Abstract: An imaging material and process employing photosensitive microcapsules useful in forming two or more image colors by exposure with an intensity or time modulated radiation source such as a laser; the imaging material comprises a support having at least two sets of photosensitive microcapsules on the surface, one set of microcapsules is made up of high speed microcapsules which are more sensitive to a predetermined actinic radiation than a second set of microcapsules made up of lower speed microcapsules; the microcapsules include a photosensitive composition which undergoes a change in viscosity upon exposure to actinic radiation; first and second image-forming agents are respectively associated with each set of microcapsules; the imaging material is useful in forming images of two or more colors by a process which comprises image-wise exposing the imaging material to actinic radiation at a first exposure amount which is substantially quantitatively different than the second exposure amount, and subjecting the

Abstract: Free-flowing, reagglomeration-resistant powders are prepared utilizing finely divided polymer particles coated with alumina. The alumina-coated polymer powder exhibits cold-flow reagglomeration-resistance behavior and, when added to solvents specific for the alumina-coated polymer, dissolves very rapidly.

Abstract: An aqueous release agents for the temporary antiadhesive surface-finishing of tacky pellets, granulates, cubes, flakes and the like, which is a 0.5 to 25% by weight and, more particularly, a 5 to 20% by weight solution of one or more at least dihydric aliphatic alcohol containing from 3 to 7 carbon atoms and/or one or more at least tribasic aliphatic hydroxycarboxylic acid or water-soluble salt thereof, optionally in combination with from 0.2 to 15% by weight of a water-insoluble salt of a C.sub.12 -C.sub.36 aliphatic or alicyclic mono- or dicarboxylic acid, and the use of these release agents in the production of hotmelt adhesives, more particularly pressure-sensitive hotmelt adhesives.

Abstract: A chemical vapor deposition process for making glass-surfaced microcarriers, and the resulting product, in which hollow spherical micro-sized shells of glass or ceramic composition are placed within a fluidized bed coater, and separate preheated reaction gasses are directed into the coater bed. The shell precursors have a preferred starting density of not more than the predetermined desired final density in the range of 1.01 to 1.2 g/cc, and have a diameter in the range of 5 to 500 .mu.m, preferably 105 to 150 .mu.m. The thickness of the silicate glass coating is preferably in the range of 11 to 16 .mu.m. An alternative embodiment employs solid precursor beads of polyphenylene oxide.

Abstract: A process for cathodic electrodeposition of small particle, below 20 .mu.m, resin powders coated with precipitated or adsorbed metal oxide or hydroxide at a pH above the isoelectric point giving a zeta potential of at least as negative as minus 35 millivolts. The preparation of the bath is also part of the invention.

Abstract: A substantially non-overlapping tightly packed layer of plastic chips is formed and attached to the surface of a substrate by a method in which the chips are dispersed onto the surface of a liquid, flowing from a first location to a second location. The rate of flow of the surface of the liquid is reduced at the second location to cause the chips to pack together in a single-chip-thickness layer. The layer of chips is then removed from the liquid by passing a porous web upward at an angle from below the liquid surface through the chip layer-liquid interface. The chip layer is then transferred to a heat-sensitive transparent adhesive coating on a suitable prepared substrate and secured thereon by means of heat and pressure. A resinous wear layer which is transparent after fusion is then applied.

Abstract: Storage-stable, discrete free-flowing flakes of a hydrophilic or water-soluble polymer gel, such flakes comprising a thin adherent film coating of a processing aid powder, are facilely produced by comminuting a larger shaped article of said polymer gel, e.g., a block, sheet, strip or layer thereof, in the presence of said processing aid powder, and said powder being present during comminution in an amount in excess of that required for otherwise complete coating of the flakes which result.

Abstract: An expandable polymeric styrene particle is provided from which molded foamed articles can be produced exhibiting reduced flammability characteristics. The expandable polymeric styrene particle contains a blowing agent, a minor amount of pentaerythritol tetrastearate and a minor amount of hexabromocyclododecane. The additives can be incorporated during impregnation with the blowing agent or by blending with the expandable particles after impregnation.

