Abstract: Improved medical devices and instruments prepared by an improved method of producing hydrophilic, gamma irradiation induced polymerized and chemically grafted coatings or plastic surfaces of articles adapted for contacting living tissue, the improvement comprising carrying out the graft polymerization in an aqueous solution under specific combinations of the following conditions:(1) monomer concentration in the range of from about 0.5% to about 50%, by weight;(2) total gamma dose in the range of from about 0.01 to less than about 0.50 Mrad;(3) gamma dose rate in the range of from about 10 to about 2500 rads/min; and(4) maintaining the molecular weight of the polymer in solution in the range of from about 250,000 to about 5,000,000.

Abstract: The invention consists of an improved method for placing single or multiple patterned layers of conductive material on a substrate. The method provided includes the step of placing or depositing a thin patterned layer of electrically conductive material on a substrate. The procedures used to deposit this layer include mechanically adhering the layer to the substrate then removing portions of it to form a pattern. They also include printing adhesive on the substrate and using it to peel a conductive pattern off of the surface of a transfer agent. After depositing the first conductive pattern, the process prints an insulating layer on top of it. The insulating layer has openings through which the next conductive pattern makes electrical contact with the first. Similarly, the process places other conductive layers and prints other insulating layers between them to produce multiple layers of conductive patterns. The multilayer circuit board provided includes a substrate.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for sealing lids to chip carrier assemblies that increases the efficiency and reliability of batch processing operations for integrated circuit manufacturing. A mounting fixture captively locates individual chip carriers with their covers in a recessed pocket that provides accurate lid-to-carrier positioning. A tension plate having a plurality of convex-type protrusions is mounted on the fixture that covers the chip carriers and lid assemblies such that a protrusion rest upon each chip carrier and lid assembly. A cover plate having a pattern of multiple apertures covers the fixture and tension plate. The relationship of the diameter of the apertures in the cover plate to the maximum protrusion diameter in the tension plate can control the amount of tension that the convex-shaped protrusion place on the individual chip carriers and lid assemblies for the sealing process.

Abstract: A method for forming a three-dimensional network containing encapsulated organic material comprises reacting a functionalized polymer and a complementary functional cross-linking agent in the presence of the organic material. The method may be used for recovering oil spilled on sea or land, for treating organic wastes or preventing leakage of oil from tanks or pipelines.

Abstract: A novel and improved method of controlling the quality of color fidelity in the printing of multi-colored subject matter is provided by novel and improved automatic densitometer apparatus adapted to automatically scan the successive differently colored blocks of a color control strip printed along one edge of the printed work piece, to automatically make repeated sensings of color density as the scan proceeds, to automatically change the filters required for sensing the density of different colors as the scan proceeds along the control strip, to automatically activate the apparatus for selecting one sensing of color density as being definitive for each relevant block of the control strip, to automatically print a running record of the definitive color densities sensed from different blocks of the control strip in format juxtaposing the item of the record for each such sensing with the corresponding block of the control strip when the record is placed alongside the control strip, to automatically position such

Abstract: A process of manufacturing a non-metallic web in which a fault is marked by means of a metal label, layers of the web are stacked on one another, the web is divided into pieces and the individual pieces, still in their stacks, are inspected by means of a metal detector. The invention is of particular value where the web is a textile material and the pieces after inspection are made up into garments.