Abstract: Wrap around article (10) for wood preservative treatment of wood poles, posts and the like, including an outside backing sheet (12) which has an inwardly and downwardly folded mounting flap (18) at the upper end thereof. A single or series of generally flat pockets or bags (30) on the inside of which is an absorbant pad (40). Wood preservative solution is added to the bag (30) and held in the pad (40) and the bag is sealed. The bags are attached to the flap (18). When the wrap around article (10) is to be applied, the inside faces of the bags are cut away exposing the pads soaked with the wood preservative. Upon installation the pads (40) contact substantially all of the circumference of the pole and the wood preservative penetrates the pole wood. In another form the pad material (40') is wrapped around the treatment zone, the pad saturated with wood preservative solution and then the backing (12') is secured over the pad.

Abstract: A sleeve for enclosing a cable connection, comprising a bendable sheet adapted to be laid around the cable connection. The sheet has a series of equally spaced longitudinal cuts in at least one marginal portion to be arranged transversely of the longitudinal direction of the cable connection. The cuts subdivide the marginal portion into tongues so that as the sheet is laid around the cable connection, the tongues can be laid with a partial overlap tapering down onto the cable sheath at the end of the cable connection. The longitudinal cuts are formed by cutting lines which extend in a direction deivating from the longitudinal direction so that the free ends of the tongues are offset with respect to the base portions of the tongues in a direction transversely of the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A process for production of a metal-coated paper, such as for use in cigarette packs having a metal coating containing a binding agent which is applied to a paper backing material by a printing process. The coating includes particles which have a flake structure and which can be fully wetted by the binding agent, as a result of which the particles of metal are so firmly embedded into the coating as to provide sufficient abrasion resistance to permit the resulting composite paper to be used in a high-speed automatic packaging machine. In this process for producing such a paper, a tool is pressed against and passed over the metal coating while still moist to smooth out the metal coating, whereupon the metal coating is dried.

Abstract: For manufacturing a master for the replication of optical discs a plate of fine-grained copper is coated with a photoresist and exposed by a laser beam which is turned on and off in accordance with information to be recorded on the disc. After developing the photoresist, the exposed portions of the copper layer is etched to a predetermined depth and the photoresist stripped from the etched copper surface.

Abstract: Thin carbon products are produced from cellulose material by impregnation with a carbonaceous material followed by curing and baking. The baked product may optionally be graphitized depending on end use.

Abstract: A flowable, pressure-compensating material, confined in an envelope, comprises a flowable, continuous-phase of oil having dispersed therein discrete hollow microbeads and a colloidal silica. The pressure-compensating material, which is flowable in response to continuously applied pressure, but is essentially non-flowable in the absence of pressure, is relatively insensitive to temperature variations.

Abstract: A multilayered container comprising a wall portion consisting of thermoplastic gas barrier resin (resin B) layers and thermoplastic resin (resin A) layers, with the terminal portion of the mouth opening being of a thermoplastic resin (resin A), said wall portion being a multilayered structure formed by alternately laminating the resin A layers and the resin B layers in such a manner that there are at least two resin B layers, with the proviso that there is one more of the resin A layer than the number of the resin B layers, said structure having been biaxially oriented.

Abstract: A sleeve, which finds particular application in the environmental sealing of joints between insulated pipes, comprises heat-recoverable polymeric sheet material provided at separate regions of a principle surface thereof with a layer of a heat-activatable adhesive for bonding the sheet to the pipe insulation, and a layer of a sealant to accommodate flexibility in the joint. A layer of a sealing material, having an elongation modulus greater than that of the sealant, overlies at least part of the sealant layer, to improve the pressure retention properties of the sleeve.

Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention a thick film resistor structure comprising common materials is disclosed. The structure includes a supporting carrier as a base for the thick film resistor arrangement, which comprises a resistive material printed on the carrier, first and second noble metal terminating layers connected to either side of the resistive material, first and second barrier layers respectively connected to the first and second noble metal terminating layers, and first and second conducting layers respectively connected to said first and second barrier layers. The barrier layers are preferably composed of nickel or tungsten, whereas the noble metal terminating layers are preferably composed of silver. The resistive material, being formed between the terminating layers, is electrically connected to said copper conducting layers to form a precise thick film resistor structure whose resistance is measurable between said conducting layers.

Abstract: Electrical printed circuit boards are obtained in an elegant manner without the usual etching methods and without using bonding agent layers in a wet chemical manner on the basis of the principles of the semi or fully additive technique by using precious metal compounds for activation and base material of a type which has (a) a specific total pore volume per unit area of 0.015-0.045 dm.sup.3 /m.sup.2, (b) a mean pore diameter of 0.05-5.0 .mu.m and (c) a mean pore depth of 0.05-4.0 .mu.m.

Abstract: Articles exhibiting fabricated structures with nanometer size scale features (nanostructures), typically a device comprising nanostructures of a functional material on or in a substrate of dissimilar material, are produced by a method employing a substrate base or coating and a thin layer serving as a lithographic mask or template, consisting of a self-assembled ordered material array, typically a periodic array of molecules such as undenatured proteins, exhibiting holes, thickness or density variations. It is possible to produce complex structures containing large numbers of nanometers scale elements through a small number of simple steps.