Abstract: An insulating material in the form of a body comprising expanded plastics beads which are each encapsulated in bitumen or a bituminous compound which is free from solvents, light oils, emulsifiers or other liquifying agents, such encapsulation having been formed by a hot process, the encapsulated beads having been subsequently pressed together and distorted to form a body with voids between the beads substantially eliminated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for growing cell cultures of diploid cells. The process comprises the steps of(a) introducing cell culture medium into a container containing cell support prepared by applying to glass or polysaccharide base support a solution of thermosetting plastic material comprising the reaction product of an aldehyde with a polyvinyl alcohol and then subjecting said support thus-coated to the effect of heat under sufficient conditions to permit hardening of said thermosetting plastic material and the sterilization of the thus-coated support;(b) adding human or animal diploid cells to the culture medium of step (a) to form a cell-containing culture medium; and(c) maintaining the cell-containing culture medium of step (b) under cell growth conditions.

Abstract: Solid materials, especially pharmaceutical preparations, are coated, without the use of solvents, with a powdered film-forming polymer and with a liquid plasticizer having an affinity for the polymer.

Abstract: Plastic particles having diameters of from about 1 to about 150 microns, a polymeric bonding layer on the surface thereof, are coated with magnetic particles to provide a generally uniform coating having a thickness of from about 0.05 to about 0.8 of a micron.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to improvements in a process for preparing curable polyolefin polymers in which a mass of dry, discrete, free-flowing particles of polyolefin polymer is tumbled in admixture with a curing agent effective to cause curing when the finished product is subjected to curing temperature, which comprises tumbling said mass in two separate and discrete steps in which essentially all of the curing agent is incorporated into said mass in the first tumbling step and equilibration between the curing agent and the polymer is effected in the second tumbling step while maintaining in both tumbling steps a temperature above the melting point of said curing agent but below both the agglomerating temperature and the curing temperature and, at least in the second tumbling step, a temperature which provides equilibration between the curing agent and the polymer; and thereafter tumble-cooling the thus-treated mass until a dry, discrete, free-flowing mass of polymer particles is obtained.

Abstract: A particulate polyolefin expansion molding material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a particulate polyolefin having a bulk density of 0.45 g/cc or more and a mean particle size of 150 to 2,000.mu., having provided on the surface thereof at least one layer comprising an expanding agent, a binder and a filler. The material can be used in producing expansion molded articles without first forming the material into pellets as is conventionally done.

Abstract: A process for cathodic electrodeposition of small particle, below 20 .mu.m, resin powders coated with precipitated or adsorbed metal oxide or hydroxide at a pH below the isoelectric point giving a zeta potential of at least 35 millivolts. The preparation of the bath is also part of the invention.

Abstract: Additives are sprayed onto synthetic resinous thermoplastic particles by applying a spray nozzle at an elbow spraying radially outwardly.

Abstract: A process for obtaining water-dispersable polyolefin fibers endowed with a high degree of cohesion consists in maintaining the fibers in contact with a stable emulsion formed by a water solution of polyvinyl alcohol and a poor solvent for the polyolefin, under stirring in turbulence conditions, at a temperature lower than the boiling temperature of the emulsion.

Abstract: A process for producing a resin foam by using an aqueous medium, which comprises(a) treating a resin compound with said aqueous medium to cause the aqueous medium to adhere to and be held by the resin compound, said resin compound being composed of porous agglomerated particles resulting from partial melt-adhesion of thermoplastic resin particles coated with a fine hydrophilic solid powder which does not substantially melt at the melting temperature of the resin particles, said solid powder being embedded in the resin particles but partly exposed at their surfaces,(b) melt-kneading the resin compound treated with the aqueous medium under such an elevated pressure that evaporation of the aqueous medium is substantially inhibited, and(c) thereafter releasing the kneaded resin composition from the pressurized state to foam it; and a thermoplastic resin compound used for the aforesaid process.

Abstract: This invention provides an electrical conductive foam bead comprising a foamed bead core of a thermoplastic synthetic resin at least partially covered on the surface thereof with an electrical conductive layer, and a molded electrical conductive foamed article comprising a plurality of particulate bodies formed by mutually fusing such electrical conductive foam beads, the electrical conductive layers extending over all or a portion of the interface of the mutually fused particulate bodies. The conductive foam beads and molded conductive foamed articles both have improved antistatic effect and are used as packaging and cushioning materials, electromagnetic radiation shields, and the like.

