Abstract: A process with minor variations for producing a configuration of glass and/or any similar material such as plastic or epoxy is disclosed. The configuration is basically a honeycomb of pipes of transparent material attached to a transparent plate, such as window glass. The pipes are closed at one end by the plate. Then pipes prevent convection movement of a fluid parallel to the plate near its surface, except for very short distances. The unique inventive feature of the process lies in the fact that the honeycomb of pipes are produced simultaneously by a drawing process, during which either a part of a plate, which part is in the form of a grid, is softened, or a grid of new soft material is added to a plate, and the pipes are always attached to the plate both during formation and upon completion of formation.Also disclosed is a special configuration to render the pipes resistant to breakage under thermal stress.

Abstract: A stable floor for animals which is in structural combination with a floor covering sheet having at least two layers: a compressible sublayer of a resilient and highly porous filamentary matting partly embedded in a top layer which is impermeable to moisture. The floor covering sheet provides good insulation and has dimensional stability so as to remain resilient over a prolonged period of time.

Abstract: An improved isolation system is provided for attaching ceramic tiles of insulating material to the surface of a structure sought to be protected against extreme temperatures of the nature expected to be encountered by the space shuttle orbiter. This system isolates the fragile ceramic tiles from thermally and mechanically induced vehicle structural strains. The insulating tiles are affixed to a felt isolation pad formed of closely arranged and randomly oriented fibers by means of a flexible adhesive and in turn the felt pad is affixed to the metallic vehicle structure by an additional layer of flexible adhesive.

Abstract: A drapery pleating tape comprising two layers of flexible ultrasonically sealable fabric (which may be nonwoven or woven fabric) having ultrasonically sealed transverse lines of seals providing pockets for receiving pins of drapery hooks, ultrasonically sealed transverse lines of seal midway between the pockets, all these transverse lines of seal constituting fold lines on which the tape is foldable for pleating it, and ultrasonically sealed longitudinally extending lines of seal for stiffening the sections of the tape between the pockets and said midway lines of seal.

Abstract: A window composed of a frame having at least two, parallel disposed, spaced glass panes. At least one of the panes is composed of fire-resistant glass. The fire resistant pane can be a borosilicate or alumino silicate glass having a compressive prestress in the peripheral edge portion thereof, and for which the product of thermal expansion .alpha. and the elastic modulus E is 1-5 kp .times. cm.sup.-2 .times. .degree. C.sup.-1.

Abstract: Unique fired clay pillows are described which are useful for a variety of purposes. They have particular utility in structural applications when they are first rendered impervious, mixed with a hardenable binder, and then cast into a mold or form of desired size and configuration where the binder is hardened, thereby producing a consolidated pillow structure having a high degree of void space. The consolidated pillow structure is fire-resistant, weather-resistant, rot-proof, and exhibits good sound absorption and thermal insulation properties.

Abstract: A splicing strip is provided comprising a pair of mastic layers and a porous, flexible reinforcing sheet with the mastic layers in adherent contact through openings in the reinforcing sheet. A release sheet is attached to at least the outside face of one of the mastic layers, and a sheet of non-tacky material is attached to the outside face of the other of the mastic layers.

Abstract: A laminate for encasing thermal insulation on objects comprising in the following order, an outer aluminum sheet, a first layer of polyethylene film, a layer of a kraft paper, a second layer of polyethylene film and a final sheet of aluminum foil, the laminate possessing excellent insulating ability as well as good weatherproof and mechanical stability properties.

Abstract: Fibers coated with a size composition comprising a water emulsifiable resin system, an aliphatic monocarboxylic acid and an aliphatic polycarboxylic acid exhibit less size migration when the sized fibers are dried in the form of a forming package.

Abstract: A custom fitted pilot's helmet includes a liner attached within the confi of a helmet shell having numerous pressure relief holes over its entire surface. The liner includes a flexible sheet on one side of which is formed a plurality of elastic cell pairs separated by permanent heat seals or partitions overlaid with air tubes. The cells within a cell pair are separated from each other by a removable partition or severable heat seal. One cell of the cell pair contains one component of a foamable mixture and the other cell of the cell pair contains the second component of the foamable mixture. The liner-shell combination is positioned on the pilot's heat and the removable cell partitions are all virtually simultaneously removed. Thereafter, the foaming components within the cells admix and foam in situ to form a custom fitted helmet liner.

