Abstract: A hot applied thermoplastic pavement composition, comprises; a modified polyamide resin in the range of between 3 and 10 percent by weight, wherein the composition contains rosin-modified esters, a copolymer, 30-70 percent by weight of a glass bead intermix, a range of between 1 and 15 percent by weight of either white or yellow pigment, the balance of the composition being selected from the group consisting of; one or more plasticizers, inorganic fillers, waxes, antioxidants and light stabilizers. A method of applying the composition to a roadway includes heating the composition and/or the roadway.

Abstract: A reflective material comprising a multilayered array of particles encapsulated by a matrix material, the reflective material defining a primary surface, the reflective material exhibiting: (i) visible retroreflection of incident radiation, wherein a wavelength of visible retroreflected radiation decreases from a first visible wavelength at a first angle to the primary surface to a second, shorter wavelength of visible retroreflected radiation as the viewing angle to the primary surface increases; and (ii) Bragg diffraction of the incident radiation, wherein the wavelength of radiation Bragg diffracted normal to the primary surface is longer than the wavelength of visible radiation, such that no visible radiation is retroreflected or Bragg diffracted in a direction normal to the primary surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to elastomeric compounds having a high filler content additionally containing 1 to 400% by weight of resin of microsilica as a modifier to improve the processability. Thereafter, the invention relates to a method for production of elastomeric compounds having a high filler content, wherein microsilica is added to the elastomeric compounds in an amount of 1 to 400% by weight of resin as a modifier to improve processability.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ecological protected material, comprising a base material (4) provided with a water-insoluble substance, a growth substrate and a microorganism layer. The invention further relates to a method for preparing a material according to the invention, comprising providing a base material with a water-insoluble substance, a growth substrate and a microorganism.

Abstract: A binder for the production of a layer for road works or civil engineering comprises, with respect to the total weight of the binder: (a) 2 to 98% in weight of at least one purely natural or modified natural resin, of vegetable origin, having a softening point measured of 30 to 200° C.; (b) 98 to 2% in weight of at least one oil of vegetable origin having a viscosity at 25° C. of 50 mPa·s to 1000 Pa·s, (c) the binder having: (c1) either a penetrability at 25° C., of 20 to 300 1/10 mm and a softening point of 30 to 75° C., (c2) or a penetrability at 15° C., of 300 to 900 and a viscosity at 60° C., and (d) the binder being exempt of any natural or synthetic elastomer and of any thermoplastic polymer.

Abstract: A binder for the production of a layer for road works or civil engineering comprises, with respect to the total weight of the binder: (a) 2 to 98% in weight of at least one purely natural or modified natural resin, of vegetable origin, having a softening point measured of 30 to 200%; (b) 98 to 2% in weight of at least one oil of vegetable origin having a viscosity at 25° C. of 50 mPa·s to 1000 Pa·s, (c) the binder having: (c1) either a penetrability at 25° C., of 20 to 300 1/10 mm and a softening point of 30 to 75° C., (c2) or a penetrability at 15° C., of 300 to 900 and a viscosity at 60° C., and (d) the binder being exempt of any natural or synthetic elastomer and of any thermoplastic polymer.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to the uses of HiOmega flax (linseed) oil, a naturally occurring flax (linseed) with higher than normal alpha linolenic acid content in the production of stronger, more scratch and solvent resistant industrial products such as alkyd resins, epoxidized oils, epoxies, inks, coatings such as paints, enamels, varnishes and films and anti-spalling concrete preservatives.

Abstract: A retroreflective coating system and a method of providing the coating system on a substrate are disclosed. The method includes applying a color-providing composition, such as a pigmented basecoat composition, and applying a clearcoat composition. After application and cure, the color-providing composition forms a color-providing film layer, and the clearcoat composition forms a clearcoat film layer. The color-providing composition and the clearcoat composition are cross-linkable. Either one, or both, of the color-providing composition and the clearcoat composition include retroreflective microspheres. The color-providing composition is applied to the substrate to form an uncured film layer of the color-providing composition. Next, the clearcoat composition is applied wet-on-wet to the uncured film layer of the color-providing composition such that an uncured film layer of the clearcoat composition is formed on the uncured film layer of the color-providing composition.

Abstract: An emulsion for stabilizing aggregate utilizes an amount of soap solution comprising a mixture of water and a non-ionic surfactant and further utilizes a base mixture including a pine tar mixture and a drying oil, such as linseed oil. The composition of the base mixture comprises between about 1 percent and 70 percent, by weight, of the emulsion and the particle size of the emulsion is no greater than about 10 microns. When the emulsion is appropriately blended with an aggregate so that the base mixture comprises between about 5 to 7 percent of the emulsion/aggregate blend, the resulting product is suitable for applications, such as paving and roadway applications, or other applications in which the aggregate is desired to be stabilized.

