Abstract: Corrosion preventives, e.g. for automobiles, comprise sepiolite clays with waxes, sulfonates e.g. SACI, optional solvents, oils, soaps provide high viscosity, high solids, corrosion-preventatives. Application can be by hot spray or hot melt, hot dipping, and other standard techniques. The sepiolite clays provide excellent anti-sag capabilities to the dry films without excessively increasing the viscosity of the coating material. Conventional thixatropes such as bentonites and other common organo clays usually drastically increase product viscosity and complicate pumping at room temperature.

Abstract: A method is described for preparing tissue samples for use in diagnostic evaluation involving the rapid fixation, dehydration, and embedding of a tissue sample as well as rapid mounting of plastic sections to glass slides, dissolution of plastic and optimal staining of tissure components. The rapid and controllable fixation and the dehydration of the tissue sample utilizes the denaturing effects of microwaves on the proteins in combination with a heat sink. Alternatively, the dehydration of the tissue sample utilizes the principles of freeze drying. The tissue sample can be embedded using conventional paraffin embedding or plastic embedding techniques. Rapid penetration of plastic into the tissue is facilitated by microwaves, adhesion of plastic sections to glass slides is promoted by microwaves, as is the fast and optimal staining of tissue components. The method of this invention provides a very rapid technique for processing of tissue for diagnostic and analytic evaluation.

Abstract: A wax composition for waxing skis comprising a wax matrix having incorporated therein a silicone polymer of relatively low volatility.

Abstract: Improved wax compositions suitable for the preparation of candles, as the sole fuel component or as an overdip applied to a paraffin or paraffin/fatty acid candle, are provided. The compositions of this invention are a blend of a paraffin, a C.sub.16 or C.sub.18 saturated fatty acid or mixture of said fatty acids, and an alpha-alkyl-branched carboxylic acid obtained by the free radical addition of a C.sub.20-44 alpha-olefin or alpha-olefin mixture and a carboxylic acid having 3 to 36 carbon atoms. A process for improving the surface characteristics of paraffin or paraffin/fatty acid candles by applying the present wax compositions thereto as an overdip and the resulting improved candles obtained therefrom are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of inhibiting degeneration of direct reduced iron by immersing the iron ore, after it has been reduced, in molten wax for a period of time sufficient for the wax to cover completely the surface of the iron and to enter the pores in the surface of the iron.The iron is preferably in the form of pellets which are conveyed in mesh baskets which are themselves immersed in the wax.The wax is preferably paraffin wax at a temperature of between 110.degree. and 120.degree. C.

Abstract: The preparation of paraffinized cell blocks from fixed tissue and sputum samples employs microwave enhanced dehydration and impregnation of the cell specimens. The fixed cell specimen is first exposed to a suitable dehydrating agent, typically a low molecular weight alcohol, and exposed to microwave radiation for a relatively short period of time. The dehydrated sample is then cleared (if necessary) and immersed in a suitable melted wax and thereafter exposed to microwave radiation again for a relatively short period of time. The resulting paraffinized tissue sections have been found to possess staining characteristics which are substantially equivalent or superior to those obtained by conventional cell block paraffinization techniques.

Abstract: A method of producing waterproofing membranes is disclosed. A tough, fibrous web or matting is saturated with a thermoplastic waterproofing compound to produce a predetermined minimum thickness on both the upper and lower surfaces of the membrane sufficient to provide adequate flow characteristics during installation of the membrane without excessive exposure of the support matting to deteriorating conditions during installation. Afterwards the coated membrane is cooled and inverted for further treating at least one of the exposed surfaces with additional material.

Abstract: Metal substrates with a protective coating are provided, the coating being formed of a varnish-bonded, carbon-containing layer adherently bonded to the metal substrate. Optionally, the coating may also contain a dispersion of finely divided material selected from the group consisting of certain metal oxides and carbonates.

Abstract: A chemical composition particularly useful in a vapor generating apparatus which includes at least one organic compound with two or less carbon atoms and a selected coating compound therein. Upon submersion of an object to be cleaned or dried in a boiling solution of the organic compound the object is not only cleaned or dried, but is also coated with a material which improves its resistance to, for example, erosion, corrosion, friction, and the like.

