Abstract: A process for generating electrically conductive patterns on a dielectric substrate, such as an insulating sheet, which comprises applying to preselected areas of the substrate a preselected concentration of an ink in the form of an oxidizing agent, such as a solution of a ferric salt, e.g., ferric chloride or ferric ethylbenzenesulfonate, and which can also contain a suitable binder or thickening agent, to form printed images on the substrate surface. The resulting printed surface of the substrate is then exposed to an excess of reactant, e.g., pyrrole monomer in vapor phase, which reacts with the oxidizing agent to develop conductive images, as by forming polypyrrole, in those printed areas of the substrate containing the oxidizing agent.

Abstract: In a process for printing a substrate employing apparatus elements such as printing plates, engraved rolls, wiping blades, transfer rolls, metering rolls, or the like, and printing ink which comes into contact with the elements and substrate, the improvement comprising carrying out the printing with an ink comprising an aqueous system of colorant and water dispersible polymer having carbonyloxy linking groups in the linear molecular structure wherein up to 80% of the linking groups may be carbonylamido linking groups, the polymer having an inherent viscosity of at least about 0.1 measured in a 60/40 parts by weight solution of phenol/tetrachloroethane at 25.degree. C. and at a concentration of about 0.25 gram of polymer in 100 ml. of the solvent, allowing the ink to substantially dry, and subsequently contacting the dried ink with a solution of one or more multivalent cation salts to impart thereto a high degree of resistance to water dispersibility.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a coated, sculptured, nubby fabric useful as a ceiling board facing and the like comprising:(1) applying to at least one face of a nubby, textured fabric substrate a uniform layer of a thick, flame-retardant, non-cellular coating containing a pigment, a flame-retardant and a resin contacting and encapsulating substantially all of the yarns of the substrate with a tough, adherent film, the coating composition when exposed to heat or flame emitting vapors of low-toxicity and low-smoke, and(2) drying the thus-coated substrate.

Abstract: An apparatus for the application of crease setting composition comprises at least one movable arm 12 capable of insertion into a leg of a pair of trousers to be creased, the arm carrying at, or near, one end thereof an applicator head 20 comprising a nozzle 22 for the application of crease setting composition and guide means 24 for locating the nozzle within the crease to be treated. Means are provided, for example, a pump or compressed air, for urging crease setting composition through the nozzle into the crease to be set in timed relationship with the relative movement between the applicator head 20 and the trousers 34. A method of operation is also disclosed.

Abstract: An art production method involving the use of cast clay-coated paper instead of conventional board stock utilized for setting up mechanicals, etc. suitable for printing and other purposes providing a more readily inked surface as well as one which can be easily corrected by scraping or scratching out undersired inked portions, and where the hard, smooth surface of the cast coated material has sufficient strength and durability to resist peeling or tearing occasioned by the application and removal of adhesive tapes to the surface.

Abstract: A thermal transfer recording sheet is produced by placing, on one side of a sheet-like heat-resistant substrate successively along the surface, one or more thermal transfer recording layers containing a recording material which contains a binder material and a coloring material and whose viscosity is lowered and controlled by temperature-raise recording control, so that transferability to recording medium is imparted, and a thermal transfer coating layer containing a hot-melt material which is miscible (compatible) with at least a part of said binder material.The thermal transfer recording using said thermal transfer recording sheet is characterized by first subjecting the thermal transfer coating layer to temperature-raise recording control, forming a film of the hot-melt material on the surface of the recording material at least on a portion to which the recording material is transferred, and conducting thereon thermal transfer recording as usual.

Abstract: Polyamide resins, suitable for use in relief printing, produced by condensation of a dimeric fatty acid, a mixture of monocarboxylic acids, and equivalent amounts of a diamine mixture of ethylene diamine and 1,6-diaminohexane.

Abstract: In accordance with the invention a varnishing unit in a printing machine is provided which simultaneously varnishes and perfects printing sheets. The varnishing unit comprises a rotating impression cylinder in contact with a rotating varnishing cylinder to create a nip between the two cylinders through which sheets are individually drawn. In order to perfect each sheet at the nip, the impression cylinder has at least one plate or a blanket secured to its surface. Depending on whether a plate or a blanket is secured to the impression cylinder, an appropriate dampening and inking means is provided. Similarly, the varnishing cylinder is supplied a controlled quantity of varnish by a varnishing means.

