Abstract: Metal, fiber or plastic panels are fabricated by the attachment of planar imperforate and/or partially perforated outer sheets to a specially formed center member comprising a web or sheet having a deformed surface defining an array of adjacent triangular projections and depressions. The center member is produced by the longitudinal cutting and folding of the web as it passes between two forming cylinders which mesh with one another, the cylinder peripheries carrying complementary arrays of spaced triangular-shaped tooth elements having their base lines aligned in the opposing cylinders, to shear and thereby relieve the passing web laterally so as to produce intermittent parallel cuts and angular folds in the web while gathering the web longitudinally thereby to form triangular, flat-topped cells in the center member. Instead of using two outer sheets, the formed center member can be used per se, e.g., as a packing medium, or it can be combined with only one outer sheet to form a single-face product.

Abstract: A ceramic cellular structure having a cell density of up to 1600 cells per square inch and wall thicknesses down to 2 mils is produced by a process which comprises: (1) forming a slurry consisting essentially of finely divided sinterable solid particles of ceramic raw materials and a controlled amount of a plastic supporting matrix containing thermoplastic resin, a thermosetting resin, a plasticizer, an organic solvent and a small amount of a deflocculant; (2) ball milling the slurry; (3) casting the slurry in the form of a film; (4) removing the solvent to produce a self-supporting green ceramic tape; (6) molding a portion of the tape to form a corrugated first member; (7) providing another portion of the tape to form a substantially flat second member; (8) forming a first bilayer by bonding the second member to the nodes of the first member; (9) mutually bonding a predetermined number of bilayers substantially identical to the first bilayer to form a cellular green structure of a desired shape; and (10) fir

Abstract: Multi-layer, extruded plastic sheeting, and containers made therefrom are disclosed. The sheeting and containers comprise an outer layer of an acrylonitrile-containing vinylic polymer such as poly(acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene) and a bonded inner layer of a solid hydrocarbon polymer, free of acrylonitrile groups, such as polystyrene. An intermediate layer between the two exposed inner and outer layers of the container may be utilized comprising poly(acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene) of reduced acrylonitrile content to permit bonding of both the outer and inner layer to the intermediate layer.

Abstract: Particleboard, i.e., wood chip panels having greater transverse strength in that the core layer is characterized by having a central zone therein with a greater amount of binder on the chips in said central zone, based on the total weight of the wood chips in the respective zones, than on the chips in the intermediate zones adjacent the face zones of said core layer.

Abstract: Waterproof corrugated paperboard and other paper constructions and a process for producing such waterproof paperboard by impregnating paperboard with a mixture containing from about 10 to about 50 weight percent tung oil and from about 90 to about 50 weight percent paraffin wax and curing the impregnated paper at a temperature from about 80.degree.C to about 163.degree.C.