Abstract: A delivery system for delivering drilling fluid additives to a drilling fluid. According to one aspect of the invention, the delivery system comprises a softened, dispersible tablet containing drilling fluid additives, such as lost circulation, seepage control materials, and/or other additive materials. The tablet is preferably prepared by adding a softening agent or softening binder to the drilling fluid additive that will allow the tablet to disperse and revert, or break down, to release the drilling fluid additives in their original particle size into drilling fluids. It is also advantageous for the tablets to be dispersed top-side to ensure that the materials do not, for example, clog screens or damage downhole equipment.

Abstract: A semiconductor device in which particles of semiconductive material extend as separate chains from respective first and second contacts. When one of the contacts is of p-type material, the conductive materials that extend from it are of likewise p-material. Similarly, when the contact is of n-type material, the chain that extends from it is also of n-material. In any case the particles can include both p-type and n-type. One of the contacts can have a prescribed work function and the other contact have a lower work function in order to produce a prescribed junction between the two contacts. In addition the contacts may be polymeric. The particulate bodies may range in size from 10 to about 3000 angstroms in diameter. The n-type particles provide a continuous path for electrons and the p-type particles provide a continuous path for holes. The particles are adhered to one another by an inorganic or organic binder, pressure, heat treatment or thermal fusion.

Abstract: A substantially flat body of a photoconductive semiconductor material is coated on one surface with an electrically conductive layer. A layer of a solid insulator material is on another surface of the semiconductor material. The insulator material is of the type having mobile deep lying carriers and forms a blocking junction with the semiconductor material. The insulator material may be an electronically conductive glass, an ionically conductive glass, or a cermet composition. The photoconductor can be used as a target for a camera tube, or as an electrophotographic plate.

Abstract: 1. A television camera tube comprising an elongated envelope, an electron gun in one end of said envelope for producing an electron beam, a target electrode in the other end of said envelope and in the path of said beam, said target electrode comprising a transparent conductive coating, a N-type photoconductor on said coating, a P-type photoconductor on said N-type photoconductor, another N-type photoconductor on said P-type photoconductor, a rectifying junction formed between each adjacent pair of said photoconductors and means for applying a reverse bias across at least one of said junctions.

Abstract: An original electrostatic charge pattern on an electrically insulating image-bearing surface is reproduced, on an electrically insulating film, in an intensified form by the steps of:A. placing one surface of the film in contact with the original charge pattern on the image-bearing surface,B. wiping, with a grounded wetted sponge, the other surface of the film to induce thereon a monopolar charge pattern of opposite polarity to that of the original charge pattern,C. separating the film from the image-bearing surface and wiping, with a grounded wetted sponge, said one surface, whereby to induce a bipolar charge pattern on the film,D. disposing said one surface of the film in contact with the image-bearing surface so that the electrostatic charge patterns of the same polarities contact each other and are in register with each other,E. wiping, with a grounded wetted sponge, said other surface of the film to induce thereon a monopolar electrostatic charge pattern superimposed on the bipolar charge pattern, andF.