Abstract: The invention encompasses a petrolatum wax-biocidal composition and a method of preserving wood with the composition.

Abstract: A waterproof membrane consisting of a non-woven bitumen-coated reinforcement of heat-bonded continuous filaments containing:from 70 to 90% of polyethylene glycol terephthalate andfrom 30 to 10% of polybutylene glycol terephthalate.The filaments are two-component and either concentric or side-by-side. The membrane consists of filaments made of each of the two types of polymers. The process for its manufacture by heat bonding.Application in the building industry (roofs, terraces, floors and any waterproofing application).

Abstract: Clouded acrylate surfaces are cleaned permanently. The clouded surface is first cleaned using a petroleum distillate. Subsequently, a coating of an oil-monomer modified alkyl resin, 71-78% non-volatile, is coated on the surface to prevent further clouding.

Abstract: Referring to FIG. 1, a method for making an improved electrode 15 having a gold coating 9 for use in the anode compartment 12 of a REDOX cell 10 is described. The anode fluid utilizes a chromic/chromous couple.The flow chart FIG. 2 illustrates the method wherein a carbon felt is soaked in methanol, rinsed in water, dried and then heated in KOH after which it is again washed in deionized water and dried.The felt is then moistened with a methanol-water solution containing chloroauric acid and is stored in a dark place while still in contact with the gold-containing solution.After all the gold-containing solution is absorbed by the felt, the latter is dried by heat and then heat-treated at a substantially greater temperature. The felt is now suitable for use as an electrode and is wetted with water or up to 2 molar HCl prior to installation in a REDOX cell.The two curves on the far right of FIG. 3 illustrate the low hydrogen evolution of the improved electrode.

Abstract: A formable viscid caulking member including a viscid medium; a flexible multifilament member saturated with the viscid medium; and a method of making such a caulking member.

Abstract: A packaging material, preferably for meat, which is composed of a weft inserted, warp knit substrate fabric and a coating of microcrystalline wax on both sides of the substrate fabric.

Abstract: A method of increasing the wear resistance of a vulcanized elastomeric body having a surface region exposed to load, for instance a tire, cone or V-belt, conveyor belt, hose, resilient element, floor covering or the like, by changing its tensile stress state, wherein the elastomeric body is at least partially treated, including the surface region exposed to load, with a swelling agent constituting a medium which is soluble in the elastomer.

Abstract: A method of impregnating a cable with a water impenetrable and water repellent sealing material comprising passing the cable axially through a pipe having open ends such that the pipe and cable form an annular gap along the length of the pipe. The gap is relatively thin compared to the diameter of the cable. A heated flowable sealing material is injected under pressure into the gap at an intermediate position between the open ends of the pipe so that the sealing material will flow inwardly into the cable during passage thereof through the pipe while the excess material travels axially along the cable in the gap and freely flows axially outwards from the ends of the pipe for collection and recirculation. The solidified filling material forms a solid barrier protecting the cable against penetration of water.

Abstract: Oil-type, deep drawing lubricants for use primarily on ferrous sheet metal surfaces and the like may consist essentially of a dispersion of from about 2 to 20 parts by weight of a high viscosity liquid polar lubricant dispersed as a discontinuous phase in an anhydrous, hydrocarbon, liquid vehicle of relatively low viscosity with the aid of at least one emulsifying agent. The lubricants preferably contain at least one corrosion-inhibiting agent and at least one agent for facilitating removal of the lubricant composition from the surface of a fabricated workpiece. The lubricants may be applied to a workpiece at the steel mill or in a blanking line by conventional liquid lubricant application procedures as thin films in which the dispersed phase quickly splits from the continuous phase and forms an ultra-thin, adherent film overlaid by a thin film of the material of the continuous phase.

Abstract: Glass substrates are provided, for example, glass fibers, with a substantially solvent insoluble coating of asphalt.

Abstract: A process is described for thermo-chemically coating ferrous metal articles, especially small intricate ferrous articles. The process involves preparing a coating composition for homogenizing a complex of metal oxides and other solids in an organic liquid composition to obtain an emulsion, pre-heating the ferrous articles to an elevated temperature, immersing the pre-heated ferrous articles in the coating composition, withdrawing the articles and allowing them to cool.

