Abstract: Each disclosed wire marker or other adhesive product includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive portion or applique that has a readily peelable bond to the release surface of a carrier sheet. A tab extends from an extremity of the applique, to be torn away when the applique is adhered to a receiving surface, due to a weakening formation between the tab and the applique. Wire markers have an elongated wire-marking portions divided into segments by connections that are progressively weaker in the order of their distance from the tab. Where made by screen printing, the same operation that defines the outlines of the adhesive products also produces the weakening formations.

Abstract: A tubular core for use in fabricating a cored casing article, the core having its aft end portion provided with a plurality of spaced ramp-shaped elements which extend about the periphery of the aft end portion. The elements permit one-way loading of a shirred casing stick over the aft end and onto the core while resisting the axial growth of the casing stick in an aft direction.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing the type lamp glass envelope used in a reflector lamp is disclosed which employs a ribbon machine. Said ribbon formed lamp glass envelope includes a cylindrical neck portion terminating at one end in a curved reflector portion closed by an integral flattened face portion of lesser curvature with light distributing elements being formed on the exterior surface of said face portion. In its preferred embodiments, the reflector portion of said lamp glass envelope is of the PAR type which can further include truncation of the parabolic shape with opposing substantially flattened parallel surfaces as well as face portions for said lamp glass envelope which can be circular or rectangular in shape.

Abstract: The invention relates to high energy beam-sensitive glass articles exhibiting insensitivity and/or inertness to actinic radiation, i.e., glass articles which are darkened and/or colored within a thin surface layer of, e.g., about 0.1-3 .mu.m upon exposure to a high energy beam, electron beam, and ion beams in particular, without a subsequent development step, and which need no fixing to stabilize the colored image, since both the recorded image and the glass article are insensitive to radiation in the spectral range of uv and longer wavelengths. More particularly, the instant invention is concerned with Ag.sup.+ ion-exchanged glass articles having base glass within alkali metal silicate composition fields containing at least one of the oxides of transition metals which have one to four d-electrons in an atomic state. Whereas the base glass composition can be varied widely, spontaneous reduction as well as photo-reduction of Ag.sup.

Abstract: A packaging bag either of two layer structure comprising an outer layer and an inner layer or of three layer structure comprising an outer layer, an intermediate layer, and an outer layer is disclosed, wherein the outer layer is made of a low density ethylene-based polymer or a mixture of said ethylene-based polymer and an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, and the inner or intermediate layer is made of a mixture of high density polyethylene and an ethylene-.alpha.-olefin copolymer. The packaging bag of this invention is much superior in film puncture strength, tear strength, etc. to conventional bags and moreover shows very high seal strength and low temperature impact resistance. Thus, the packaging bag of this invention is suitable for storage and conveyance of heavy materials, particularly angular heavy materials such as fowl. Moreover, the packaging bag has good anti-block properties and thus is suitable for automatic packaging.

Abstract: An improved transparent base film of polyester is disclosed, which on its one surface roughened by sand-blasting is provided with a film layer of a rubber material selected from styrene-butadiene rubber, natural rubber, butadiene rubber (BR), isoprene rubber (IR), chloroprene rubber (CR), isobutylene-isoprene rubber (IIR), acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber (NBR), ethylene-propylene-diene rubber (EPDR) and acrylic rubber.

Abstract: The invention relates to a combination collapsible funnel and canister therefor, comprising a sectional collapsible funnel, a canister adapted to receive the funnel, and means in the canister adapted to receive an adapter section of the funnel for storage.

Abstract: A shaft produced by the steps of rolling inorganic fiber cloths around a plastic resin base body into a cylindrical shape to form a shaft body, coiling two sets of carbon cloth tapes in the opposite directions around the shaft body, and impregnating resin into the shaft body and carbon cloth tapes to integrate them into a single body. The shaft obtained by the method is light and strong and shows excellent resiliency. The shaft is particularly advantageous and reliable for golf clubs, fishing poles, and the like.

Abstract: Composite inorganic articles are produced by bringing two separate inorganic slurries, each containing different ceramic materials, into contact with each other, simultaneously freezing the slurries while in contact with each other to form a unified frozen structure, thawing and drying the structure, and firing the unified structure.

Abstract: An aluminum scaffold tube filled with a predominantly closed-cell foam material selected so as to give the filled tube positive buoyancy in sea water and to resist collapse at pressures of up to at least 14062 Kg/m.sup.2.

Abstract: A solid core plug formed from wood, metal, plastic or a composite woody material of substantially cylindrical shape with a body portion and an integral tapered forward portion. The outer face of the body portion has a diameter substantially equal to the inside diameter of the core for which the core plug is intended, and the inner face of the forward portion is of slightly less diameter than the outer face to facilitate entry of the core plug into the ends of a core. The core plug includes an opening or groove spaced from the center thereof and preferably within the outer one-half of the radius of the core plug which extends the full length thereof for facilitating removal of the core plug from a core.