Abstract: Fabric conditioning articles for use in treating fabrics in a laundry dryer. The articles comprise a flexible substrate and a fabric conditioning composition, wherein the fabric conditioning composition is distributed unevenly on the substrate so as to form a visual contrast between areas containing relatively high amounts of conditioning composition and areas containing either no conditioning composition or relatively low amounts thereof.

Abstract: A process for the production of colored films of paper impregnated with synthetic resin which contain melamine resin and have a three-dimensional surface structure, by printing the paper films with a colored pattern using an aqueous protein-based printing ink and lacquering thereover. The color which is printed in the regions in which the lacquer layer is to be thinner than in the other regions contains a lacquer repellent, and the printed and dried paper film is impregnated with an aqueous impregnation of a melamine resin from the unprinted side, with the formation of a one-sided excess of resin, and is dried. The printed and impregnated film is coated on the printed side with an aqueous lacquer based on melamine resins, and the lacquered film is hardened at elevated temperature without applying pressure. A laminate is produced by joining the unprinted side of the hardened film to a substrate such as chipboard.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of treating a cloth to prevent lateral bleeding into the cloth of a later applied oil-based paint and the resulting treated cloth. That portion of the surface of the cloth which is to be painted with an oil-based paint is first sprayed with small droplets of a composition of matter which consists essentially of a hydrocarbon solvent having a boiling point range from above about 25.degree. C. to below about 100.degree. C. and a triglyceride ester having 30 to 70 carbons atoms. The amount of the composition of matter is such as to provide from about a 1 gram per square meter coating of the triglyceride ester to about a 3.5 grams per square meter coating of the triglyceride ester on the surface portion. The sprayed surface portion is then dried to vaporize the solvent prior to application of the oil-based paint thereto.

Abstract: A reflecting flexible textile web is proposed comprising a textile support metal coated on at least one side and in the form of a woven fabric, knitted fabric, non-woven fabric or thread ply sewn fabric, the threads or fibres of which are coated with possibly flame-retarding modified transparent plastic, in which high reflectivity is achieved for infrared radiation but at the same time translucence or light in the visible region in that the metal coating takes place substantially only in the region of the intersections of the threads or fibres while the regions of the textile support disposed between the intersections are substantially free from metal coating and thus permeable to light.

Abstract: There is disclosed a heat-sensitive transfer recording medium comprising a support and, provided thereon, a colorant-containing layer for heat-sensitive transfer, wherein said colorant-containing layer contains a silicone wax as a heat-fusible material which is solid or semi-solid at ambient temperature or room temperature.The recording medium according to the present invention is capable of printing at low energy and with high transfer sensitivity.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the production of reagent films in which an aqueous synthetic resin dispersion which contains the usual adjuvants and reagents is coated on to a solid substrate or on to a thin fabric in a thin layer and dried, wherein to the crude film mass used for the coating there are added 0.5 to 5% by weight of a scleroprotein hydrolysate with a molecular weight of from 5000 to 50,000 and 0.5 to 10% by weight of a higher alcohol containing 5 to 10 carbon atoms.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording medium is characterized in that the recording surface thereof is formed of a mixture of at least a filler and parts of a fibrous base material and that parts of the fiber composing the fibrous base material are laid very closely to the recording surface.

Abstract: A dock shelter fabric comprising a core fabric formed from synthetic fibers, a base coat of polymeric material extending continuously over at least the one surface of the core fabric intended to be exposed to abrasion, and a second polymeric coating of abrasion resistant polymeric material fused in a discontinuous pattern to the continuous surface of the base coat; whereby the discontinuous coating resists abrasion without sacrificing flexibility of the fabric.

Abstract: In a recording method of using droplets of a recording liquid, the recording surface of the recording medium is formed with at least a filler and part of a fibrous substrate present mixedly.

Abstract: By allowing at least the surface of an ink jet recording sheet to contain a cationic fluorescent agent, the waterproofness of water-soluble dyes in inks as well as the brightness of the recording sheet can be enhanced and thereby multicolor images of excellent color reproducibility can be formed on the sheet.

Abstract: A selectively reinforced paperboard carton having areas of reinforcement formed by impregnating the uncoated paperboard carton blank in patterned areas with a polyisocyanate which reacts with hydroxyl groups within the paperboard to form a cured polyurethane reinforcement. The preferred polyisocyanate is polymethylene polyphenylisocyanate.

Abstract: The disclosure is of the use of a primer formulation comprising styrene/butadiene rubber, water and alcohol that is employed to promote hot melt adhesion of fluorocarbon treated grease resistant papers, which are used in storage bags and containers for such products as pet foods, for example.

