Abstract: In an electrothermic non-impact image transfer recording material for use in an electrothermic non-impact recording method in which the electrothermic non-impact image transfer recording material is superimposed on a recording sheet, a recording electrode with multiple recording styli and a return electrode are placed in contact with the recording material, and image-delineating signal voltage is applied across the recording material through the recording electrode and the return electrode, so that an ink is transferred imagewise from the recording material to the recording sheet, the improvement wherein the electrothermic non-impact image transfer recording material comprises a base layer and an ink layer, with an intermediate layer interposed between the two layers when necessary, and the base layer comprises as the main components a polyamide resin binder, such as an aromatic polyamide or nylon, and carbon black.

Abstract: An improved nonglossy release formulation for use in a heat transferable laminate wherein an ink design image is transferred from a carrier support to an article by application of heat to the carrier support. The improved release enhances anchorage of the ink design image while maintaining the required degree of release during transfer to an article. The improved release prevents image distortion during heat transfer to the article and provides the transferred image with a transparent, nonglossy, abrasion and corrosion resistant protective coating. The improved release is composed of a paraffin wax and a binder adhesion-promoting resin composed of a mono-olefin/vinylacetate/acrylic acid terpolymer or a mono-olefin/ethyl acrylate copolymer.

Abstract: A glossy black reflective metal coating with improved durability is prepared as a film of an intrinsically blackened chromium-containing metal. A laminate may be prepared with the metal coating bonded to at least one transferable resin film. A particular laminate includes at least one top coat and at least one base coat, with the metal coating located in sandwich relationship therebetween.

Abstract: A polymer coated information storage device, such as a disc, is disclosed. A coating composition for preparing such polymeric coating comprises certain esters of beta-acryloxypropionic acid with certain diacrylates. The coating composition also comprises under certain circumstances, a photoinitiator.

Abstract: A new trim material is disclosed comprising a fire resistant fabric having a weight of at least about 85 g/m.sup.2 and characterized by:(A) A fluorescent coating;(B) a flexible, drapable, stretchable, retroreflective sheeting covering a portion of the fluorescent coating of part (A);(C) the combined thickness of the fluorescent coating and any flammable part of the retroreflective sheeting being about 5 to 60% of the thickness of the fire resistant fabric.This trim material is useful for such articles such as firemen's coats in that it meets most of the same requirements for flame retardance as are applied to the outer shell material itself. Specifically, it retains its reflectivity in a laboratory oven test at 260.degree. C. for five minutes and retains the color of the fluorescent portion at 204.degree. C. in a laboratory oven for five minutes. The fabric properties of strength, fire retardancy, and resistance to heat are preserved in the composite trim material.

Abstract: A thermal magnetic transfer ribbon includes a substrate and a coating containing resin, oil and wax in a binder mix which is dispersed with a magnetic pigment in a solvent solution.

Abstract: A patch closure system for joining heat recoverable sheet material, especially for covering a substrate where the joined material is to be recovered around the substrate, comprises a layer of adhesive on one surface, a part of which is a pressure-sensitive adhesive and the remainder of which is a heat-activatable adhesive. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is of such an area and is placed such that, when the patch is placed over the overlap between the edges of the heat recoverable sheet material, the patch will continue to cover the overlap when the sheet material is recovered, even if the heat-activatable adhesive layer has not been used to attach the patch to the sheet material.

Abstract: A multi-layered thermoplastic film having improved physical characteristics is formulated through utilization of a linear low density polyethylene or linear medium density polyethylene resin as a core and/or an intermediate layer constituent.

Abstract: A heat transfer sheeting combination of the type for being applied onto a fibrous article (10) to imprint a design coating (14) thereon including a substrate (12), a design coating (14) disposed on the substrate (12), and an adhesive layer (24) disposed on the design coating (14). The adhesive layer (24) is responsive to heat and pressure for adhesively securing the design coating (14) to the article (10) and characterized by the adhesive layer (24) being a paste including a nylon resin and a polyester resin and an epoxy resin.

Abstract: A sweat absorbent textile fabric suitable as a material for outerwears including sportwears comprises a water absorbent fabric layer having a high moisture absorbency and a water permeable fabric layer having a low moisture absorbency and a high moisture permeability. These fabric layers may be integrally connected, such as by knitting or by the use of a bonding agent, together to provide a double-layered fabric structure. When in use, the combination of these fabric layer is used together with an outer fabric layer to be positioned on one side of the water absorbent fabric layer opposite to the water permeable fabric layer.

