Abstract: A method is herein disclosed by which a polymerizable monomer or a mixture thereof can be economically and efficiently converted to polymeric substances with a high yield catalyst in a vapor phase polymerization process using a stirred-bed, quench-cooled, horizontaL reactor together with essentially total reactor off-gas recycle and melt finishing. The method is further characterized by being essentially isobaric at least up to the polymer finishing steps.

Abstract: There is disclosed a system for supplying operating potentials which is particularly useful with load devices wherein at least two transversely oriented conductors are dielectrically isolated from a gaseous discharge medium between the conductors. The system utilizes wave form generators, each having at least one output transistor. Novel transformer-diode clamping means are provided to reverse bias the collector-base junctions of the output transistors, novel capacitive driving means are used for the transistors, and the control of the transistors with respect to each other is coordinated to provide a system which produces a more effective wave form, the wave form in the embodiment shown being used as a sustaining voltage for cells in a gas discharge display/memory panel.

Abstract: Apparatus for the vapor phase polymerization of at least one polymerizable monomer comprising: (a) a horizontal reactor of substantially circular cross-section containing a centrally-located drive shaft extending longitudinally through said reactor to which are attached a plurality of adjacently located paddles, which paddles cause essentially no forward or backward movement of the particulate matter contained in said reactor and extend transversely within and to a short distance from the internal surfaces of said reactor, said reactor being divided into two or more individually gas-composition-controllable and polymerization-temperature-controllable polymerization compartments, by one or more dividing structures so constructed to control gas intermixing and movement of said particulate matter between said compartments; (b) driving means for said drive shaft; (c) one or more reactor off-gas outlets in each of said compartments spaced along the topward part of said reactor; (d) one or more vapor recycle inlets