Abstract: A glass decorating color is applied to a glass article but is not bonded permanently to the glass. A finely divided heat settable plastic material is applied to the article over the impermanently bonded color and onto glass surface areas beyond the area covered by the color. Heat setting of the plastic material, even though insufficient to permanetly bond the color itself to the glass, forms a smooth plastic film over the decoration and fixes the color with respect to the glass surface.

Abstract: In apparatus for treating and separating products in granular form, a container is provided with fluidization and vibration means, the grains and the pulverulent solid are subjected to the fluidization treatment only in a vertical portion of the bed, the circulation currents arising therefrom are utilized for separating, within the container itself, the treated product in granular form from the pulverulent solid, and the vibrations are utilized for discharging the treated products to the outside.

Abstract: Fuel, fertile material or absorber material containing particles for high temperature fuel elements are coated in a fluidized bed by heating the particles and fluidizing through carrier gas preheated to the desired temperature. The coating gas, having a higher velocity than the carrier gas causing fluidizing, is blown into the fluidized particle bed from one or more nozzles from above counter to the flow of the carrier gas. The nozzles end above the fluidized layer.

Abstract: Carrier particles for use in an electrophotographic process are prepared by coating a particulate matrix with an ion exchange resin dispersed in a polymeric binder. The resulting coated carrier particles are long lived and depending upon the choice of ion exchange resin can be used to impart a positive or negative triboelectric charge of the magnitude desired to electroscopic powders mixed therewith.

Abstract: Titanium dioxide is post-treated by flowing it in a tubular zone as a suspension in a stream of carrier gas, injecting a gaseous stream of halides of Si, Ti and Al in said stream and then steam in the resulting mixture, once the latter is homogenized.

Abstract: A process is described in which granular calcium hypochlorite particles are encapsulated with at least one layer of a hydrated low melting inorgnaic salt. In this process granular calcium hypochlorite particles are lifted from a moving bed to the upper part of a distribution zone and the lifted particles are released to fall downwardly through the upper portion to the moving bed. A molten hydrated low melting inorganic salt is sprayed onto the falling particles above the moving bed, and the coated particles are cooled to provide at least one solid outer layer of said low melting hydrated inorganic salt.

Abstract: A process for coating granular materials particularly applicable in coating granular materials each having a particle size within the range of 100 to 1,000 microns, wherein supply of a coating or binding liquid is effected in response to a specific measured electro-resistance of a fluidized means of the granular materials while supply of a coating powder is continuously effected in a predetermined variable rate. To this end, at least one electrode cooperates with a portion of the wall forming a coating apparatus to detect the specific electro-resistance which is in turn compared with a predetermined value in a comparison circuit.

Abstract: A method of producing fine-disperse alkylated silica compounds, characterized in that starting fine-disperse silica is subjected to treatment with water vapors at a temperature of 110.degree.-120.degree. C to attain the humidification degree of from 2 to 40 micromoles H.sub.2 O/m.sup.2 SiO.sub.2, the thus humidified silica being then treated with vapors of alkylchlorosilane at a temperature of 250.degree. to 310.degree. C. The method of the invention allows controlling the concentration of grafted alkyl groups in the resultant product within the range of from 4.7 to 8.0 micromoles of grafted alkyl groups per m.sup.2 of the surface of SiO.sub.2. Starting silica can be modified with oxides of metals, such as aluminium, titanium, iron or zirconium oxides, the resultant products exhibiting good hydrophobic properties when used as thickeners for lubrication materials.

Abstract: Fuel particles in a fluidized bed are provided with a coating of pyrolytic carbon having substantially no property gradients by holding the speed of growth constant during the entire coating time and insuring the same speed of growth in all particles of the particle bed.

Abstract: Aminoplast or phenoplast moulding compositions are manufactured by passing an aqueous solution of a urea-formaldehyde resin, of an optionally phenol-modified melamine-formaldehyde resin or of a phenol-formaldehyde resin into a fluidized bed drier, by spraying the resin onto fillers and drying it. The compositions are used for crockery, household articles and technical components for the electrical industry.

Abstract: A method for coating small diameter, low density particles with pyrolytic carbon is provided by fluidizing a bed of particles wherein at least 50 per cent of the particles have a density and diameter of at least two times the remainder of the particles and thereafter recovering the small diameter and coated particles.

Abstract: Finely divided hydrophobic silica or silicate is produced by treating the dry, moving particles with an organic silane at elevated temperature. The silica or silicate which had been prepared by wet precipitation or pyrogenically and which is in powdered form is heated to a temperature of about 200.degree. to 300.degree. C. with agitation and is brought to a fluidized condition and then is treated dropwise with an organosilane which is stable and boils below 300.degree. C.

