Abstract: An oily mist resistant electret filter media is provided. The filter media includes polypropylene electret fibers and a melt processable fluorochemical additive, the additive having a melting point of at least 25.degree. C. and a molecular weight of about 500 to 2500.

Abstract: An oily mist resistant electret filter media is provided. The filter media includes polypropylene electret fibers and a melt processable fluorochemical additive. The additive has a melt temperature of at least 25.degree. C. and a molecular weight of about 500 to 2500. Also provided is a method for filtering particulate material from air containing oily aerosol particles.

Abstract: A water-soluble photopolymerizable composition which is suitable for forming the hydrophilic layer in a positive acting water-developable lithographic printing plate. The photopolymerizable composition comprises a mixture of:(a) an ethylenically-unsaturated dextrin oligomer,(b) at least one hydroxyfunctional acrylamide monomer,(c) inorganic solid particulate material, and(d) a photoinitiation system. Wetting agents and pH modifiers can also be added to the composition. The photopolymer formed from the composition is water-insoluble.

Abstract: Water-developable positive acting lithographic printing plate. The plate is prepared by first coating a substrate with an oleophilic composition, drying and curing the composition to form an insoluble adhering oleophilic layer and then overcoating said oleophilic layer with a water soluble photopolymerizable composition. Upon imagewise exposure of the plate, the photopolymerizable composition polymerizes in the non-image areas. Upon development with ordinary tap water, the unpolymerized image areas of the photopolymerizable composition are washed away, leaving an oleophilic surface in the image areas and a hydrophilic surface in the background.

Abstract: A photocurable, ethylenically-unsaturated, water-soluble oligomer comprising the reaction product of 100 parts by weight of a dextrin compound, and 35 to 70 parts by weight of at least one ethylenically-unsaturated monomer capable of reacting with at least one hydroxyl group of the dextrin compound, the oligomer having an average in the range of 0.1 to 0.7 ethylenically-unsaturated moiety per anhydroglucose unit and an equivalent weight of 440 to 990, and at least 75 weight percent of the oligomer is water soluble at 20.degree. C. in a concentration of at least 2.5 percent by weight. The oligomer when photocured in combination with an ethylenically-unsaturated monomer is useful as a photoresist in positive-acting, water-developable, lithographic printing plates.

Abstract: Ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable oligomers, which are particularly useful in printing plate compositions, comprise backbones formed by the removal of hydrogen from hydroxyl groups and having bonded thereto both carboxylic acid groups and ethylenically unsaturated, free radical polymerizable groups, these last two groups bonded to the backbone through the reaction of isocyanate groups.

Abstract: A photopolymerizable composition is disclosed which comprises 10 to 60% by weight of an ethylenically unsaturated, carboxylic acid containing oligomer,10 to 60% by weight of an organic film forming polymer,10 to 60% by weight of a free radical polymerizable monomer having at least one ethylenically unsaturated group, and0.1 to 12% by weight of a free radical photoinitiator system.