Abstract: An emulsion for stabilizing aggregate utilizes an amount of soap solution comprising a mixture of water and a non-ionic surfactant and further utilizes a base mixture including a pine tar mixture and a drying oil, such as linseed oil. The composition of the base mixture comprises between about 1 percent and 70 percent, by weight, of the emulsion and the particle size of the emulsion is no greater than about 10 microns. When the emulsion is appropriately blended with an aggregate so that the base mixture comprises between about 5 to 7 percent of the emulsion/aggregate blend, the resulting product is suitable for applications, such as paving and roadway applications, or other applications in which the aggregate is desired to be stabilized.

Abstract: A method of producing a composition for coating fibrous sheet products includes adding a surface treatment agent in an aqueous emulsion or solution form to an aqueous suspension of a dispersed inorganic particulate material comprising kaolin to improve the coating composition, e.g., rheology, and the rotogravure printing process, e.g. runnability. The dispersing agent is polycarboxylate. The surface treatment agent is in a substantially free state, has a hydrophobic group, and is selected from the group consisting of: (i) a long chain fatty acid; (ii) a long chain fatty alcohol; or (iii) an anionic surfactant having a long chain hydrophobic group and a polar group. A hydrophilic adhesive is added to the dispersed aqueous suspension during or while the surface treatment agent is added to the dispersed aqueous suspension. This method is used to produce a coated and a printed coated cellulosic sheet member.

Abstract: Modified natural-resin acid esters comprising units of compounds of each of the groups A) natural resins and natural-resin acids, B) aldehydes and aldehyde acetals, C) alcohols having at least two hydroxyl groups, D) metal salts and, if desired, of compounds of one or more of the groups E) .alpha.,.beta.-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids and their anhydrides, F) fatty acids and fatty acid esters, G) ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon resins are suitable in pigment dispersions and pigment concentrates for printing inks. The natural-resin acid esters contain substantially no phenol or phenol-aldehyde condensation products.

Abstract: Amber-based drying oil varnish of improved clarity, colorless and transparency characteristics is provided by a process in which coarsely comminuted amber particles are first heated in drying oil until the amber particles soften, swell and rise to the surface of the heated drying oil, the hot amber particles are strained from the hot drying oil which has become discolored and is discarded, the hot strained amber particles are then finely comminuted to a powder in a small amount of hot drying oil and thereafter, after the addition of additional hot drying oil to the finely comminuted amber powder, the resulting admixture is heated to a temperature at which the amber powder melts and fuses into the heated drying oil to form an essentially homogeneous varnish solution.

Abstract: An oil soluble, natural resin acid ester, modified with phenolic resin which ester is the reaction product of at least one compound of each of the following groups:A) natural resins or natural resin acids,B) monocyclic or polycyclic phenols which are monofunctional or polyfunctional with respect to oxo compounds,C) aldehydes or aldehyde acetals,D) aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic-aliphatic alcohols having at least two hydroxyl groups,E) .alpha.,.beta.-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids or their anhydrides,F) aliphatic C.sub.3 -C.sub.30 carboxylic acids or carboxylic esters having an iodine number of less than 15 g of iodine per 100 g of carboxylic acid or carboxylic ester,H) magnesium compounds, and optionally further compounds from the group of substances consisting ofG) ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon resins, which ester is prepared by reacting the components at a temperature in the range from 100.degree. to 300.degree. C.

Abstract: An oil based artist paint composition is disclosed in which a polymeric plasticizer is included that acts to circumvent embrittlement of a dried paint film on ageing. The invention has particular application to artists' paint compositions that are linseed oil based. A preferred plasticizer is poly butyl acrylate.In a preferred embodiment, alkyd resins are included in the composition to reduce the tendency of paint films to shrink on ageing and "creep" when used in very heavy impasto applications.

Abstract: Water-borne alkyd resin compositions are disclosed comprising maleinized fatty acid. Substitution of the aromatic triacid component of the composition with the maleinized fatty acid permits a reduction in the amount of organic cosolvent employed to solubilize the resin in the water. Alkyd resin containing paint formulations also are disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to readily storable flushed pastes of pigments of the arylparaosanilinesulfonic acid series, consisting essentially of (a) up to 50% by weight of the pigment, in a binder combination of (b) natural resin esters based on unmodified or modified natural resins with monohydric or polyhydric C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 -alcohols, and (c) long-oily alkyd resins having an oil content of 60% to 90% by weight dissolved in high-boiling mineral oil. These formulations are prepared from aqueous presscakes of pigment (a) by flushing in the presence of the solution of a mixture of at least one natural resin ester (b) and at least one alkyd resin (c) in mineral oil (d) with elimination of water. The novel pigment formulations are used for producing printing inks for letterpress and offset printing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid antisettling composition comprising at least one emulsifiable polyethylene wax, at least one salt of an alkyl hydrogen sulfate, at least one salt of a reaction product of a polyvalent inorganic acid and a fatty ester compound or a fatty acid derivative, an organic solvent and optionally, water.