Abstract: The present printing process provides a unique color tone print of muted contrast in two, sequentially operated, flexographic print stations. A suitable paper substrate base for the process is uncoated white paper of stationery or envelope grade. As the paper supply web is drawn through the first print station, the desired image or design is printed on the paper with a colorless solution of a polyol, such as glycerine, in a glycol ether solvent. The second print station simply lays a uniform color coating of compatible pigment or solvent dye based ink over the entire web surface. Shade or tone differences resulting from differences in ink absorption with respect to the glycerine solution image areas provide a distinctive printed product.

Abstract: Water-based foam paints are provided in aerosol applicators. Water-soluble, non-toxic color additives are added to a foam-producing emulsion base to form a foam when the emulsion is sprayed from a conventional aerosol bomb. In the preferred embodiment, a system of three aerosol applicators corresponding to the three primary colors is utilized so that secondary colors can be created by mixing the appropriate portions of the primary colors.

Abstract: An ink-printed ovenable food container is prepared by(a) printing a layer of paperboard with an ink containing a sulfonated polyester pigment binder,(b) coating the resultant ink-printed paperboard with an unpigmented composition containing a sulfonated polyester,(c) coating the resultant ink-printed and sulfonated polyester coated paperboard with a polyester resin sealing coating, and(d) forming the resultant polyester resin sealed paperboard into a container.

Abstract: A method for the incorporation of an active agent into a porous structural substrate which comprises forming a pseudoplastic gel comprising:an active agentat least one solvent thereforand at least one gel forming agent and thereafter applying the gel to the structure to be treated. The penetration of the gel into the porous structure may be regulated by decreasing the viscosity of the gel by increasing the shear on the gel during its application to the porous structure. A predetermined gel penetration of the structure is achieved before 75% of the solvent has evaporated.

Abstract: A decorative matelasse woven fabric of multi-ply construction having predetermined outwardly bulging fabric pattern areas, some of which pattern areas are colored to present an ombre effect of shaded color areas of varying intensity of color, creating a custom look of hand painting, and a method for producing the same.

Abstract: The artistic method for creating an art form includes the step of permanently affixing a first substrate material to a second substrate material wherein the second substrate material is rigid relative to the first substrate material. A heat-activated transitional material is then softened with a flame and applied to an upper surface of the first substrate material wherein the transitional material has a predetermined color and is applied to the upper surface of the first substrate material with varying amounts of pressure so that the softened transitional material adheres to the upper surface of the first substrate material and solidifies thereon to a predetermined thickness and has a desired predetermined texture. The artistic method for creating an art form can further include the step of coating the solidified transitional material on the upper surface of the first substrate material with a protective material.

Abstract: A predecorated gypsum wallboard and the method of manufacture wherein a protective base coat is applied on the face paper by a rotogravure printing of the protective coat with minute openings very closely spaced throughout the coating, as by printing the coat in the form of reasonably uniformly sized tiny dots with about 1000 to about 100,000 dots per square inch, a decorative coat is applied over the base coat, gypsum wallboard is formed with the coated surface of the paper on the outside face, and the newly formed wallboard, when hardened, is dried by heating and removing water from the gypsum core through the still porous coated paper.

Abstract: A method of forming a wall covering which forms a plurality of horizontal colored sections wherein the colored sections are smoothly blended into each other forming no visual break from one color to the next. The machine is utilized wherein the uncolored ground is moved until a given length of the ground is located within a paint spray chamber. The ground is then fixed in position and a paint nozzle assembly moved laterally across the ground producing the desired colored pattern on the ground. The ground is then moved from the paint spray chamber into a drying chamber and from the drying chamber onto a collecting roll.

Abstract: An item (including a sheet or lamina) is treated to proof the item, or a surface or area in which the item is placed, against crawling insects, by printing or spraying the item, or immersing the item in, a pesticide/liquid carrier solution and then drying the solution to remove the liquid carrier, to leave a residue pesticide in or on the material of the item to be contacted by the crawling insects. The pesticide/carrier solution may be applied to the item by mixing the pesticide in a suitable ink and printing the solution onto the item by flexopress, offset or letterpress printing methods or by silk-screening methods.

