Abstract: A silicone gel adhesive construction comprises (a) a porous backing, (b) an acrylic copolymer pressure sensitive adhesive layer on at least a portion of one side of the porous backing, and (c) a cured silicone gel adhesive on the pressure sensitive adhesive layer.

Abstract: Adhesive wound closure devices and methods of manufacturing the devices and the material for the devices are disclosed. The devices, methods, and materials address the requirements for tensile strength and skin adhesion by microcreping adhesive wound closure material that includes a nonwoven fabric web with one or more reinforcing fibers bonded thereto.

Abstract: This invention is related to an adhesive composition which may be used to bond or seal tissue in vivo. The adhesive composition is readily formed from a two component mixture which includes a first part of a protein, preferably a serum albumin protein, in an aqueous buffer having a pH in the range of about 8.0-11.0 and a second part of a water-compatible or water-soluble bifunctional crosslinking agent. When the two parts of the mixture are combined, the mixture is initially a liquid which cures in vivo on the surface of tissue in less than about one minute to give a strong, flexible, pliant substantive composition which bonds to the tissue and is absorbed in about four to sixty days. The adhesive composition may be used either to bond tissue, to seal tissue or to prevent tissue adhesions caused by surgery.

Abstract: Coded information bearing elements such as video discs may be produced from multilayered articles. The articles comprise a base having a thermoplastic, radiation curable resin on one surface and an embossable electrically conductive or radiation reflective layer over said resin.

Abstract: A coded information structure capable of being decoded electronically comprising a base and a first layer of an electrically conductive or electromagneted radiation reflective layer adhered to said base wherein said layer having coded information in the form of areas of said layer having been vertically displaced and having ruptures or necking or the side of the depression and an insulating or transparent protective layer over said first layer.

Abstract: Information-carrying discs are comprised of a substrate having an information bearing layer derived from 15 to 100% by weight of at least one polyacryloyl-containing heterocyclic monomer.

Abstract: This invention is related to an adhesive composition which may be used to bond or seal tissue in vivo. The adhesive composition is readily formed from a two component mixture which includes a first part of a protein, preferably a serum albumin protein, in an aqueous buffer having a pH in the range of about 8.0-11.0 and a second part of a water-compatible or water-soluble bifunctional crosslinking agent. When the two parts of the mixture are combined, the mixture is initially a liquid which cures in vivo on the surface of tissue in less than about one minute to give a strong, flexible, pliant substantive composition which bonds to the tissue and is absorbed in about four to sixty days. The adhesive composition may be used either to bond tissue, to seal tissue or to prevent tissue adhesions caused by surgery.

Abstract: Information-carrying discs are comprised of a substrate having an information bearing layer derived from 15 to 100% by weight of at least one polyacryloyl-containing heterocyclic monomer.

Abstract: This invention is related to an adhesive composition which may be used to bond or seal tissue in vivo. The adhesive composition is readily formed from a two component mixture which includes a first part of a protein, preferably a serum albumin protein, in an aqueous buffer having a pH in the range of about 8.0-11.0 and a second part of a water-compatible or water-soluble bifunctional crosslinking agent. When the two parts of the mixture are combined, the mixture is initially a liquid which cures in vivo on the surface of tissue in less than about one minute to give a strong, flexible, pliant substantive composition which bonds to the tissue and is absorbed in about four to sixty days. The adhesive composition may be used either to bond tissue, to seal tissue or to prevent tissue adhesions caused by surgery.