Abstract: A process for preparing improved molding materials of expandable styrene polymers by coating the particles with glycerin esters of long-chain fatty acids. The coating comprises organosols of pulverulent glycerin esters having 14 to 24 carbon atoms in aliphatic hydrocarbons having 3 to 8 carbon atoms. The proportion of glycerin monoester is at most 40, but not less than 10% by weight and the particle size of the pulverulent ester is less than 100 microns. The molding materials are used to manufacture molded articles.

Abstract: A present invention relates to an anion exchange resin of surface functional type and the process for producing the same. The anion exchange resin of the present invention has anion exchange groups only in a linear polymer layer coated on the surface of a lipophilic crosslinked polymer matrix, and ion exchange reaction of the present anion exchange resin proceeds rapidly. Accordingly, the anion exchange resin of the present invention is useful for a packing for ion exchange chromatography.

Abstract: A continuous method for making free-flowing, melt-coated elastomeric pellets is disclosed in which pellets are coated with particles of coating material in a zone of interference created in a pneumatic conveying system.

Abstract: A multiple-layer process for applying, in alternate, successive molecular layers, a protein material, and a ligand extender material to a surface to modify the properties of the surface and to the multiple-layer product so prepared.

Abstract: In a process for the preparation of an electrostatographic toner material suitably employable for pressure fixing process, comprising encapsulating a core material containing colorant with a shell material selected from the group consisting of a melamine resin and a urea resin in an aqueous medium to prepare encapsulated toner particles and spray-drying the so prepared toner particles, the improvement in which the spray-drying of the toner particles is carried out in the presence of a cationic compound selected from the group consisting of a cationic surface active agent and a cationic polymer.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are coagulated impact modifier polymers having improved powder flow, bulk density and reduced caking tendency. These compositions are preferably prepared by introducing an emulsion of a hard, non-elastomeric polymer into a slurry of a coagulated impact modifier polymer, then coagulating and drying the resultant blend.

Abstract: What are disclosed are a method for making non-blocking soft polymer beads by applying an adherent polymer deposit on the beads, said deposited polymer having a glass transition temperature at least 10.degree. C. higher than the glass transition temperature of the soft polymer beads, which latter temperature is below 70.degree. C., and non-blocking soft polymer beads made by this method.

Abstract: A protective colloid for use in an interfacial polymerization process comprising a graft copolymer of polyvinyl alcohol and methyl vinyl ether/maleic acid.

Abstract: In a process for the preparation of an electrostatographic toner material comprising encapsulating a core material containing colorant with a shell material in an aqueous medium to prepare encapsulted toner particles and drying the so prepared encapsulted toner particles, the improvement which comprises washing the encapsulated toner particles with an aqueous solution of a surface active agent in advance of subjecting them to the drying procedure.

Abstract: A composition and process for reducing the adhesion of expandable polystyrene beads impregnated with a blowing agent such as pentane. The composition comprises effective amounts of magnesium stearate and zinc stearate respectively. The composition is added to the polystyrene in an apparatus such as a tumble blender prior to pre-expansion of the impregnated polystyrene beads.

Abstract: Plastic particles having diameters of from about 1 to about 150 microns, a polymeric bonding layer on the surface thereof, are coated with magnetic particles to provide a generally uniform coating having a thickness of from about 0.05 to about 0.8 of a micron.

Abstract: An improved expandable polymeric styrene particle is provided containing a blowing agent, a minor amount of pentaerythritol tetrastearate, overcoated with a minor amount of glyceryl monostearate. The improved particle results in a significantly reduced final mold cooling cycle in producing the finished molded article. Pentaerythritol tetrastearate is preferably incorporated during impregnation with the blowing agent and glyceryl monostearate overcoated by blending with the expandable particles after impregnation.

Abstract: A method for protecting environment from volatile liquid chloride as exposed to the atmosphere, which comprises:spreading foamy particulates of styrene resin over the chloride,initiating a reaction between the resin and chloride at the interface to form a filmy product, andcovering the surface of the chloride to a substantial part with a layer comprising such product, thus blocking evaporation of the chloride to spread and contact with humidity in the atmosphere.

Abstract: A granule coated with a tannic acid metal chelate compound is produced by granulating granular cores by adding a tannic acid metal chelate compound under spraying a solution of a binder by a centrifugal fluidized granulating machine.