Abstract: With known methods for coating back-cloth with a synthetic powdery product, the back-cloth is subjected to heat treatments; either the length of cloth is used as a heat conveyor, or it is traversed by heat radiation. The present method allows to avoid this. Owing to a metering unit (2), the synthetic powdery product passes from a powder storage tank (1) to the powder dispensing and supply compartment (3) wherefrom it is distributed on a transport surface (5) by means of a scraper (4). Heat sources (7-9) operate without contact, directly to the synthetic powdery product arranged on the intermediary carrier. The back-cloth to be coated (11) is pressed by means of a pressure cylinder (10) against the intermediary carrier (5) where the mostly adhesive powder adheres immediately to the back-cloth (11).

Abstract: For the marking of gas-permeable fabric or cloth webs and other material webs, especially for the automatic marking in a marking station, the invention proposes to contact the fabric web within the marking station with a film including the pattern to be marked off in the form of perforations and acting as a stencil, and to suck atomized paint (paint mist) through the perforations and the contacting fabric web, wherein this atomized paint is an aerosol produced by atomization of a liquid containing a dye or pigment dissolved therein. Advantageously, a fluorescent dye is used to this end.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive transfer material having a heat-transferable ink layer formed on a support. Said heat-transferable ink layer is constituted of microcapsules dispersed in a heat-fusible binder and enclosing a penetrating ink. Said penetrating ink is constituted of a colorant and an oil agent which is liquid or semi-solid at room temperature. During recording, the ink released from the microcapsules will penetrate into the fibrous structure of the recording paper to give printed letters of good quality even on a recording paper with poor surface smoothness.

Abstract: A sheet for water base ink recording comprises a backing substrate including a surface layer obtained by ultraviolet or radiation curing of a composition composed mainly of an ultraviolet or radiation curing type resin starting from a natural high-molecular substance and, optionally, containing an ultraviolet or radiation curing type antistatic agent.

Abstract: Process and product for scenting packaging materials by direct application of perfumes to said materials, whereby well controlled perfume application is achieved without spotting or loss of perfume. The present process is accomplished by formulating the perfume prior to application into a paste and then applying the paste to the package materials.

Abstract: A method of printing textile fabrics, especially precolored fabrics of relatively dark shades, wherein a printing paste containing pigments and a heat curable binder is applied to selected areas of the fabric and the printing paste is thereafter dried and cured, said method being characterized by obtaining washfast, opaque printed areas substantially unaffected by the color of the underlying yarns, and by achieving high chroma, even on relatively dark background shades, said method comprising applying to the fabric an aqueous printing paste having a total solids content of at least 25 percent and comprising an aqueous dispersion containing a curable polymer binder, an opacifier containing at least one opaque pigment with minimal tinctorial value and a refractive index of less than 1.

Abstract: A continuous process for the application of a textile treating composition in the form of a froth or foam to a substrate such as textiles. The process enables the application in a uniform manner of any foamable functional composition that can be used in the treatment of a textile fabric to improve its properties. In the process of foamed functional treating composition is continuously conveyed to the applicator nozzle, the substrate is continuously passed across and in contact with the applicator nozzle so as to simultaneously contact said substrate with the foamed composition and the applicator nozzle at a rate such that a predetermined controlled amount of the foamed functional treating composition is uniformly applied to the surface of the substrate and the foam immediately breaks on contact with the substrate and is readily absorbed.

Abstract: Fabric suitable for use as a cotton bale cover or bag fabric comprising a woven substrate with a series of stripes of a thermoplastic resin fused thereto. This fabric permits sampling of cotton in a bale but prevents fraying of the fabric in this operation. Further, the fabric permits moisture to pass through the material stored therein. Apparatus and method for making the fabric are also shown.

Abstract: An ink jet recording sheet having a recording surface which includes a combination of a water soluble polyvalent metal salt and a cationic polymer, said polymer having cationic groups which are available in the recording surface for insolubilizing an anionic dye.

Abstract: An absorbent pad of non-woven fabric having high absorbency and integrity has on one side a layer of binder material for providing a surface having an absorbency reduced with respect to the remainder of the pad, the remainder of the pad being free of binder.

Abstract: A material used to bear writing or printing, which comprises a substrate and a coating layer formed thereon of a coating material containing a polymer having both hydrophilic segments and hydrophobic segments.

Abstract: A recording medium made of a substrate coated with a layer containing both a filler and a binder is characterized in that irregular shapes of filler particles appear at the surface of the coating layer.