Abstract: A metal leaf comprising (1) a resinous layer having a thickness of 0.35 to 1.mu., (2) a deposition layer, made of a metal selected from the group consisting of gold, silver, aluminum and copper, having a thickness of 0.03 to 0.1.mu., and (3) a resinous layer having a thickness of 0.35 to 1.mu.; which being integrated in order of (1), (2) and (3) and having a thickness of 0.73 to 2.1.mu. and a tensile strength of 0.01 to 1.4 kg./mm.sup.2. It has the same characteristics as those of a conventional metal leaf by handicrafting, and is produced by providing the metal leaf on a base film, elongating the base film to peel out of the leaf and recovering.

Abstract: A soft, conformable, conductive composition comprises a polymeric binder system; a purality of insoluble, soft, spherical, deformable, generally nonreactive domains dispersed in the system interjacent the domains, held in the matrix thereof, such that at least one electrically conductive pathway is formed through said composition. The conformable, conductive composition has many applications where a moldable, pliable, adherent conductive juncture or interface is desired.

Abstract: Rigid-when-wet, but foldable, corrugated paperboard and process of making same by applying phenolic resin to contiguous surfaces of the outer liner, the medium, and the inner liner without substantially altering the hygroscopicity of the exposed faces of the liners, and adhering the three components together before the resin is cured.

Abstract: A plane plate of corrugated paperboard, which is produced by bonding a corrugated medium and at least one liner board with a thermoplastic resin, is shaped into a curved plate by means of a hot-press so that the resin fluidifies and allows the medium and each liner board to make individual and slipping movements during press-forming. The resin hardens upon subsequent temperature reduction and affords the curved heat and sound insulator plate a good shape retentivity.

Abstract: A support for use in electrophotographic sensitive plates which is superior in durability as well as half-tone reproducibility as photosensitive material and is prepared by forming a barrier layer on practically the whole surface of a conductive base plate by burying fine particles of metal oxide therein.

Abstract: A wood-base building component of cellulosic particles and/or fibers and adhesive binder is, in a single pressing operation, molded into an integral product of sheathing and support members for use in constructing wood-frame buildings. The dies utilized during press-molding form a flat panel containing a plurality of evenly spaced channels that serve as support members to replace conventional framing such as studs, joists, and rafters. The integral product may serve as roof, wall, or flooring components in the usual wood-frame building applications.

Abstract: High yield resin saturable papers containing total lignin, based on paper weight, in amounts from about 8 up to 15 percent are employed as core stock for high pressure decorative melamine laminates. At least 65 percent of the fibers should be hardwood fibers. Up to 35 percent of softwood fibers may be present but then the softwood lignin, based on paper weight, should not be greater than about 2.8 percent.

Abstract: Monoliths made by joining ribbed sheet together have a tendency to collapse when the ribs of adjacent layers do not coincide. When the monolith is made by winding embossed sheet around a mandrel there will always be places where ribs do not coincide and which tend to collapse. This deficiency is minimized by using sheet with ribs having un-equal separation. Such sheet is obtained by embossing with a roll designed for this purpose, and the monoliths of this invention have unique features of channel dimensions.

Abstract: A honeycomb type core configuration for composite structural panels generated by folding sheet material. The box shaped core, when attached to a surface sheet imparts rigidity to the sheet for use as a high strength to weight ratio structural sheet panel. The cell walls of the folded core are integral with the cell bottom which provides a large surface area for ease of attachment to the surface sheet.

Abstract: This device comprises a flexible sheet member having cross convolutions oriented 45.degree. to the shear vector with spherical reliefs at the convolution junctions. The spherical reliefs are essential to the shear flexibility by interrupting the principal stress lines that act along the ridges of the convolutions. The spherical reliefs provide convolutions in both directions in the plane of the cross-convolution ridges.