tracks. The rotational position of the surfaces is checked. The command within the chain, irrespective of its location, having the closest logical rotational proximity to the instant rotational position of the surfaces is selected as the first command in the chain. The chain is executed beginning at the indicated rotational position selected command through the end of the chain and then wrapped to the beginning of the original chain and continuing on until the command immediately preceding the rotational position selected command has been executed.

Abstract: The stability of alkaline electroless plating baths and the rate at which such baths are capable of depositing a metal film on a nonconductor substrate are both enhanced by the incorporation of a water soluble saccharide derivative into the bath composition. The saccharide derivatives include monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, and saccharide reaction products such as gluconic and glucoheptonic acids and salts thereof.

Abstract: An electroless plating bath tank with air sparging and bath heating attachments is provided with a workpiece rack on which multiple horizontal spindles bearing workpieces are rotated about their own axes while also being rotated eccentrically about a horizontal axis, so as to expose the workpiece more uniformly to the action of the bath.

Abstract: Pharmaceutical tablets and the like articles are coated with coating material which is sprayed onto a selected part or parts of a bed of the articles. Drying air or gas is passed through a further part or parts of the bed while the selected part or parts of the bed have little or no drying air or gas passed through them. Articles are continuously transferred between the selected part or parts of the bed and the further part or parts of the bed until all the articles are coated.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing sheathed high tensile strength optical waveguides having drawn glass fiber optical cores in which the cores are passed through a molten thermoplastic polyamide to form an adhering coating which is then cooled to form a uniform sheath. The sheath is flexible over a temperature range of -40.degree. C. to +80.degree. C. and the polyamide contains dimeric fatty acid as one of its monomer components and has a glass transition temperature below -10.degree. C.

Abstract: The invention relates to a coating composition for the preparation of the base coat of a multilayer enamel consisting of at least one base and one transparent protective coat, the said coating composition containing binders based on organic resins, metallic pigments, organic solvents and, if appropriate, other pigments as well as customary additives and auxiliaries. The coating composition contains, as binders, (A) polyurethane elastomers and/or polyurea elastomers, (B) polyesters and (C) polycondensates partially etherified with monoalcohols and consisting of melamine, benzoguanamine and/or urea with formaldehyde. The invention further relates to a process for the preparation of coatings using the coating composition, and to a substrate coated with a multilayer enamel.

Abstract: A method of forming a luminescent layer on a glass carrier (such as the wall of a discharge vessel of a low-pressure mercury vapor discharge lamp) from a suspension of grains of a luminescent material and a quantity of binder in a suspension medium. According to the invention, the suspension medium preferably consists of water and the binder mainly comprises fibrous crystals of boehmite.

Abstract: A clocking mechanism is provided for multiple overlapped dynamic programmable logic arrays which are used in a digital control unit wherein a sequence of control words are used to produce successive groups of control point signals. Such a control unit includes a plurality of dynamic programmable logic arrays for individually producing different ones of the control words. Each such control word includes a strobe field which is coded to identify a programmable logic array other than the one which produced it. The control unit also includes control circuitry responsive to the control words for producing the control point signals for successive machine control cycles. The control circuitry includes circuitry responsive to the strobe field in each control word for producing a strobe signal for selecting the next programmable logic array to supply a control word to the control circuitry.

Abstract: A method as disclosed for preventing the formation of Newton ring light patterns between a transparency or photographic negative and a transparent mounting surface such as a sheet of glass. The method comprises the application of a thin film of a substantially transparent resin to form a matte surface finish on the surface of the transparency to be applied against the mounting surface and then mounting the transparency or equivalent to the mounting surface with the resin film interposed therebetween, such that the matte resin film serves as a spacer and also reduces reflection of light between the transparency surface and the mounting surface.

Abstract: A disposable spray shield has a thin, planar sheet of large surface area fabricated with an inexpensive, semi-rigid material, such as cardboard, formed with a structural reinforcing rib along its rear edge. The rib can be used as a handle in combination with a hand hole through the sheet adjacent the rib, or, preferably, a removeable handle is included for removeable attachment to the disposable spray shield. The rib is preferably formed from a portion of the planar shield sheet creased and folded into an elongated configuration having an equilateral triangular cross-section, and the handle has clamping jaws and mating surfaces that engage the rib to orient the axis of the handle parallel to the plane of the shield or, alternately, at an obtuse angle to the plane of the shield. Disposable handles are also provided as another alternative.