Abstract: Colored legends are produced using a combination of dry transfer, preferably white, lettering, and the application of color thereto. The dry transfer is placed on an intermediate carrier to form the desired legend, the legend then e.g. sprayed over with colors, preferably using a felt tip marker as color source, or colored using a hot blocking foil and the so colored legend then lifted using an adhesive web and liquid treatment of the intermediate carrier to release the legend therefrom and positioned where desired on the final receptor. The adhesive web is then removed to leave the desired legend in the desired color.

Abstract: Organopolysiloxanes with Bunte salt groups having the formula ##EQU1## the Bunte salt groups being linked to a silicon atom by way of a carbon atom and in whichR.sup.1 is methyl with the proviso that up to 10% of the R.sup.1 groups may be alkyl with up to 18 carbon atoms or vinyl phenyl, hydrogen or hydroxyl,R.sup.2 is the ##STR1## group or the ##STR2## group, in which one of the R.sup.3, R.sup.4 groups represents an OH group and the other an --S.sub.2 O.sub.3 Me group (Me=alkali or the optionally substituted ammonium group), whereby the R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 radicals can be hydroxyl or together the oxygen of an oxirane ring in an amount up to 50% of the R.sup.2 group,a has any value from 1 to 2.33 andb has any value from 0.02 to 1.The compounds can be synthesized from the corresponding organopolysiloxanes having epoxy groups by reaction with alkali or ammonium thiosulfate and used for the surface treatment of inorganic or organic materials, for example, textiles, paper or rock wool.

Abstract: A process for producing colored, resin-impregnated paper sheets with a three-dimensional surface structure. A paper sheet is printed with a pattern using aqueous printing ink. The printing ink which is printed on regions which are to have a thinner lacquer film contains a lacquer repelling material. After the printed sheet is dried, it is lacquered with an aqueous lacquer having a viscosity of 15 to 40 seconds in an AK-4 beaker. The lacquer includes as binder a mixture comprising(A) a mixture of urea and/or melamine resin, dissolved in water, and an aqueous acid as hardener, which cures in less than 100 seconds at a temperature above 100.degree. C. after the aqueous resin solution is mixed with the acid, and(B) a binder selected from the group consisting of(a) water-dilutable polyester resin,(b) acrylate resin, and(c) ethoxylated derivative of glycerin,there being 10 to 250 parts by weight of solids of binder (B) for every 100 parts by weight of solids of binder (A).

Abstract: Chintz fabrics characterized by exhibiting a glossy smooth appearance and having enhanced hand, drapability and durability are produced by applying to the fabric a finishing composition comprising a silicone polymer and a catalyst, drying the impregnated fabric to a suitable moisture content without curing the finishing agent, and calendering the fabric with a heated calender roll to form a smooth glossy surface on the fabric while curing the finishing composition.

Abstract: In a liquid dispensing system which applies a liquid to a product moving past a liquid dispensing applicator, the improvement comprising dispensing a predetermined quantity of liquid per unit length of liquid dispensed by controlling the liquid operating pressure to coincide with a predetermined liquid pressure and by providing a flow bypass line which permits a continual flow of liquid through a liquid flow pump controlling the liquid operating pressure when the liquid dispensing applicator is not activated.

Abstract: This invention concerns a process for preparing non-woven webs having a very soft hand and a high tensile strength. The process involved includes print bonding a non-woven web with a formaldehyde-free binder having a glass transition temperature of about 5.degree. C. to about 33.degree. C., then drying, curing and then calendering the non-woven web. The resultant non-woven web has a cross dimensional water wet tensile strength of at least 150 g/in and has a softness value of at least as soft as thermally bonded polypropylene. The invention is also concerned with a product produced by the above process.

Abstract: Confidential information is printed, typed or otherwise applied to paper with a color having a reflection spectral response or less than about 10% for light with a wave-length below about 600 millimicrons. The color is sufficiently contrasting with the information to enable the information to be read by the human eye when the document is viewed under white light, but the document cannot be successfully photocopied.

Abstract: A textile material for articles of clothing and the like comprises a support of fabric or leather, having applied to one of the surfaces thereof a composition of cholesteric liquid crystals, the color of which varies on varying the temperature or the visual angle under which the surface is observed.

Abstract: Highly opaque printed areas are produced on uncolored or precolored fabrics pursuant to this invention with the use of an aqueous opaque printing paste comprising a dispersion of an opacifying pigment and an aqueous binder which is cured by free radical initiation. In accordance with the invention multicolor prints with a variety of unique and visually appealing shade possibilities and color effects not heretofore possible are achieved.