Abstract: This invention is directed to the production of unitary, transparent glass articles demonstrating exceptionally high flexural and impact strengths composed of an interior portion and an integral surface compression layer. The articles are prepared by contacting glass bodies consisting essentially, in mole percent, of 14-24% R.sub.2 O, wherein R.sub.2 O consists of 0-5% Li.sub.2 O, 0-5% K.sub.2 O, and the remainder Na.sub.2 O, 17-21% Al.sub.2 o.sub.3, 45-60% SiO.sub.2, 3-6% TiO.sub.2 and/or ZrO.sub.2, and 0-2% P.sub.2 O.sub.5, the sum of those components constituting at least 85% of the total composition, at a temperature above the annealing point of the glass with a source of Li.sup.+ ions to replace at least part of the Na.sup.+ ions and, if present, K.sup.+ ions in a surface layer with a corresponding amount of Li.sup.+ ions and to react the Li.sup.+ ions with Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 and SiO.sub.2 in the surface layer to form crystallites of beta-quartz solid solution nucleated by the TiO.sub.2 and/or ZrO.sub.2.

Abstract: A method is provided for acid etching or sandblasting decorative designs in the smooth surface of hard substrates such as glass, ceramics, plastics, and marble, granite, or other stones. A dry film photoresist, preferrably a solder mask, is applied to the smooth surface without the addition of heat. The decorvative design is placed on the dry film by exposing the dry film to ultraviolet light through a negative of the design to place the design on the surface of the photoresist. The dry film is then developed to remove a portion of it. The smooth surface is then acid etched or sandblasted, with the portion of the dry film remaining on the smooth surface protecting that portion of the smooth surface from the acid etching or sandblasting process. An apparatus is also provided for applying the dry film photoresist to the substrate.

Abstract: A method for treating a carbon or graphite electrode comprising contacting the electrode with a phosphate-containing compound and a halide-containing compound. The treated electrode is oxidation retarded and inhibits non-conductive film formation between the electrode and a copper electrode holder, thereby inhibiting arcing between the electrode and the electrode holder when used in an electric arc furnace.

Abstract: To produce a standard calibration and test element for the calibration and testing of reading and measuring instruments for bar codes and other test scales, a copper coating is applied to a ceramic substrate in a chemically depositing copper bath and degreased, and a photoresist coating is subsequently applied which is exposed through an exposure mask. This mask carries an image of the radiation-transparent and radiation-opaque regions of a pattern to be transferred onto the surface of the ceramic substrate. After removal of the mask, the photoresist coating is developed, the uncovered zones of the copper coating are etched in a metal chloride solution, and the remaining photoresist coating is removed by stripping. The uncovered, etched zones of the copper coating are dyed matt black in a metal bath. Finally, the conductive tracks are provided with a protective coating.

Abstract: A lightweight composite cylinder housing is provided to decrease fuel consumption, attenuate noise, and permit increased speed of operation.

Abstract: A print head of an ink jet printer is formed by a multilayer structure composed of a plurality of individual photoplastic films, segments of such films having a prescribed contour being removed by a photo-chemical treatment being defined on the individual photoplastic films in successive lamination procedures by the use of masks through which such photoplastic films are exposed. Passivation of unexposed films takes place after every lamination procedure by applying a light-absorbing solution. A three-dimensional structure is built up employing photoplastic films having thicknesses in the range between 10 .mu.m to 50 .mu.m and one or more masks having light transmissive regions which define a desired cross-section for the interior passages of the print head.

Abstract: A returnable/refillable container in the form of a blow molded polyester biaxially oriented bottle having a physical and structural relationship providing for the maintenance of aesthetic and functional viability over a minimum of twenty trips wherein each trip comprises (1) an empty state caustic wash followed by (2) contaminant inspection and product filling/capping, (3) warehouse storage, (4) distribution to wholesale and retail locations, and (5) purchase, use and empty storage by the consumer followed by return to a bottler. The container is obtained utilizing a specific preform configuration and reheat blow process wherein the sidewall of the resultant container has a percent crystallinity of 28-30 at a total preform draw ratio of 7-9/l. The container is formed utilizing recently developed process techniques to optimize strain induced sidewall crystallization.

Abstract: Non-tacky, smooth, structureless surfaces of photopolymer relief printing plates for flexographic printing, whose relief layers are prepared in a conventional manner by exposing the photopolymerizable relief-forming layers of flexographic printing plates imagewise to actinic light and washing out the unpolymerized, unexposed areas with a suitable solvent, are produced by a process in which the flexographic printing plates are after-treated with a liquid medium which contains elemental bromine or is capable of forming elemental bromine, and then washed with a neutralization bath, one or more paraffinsulfonates, fatty alcohol ethersulfates or alkyl phosphates or a cationic or anionic surfactant possessing one or more perfluorinated carbon chains being employed in the bromine-containing, liquid medium.The relief printing plates obtained according to the invention are used for flexographic printing.

Abstract: Wires of poly-.epsilon.-caprolactam with a diameter of from 2 to 8 mm and a strength of from 35 to 45 cN/tex containing from 0.1 to 10% by weight, based on poly-.epsilon.-caprolactam, of titanium dioxide pigment are useful as anchoring wires in the cultivation of wine and fruit and for fences around pasture land.