Abstract: Described is a novel gypsum board and a manufacturing method therefor by first forming a particulate layer securely adhered to the base paper for the gypsum board and by utilizing an adhesion layer which has been formed by the reaction of the particulate layer for pasting the gypsum core material on the base paper for board, so that adhesion between the core material and the base paper is enhanced as well as the strength of the gypsum board itself is improved.

Abstract: Birefringence-free arrangement of plastic foils, characterized in that two plastic foils having a single principal optical axis, said optical axis lying within the plane of the plastic foil, are arranged parallel behind each other so that the optical axes of both plastic foils are forming an angle of 90.degree..+-.7.degree. and the material of the foils with regard to its optical properties and the thickness of the foils being selected in such a manner that the optical path differences .DELTA.n.sub.1 D.sub.1 for the light waves which are associated with the two main refraction indices within the first plastic foil is approximately equal to the optical path difference .DELTA.n.sub.2 d.sub.2 of the second plastic foil, .DELTA.n.sub.1, .DELTA.n.sub.2, being the difference of the main refraction indices in the first and second foil, respectively, and d.sub.1, d.sub.

Abstract: A table covering particularly useful when picnicking comprises a generally planar sheet to be lain on a table top with an integrally formed bag-like structure secured at one edge of the sheet. The bag-like structure constitutes a garbage bag in which the sheet and the remains of the meal can be placed for proper disposal. Methods of making the covering from tubular stock are also disclosed.

Abstract: A part circle metal frame having a mat secured thereto which is centrally foldable about a skid bar for catching shrub trimmings in an unfolded position beneath a shrub, for removing the shrub trimmings from beneath the shrub on the skid bar and for transporting the shrub trimmings to a refuge container with the frame and mat folded to form a pouch having a rigid frame.

Abstract: Antireflective silica coating for vitreous material is substantially non-reflecting over a wide band of radiations. This is achieved by providing the coating with a graded degree of porosity which grades the index of refraction between that of air and the vitreous material of the substrate. To prepare the coating, there is first prepared a silicon-alkoxide-based coating solution of particular polymer structure produced by a controlled proportion of water to alkoxide and a controlled concentration of alkoxide to solution, along with a small amount of catalyst. The primary solvent is alcohol and the solution is polymerized and hydrolized under controlled conditions prior to use. The prepared solution is applied as a film to the vitreous substrate and rapidly dried. It is thereafter heated under controlled conditions to volatilize the hydroxyl radicals and organics therefrom and then to produce a suitable pore morphology in the residual porous silica layer.

Abstract: In order to prevent uncontrolled running, spreading and splattering by the adhesive contained in a surface-fastened frangible adhesive capsule as the capsule is smashed when two objects are brought together in a face-to-face manner while the capsule is disposed between them and has been preliminarily fastened on an interfacial surface of one of them, the capsule is ringed by a flacid plume of barrier material such as crepe paper, having a substantial thickness when unconfined, but which is subject to being compressed to insubstantial thickness. The barrier ring may be surface fastened to either of the interfacial surfaces and may be separate from or unitary with the capsule hanger.

Abstract: There is disclosed a metal-glass composite comprising a photosensitive glass body with opacifying crystallites developed in at least a portion of the body, and a metal deposit on and/or in that portion of the glass surface coincident with the crystallized portion of the glass body, the metal deposit exhibiting useful electrical conductivity. There is further disclosed a method of producing such composite by forming crystallites in at least a portion of a glass body, subjecting at least the surface coincident therewith to a cationic ion exchange to introduce metal ions and thereafter firing the ion-exchanged glass in a hydrogen atmosphere to cause the metal ions to be reduced and subsequently migrate surfaceward and form a metal deposit.

Abstract: A composition for coating a flexible textile sheet for the treatment of moist wash in a mechanical clothes drier, consisting essentially of: an active substance selected from the group consisting of textile softening agents, antistatic substances, fragrances, mixtures of the above and mixtures of the above with nonionic emulsifiers and additives, where said textile softening agents and antistatic substances are selected from the group consisting of quaternary nitrogen compounds derived from ammonia or imidazoline and having from 1 to 2 long chain hydrocarbyl groups with from 8 to 26 carbon atoms and mixtures of said quaternary nitrogen compounds with up to 80% by weight of the mixture of the condensation product of a higher fatty acid triglyceride with a hydroxy lower alkylpolyamine, wherein said composition contains from 0.2% to 5% by weight of at least one aliphatic low-molecular-weight hydroxycarboxylic acid, as well as, optionally, from 0.

Abstract: A method for reducing the surface tack of EPDM and related elastomers is provided. The method involves coating the surfaces of the elastomer with particulate cellulose. Sheets of cellulose coated elastomer can be subjected to rolling up and curing operations without encountering surface sticking problems. In addition, the cellulose coated surfaces of the elastomer can be bonded together for the purpose of forming splices or seams without the necessity for first removing the cellulose coating.