Abstract: A medium for recording optically readable information, comprising a transparent substrate layer, a semi reflective recording layer of a material which can melt, atomize or evaporate under the influence of light, and a separating layer is disclosed. Holes are put into the separating layer with a regular pattern with the holes extending through the complete thickness of the layer.

Abstract: This invention describes a water-impermeable elastomer-coated cloth composite in which the end sections of mutually adjacent elastomer-coated cloths are overlapped and sewn together in such a way that the thread passes up and down through this overlapped section. After a seam is sewn together, it is covered by an adhesive tape applied so that it extends over the sewn section of the seam and onto the portion of each section of the cloth beyond the sewn section to form a strong, watertight, airtight composite.

Abstract: A moisture sensitive resistive element includes a substrate made of an electrically non-conductive material, first and second electrodes deposited on the substrate in a spaced relation to each other, and a moisture sensitive film deposited on the substrate covering both the first and second electrodes. The moisture sensitive film is formed by a material given by a formula: [--CH(C.sub.6 H.sub.4 SO.sub.3 X)--CH.sub.2 --].sub.n wherein X is any one of a hydrogen atom, metal atom, ammonium, urea, triethylenediamine, tetramethyleneguanidine and hexamethylenediamine, or formed by a mixture of the above material with a hydrophilic polymer which is any one selected from a group consisting of polyvinyl alcohol, methyl cellulose and polyamide resin.

Abstract: An electrostatic transfer medium comprising a sheet formed of a transparent polyester plastic substrate having a thin transparent coating of a compatible polyester resinous composition having a softening range less than the softening range of the substrate material. A high resolution transparency is formed by electrophotographically forming a toned latent electrostatic image of a document upon an electrophotographic member, bringing the transfer medium into engagement with the image under localized pressure and heat to form a laminate and separating the cooled laminate whereby the image is transferred fully to the coating, the transfer being effected with minimal loss of optical density or resolution and practically no residue remaining on the electrophotographic member. The laminate may be cooled prior to separation.

Abstract: An intumescent curable composition has as its principal constituents an epoxy resin; a curing agent; and an additive component which is composed of a mixture of materials which provide a source of phosphorus, zinc, boron and an expansion gas. The aforesaid composition is capable of forming a carbonaceous char upon exposure to heat or flame.

Abstract: A flexible character-indentable plastics embossing tape (11) is backed by and bonded to a lead strip not more than 0.025 inches (i.e. approximately 0.65 millimeters) thick, to form a tape suitable for identifying radiographs. The lead strip (13) is itself backed by a relatively thin and flimsy plastics or fabric strip (15) which, when removed, allows the lead (and hence the lead-plastic tape as a whole) to be pressure-bonded to the surface to be radiographed.A conventional tape-embossing gun is used to indent the desired characters in succession, and in order, into the lead-backed tape, without necessarily severing the lead; and then the backing strip (15) is peeled away to expose the layer (14) of adhesive which pressure-bonds the indented tape to the object to be radiographed.X-rays incident on the embossed tape will cause the raised characters (a) to show up dark on the subsequently-developed film, while the raised side areas (b) will show up white. Each character will thus stand out on the developed film.

Abstract: A moisture sensitive resistive element includes a substrate made of an electrically non-conductive material, first and second electrodes deposited on the substrate in a spaced relation to each other, and a moisture sensitive film deposited on the substrate covering both the first and second electrodes. The moisture sensitive film is formed by a material given by a formula: [--CH(C.sub.6 H.sub.4 SO.sub.3 X)--CH.sub.2 --].sub.n wherein X is any one of a hydrogen atom, metal atom, ammonium, urea, triethylenediamine, tetramethyleneguanidine and hexamethylenediamine, or formed by a mixture of the above material with a hydrophilic polymer which is any one selected from a group consisting of polyvinyl alcohol, methyl cellulose and polyamide resin.

Abstract: Disclosed is a multi-layer plastic structure comprising a layer of a polyester composed mainly of ethylene terephthalate units or butylene terephthalate units and a gas barrier layer containing an olefin-vinyl alcohol copolymer, said two layers being laminated together through a layer of a thermoplastic resin adhesive containing ester groups and amide groups.

Abstract: This invention relates to coated fiberglass fabrics especially suitable for use as mattress tickings. The fabrics comprise a woven or non-woven fiberglass fabric to which a layer of a polymeric coating composition has been applied. The coating comprises a polymeric carrier containing an effective amount of a fungicide and/or bacteriocide, an effective amount of a flame retardant, and a filler which also functions to enhance the flame retardant properties of the fabric.