Abstract: A process for treating an acetylene polymer or a doped acetylene polymer, which comprises plasma-polymerizing a gasifiable organic compound under plasma-excitation under reduced pressure, thereby forming a polymer film on the solid surface of an acetylene polymer or a doped acetylene polymer placed in said polymerization reaction system. This process can prevent the acetylene polymer or doped acetylene polymer from being deteriorated owing to oxidation.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process for manufacturing a water-absorbent article in which particles of a water-swellable polymer are fixed to a water-absorbent substrate. The process includes the steps of forming on the surface of the water-swellable particles a coating of a thermoplastic adhesive resin; locating the coated particles in their unswollen and dry state on or within the water-absorbent substrate also in the dry state; and applying heat to soften the thermoplastic coating of the particles and pressing the particles and substrate to cause the particles to be bound to the substrate.

Abstract: Very smooth polymeric coatings or films graded in atomic number and density can readily be formed by first preparing the coating or film from the desired monomeric material and then contacting it with a fluid containing a metal or a mixture of metals for a time sufficient for such metal or metals to sorb and diffuse into the coating or film. Metal resinate solutions are particularly advantageous for this purpose. A metallic coating can in turn be produced on the metal-loaded film or coating by exposing it to a low pressure plasma of air, oxygen, or nitrous oxide. The process permits a metallic coating to be formed on a heat sensitive substrate without the use of elevated temperatures.

Abstract: Coated beads which exhibit anti-lumping properties upon pre-expansion and which are useful in the formation of soft expanded articles are prepared by coating initial polystyrene beads, in suspension, with a coating composition comprising styrene and a macromonomer of styrene and isoprene or styrene and butadiene, the coating compositions added to the suspension as an aqueous emulsion containing a catalyst and a polyoxyethylene ether of nonylphenol or octylphenol as surfactant.

Abstract: Styrenic polymer expandable beads that are useful in forming heat-resistant foamed articles are prepared by forming an aqueous suspension of initial styrenic polymer beads and adding thereto a portion of a comonomer solution of styrenic monomer and methacrylic acid, which solution also contains a polymerization regulator, forming an emulsion of catalyst, monomer solution and polyvinyl alcohol suspending agent, adding portions of the emulsion to the suspension and then adding the remainder of the comonomer solution to the suspension, and the suspension with added monomers is heated to copolymerize the styrenic monomer and methacrylic acid about the initial beads and form a coating about the beads.

Abstract: There is disclosed a process for the production of tack-free, pourable, filler containing elastomer powder which comprises(a) dispersing a carbon black filler in water;(b) mixing the thus dispersed carbon black filler with an elastomer latex;(c) coagulating the thus produced mixture of elastomer latex and carbon black with an acid/alum solution;(d) partitioning the thus coagulated suspension with a coating resin; and(e) filtering, washing and drying of the resultant powder, the improvement comprising using as a coating resin a mixture of a styrene/butadiene resin and a styrene/.alpha.-methylstyrene or a polystyrene resin wherein the weight ratio of the styrene/butadiene resin to the styrene/.alpha.

Abstract: Particulate styrene polymers which contain a blowing agent and are surface-coated with from 0.05 to 1% by weight of an ester. The coating agent is a hydroxycarboxylic acid ester, or an ester of a carboxylic acid with an oxyalkylated alcohol; tristearyl citrate is a preferred ester.The styrene polymers can be used to produce foam moldings, with short mold dwell times and good welding of the foam particles.

Abstract: Expandable thermoplastic polymer beads and method of producing same, wherein a core of a polymer of one or more vinyl monomers is substantially surrounded by a layer of a polyolefin comprising one or more vinyl monomers, with a foaming agent contained in at least the core.

Abstract: Organic photochromic materials comprising a photochromic dye and a resinous material can be stabilized with a protective coating which will protect them from deactivation by exposure to moisture, oxygen, various plastic host materials, reactive chemicals or even normal atmospheric conditions. Useful organic photochromic dyes include the spiropyrans, the spirooxazines, the metal dithizonates, the phenazines, the phenothiazines and other known photochromic compositions. Useful resinous materials include vinyl-type thermoplastics, cellulosic materials, polyesters, epoxy resins and aminoplast resins. The encapsulated photochromic materials of the invention comprise an organic photochromic dye in combination with an organic resinous material enclosed within an outer shell of an inorganic material and find use in the preparation of photochromic plastic films, sheets, ophthalmic lenses such as lenses for sunglasses and in camera lenses and filters.