Abstract: An optical fiber which has just been drawn from an optical preform is provided with two external hermetic coatings. The primary coating is a metallic or dielectric coating provided by, for example, using a heterogeneous nucleation thermochemical deposition (HNTD) technique. This technique involves passing the fiber through a reaction zone which contains a gaseous medium that includes a reactant which decomposes, or a mixture of reactants which chemically react, at a predetermined temperature, to form the material of the coating. Such predetermined temperature is available from the heat of the fiber forming process which is retained at the fiber surface by means of a shielding element so that additional heating means is not required. The second coating may be deposited, by for example, using an HNTD or a chemical vapor deposition process. The resulting fiber may then be provided with an additional polymer coating layer.

Abstract: A radiation image storage panel comprising a support and a phosphor layer provided thereon which comprises a binder and a stimulable phosphor dispersed therein, characterized in that a friction-reducing layer having a surface of a friction coefficient of not more than 0.6 is provided on the support-side surface and/or the phosphor layer-side surface thereof.

Abstract: The method consists in twisting a fiber already coated with a primary coating about its axis of symmetry at a temperature less than the vitreous transition temperature of this fiber; in coating it with a polymer in the viscous state so as to form an envelope about this fiber; in curing said polymer while increasing its YOUNG's modulus.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a method for producing thin, transparent metal oxide films of very uniform thickness through the pyrolysis of a metal salt which comprises spraying an atomized mist of the metal salt into a fuming chamber operating at a sufficiently high temperature to vaporize the mist and then drawing the fumes out of said chamber into contact with the surface of a substrate which is at a temperature essentially equivalent to that of the fumes at the exit end of said chamber, that temperature being sufficiently high to thermally decompose said metal salt and deposit a film of metal oxide on the substrate.

Abstract: Aluminum metal piece is dipped into a molten aluminum alloy brazing filler metal covered with a flux layer melted by heat of the molten filler metal, and thereafter is taken out therefrom. Thus, the aluminum metal piece is readily coated with a double coating film of the aluminum alloy brazing filler metal and the flux coating film.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of modifying a surface of a soft contact lens to make the lens resistant to soiling. The method comprises initiating a reaction between the unhydrated lens surface containing carboxylic acid or alcohol moieties and agents capable of reacting with carboxylic acid or alcohol moieties in order to produce a surface which then either has a hydrophobic coating, a nonionic hydrophilic coating or is charged.

Abstract: New methods for making "embedded-lens" retroreflective sheeting, and new forms of such sheeting, are provided. The new methods involve embedding microspheres into a web by continuously presenting a mass of the microspheres against the moving web and heating the web so as to soften at least an exterior stratum of the web, and adding a spacing layer to the microsphere-covered surface of the web. The microspheres are embedded on the average to less than 50 percent of their diameter, which has been found to cause the spacing layer to conform around a greater proportion of the back surface of individual microspheres and thereby position a greater portion of the specularly reflective layer carried on the spacing layer at the approximate focal point for light passed through the microspheres. Use of a preformed spacing layer also contributes to maintaining the spacing layer at a constant thickness around the back surface of the microspheres.

Abstract: The invention is an improved method for depositing a chromite coating onto a magnesium-containing material comprising:contacting the magnesium-containing material with a solution at least containing chromite ions and silicate ions for a time sufficient to deposit a corrosion resistant coating onto said magnesium-containing material;wherein the concentration of chromite ions in the solution is from about 0.2 to about 1.2 moles per liter; the concentration of silicate ions is from about 0.1 to about 0.3 moles per liter; the pH of the solution is from about 1 to about 5; and the temperature of the solution is from about 25.degree. C. to about 80.degree. C.

Abstract: A hard corrosion resistant surface is provided on a ferrous substrate by first overlay welding onto the substrate surface a chromium containing ferrous material. The deposited overlay can then be machined. It is thereafter subjected to a carburization treatment at a temperature and for a time sufficient to cause the overlay to become converted to an austenitic material containing iron chromium carbides. After cooling, the carburized overlay material is heated for a time and at a temperature sufficient to cause the austenitic matrix material to precipitate secondary carbides and convert to a martensite matrix material upon cooling. It is also contemplated to initiate the aforesaid treatment with a suitably selected chromium containing ferrous material that thereby is not overlay welded.