Abstract: This invention relates to a bitumen-based composition comprising a ternary mixture of (a) 52-78 wt % bitumen, (b) 20-40 wt % polyolefin and (c) 2-8 wt % of a butadiene-styrene copolymer.Said composition is useful alone for sealing purposes as a melt or a solution, and is also useful for the production of composite sealing sheets.

Abstract: Metal working operations, especially drawing, are facilitated by applying to the metal a composition which provides lubricity thereto and which melts within the range of about 30.degree.-100.degree. C. The composition comprises at least one neutral ester, and preferably a mixture of esters, prepared from polyalkylene glycols and saturated aliphatic alcohols having at least about 10 carbon atoms, and C.sub.12-25 aliphatic monocarboxylic acids and C.sub.4-20 aliphatic polycarboxylic acids. The preferred ester mixtures are prepared from polyethylene glycols, C.sub.14-20 predominantly straight chain alkanols, stearic acid and adipic, azelaic or sebacic acid. Optional ingredients include phosphorus acid salts and antioxidants. The composition may be applied in liquid form and solidifies on cooling to normal ambient and storage temperatures.

Abstract: This invention relates to coating compositions containing a wax, an acid component and a polyvinyl alkyl ether having a molecular weight in the range of from 1,000 to 15,000. Most preferably, the polyvinyl alkyl ether is either polyvinyl methyl ether or polyvinyl isobutyl ether. The coatings made from these compositions have highly improved adhesive properties toward the substrate upon which they are deposited. This is true over a wide range of temperatures and especially in the very low temperature range. They can be utilized as hot melt coatings for items such as paperboard and corrugated board. They are especially effective as coatings for polymeric foams, particularly polyurethane foams.

Abstract: A process for impregnating carbon resistors used in the telephony art to reduce or eliminate dusting of carbon particles during arcing, thereby permitting gap distances to be accurately maintained, and the useful life of the electrodes to be extended. The process includes the immersion of completed electrodes into a water solution of polyethylene glycol, whereby the solution is absorbed between the carbon granules, following which the water vehicle is allowed to evaporate, leaving a thin coating of glycol which binds the carbon granules together without significantly altering the resistive qualities of the carbon.

Abstract: The method of the present disclosure includes preparing a coil which is impregnated with resin to form a resin packed coil, in which the resin is still in a liquid phase, immersing the resin packed coil into a wax in the liquid state, hardening the wax adhering around the resin packed coil, hardening the resin which is impregnated in the coil, and removing the wax, thus obtaining a resin packed coil assembly where the resin is hardened and surrounds the coil.

Abstract: A bulky asphalt-impregnated sheet comprising a base material of a bulky sheet of non-woven fabric which is uniformly and completely saturated with asphalt on the surface layers of the front and rear sides of said base material, said surface layers having of different properties from each other. A method and a system for manufacturing such bulky sheet comprises preparing the base material of non-woven fabric uniformly and completely saturated with asphalt, scraping off the asphalt from the surface of said base material and then applying a material of a different property onto the scraped surface.

Abstract: In a method of impregnating carbon electrodes, a step of heating and drying carbon electrodes is separately juxtaposed to a step of pitch impregnation and cooling so that respective palettes are transported on separate courses for the respective steps, and at a position where said courses approach each other, the electrodes are transferred from a palette for said heating and drying step to a palette for said impregnation and cooling step so that the palette in the step of impregnation and cooling does not pass through a heating and drying furnace in the other step.

Abstract: A plurality of articles such as sheets or lenses are simultaneously and uniformly coated by first placing them in vertical spaced relationship with respect to each other within a tank having a quantity of fluid coating material therein. The coating material flows across the surfaces to be coated. Thereafter, the sheets are lifted out of the tank into an elongated chamber above the tank in which they are spun about their vertical axes. Excess coating material is thus driven off the surfaces to be coated. Means to recover, clean, replenish and remove bubbles from the coating material are disclosed.

Abstract: A decorative multicolored candle is produced by applying, to the side surface of a candle core, a removable solid member having a melting temperature higher than that of candle wax. The surface of the core and side member are coated successively with a plurality of superimposed different colored coatings of candle wax, and the solid member is removed through a slit cut in the superimposed coatings, thereby forming projections having multicolored free ends. Thereafter, one of more additional different colored coatings of candle wax are applied over the thus treated core. A sufficient amount of the additional coatings are then removed to expose the multicolored free ends of the projections outlined by the exposed colors of the additional coatings.