Abstract: Expandable styrene-type polymer beads having a short cooling time are obtained by a method wherein styrene-type polymer beads are impregnated with a blowing agent preferably as a step separate and independent of the polymerization step or in the same suspension polymerization reactor after a substantial completion of the polymerization, in an aqueous suspension comprising styrene-type polymer beads, a blowing agent, a suspending agent, at least 0.0001% of a halide salt of a transition metal selected from the group consisting of iron, titanium, vanadium, chromium, manganese, cobalt, nickel and copper, or a mixture thereof, and at least 0.001% of glycerol mono-, di-, or tri-ester of a fatty acid having 12-30 carbon atoms or a mixture thereof, said halide being bromide, chloride or iodide, and said percentages being based on the total weight of polymer beads subjected to the impregnation, with the proviso that if said glycerol ester is a tri-ester, there must be present at least 0.

Abstract: A process is herein disclosed for producing a multi-layered slow release composite comprising: a first step wherein one or more physiologically active substances is mixed with one member selected from the group consisting of one or more supercooling polymerizable vinyl monomers, one or more natural or synthetic polymeric substances and a mixture thereof, and the mixture is given a predetermined shape and subjected to a physical treatment to form a slow release composite; a second step wherein a predetermined thickness of coating of one member selected from the group consisting of one or more supercooling polymerizable vinyl monomers, one or more natural or synthetic polymeric substances and a mixture thereof is formed on the surface of said slow release composite, which then is subjected to a physical treatment so that a layer wherein no physiologically active substance is encapsulated is formed on the surface of said slow release composite; a third step wherein a predetermined thickness of coating of a mixtu

Abstract: Thermoplastic elastomers useful in formulating certain pressure-sensitive hot-melt adhesives are normally very tacky and thus are hard to handle. The present invention relates to a method of eliminating problems due to this tackiness by dusting the elastomer pellets with a friable polymer resin having a ring and ball softening point of at least 95.degree. C. Selection of a polymer resin which is normally used in adhesive formulations allows one to overcome tackiness without having detrimental effects on the ultimate adhesive properties of formulations based on the elastomer.

Abstract: Powder is coated with valve-metal by rotating it in a drum 15 so that it is presented to valve-metal vapor derived by evaporation of a source of valve-metal. In the case of coating with aluminum, the vapor may be produced by directing aluminum wire 10 on to a heater 11, and oxygen or air is admitted to control agglomerate formation. Aluminum and tantalum coating are both described using electron beam evaporators.

Abstract: Toner powders having excellent flow and non-agglomerating properties, and being readily removable from the imaging medium in use for indirect electrophotographic copying, are provided in the form of substantially spherical resin particles, containing additives or not as desired, which particles have been formed from irregularly shaped resin particles heated in a liquid dispersion containing hydrophobic silica particles smaller than 100 nanometers in diameter. The toner particles may be thus formed so as to carry on their surface or dispersed therein electrically conductive particles, such as carbon black, rendering them attractable by electrical inductance.

Abstract: Coated beads which exhibit anti-lumping properties upon pre-expansion and which are useful in the formation of soft expanded articles are prepared by coating initial polystyrene beads, in suspension, with a coating composition comprising styrene and a macromonomer of styrene and isoprene or styrene and butadiene, the coating compositions added to the suspension as an aqueous emulsion containing a catalyst and a polyoxyethylene ether of nonylphenol or octylphenol as surfactant.

Abstract: Styrenic polymer beads of a preferred size are produced from styrenic polymer beads of a smaller size by forming an aqueous suspension of the styrenic polymer beads and adding thereto, under polymerization conditions, an aqueous emulsion formed by admixing styrenic monomer and a catalyst therefor with water containing a nonionic surfactant that is an ethylene oxide condensate of an alkylphenol, which contains at least fifty moles of ethylene oxide per mole of alkylphenol. The beads of preferred size are formed without formation of fine styrenic polymer particles and without significant amounts of clusters of beads.

Abstract: A multiple-layer process for applying, in alternate, successive layers, the protein, avidin, and a biotin-containing extender material to a solid surface to modify the properties of the surface and to the multiple-layer product so prepared.