Abstract: The reflectors, for example for automotive vehicle head lamps are reflectorized by evaporating aluminum thereon in a vacuum vessel at a vacuum of about 10.sup.-7 bar; thereafter, and without removing the reflectors, a gaseous monomer is introduced raising the pressure to about 5 .times. 10.sup.-6 bar to deposit a protective layer by polymerization from the gaseous phase. The monomer gases, preferably, are low molecular weight siloxanes having methyl-, vinyl- or phenyl groups, preferably hexamethyldisiloxane (HMDS), or methyl-, vinyl- or alkoxy silanes, preferably vinyltrimethylsilane (VTMS), polymerization being accelerated and ensured by an electrical discharge generated within the vessel by a heated electron emitter placed at a negative voltage with respect to the reflector blanks. After polymerization, the layer is rendered hydrophilic by treatment with oxygen at a pressure of about 10.sup.-2 to 10.sup.

Abstract: A process is shown wherein an aqueous binder composition, preferably a latex binder composition, is foamed and applied as a layer of controlled thickness on a transfer roll rotating above a moving fibrous web but out of touch with the latter while suction is applied below the web in the region of the roll to draw the foam off the roll and into the web. The web is subsequently dried. The process produces webs of improved hand because impregnation is accomplished with only the foam coming into contact with the web.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for making continuous, elongated strips or webs, of electrically conductive, flexible material having individual and successive deposits, or patches, spaced apart therealong, each deposit comprising a cathode layer on one face of the strip, oppositely disposed to an anode layer on the other face of the strip, characterized by the layers being in exact peripheral registration with each other.The registration is obtained by reverse roll coating a first such layer on the advancing strip in a first zone so that it extends above the surface of the strip, then training the advancing strip around a roll, in a coating roll nip, with the first layer down and supported on the roll surface and simultaneously reverse roll coating the second such layer on the exposed face of the strip in said nip, while the portions thereof surrounding the raised first layer are flexed out of the plane of the strip, thereby permitting the first layer to control the deposit of the second layer to register therewith.

Abstract: This specification discloses a method of impregnating and drying material such as cardboard or corrugated cardboard preliminary shaped or not, comprising a certain number of steps and more particularly a step of impregnating cardboard located inside a sealed container by means of an impregnating liquid which is formed by impregnating substance and solvent, a step of drying the cardboard still located inside said container and a step of recovering the solvent during the step of drying in view to recycle it.

Abstract: There is disclosed a process for improving the adhesion of an evaporable glass coating on a synthetic polymer sheet material by the application of a base vitreous coating of a mixture of silicon dioxide and silicon monoxide by evaporating silicon monoxide under vacuum in an oxygen atmosphere so that in addition to silicon monoxide, a silicon dioxide condensate is condensed on the outer surface of the sheet. An outer vitreous coating is subsequently applied over said base coating. The evaporative glass outer coating can be formed essentially from boron oxide and silicon dioxide containing less than 5% by weight of sodium oxide. The evaporative glass coating can also be of fused silica, or a boro-silicate glass sold under the trademark "Pyrex".

Abstract: This invention relates to solutions of selected organo-metallic compounds ssolved in an organic solvent which are useful for deacidifying a cellulose fiber paper. The paper is treated by means well known in the art, such as dipping or spraying. The organo-metallic compounds useful in this invention are compounds which may be rapidly hydrolyzed to an alkaline material such as lower alkyl compounds of lithium, aluminum, magnesium, gallium, zinc, and mixtures of these compounds. The organic solvent is a liquid which will not react with the organo-metallic compound, dissolve inks, or cause discoloration of other materials usually found in and around printed matter. After the paper is impregnated with the solution the organo-metallic compound remaining on the paper is hydrolyzed to an alkaline material.

Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus to apply a coating to a fabric which employs vacuum pressure to enhance the penetration of the coating into the fabric. The vacuum pressure source has a continuously moving surface to prevent build-up of the coating material at the outlet of the vacuum source.

Abstract: Apparatus usable in combination with means for extruding a waterproof plastic sheath on foam coating on the exterior of pipe, for reducing the diameter of the plastic sheath adjacent the pipe section ends to conform to the beveled end surfaces of the foam coating and adjacent protruding marginal portions of the pipe surface and thereby form a water stop excluding moisture from the foam thus enclosed by the plastic sheath.