Abstract: Chemical heat amplification is provided in thermal transfer printing, wherein some of the heat necessary for melting and transferring ink from a solid fusible layer in a ribbon to a receiving medium is provided by an exothermic reaction. This chemical reaction is due to an exothermic material that is located in the ink layer, or in another layer of the ink bearing ribbon. The exothermic reaction reduces the amount of the input power which must be applied either electrically or with electromagnetic waves. Examples of suitable exothermic materials are those which will provide heat within the operative temperature range of the ink, and specifically hydrazone derivatives which are substantially colorless, and have a molecular weight in the approximate range 150-650.

Abstract: Optical devices including a molecularly oriented highly birefringent polymer are disclosed. The devices include molecularly oriented polymers comprising recurring units which exhibit a distribution of high electron density about the long axes of the polymer and the recurring units thereof. Transparent birefringent polymers comprising a plurality of recurring units having a substantially cylindrical distribution of electron density about the long axis of such units and the chain-extended polymers are included in optical devices and articles. The polymers exhibit high birefringence and simulate in a polymer the optical properties of a uniaxial crystal.

Abstract: A thermal insulation layer, suitable for use in a duvet, comprises a convection inhibiting structure and at least one surface with a low thermal emissivity. The structure may be a flexible cellular foam sheet or a web of fibrous material, while the low emissivity surface may be a coating on the sheet or on a thin flexible thermally insulating film. Perforations are provided through the foam sheet or the film to permit diffusion of water vapour through the layer, and the layer may include an additional web of fibrous material or feathers adjacent to the low emissivity surface.

Abstract: An information recording medium which includes a light-transmitting substrate, a recording layer formed on the substrate, the recording layer having the characteristic of changing an optical characteristic upon heating thereof, together with a protective layer having light-absorbing properties disposed over the recording layer and arranged to absorb light passing through the recording layer upon recording, in combination with a planar layer superimposed on the protective layer and capable of suppressing mechanical deformation of the recording layer.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a heat-shrinkable composite laminate film comprising an intermediate layer of a copolymer of vinylidene chloride, an outer layer of a polyamide, another outer layer of an olefin resin and two adhesive layers disposed between the intermediate layer and each of the two outer layers, the adhesive layers being at least one resin selected from the group consisting of a modified copolymer of ethylene and a vinyl carboxylate or an acrylic ester by an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid or an acid anhydride thereof and a polymeric material obtained by further modifying the above-mentioned modified copolymer with a metal compound, and a process for preparing the same.

Abstract: An adhesive composition comprises (A) an acrylic copolymer having NCO-reactive groups, (B) a blocked polyisocyanate and (C) a cycloamidine or acid addition salt thereof, as catalyst. The composition can be applied by hot-melt coating. Cured products from the composition are useful as pressure-sensitive adhesives.

Abstract: A transparent, elastomeric, composite film structure having a core ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer and outer layers of a low density ethylene homopolymer or copolymer with a small amount of another .alpha.-olefin or vinyl acetate is made by coextrusion of the polymers in a three-layer combining adapter and quenching on a chill roll. This film structure is useful as a wrapping material, especially for heat-sensitive articles.

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 thermal-sensitive record sheet copy system provides multiple copies by applying a coating to one record sheet. The single coating formulation includes ingredients which react to heat to provide a tacky condition having a desirable adhering property and thereby produce images on the two sheets. The coating includes a binder of synthetic polyterpene in the mixture in combination with a thermochromic dye and a phenolic resin.

Abstract: A recording medium with a multicolor high resolution pattern created by layer packs. Pattern-forming layers of the layer packs are successively applied by photolithographic means in a sequence corresponding to a color of the high resolution pattern. The pattern-forming layers of the layer packs are separate from one another on the substrate of the recording medium.The process for producing the recording medium includes applying a photoresist layer to a substrate and developing the photoresist. Pattern-forming layers are successively applied over the whole surface of the substrate in a sequence corresponding to a color. The remaining photoresist and the layers overlying it are removed to leave a sequence of pattern-forming layers on the substrate separate from any adjacent pattern-forming layers.

