Abstract: An apparatus and method for soldering miniaturized electrical components to the surface of PC boards. A layer of solder paste is provided, into which the contact portions of electrical component leads are pressed. The component with solder paste adhering to the leads is moved to its placement station on the board and placed thereon with the leads contacting their respective pads.

Abstract: A method of treating a commercially available ion plated graphite/aluminum composite with suitable hydroscopic liquid selected from the group consisting of methylene chloride, toluene, xylene and where such liquid treatment results in capillary action in the graphite fibers and subsequently heat treating the graphite/aluminum composite in a hot processing step where magnesium powder is sublime at a temperature in the range of 350.degree.-450.degree. C. and where such sublime magnesium vapor uniformly coats graphite and aluminum in the composite material so as to obtain a graphite aluminum composite coated with magnesium.

Abstract: In a coating method, a web is run along a stationary metering member having a curved smooth surface at the upper end in such a manner that the web is in contact with the smooth surface, a solution which is substantially the same in composition as a coating solution is continuously supplied to the web at a position which is before the metering member, to wet the coating surface of said web, and a predetermined quantity of coating solution is supplied continuously to the web at a position which is after the metering member.

Abstract: An improved quick-disconnect switch for use in a multilamp photoflash unit containing a plurality of flashlamps and circuit means for sequentially igniting the flashlamps, in which the switch is adapted to automatically by-pass a flashlamp having an improper atmosphere therein, referred to herein as an "air" or "vacuum" lamp. The disconnect switch comprises a length of polymeric material which is rendered electrically conductive by a deposit of conductive material (e.g., aluminum) on at least a portion of the surface thereof. The conductive material has a gap disposed therein extending substantially transverse to the length thereof. The disconnect switch is severed directly by ignition of the primer from the high voltage pulse that ignites the lamp rather than by previously required direct optical energy coupling from the lamp. In an alternate embodiment, the switch may be constructed of a thin, low melting alloy member.

Abstract: A tinned conductor is advanced through each of a plurality of successively smaller die openings in a drawing apparatus to reduce the diameter of the tinned conductor after which it is annealed. After the tinned conductor has been annealed, it is moved through the opening of a die which is slightly smaller than the final die opening in the drawing apparatus. This reconfigures any of the tin coating that may have reflowed during annealing and formed protrusions to remove any such protrusions and form an essentially smooth surface. As a result, the adhesion of a subsequently extruded plastic covering to the tinned conductor is controlled to be within a predetermined range and to be substantially uniform along the length of the conductor.

Abstract: A method for wiping coated wire or strip which emerges vertically from a bath of molten metal, wherein the coated wire or strip, passes vertically through a pad wiping zone located above and spaced apart from the bath of molten metal. A pad wiping assembly is provided above the bath of molten metal and is adjustable by adjustment means from a position exterior the bath of molten metal.The pad wiping assembly includes pad wiping material in the form of compressed non-combustible material and strip or wire wiping pads are replaceable.

Abstract: A pad for the wiping of coated wire or strip and a method of forming such a pad. The pad includes a compressed non-combustible, alumino silicate fibrous material.The method of forming the pad wiping material includes compressing such an alumino silicate fibrous material into a pad by the application of pressure in the range of 7 to 20 tonnes per square inch.

Abstract: A method of cladding a wire with a powdered metal includes feeding the wire in its axial direction, applying powdered metal around its surface, compacting the applied powdered layer on the surface and subsequently continuously rolling-over the applied layer on a helical path to provide a helical zone of metallurgically bonded powdered material. The device of this invention has a storage container for powdered material, a rotary shaft defining at its center a forwardly tapering passage with an internal thread acting as a worm conveyor, the shaft being terminated with an exchangeable outlet nozzle, the nozzle supporting a set of cladding rollers, the axes of rotation of which are inclined at an acute angle to the axis of the passage. The driving arrangement for the rollers is preferably driven by a separate motor.

Abstract: A continuous process for preparing finely divided thin, bright metal particles which comprises applying a release coating to at least one side of a carrier sheet, depositing a metal film of from 350 to 450 angstroms thickness onto the release coating solubilizing the release coating, removing the metal film from the carrier sheet, and breaking the thin metal film into particles having a diameter of between 25 to 50 microns.