Abstract: A copolymer reaction product of a salt of a quaternary acrylate and a polyalkylene glycol acrylate. The copolymer is useful as an anti-static agent in anti-static varnish compositions for packaging gravure printing.

Abstract: A method for minimizing the inherent yellowness of any kind of clear coating is disclosed. This method involves the addition of very small amounts of blue pigments or dyes to the clear coating so that chroma neutralization occurs. The chroma neutralization results in a clear coat which is crystal clear in appearance.

Abstract: A ceramic flux for welding low-alloy steels contains calcined magnesite, synthetic slag containing two thirds of CaF.sub.2 and one third of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, a component containing at least 95% of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 in the alpha form, wollastonite, marble, barium fluoride, ferrotitanium, ferroboron, sodium silicate.The ratio of the total content of calcined magnesite, two thirds of synthetic slag and one half of wollastonite to the total content of the component containing at least 95% of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 in the alpha form, one third of synthetic slag, one half of woolastonite and two thirds of sodium silicate ranging from 1.30 to 1.43 and the ratio of titanium to boron ranging from 11.2 to 30.1.

Abstract: The invention relates to air-drying and finishing coats for wood for exterior and interior finishes, comprising the so-called nonvolatile matter, which represents an intimate mixture of modified natural oils, pigments, extenders and small proportions of varnish additives, and a low-boiling petroleum hydrocarbon, which is suitable as a solvent and is present in an amount of .ltoreq.15% by weight, based on the total amount.An air-drying stain for exterior finishes is to be provided, with which a spotty or mottled appearance of the dried surface is avoided reliably even after a single coat of paint.This objective is accomplished by a stain, the mixture of chemically modified natural oils of which have a consistency, so that the efflux time from a DIN 53,211 4 mm viscosity cup is between 28 and 35 seconds, and the extender of which comprises a fine, cryptocrystalline, amorphous silicon dioxide, in which the proportion of particles with a particle size less than 40 .mu.m is greater than 95%.

Abstract: Basic fire resistant material comprised of burned or calcined sintered dolomite and organic binding means having plastic properties which can be densified at low pressures, whose shaped bodies have intermediate and final strengths in a temperature range between 300.degree. and 1600.degree. C. in which, related to the fire resistant basic materials, the proportion of binding means is 3 to 8% by weight wherein 0.1 to 2% by weight are silicon-organic compounds, and the fire resistant basic materials are from 10 to 15% by weight of particles having a particle size smaller than 45 .mu.m.

Abstract: A heating device for heating an object with a heating element composed of ceramic particles having a positive temperature coefficient of resistance dispersed in a binder.

Abstract: Cathodic coating for tantalum capacitors containing (a) a mixture of finely divided copper and tin or tin alloy particles dispersed in a solution of (b) organic acid flux, and (c) organic amine in (d) inert organic medium.

Abstract: A water-based stain having a working time of from about 1 to about 3 minutes and a tack-free drying time of from about 10 to about 15 minutes at 160.degree. F. comprises an acrylic latex, a drying oil, ester gum, a glycol, a hydrocarbonaceous solvent, and pigment.

Abstract: Easily water-dispersed formulations of a phthalocyanine pigment which contain--based on the formulation--(a) from 70 to 95% by weight of finely divided phthalocyanine pigment of which the mean primary particle size is less than 0.5 .mu.m, and (b) from 30 to 5% by weight of one or more alkylarylsulfonic acids, where alkyl is of 4 to 20 carbon atoms, but the sum of the alkyl carbon atoms is not less than 8, which alkylarylsulfonic acids may be in the form of water-soluble salts. A fine dispersion of the formulations is obtainable by sprinkling the formulations into water and shaking. The dispersions obtained are stable and can be filtered through a paper filter without leaving a residue. The finely dispersed pigment is absorbed quantitatively on wool, cotton or paper pulp.

Abstract: A varnish composition comprising the components tung oil, pine tar, turpentine oil, tin and lead oxide, preferably within certain ranges of proportions.

Abstract: The bis-(4,5,6,7-tetrachloroisoindolin-1-on-3-ylidene)-phenylene-1,4-diamine p igment in a new stable modification, characterized by an X-ray diffractogram of which the four strongest lines correspond to interplanar spacings between 9.1 and 9.0, 3.56 and 3.52, 3.41 and 3.37 and also 2.98 and 2.95 A, and having a greenish-yellow shade.

Abstract: "New alkylphenols of formula I ##SPC1## ##SPC2##method of preparing this new compounds and their use for the control of harmful microorganisms, and helminths and for protecting organic materials.

Abstract: The present invention involves the production of glossy emulsion pigment-containing coating compositions in which the pigment is coated with an organic compound capable of adhering to the pigment surface when the coated pigment is emulsified and capable of rendering said pigment surface oilophilic and the coating is applied to the pigment prior to emulsification thereof and prior to dispersion of the coated pigment in the oil phase.