Abstract: What is disclosed is a method for making a synthetic veneer, which method comprises impregnating a fibrous web structure with an aqueous dispersion of a finely divided synthetic resin, said dispersion further containing a water-soluble aminoplast resin dissolved therein, and then drying the impregnated web structure by heating it, said synthetic resin being thermoplastically deformable and in a non-crosslinked condition at the beginning of the drying step, but comprising a plurality of groups capable of external crosslinking and which do crosslink during the drying step.

Abstract: What is disclosed are a method for treating pelts or leather in the beamhouse, for tanning, or as an aftertreatment, which method comprises contacting said pelts or leather with an aqueous solution or dispersion of a copolymer comprising monomers of a nitrogenous ester of acrylic acid or of methacrylic acid, a further different ester of acrylic acid or of methacrylic acid, and acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, whereby portions of said copolymer are deposited in the grain layer without formation of a superficial film, and pelts and leather treated by this method.

Abstract: Powders of physiologically-tolerable copolymers of vinyl and vinylidene monomers, said copolymers being useful as fast-dissolving resin binders for the preparation of pharmaceutical coatings, having a residual monomer content of less than 0.05 percent by weight, and having a primary particle size less than one micron; a method of preparing such powders by spray drying an aqueous dispersion of a copolymer under non-sintering temperature conditions; a method for preparing solutions for coating orally-ingestible dosage unit forms with said copolymers; and such dosage unit forms coated with said copolymers.

Abstract: Aqueous film-forming dispersions of a synthetic resin, said resin containing from 0.5 to 5 percent by weight of a heterocyclic comonomer of the formula ##STR1## wherein A--B is --C.dbd.C-- or --CH--CH--; R.sup.1 is hydrogen or lower alkyl; and R is an aliphatic group having a polymerizable carbon-carbon double bond therein; water-base paints comprising a pigment and filler dispersed in such an aqueous dispersion; and a method for overpainting substrates of oil-base paints or alkyl resin paints with such a water-base paint.

Abstract: A powdery copolymer having a powder particle size from 0.1 to 200 microns, said copolymer comprising at least 50 percent by weight of methyl methacrylate and 0.2 to 10 percent by weight of at least one monomer having a basic nitrogen atom, the balance, if any, being other monomers copolymerizable therewith, said copolymer being prepared by emulsion copolymerization such that all or a predominant portion of the monomer or monomers having a basic nitrogen atom is first added to the remaining monomers after the polymerization of at least half of said remaining monomers, the resulting copolymer then being recovered from the resultant latex in powder form.