Abstract: Dry film lubricant coatings are provided by using a silicone resin binder, either as an aqueous emulsion or in a solvent-based system, to fix an alkaline earth metal fluoride to a substrate. The compositions used to apply the coatings may also include relatively minor amounts of xylene, ammonium benzoate, a wetting agent, and/or a porosity-inducing agent—although none of those additives remains in the cured coating. Multi-layer dry film lubricant coatings are also disclosed, with the multi-layer coating having a basecoat layer as described above, and a topcoat layer made of a layer-lattice solid such as graphite or molybdenum disulfide, and a silicone resin, aluminum phosphate or an alkali metal silicate binder.

Abstract: Dry film lubricant coatings are provided by using a silicone resin binder, either as an aqueous emulsion or in a solvent-based system, to fix an alkaline earth metal fluoride to a substrate. The compositions used to apply the coatings may also include relatively minor amounts of xylene, ammonium benzoate, a wetting agent, and/or a porosity-inducing agent—although none of those additives remains in the cured coating.

Abstract: A corrosion resistant coating to protect metallic and polymeric composite surfaces from corrosion and water promoted deterioration that is environmentally safe and non-toxic and is applied in one coat without the use of a primer is provided. The coating comprises a tough, flexible polyurethane binder and a corrosion inhibiting pigment selected from the group consisting of zinc hydroxy phosphite, zinc phosphate, calcium ion-exchanged silica, calcium strontium zinc phosphosilicate. The coating is effective in protecting both aluminum and steel surfaces against corrosion in salt spray environments and in protecting polymeric composite materials such as ablative coatings used in aerospace against deterioration after exposure to water.

Abstract: An enhanced emergency warning and escape system is taught. The system can advantageously be combined with existing smoke or fir detector technology to share detection technology and activate additional electrical equipment for improving or simplifying the escape or emergency condition. As part of the system, an electrical switch, which is used under normal circumstances for an electrical device (such as a light fixture), is automatically activated when a detection occurs. A remote control device also allows user activated alarm conditions where, preferably, a smoke detector produces an alarm which can be distinguished from a fire alarm.

Abstract: An acidic aqueous coating composition comprising dissolved phosphate, dissolved aluminum, dissolved dichromate, inorganic colloidal particles and a water miscible organic component including an effective film-forming amount of a water miscible material comprising an ether of a polypropylene glycol, and preferably including also another glycol material, for example, a mono-ethylene glycol material or a mono-propylene glycol material, for use in forming a glaze coating, or a base coating when said composition includes also a particulate material.

Abstract: An acidic aqueous coating composition comprising dissolved phosphate, dissolved aluminum, dissolved dichromate, inorganic colloidal particles and a water miscible organic component including an effective film-forming amount of a water miscible material comprising an ether of a polypropylene glycol, and preferably including also another glycol material, for example, a mono-ethylene glycol material or a monopropylene glycol material, for use as a glaze coating, or as a base coating which includes also a particulate material.

Abstract: A coating composition which is capable of being used effectively in a wide variety of applications where heretofore known coating compositions could not be used, or where their use was accompanied by various disadvantages is disclosed. The curing temperature at which coatings (for example, corrosion resistant coatings) are formed from an aqueous coating composition containing dissolved phosphate, dissolved dichromate, dissolved aluminum, and solid particulate material is lowered by adding diethanolamine to the composition. The coating composition of the present invention can be used to effectively coat substrates which heretofore could not be coated or could not be coated satisfactorily as a result of the substrate being destroyed or degraded by the relatively high temperatures that were required to satisfactorily cure heretofore known coating compositions.

Abstract: A coating composition which is capable of being used effectively in a wide variety of applications where heretofore known coating compositions could not be used, or where their use was accompanied by various disadvantages is disclosed. The curing temperature at which coatings (for example, corrosion resistant coatings) are formed from an aqueous coating composition containing dissolved phosphate, dissolved dichromate, dissolved aluminum, and solid particulate material is lowered by adding diethanolamine to the composition. The coating composition of the present invention can be used to effectively coat substrates which heretofore could not be coated or could not be coated satisfactorily as a result of the substrate being destroyed or degraded by the relatively high temperatures that were required to satisfactorily cure heretofore known coating compositions.