Abstract: An improved photosensor film and liquid crystal light valves embodying said film is provided. The photosensor film and liquid crystal light valve is characterized by a significant lower image retention time while maintaining acceptable photosensitivity. The photosensor film is produced by sputter depositing CdS onto an ITO substrate in an atmosphere of aqrgon/H.sub.2 S gas while maintaining the substrate at a temperature in the range of about 130.degree. C. to about 200.degree. C. and while introducing nitrogen gas into the system to the extent of not more than about 1% of plasma mixture. Following sputter deposition of the CdS, the film is annealed in an inert gas at temperatures ranging from about 300.degree. C. to about 425.degree. C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cover film for a color hard copy printing paper by which a colorless and transparent protective layer can be formed on a surface of a printing paper on which a color-print is made. The cover film for a color hard copy printing paper according to the present invention comprises a heat-resistant base and a cover material layer including a colorless and transparent ultraviolet ray shielding layer which is formed on the heat-resistant base, has no adhesive property for the heat-resistant base and is melted and transferred to a surface of a printing paper by heating. According to the cover film for a color hard copy printing paper, it is possible to form with ease a protective layer having small curl and high color fading protection property on a surface of a color-copied printing paper.

Abstract: A light refractive coated paperboard is provided comprising a normally oil and grease permeable substrate, a non-leafing silver-colored ink layer applied to one surface of said substrate and a highly pigmented (titanium dioxide) ink layer superimposed on said non-leafing silver colored ink layer and possibly a clear lacquer or varnish layer superimposed on the TiO.sub.2 containing ink layer. The above order of coating layers produces a somewhat flat appearance; for producing a more metallic look the order of the silver-colored ink layer and of the highly pigmented (TiO.sub.2) layer are reversed. The light refractive coated paperboard conceals, from the outer surface of a package made therefrom, oil and grease stains which have penetrated the inner surface of the package. A method of making such light refractive coated paperboard is also disclosed.

Abstract: A laminar polycarbonate resin structure comprising a polycarbonate resin core lamina, an ultraviolet radiation absorbing back lamina bonded to the rear face of said core lamina, and a light reflecting front lamina bonded to the front face of said core lamina. This laminar structure is useful for making road signs and markers.

Abstract: A fabric of which at least 10% by weight comprises polyester fibers, which fabric is durably soil releasing on laundering and which is useful for preparing the facing sheets of mattress pads. This fabric is finished with a soil release finish consisting essentially of a cured mixture of a fluorochemical soil release agent, an adhesive binder and a cross-linking agent.

Abstract: A stretch wrap film having one sided cling comprising a thermoplastic A/B film structure wherein layer A in stretched condition has a comparatively high cling force to layer B and layer B has at least substantially no cling force to a layer of itself.

Abstract: A transfer type heat sensitive recording medium includes a base member and an ink layer formed thereon of a colored ink which is adapted to be fluidized or sublimated at a predetermined temperature higher than room temperature. The surface of the ink layer is covered with a coating layer of a coating material which is adapted to be dissolved into the ink layer or sublimated when heated at a temperature higher than a predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A thermosensitive recording material comprising a support material and a thermosensitive coloring layer formed thereon, in which thermosensitive coloring layer, colored images are formed by the reaction between a colorless or light-colored leuco dye and a color-developer of the following formula capable of inducing color formation in the leuco dye upon application of heat thereto, ##STR1## wherein X indicates halogen.

Abstract: A composite material for the controlled release of an active substrate comprises a relatively insoluble, e.g. polymeric, matrix (11) in which a soluble particulate material (12) is dispersed. When the composite is placed in an aqueous medium dissolution of the particulate material substantially increases the water permeability of the matrix. This effect may be used to provide for the controlled release of an active material into the aqueous medium.

Abstract: A resist film comprises a dimensionally stable base (B), which is transparent to actinic light in the wavelength range from 300 to 420 nm, and a mask-forming layer (ML) which is sensitive to heat radiation and contains a thermochromic system which, when irradiated with an IR laser having a wavelength greater than 1.00 .mu.m, undergoes an irreversible change in its absorption spectrum in the wavelength range from 300 to 420 nm so that the optical density of the mask-forming layer (ML) in this wavelength range changes by not less than 1.3 units. The base of the resist film can also be applied onto the photosensitive relief-forming layer (RL) of a recording material to give a multilayer image-recording material. Imagewise irradiation with heat, for example using an IR laser, produces, in the mask-forming layer (ML) of the resist film, a UV photomask which is very useful for exposing photosensitive recording materials.

Abstract: A receptacle for handling contaminated waste for sterilization and subsequent disposal which is a pore forming sterilization bag made from a thermoplastic resin which has been embedded with either soluble materials or melt materials which respond to the temperature and moisture of steam sterilization to form pores in the bag, thus permitting the entrance of sterilant and the exit of air for sterilization of the waste. The melt materials are low molecular weight polymers such as carbowaxes. The soluble materials can be either organic or inorganic materials such as polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl pyrrolidone and various inorganic salts, such as sodium chloride.

