Abstract: Apparatus for facilitating the installation of a modular cabinet assembly on a wall includes two adjustable height lifting and leveling assemblies each having a base portion positionable on the floor. An upper portion of each assembly has spaced structures useable for receiving sections of two elongated, horizontally spaced apart support members which extend parallel to one another and to the wall. With the assemblies in a horizontally spaced relationship with one another and secured to the wall, and a plurality of cabinet modules resting on top side portions of the support members, the modules are secured to one another, and the resulting assembly is leveled about axes perpendicular and parallel to the wall by using leveling portions of the assemblies to vary the heights of the support member sections disposed in the receiving sections. The leveled cabinet assembly is then anchored to the wall.

Abstract: A system is provided wherein a plug flow reactor is used to make combinatorial libraries of materials. Examples of plug flow reactors include stirred tube reactors, extruders, and static mixers.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a continuous process for the production of anionically-polymerized organic materials having controlled architectures. The organic materials may be made from one or more temperature-sensitive anionically-polymerizable monomers. The materials are made under plug-flow and temperature-controlled conditions.

Abstract: Organic photoprecursors of amines are provided for use in photosensitive imaging systems, finding particular application in the preparation of lithographic printing plates. Said photoprecursors generate free amines on exposure to long wavelength UV or visible radiation, have high solubility in organic solvents, and include photolabile 2-nitrobenzyl functional groups. Methods for the synthesis of the photoprecursors are described, and the use of the said photoprecursors for the production of printing plates using both positive working and negative working techniques are discussed.

Abstract: An aircraft door sealing system for use with an aircraft door. The aircraft door is movable between open and closed positions with respect to a door frame. The door has a peripheral door opening portion and a peripheral door seal portion. The door frame has a peripheral frame opening portion and a peripheral frame seal portion. The frame opening portion is aligned adjacent the door opening portion when the door is in the closed position. The frame seal portion is aligned adjacent the door seal portion when the door is in the closed position. The sealing system is provided with an elastic seal which is interposed between the door and the door frame. The seal is attached to the door seal portion and the frame seal portion. The seal is expandable and contractible for permitting movement of the door between the open and closed positions thereof. The seal has a pair of seal opening edges disposed between the door opening portion and the frame opening portion.

Abstract: Organic photoprecursors of amines are provided for use in photosensitive imaging systems, finding particular application in the preparation of lithographic printing plates. Said photoprecursors generate free amines on exposure to long wavelength UV or visible radiation, have high solubility in organic solvents, and include photolabile 2-nitrobenzyl functional groups. Methods for the synthesis of the photoprecursors are described, and the use of the said photoprecursors for the production of printing plates using both positive working and negative working techniques are discussed.

Abstract: A retractive suspension for a boat is provided whereby retractable wheels and associated struts and suspension may be retractably mounted within compartments which are open, or may be opened, outwardly of a hull of a boat. A front wheel assembly is housed retractably within the bow of the boat. An opposed pair of rear wheels are mounted within corresponding compartments on either side of the aft end of the hull. The wheels struts and suspension, both fore and aft, are selectively pivotable from a stowed position within the compartments or wheel wells to an extended and locked position extending outwardly of the boat hull from the wheel wells so as to support the boat on the wheels when on land. The struts and suspension are pivoted by means of threaded rod or spindle or elongate screw which is rotated to slide one end of an arm snugly mated within a corresponding slide such as a box beam.

Abstract: Crystalline forms of atorvastatin and hydrates thereof are useful hypolipidemic and hypocholesterolemic agents.

Abstract: Colorants, polymeric binder resins, photoinitiators, photosensitizers, color-change agents, anti-halation agents, stabilizers, and other active hydrogen-containing components of radiation sensitive compositions for lithographic printing plate production and the like are reacted with a polyethylenically unsaturated monoisocyanate compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein Y is the residue of a monohydroxyl compound of formula YOH and Y contains at least two ethylenically unsaturated double bonds. In this way the components are bonded to the image on exposure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating composition for the preparation of a polyurea coating which containsa) a polyisocyanate component containing one or more aliphatic polyisocyanates,b) at least one polaspartic acid esterc) 0.05 to 5% by weight, based on the total weight of the coating composition, of an organic acid,wherein components a) and b) are present in amounts sufficient to provide an equivalent ratio of isocyanate groups of component a) to isocyanate-reactive groups of component b) of 0.5:1 to 20:1.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating composition which is free from polyols and containsa) a polyisocyanate component,b) an aldimine based on the reaction product of a polyamine having 2 or more primary amino groups with an aldehyde andc) a compound containing aspartate groups,wherein components a), b) and c) are present in an amount sufficient to provide an equivalent ratio of isocyanate groups to aldimine groups and aspartate groups of 0.5:1 to 20:1 and wherein component c) is present in an amount sufficient to form a clear solution within 60 minutes of mixing components a), b) and c), provided that the amount of component c) is at least 5% by weight, based on the weight of components b) and c).The present invention also relates to a polyurea coating prepared from this coating composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating composition having an improved pot life without a corresponding increase in dry time when cured under ambient conditions which containsa) a polyisocyanate component,b) an aldimine based on the reaction product of a polyamine having 2 or more primary amino groups with an aldehyde corresponding to the formula:O.dbd.CHCH(R.sub.1)(R.sub.2)wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be the same or different and represent optionally substituted hydrocarbon radicals, or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 together with the .beta.-carbon atom form a cycloaliphatic or heterocyclic ring andc) 0.1 to 15 weight percent, based on the total weight of the coating composition, of a water-adsorbing zeolite,wherein components a) and b) are present in an amount sufficient to provide an equivalent ratio of isocyanate groups to aldimine groups of 0.5:1 to 20:1.

Abstract: Low thermal expansion ceramics of essentially 100 percent cordierite solid solution are prepared by the devitrification of a glass frit compact having the nominal composition in weight percent 16 percent MgO, 30 percent Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, 54 percent SiO.sub.2. These ceramics exhibit adequate density and strength and are useful for example in the fabrication of gas turbine engine components such as rotor vanes and heat exchangers.

Abstract: In europium-activated alkaline earth mixed halide x-ray phosphor compositions the addition of minor amounts of yttrium significantly reduces afterglow or persistance. A syngeristic effect upon the reduction of afterglow is observed when both yttrium and lithium additives are both included. Additions of other rare earths and alkali metals are not effective to reduce afterglow. The effective amount of Y is from about 0.001 to about 0.1 moles of yttrium per mole of host. When lithium is used in conjunction with yttrium, about 0.001 to about 0.1 moles of lithium per mole of host is used.

Abstract: A mixture of from 5% to 95% by weight of calcium tungstate and from 5% to 95% of europium activated barium fluorochloride exhibits brightness and x-ray absorption characteristics superior to that which would be predicted from the foregoing properties of the individual phosphors. Intensifying screens employing the above mixtures have a speed in excess of the commercially available intensifying screens using the present calcium tungstate x-ray phosphors.