Abstract: An improved process for producing porous spheroidal particles consisting of a metal carbide phase dispersed within a carbon matrix is described. According to the invention metal-loaded ion-exchange resin microspheres which have been carbonized are coated with a buffer carbon layer prior to conversion of the oxide to carbide in order to maintain porosity and avoid other adverse sintering effects.

Abstract: Semiconducting carbonaceous pyropolymeric inorganic refractory oxide materials are prepared by introducing inorganic refractory oxide materials into a reaction section which may comprise a horizontal screw reactor wherein said inorganic refractory oxide materials are contacted with a gasified hydrocarbon thereby maintaining the inorganic refractory oxide material in a semifluidized state. Following this contact, the resultant carbonaceous pyropolymer coated inorganic refractory oxide material is then cooled and recovered.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process of coating discrete, unagglomerated particles of less than 20 microns with a high polymer coating, and compositions such as conductive compositions using such coated particles. The particles are coated with the polymer in a fluid energy mill such that substantially uniform coated particles are obtained which are free-flowing, non-agglomerative and readily dispersable in a suitable binder.

Abstract: Sodium percarbonate is stabilized by mixing therein sodium perborate and a hydrophobic liquid organic compound.

Abstract: Fluidized bed process for coating materials with pyrolytic carbon. A gaseous atmosphere including a carbonaceous substance is flowed upward through a vertical heated enclosure to fluidize a bed of particles therein. An exit conduit extends into the particle bed and a controlled flow of inert gas is fed through the conduit to regulate the exit passage of particles from the bed. Additional particles are added to the bed from above.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a layer from a mixture of particles having variable particle sizes and including throwing rolls for casting the particulate mixture onto a flat support is further provided with a blower arranged to reverse the direction of horizontal movement of the particles as they fall onto the support by means of air flow.

Abstract: Solid particles, such as medicinal preparations, are tested for resilience in a fluidizing apparatus. The test of this invention has several applications, such as predicting abrasion loss for particles which are to be coated in a fluidized bed coating operation, estimating abrasion loss for particles during shipping, and predicting disintegration rate of particles in fluids.

Abstract: Granular calcium hypochlorite particles having a core of calcium hypochlorite encapsulated in a plurality of layers of calcium hypochlorite are produced from an aqueous slurry of calcium hypochlorite by spraying a pumpable and sprayable slurry of calcium hypochlorite particles onto suspended particles of solid calcium hypochlorite above a moving bed of said particles in a fluidized bed. The solid particles coated with the slurry are heated to simultaneously evaporate and remove water from the slurry whereby said particles are coated with a layer of solid calcium hypochlorite.A portion of the moving bed of coated particles is removed from the spraying zone and further processed, if desired. In one embodiment, the coated particles with or without sizing are further dried to produce granular particles having the desired moisture content.

Abstract: In order to reduce the tendency to decompose of particles or granules of alkali metal chlorites and to enhance their stability, said particles or granules are completely coated with an inorganic salt or a mixture of such salts which are compatible with the chlorite and with each other, e.g. nitrates, carbonates, bicarbonates, phosphates, silicates and chlorides, especially alkali metal salts and alkaline earth metal salts thereof. The coating may be carried out by any conventional coating process, e.g. by contacting the particles with a solution of the stabilizing salts under vaporizing conditions in a rotating inclined disk, a rotary drum, or in a fluidized bed.

Abstract: In order to prevent breakage of a quartz fluidized bed reactor utilized in the production of silicon, the reactor is cooled as soon as a thin layer of silicon is formed on the reactor walls and then reheated to continue silicon growth. In this manner, the thin layer of silicon shatters and forms a weak foundation for subsequent silicon deposition on the reactor wall when the silicon deposition is continued. Subsequently deposited silicon on the walls continuously peels off without breaking the reactor.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for the agglomeration of chlorocyanurates. The method involves contacting said chlorocyanurates with salts that are non-reactive with it. The chlorocyanurate particles so treated have an increased storage stability and a significantly decreased tendency to segregate when ultimately mixed with a detergent base.

Abstract: A method of coating electrostatographic carrier particles comprising introducing an upwardly flowing low pressure gas and a centrally located upwardly flowing high pressure gas at about one-third their full flow rate into a combined fluidized bed and spouted bed coating apparatus, loading carrier particles into the coating apparatus, increasing the flow rate of the low pressure gas to its full flow rate of about 305 cubic feet per minute with heating to heat the carrier particles, increasing the flow rate of the high pressure gas to its full flow rate of about 16 cubic feet per minute at about 1.