Abstract: A fire retardant cable for use primarily as a riser cable in buildings has a plurality of groups of twisted pairs of conductors arranged in a "honeycomb" structure. Each conductor comprises a metallic conducting member encased in a single layer of a non-flame retardant polyolefin material such as high density polyethylene. The groups of conductors are surrounded by a jacket of flame retardant poly(vinyl chloride) material.

Abstract: A low pair count high performance, TIA/EIA 568 Category 5 plenum rated cable has a core made up of a plurality of twisted pairs of conductors, each conductor being insulated with a tetrafluoroethylene/hexafluoropropylene copolymer material, and a single twisted pair of conductors wherein each conductor is insulated with a high density polyethylene material. The core is surrounded and enclosed in a jacket of a plasticized copolymer of ethylene and clorotriflouoroethylene material.

Abstract: A cable which may be used in buildings in concealed areas such as in plenums or in riser shafts includes a core (22) which includes at least one transmission medium each of which is enclosed with a non-halogenated plastic composition of matter. The core is enclosed with a jacket (28) which also is made of a non-halogenated plastic composition. The non-halogenated plastic material of the insulation includes a polyetherimide constituent and an additive system. The additive system includes an antioxidant/thermal stabilizer and a synergistic metal deactivator and may include a lubricant. For the jacket, the plastic material is a composition which may include a siloxane/polyimide copolymer constituent blended with a polyetherimide constituent and an additive system to improve processing and long term aging, or a siloxane/polyimide copolymer constituent with a flame retardant system.

Abstract: A method for preforming magnetic drum material involves the use of a hydraulic press and sleeve which in turn compresses the material and then cuts the material into a specific shape. This process is repeated until the material builds up in the sleeve to the required charge thickness. This method has improved the molding process by eliminating air and gas voids in the molded magnetic drum.

Abstract: A method of forming a regular solution secondary eutectic nickel-base or cobalt-base superalloy--which contains, on a weight basis, 2-9% rhenium and less than about 0.8% titanium, and optionally an element selected from the group consisting of chromium, aluminum, tantalum, carbon, nickel, cobalt, tungsten, vanadium, molybdenum, niobium, hafnium, zirconium and boron--which comprises combining at a temperature above the eutectic melt temperature of the superalloy (1) a primary eutectic nickel-base or cobalt-base superalloy scrap containing, on a weight basis, 2-9% rhenium, and less than about 0.