Abstract: A finish composition for fibrous material such as carbon, graphite or silica fibers comprises an aqueous emulsion of an elastomer and a lubricious substance which are both dispersed in the aqueous emulsion. The elastomer comprises a latex of butyl rubber or butadiene/nitrile type rubbers, and the lubricious substance comprises an emulsion of a hydrocarbon type wax such as paraffin. The aqueous emulsion which includes a dispersant such as water proportioned to provide the emulsion with a solids concentration of up to about 1% is applied as a size to the fibrous material, following which the water is driven off such as by use of elevated temperatures to cause the lubricious substance to separate from the elastomer and exude to the surface of the elastomeric sheath surrounding the fibrous material. The finish may be used as an aid to weaving, in which event it is applied to fibers such as carbon or graphite fibers prior to weaving and then removed after the weaving is completed.

Abstract: A high quality water proofing material of easier applicability than those employed previously comprises a non woven fabric of isostatic polypropylene fibres treated with a mixture of bitumen and sulphur.

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.

Abstract: Production of treated wood with improved penetrability by projectiles is accomplished in an improved pressure treatment with an improved treating solution. The wood is impregnated in a pressure treatment process with a treating solution containing an impregnant, an aliphatic hydrocarbon or halogenated hydrocarbon liquid carrier, a cosolvent if the solubility of the impregnant in the liquid carrier is inadequate, and an effective amount of lubricating oil. After the treating solution has impregnated the wood, the liquid carrier is evaporated leaving treated wood containing an impregnant with internal lubrication due to the oil and possibly some cosolvent.

Abstract: An asphalt roofing which comprises a base material of a bulky non-woven fabric made of filaments of synthetic fibres intertwined with each other and an asphalt with which said base material is uniformly and completely saturated and which also covers both sides of said base material. The non-woven fabric has a substantial thickness, such as 4-5mm, and is produced by the well-known needle-punching process. This base material is saturated with and covered by the single kind of asphalt. A method of making same comprises feeding said non-woven fabric along a vertical path into a bath of molten asphalt, thereby permitting the air contained within the fabric to successively escape vertically through the fabric itself into the atmosphere while permitting the fabric to be uniformly and completely saturated with said molten asphalt, and then withdrawing said fabric from the molten asphalt into the atmosphere and drying the same.

Abstract: A process for producing refractories wherein an impregnant is filled into open pores of the refractories. The impregnant is the thermoplastic resinous material which is obtained by removing a light fraction having a boiling point of less than 200.degree. C under a reduced pressure of 100 mmHg and having a benzene-insoluble fraction content of less than 10% by weight from at least one member selected from the group consisting of a heavy oil obtained by the steam cracking of petroleum and the polymerization product of said heavy oil. The slag penetration resistance, slag erosion resistance and slaking resistance of the impregnated refractories are improved thereby.

Abstract: A composition of matter comprising a mass of ferrous scrap pieces compressed together in random orientation forming a network of interlocking pieces has been prepared. The ferrous metal network has a density of 1.2 to 4.0 g/cc, a porosity of 50% to 85% and a short transverse tensile strength (S.T.T.S.) of at least 2 psi, preferably at least 2.5 psi.This ferrous metal network may be impregnated with magnesium in amount from 18 to 55% by weight of the impregnated body. The magnesium impregnated body is useful for treating high melting metals such as ferrous metal to reduce the sulphur content or to produce nodular iron.

Abstract: Retarding bloom in normally blooming polyurethane interlayers which are used in laminated windows, particularly motor vehicle safety glass windows in which one major surface of the polyurethane is exposed to the atmosphere, by applying a layer of wax to the exposed major surface of the polyurethane interlayer is disclosed. The resulting window is free from bloom for at least several months.

Abstract: A process for dyeing fiberglass by the steps of applying thereto a combination consisting of a substituted oxazoline and a thermosetting epoxy resin, heating at about 270.degree.-300.degree.F and applying a disperse, or an acid dye or a vat dye thereto.

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.