Abstract: A method of cladding a wire with a powdered metal includes feeding the wire in its axial direction, applying powdered metal around its surface, compacting the applied powdered layer on the surface and subsequently continuously rolling-over the applied layer on a helical path to provide a helical zone of metallurgically bonded powdered material. The device of this invention has a storage container for powdered material, a rotary shaft defining at its center a forwardly tapering passage with an internal thread acting as a worm conveyor, the shaft being terminated with an exchangeable outlet nozzle, the nozzle supporting a set of cladding rollers, the axes of rotation of which are inclined at an acute angle to the axis of the passage. The driving arrangement for the rollers is preferably driven by a separate motor.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for applying a uniform coating of liquid solder to a flat tube particularly at and adjacent to the side edges of the tube. The apparatus has spaced heated platens comprising shaping die members located opposite to each other and including tube embracing recesses forming a slot through which the liquid solder coated tube is passed. The disclosure also includes spacing means for spacing these die members apart a distance equal to the width of the coated tubes and yieldable means such as springs urging the spaced heated platens toward each other to bear against the side edges of the tube together with means for drawing the coated tube between the heated platens and means for heating the platens in the vicinity of the tube to a temperature above the melting point of the solder as well as passages permitting draining of excess solder from the tube during its passage between the heated platens.

Abstract: Conductors are formed in slots in a plate by filling the slots with a carrier medium having high viscosity in which metallic particles are dispersed and then, by lowering the viscosity of the medium, permitting the particles to settle to the bottom of the slots. The carrier medium is then removed, and the metal particles are bonded to the bottom of the slots. A rake-like device is also used to shape all of the electrodes so that they are uniformly spaced from the top surface of the plate.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for applying a uniform coating of liquid solder to a flat tube particularly at and adjacent to the side edges of the tube. The apparatus has spaced heated platens comprising shaping die members located opposite to each other and including tube embracing recesses forming a slot through which the liquid solder coated tube is passed. The disclosure also includes spacing means for spacing these die members apart a distance equal to the width of the coated tubes and yieldable means such as springs urging the spaced heated platens toward each other to bear against the side edges of the tube together with means for drawing the coated tube between the heated platens and means for heating the platens in the vicinity of the tube to a temperature above the melting point of the solder as well as passages permitting draining of excess solder from the tube during its passage between the heated platens.

Abstract: An article comprising: (1) an interpolymer which comprises crosslinked (meth)acrylate, crosslinked styrene-acrylonitrile, and uncrosslinked styrene-acrylonitrile components; and (2) an adherent metallic coating on said interpolymer. The article is useful as a plated component in motor vehicles, for example, as trim, grille work, wheel covers, and the like, or as plated appliance parts or plumbing components.

Abstract: Process for depositing a thin conducting metal layer on an insulating support comprising the steps of applying on said support a layer of nonconducting ink loaded with a powder of metal, alloy or metallic derivative, heating said support and said layer to harden said ink layer, treating the surface of said layer so as to lay the particles forming said powder bare and immersing said thus coated support into a bath containing, in the form of particles, the conducting metal to be deposited, under conditions which are known per se and such that said conducting metal particles are deposited on the powder particles laid bare, wherein is used as insulating support a support made of an inorganic material provided with an enamel coating and the ink used being a compound formed of an enamel and a carrier, the melting point of said enamel being substantially equal to, and preferably slightly lower than, the softening point of the outer layer of said coating.

Abstract: A method for metalizing the surface walls of a printed circuit board through hole to produce an electrically conductive path from one metallic layer of the board through the insulating plate to another metallic layer. A drill bit is forced through the board and into a block of soft conductor material. While the bit is turning the conductive cuttings from the block are carried to the hole in the insulating plate and smeared on the wall surface by the bit. The smeared conductive material creates an electrically conductive path between two metallic layers of the printed circuit board.

Abstract: Delamination of plating on aluminum, for example tin plating, is avoided by providing an intermediate alloy coating on the aluminum prior to its passage through a bath of molten tin or a tin alloy. The coating is applied by passing cleansed aluminum through to the plating thereof with a primary protective metal. The intermediate alloy coating alloy contains zinc, bismuth, cadmium, tin and lead.

Abstract: Zinc coated steel strip is produced by passing a strip through a molten zinc bath containing from 0.15% to 0.18% aluminum, controlling zinc coating weights to produce a relatively light coating of 0.20 oz./sq.ft. maximum on one side and a relatively heavy coating of 0.20 oz./sq.ft. minimum in the other side, and then uniformly heating both sides for a time and temperature sufficient to completely form an iron-zinc alloy on the light coated side and yet retain the essentially unalloyed zinc coating on the heavy coated side.