Abstract: A fiber web made by the wet method on a paper making machine is impregnated with a heat sensitized, foamed latex binder as the web passes through a screening area of the paper making machine.

Abstract: A block to be consolidated, which is contained in a bag made of liquid tight flexible sheet material, is enclosed in a pressure tight container with the open mouth of the bag open upwardly. While the vacuum is maintained in the container, a liquid medium is supplied into the container and around the bag until the liquid medium reaches a level lower than the level of the open mouth of the bag, after which the container is evacuated into a vacuum state, and then a fluid hardenable resin composition is fed into the bag, through its open mouth, until the block is immersed in said composition. Thereafter, the vacuum is released from the container, so that the fluid resin composition deeply penetrates into all the cavities of the block which are open to the outside, and finally the resin composition is allowed to harden, whereby a consolidated block is obtained.

Abstract: Hydrophobic diaphragm material, such as crystalline, highly expanded microporous polytetrafluoroethylene film, may be prepared for installation in a chlor-alkali cell by a process involving the steps of (1) immersing the diaphragm in a solution of acetal-type nonionic surfactant in a suitable non-aqueous solvent, (2) rinsing the diaphragm in deionized water, (3) immersing the diaphragm in an aqueous solution containing an amount of acetal-type nonionic surfactant effective to promote wetting for a suitable period of time, and (4) immersing the diaphragm in a brine solution containing about 100 to 200 grams per liter of sodium chloride and an amount effective to promote wetting of an acetal-type nonionic surfactant for a suitable period of time, such as several hours. In some instances, it is also advantageous to subject the diaphragm while immersed in the solvent solution to the action of a vacuum, to release trapped air.

Abstract: A pintle wire for high load hinge connections, especially for textile webs and transmission belts, and method of making same, according to which endless synthetic fibers are braided individually or in strands and are embedded in high wear resistant and hydrolysis resistant heat hardenable material and interconnected thereby.

Abstract: Improved film-forming organic resin plant aqueous binder replenishment concentrated compositions adapted for dispersing in an aqueous electrocoating bath containing sufficient additional water-soluble amino compound to impart anionic polyelectrolyte behavior in the bath to the resin in the binder concentrate compositions, the binder concentrate compositions comprising:40-70 percent by weight of cyclized rubber in 60-30 percent by weight of a binder mixture wherein the binder mixture comprises:I. about 10-50 percent by weight of a non-heat reactive phenol-aldehyde resin; andIi. about 50-90 percent by weight of a copolymer, said copolymer comprising:A. about 50-85 percent by weight of an ester of methacrylic acid or acrylic acid with an alcohol having 1-10 carbon atoms;B. about 5-20 percent by weight of drying oils or drying oil fatty acids containing olefinically unsaturated fatty acids;C. about 5-15 percent by weight of an .alpha.,.beta.-olefinically unsaturated carboxylic acid having 3-5 carbon atoms;D.

Abstract: There is disclosed a process for improving the adhesion of an evaporable glass coating on a synthetic polymer lens by the application of a base vitreous coating of a mixture of silicon dioxide and silicon monoxide by evaporating silicon monoxide under vacuum in an oxygen atmosphere so that in addition to silicon monoxide, a silicon dioxide condensate is condensed on the outer surface of the lens. An outer vitreous coating is subsequently applied over said base coating. The evaporative glass outer coating can be formed essentially from boron oxide and silicon dioxide containing less than 5% by weight of sodium oxide. The evaporative glass coating can also be of fused silica, or a boro-silicate glass sold under the trademark "Pyrex".

Abstract: A method of deacidifying paper wherein the paper has a substantially cellulose fiber base or substrate by exposing the paper to the vapors of a volatile organometallic compound and subsequently decomposing said compound to a base or alkaline material in situ. The treated material is usually first dried in vacuo and exposed under anhydrous or nearly anhydrous conditions to the organic-metallic compound. The method has the advantage of being able to treat large quantities of material at any one time.

Abstract: Disclosed is a pitch impregnant composition comprising coal tar pitch, oxidized, or unoxidized petroleum pitch with stearic acid, and particulated metallic pigments including copper, aluminum, steel, silver, iron, tin, nickel and zinc metals and copper-zinc alloys. The process comprises forcing the molten impregnant composition into the surface of the porous article preferably by imposing pressure on the impregnant composition while the article to be treated is immersed therein. Articles so treated exhibit a metallic surface appearance.