Abstract: A material for packaging light-sensitive materials composed of a composite sheet comprising a substrate coated with a middle layer(s) and a surface layer(s) is manufactured through melt co-extrusion, said surface layer(s) being of thermoplastic resins which have excellent heat seal properties yet have great neck-in, said middle layer(s) being of thermoplastic resins having small neck-in and excellent adhesion to a substrate, and any of layers of said composite sheet containing light-shielding material.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material comprising a support and a heat-sensitive color forming layer formed on said support that comprises a colorless or pale-color leuco dye and an acidic material capable of making said leuco dye develop color when heated, wherein said heat-sensitive color forming layer further comprises at least one of the compounds which are expressed by the following general formulas (I), (II) or (III): ##STR1## (wherein X.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom; Y.sup.1 represents an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogen atom, a benzyl group, a hydroxyl group, a carboxyl group or an allyl group; m and n are each an integer ranging from 1 to 3, respectively; and X.sup.1 and Y.sup.1 may be either identical or different from each other when m or n is an integer of 2 or more) ##STR2## (wherein X.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom; Y.sup.

Abstract: In a heat-sensitive recording material in which a resin layer is formed on a recording layer containing at least a color forming material and a color developing material which forms a color when reacted with the color forming material by contact, a heat-sensitive recording material which is characterized in that the resin is essentially composed of an acetoacetylated polyvinyl alcohol and/or a copolymer of vinyl alcohol, acrylonitrile and optionally an other copolymerizable monomer.

Abstract: Photo-fixing heat-sensitive recording media which comprise diazonium salts, couplers and/or basic materials, all of these components being insoluble or sparingly soluble in water. At least one of these components is present in the media in the form of a fine powder. The coupler may be a coupler which has a basic group therein and serves as both a coupler and a basic material.

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: A thermal ink transfer laminate wherein an ink design is transferred from a carrier support to an article, typically paper, by application of a thermal printing element to the nontransfer side of the carrier. The thermal ink transfer laminate is composed of a carrier support of paper or plastic film overcoated on one side with a heat sensitive ink coating. The heat sensitive ink coating is composed of a hot melt mix containing a coloring agent, a wax binder, and a resin binder.The coloring agent contains a dye dispersed in an unsaturated fatty acid medium. The wax binder contains a paraffin and microcrystalline wax. The coloring agent in combination with the wax binder greatly facilitates attainment of a drastic drop in melt viscosity of the design layer during thermal transfer onto a receiving article. The degree of transfer attained is virtually complete resulting in a transferred image of exceedingly high image clarity and definition.

Abstract: Flexible, microporous, hydrophobic and oleophobic film-like composite structures comprised of from about 25 to about 75 parts by weight of inorganic reinforcing microfibers, particularly glass, and from about 75 to about 25 parts by weight of a polymeric binding agent, preferably a copolymer of ethylene and vinyl acetate, the polymeric binding agent being in the form of a continuous matrix and derived from an emulsion or latex of the binding agent in which the particles of the binding agent are less than about 1 micrometer in size. A treating agent, preferably a fluorinated hydrocarbon, is present in an amount sufficient to render the composite structure hydrophobic and oleophobic.

Abstract: An electrochromic element comprises an electrochromic layer between a pair of electrode plates, and it is characterized in that the electrochromic layer is a coat formed by the ion plating of cobalt oxide in the presence of oxygen gas and/or water vapor.

Abstract: A thermosensitive recording sheet comprising a support material; a primer layer formed on support material, comprising a filler and a binder agent; a thermosensitive coloring layer formed on the primer layer, comprising a colorless or light-colored leuco dye, and an acidic material which colors the leuco dye upon application of heat thereto; and a protective layer formed on the thermosensitive coloring layer, comprising a water-soluble polymeric binder agent and a filler. This thermosensitive recording sheet has high dynamic thermal coloring sensitivity and is capable of yielding sharp images with high image density at low energy consumption with good thermal-head-matching properties such that materials are not generated which come out of the thermosensitive recording layer and adhere to the thermal pen or head during the recording process, thereby causing the thermal pen or head to stick to the thermosensitive recording sheet.

Abstract: A security medium, secure articles made therefrom and methods of making same. Articles are disclosed which are resistant to counterfeiting and unauthorized alteration and which are suitable for use as currency, securities, security passes, identification cards, and analogous items now usually manufactured on paper. The novel articles comprise two synthetic material layers with a barrier layer therebetween and an image formed from sublimatable dye within at least one of the synthetic layers.