Abstract: A protected feeder is provided for squirrels which comprises a feeder having a self supporting enclosure for predator protection from hawks or foxes to be positioned adjacent a tree for providing a protected perch with access openings in the cover and a selected portion of ground therein is covered with food. The enclosure member is substantially impervious and protects the squirrels while feeding and protects the squirrel from weather. This invention provides various designs for the protected squirrel feeder adapted to protect the food, one using a tray which is smaller than the self supporting enclosure and a second feeder uses small high-calcium loaded rocks as a ground layer.

Abstract: A squirrel house that can be used for shelter from predators, from cold weather and for providing a den for a breeding pair of squirrels to build a nest for raising a family of young squirrels, having a front wall including a side access hole, a floor having a bottom access opening, a pair of matching side walls supporting a shed roof end extending at a slight incline from the back wall to and over the side access wall being supported along the tapered top edges of the side walls. The squirrel house also employs multiple predator guards including a predator guard mounted on the roof, an internal predator guard, an interior baffle to reduce access by a predator, and a roof guard comprising projections on the roof to hinder predator access from the roof, and where there is a separate exit hole for the nesting squirrel(s) to exit while a predator attempts to enter through a predator guard hole.

Abstract: A squirrel house that can be used for shelter from predators, from cold weather and for providing a den for a breeding pair of squirrels to build a nest for raising a family of young squirrels, having a front wall including a side access hole, a floor having a bottom access opening, a pair of matching side walls supporting a shed roof end extending at a slight incline from the back wall to and over the side access wall being supported along the tapered top edges of the side walls.

Abstract: An improved silver-coated copper-based powder which is characterized by extraordinary stability, in terms of electroconductivity, when the powder is utilized with organic resin to form electroconductive compositons. The powder is made by subjecting it to an intensive heat treatment after the silver is coated thereon.

Abstract: Unfavorable interaction is prevented between (a) electroconductive particle fillers and (b) organic resin binders of the type which are normally instable with respect to viscosity when aged in contact with said fillers. Moreover, electroconductivity degradation is also avoided. In a preferred mode of the invention, the particle surface is treated with a coating of an interfacial pacifying agent such as a tetravalent tin compound which both enhances the electroconductive performance of the particles and also is sufficiently compatible with the resin binder to migrate into the binder sufficiently to avoid undue gelling of the binder by particle-borne contamination or residues of such contamination.

Abstract: An improved silver-coated copper-based powder which is characterized by extraordinary stability, in terms of electroconductivity, when the powder is utilized with organic resin to form electroconductive compositions. The powder is made by subjecting it to an intensive heat treatment after the silver is coated thereon.

Abstract: Unfavorable interaction is prevented between (a) electroconductive particle fillers and (b) organic resin binders of the type which are normally instable with respect to viscosity when aged in contact with said fillers. Moreover, electroconductivity degradation is also avoided. In a preferred mode of the invention, the particle surface is treated with a coating of an interfacial pacifying agent such as a tetravalent tin compound which both enhances the electroconductive performance of the particles and also is sufficiently compatible with the resin binder to migrate into the binder sufficiently to avoid undue gelling of the binder by particle-borne contamination or residues of such contamination.

Abstract: A coating composition having surprisingly superior physical properties, particularly when highly-filled with small particles and bonded to a flexible film of a polymeric substrate. The composition consists essentially of (1) a homogeneous binder formed of relatively hard, high-tensile, aromatic polyester compounded with a vinylidene chloride copolymer such that the copolymer serves as means to increase the elongation, toughness and heat resistance of the binder and (2) the filler. The process of forming such a binder comprises formation of a homogeneous polymeric solution wherein each of the polymers is intimately distributed within the same solvent phase.

Abstract: Improved compositions of the type using metal flake in resin binders. The distribution of the flakes can be much enhanced using relatively small quantities of an ultra-thin, non-planar metal flake. Enhanced electroconductivity is a particular advantage of the invention.

Abstract: Novel electrically-conductive compositions comprising an organic resin matrix and flakes of a novel conductive silver powder which is characterized by extreme thinness. The novel silver powder, and a novel process for preparing metal powders, are also described.

Abstract: Novel electrically-conductive compositions comprising an organic resin matrix and flakes of a novel conductive silver powder which is characterized by extreme thinness. The novel silver powder, and a novel process for preparing metal powders, are also described.