Abstract: A method for coating a metal wire with a thin layer of a second powdered metal. A metal flake powder having a residual surface lubricant from a prior milling operation is placed in the lubricant holding box of a conventional draw bench. The wire to be coated is passed through the metal flake powder and drawn through a conventional drawing die to provide a green-coat wire having a mechanically adherent metal flake powder coating. The green-coat wire is subsequently sintered to metallurgically bond the coating to the wire surface.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for use in continuously applying molten coating metal, such as in galvanizing or aluminizing to tubes, rods, wire or other work pieces passing through a metallic bath. The molten metal in a reservoir is discharged onto the tube or rod, the metal flowing around the tube or rod being controlled by a splash tube. The coating metal is progressively agitated and cooled within the splash tube, after which the tubing or rod is accurately centered to exit the splash tube with an even coating of the desired thickness, such coating being in a stable condition. The entire system is enclosed in an inert atmosphere eliminating the formation of "galvanizers' dross", oxides of aluminum, etc.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for coating thixotropic high viscosity liquid coating compositions on a moving web at a narrow coating in such a manner as to provide a flat coating surface. The apparatus is provided with at least two liquid discharge ports arranged side by side opposite to the moving web so that the liquids are discharged through the ports and the edge of the coating liquid streams meet on the web. The apparatus is further provided with an extrusion type hopper having two slide members of which the tip ends are in the form of a knife edge, the slide members being arranged so that the knife edges are directed inwardly toward each other, at least one partition plate interposed between the slide members so as to equally divide the distance between the internal surfaces of the slide members. The method of this invention is well suited for use in applying a magnetic recording stripe to a motion picture film.

Abstract: In manufacturing an electric motor commutator which includes a cylindrical insulator having an axial bore for receiving the shaft of an electric motor, and a plurality of segments of commutator metal, such as, copper, extending about the outer circumferential surface of the insulator and being spaced apart by axially extending slots opening radially outward from the insulator between confronting surfaces of adjacent segments; the circumferential surfaces of the segments are shielded, as by plating the same with a metal other than the commutator metal, such as, silver, nickel, tin or zinc, or by coating such circumferential surfaces with a paint, whereupon, the resulting commutator assembly is oxidized so that only the confronting surfaces of the segments between which the slots are defined are covered with insulating layers of copper oxide, and then the shielding, along with any oxide that may have been formed thereon, is removed from the circumferential surfaces of the segments for exposing the copper or oth

Abstract: Hot-tinned wire of copper or copper alloys is provided having a first coating of from 0.5 to 2 .mu.m thick consisting of an SnBi alloy containing 2 to 10 percent by weight Bi or of a SnNi alloy containing 0.2 to 1 percent by weight Ni, and having a second coating 1 to 4 .mu.m thick consisting of pure tin or of a SnPb alloy. The first coating acts as diffusion retarding film and retards the Cu.sub.3 Sn phase growth considerably.

Abstract: The reliability of radiation switches is improved in accordance with this invention by mechanically modifying the contact members of the switch structure to reduce the heat sinking effectiveness of the switch contact members.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for coating a band of a composition about a medial portion of an electrical component lead or terminal, where a continuous ribbon of a coating composition is extruded onto a medial portion of a plurality of spaced discrete leads or terminals extending transversely from a carrier strip. The continuous ribbon of coating composition is festooned between adjacent pins to coat paste on the sides of the leads or terminals. The leads or terminals and festoonery are transported over a surface of a wheel to apply the coating composition to the underside of each lead or terminal. A cut-off blade removes the excess composition from the underside of the terminal pins, as the pins leave the surface of the application wheel.

Abstract: Difficultly solderable material having an oxide surface such as glass, ceramics or such metals as Si, Ge, Al, Ti, Zr or Ta is soldered using a solder alloy composed of 2-98.5% by wt. of Pb, 1-97.5% by wt. of Sn and 0.1-15% by wt. of rare earth metals, while applying vibration, preferably of the ultrasonic type.

Abstract: Mattress fabrics or the like rendered fire-resistant by coating the underside with a polymeric binder having dispersed therein from 30-60% by weight of a flake- or leaf-shaped heat conductive material selected from the group consisting of aluminum and graphite of from 50-400 mesh.

Abstract: Mattress .Iadd.and upholstery .Iaddend.fabrics or the like rendered fire-resistant by coating the underside with a polymeric binder having dispersed therein from 30-60% by weight of a flake- or leaf-shaped heat conductive material selected from the group consisting of aluminum and graphite of from 50-400 mesh.