Abstract: In the case of a method of producing a linear graphic element on a molded body, the molded body is metallically coated and the graphic element is produced by a laser irradiation. The coating is removed by the laser irradiation in the form of dots having the same diameter and the same mutual spacing.

Abstract: A method of producing a light absorbing pattern film coated article with a transmitted light spectrum distribution corresponding to the pattern of a photomask, wherein a light absorbing film coating solution, containing a silicon oxide raw material, a titanium oxide raw material, which contains titanium oxide microparticles, and a gold microparticle raw material, is coated onto the surface of a substrate, the photomask is positioned on top of said coated film, ultraviolet light is irradiated onto said coated film, and said coated film is thereafter heated. By the abovementioned method of producing, this invention can provide light absorbing film coated articles with various transmitted light spectra distribution while keeping the visible light reflectivity low.

Abstract: A process is provided for producing a polymeric layer having a desired image thereon or a three dimensional article comprising a number of such layers in which a layer of a liquid photocurable composition which comprises photo colourable particles is cured by light and selected areas thereof are irradiated with light of a different dose, thereby forming the desired image which composition comprises particles dispersed in it which are micro-capsules containing a photosensitive colour changing composition within a barrier layer which is substantially impermeable to the components of the colour changing composition or are solid particles comprising an immobilised photosensitive colour changing composition. The process permits the use of the same initiating mechanism to cure the resin and to change the colour of the particles.

Abstract: A number of new laser patterns are defined by laser scribing the material. This produces new laser patterns which have not previously been known.

Abstract: A method for processing and laser ablation marking an imagewise exposed motion picture photographic film element which comprises a support having on a front side thereof one or more image-forming units comprising at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer is described, comprising processing the film to provide a developed photographic image with at least 100 mg/m2 of retained silver halide, and subsequently laser ablation marking the film to selectively ablate portions of the image forming units from the support.

Abstract: This invention is a surface modifying element comprising a photosensitive layer on one side of a carrier substrate. The photosensitive layer comprises a photosensitive binder material and particulates. The invention is also a method of using the surface modifying element to create a receiver having imagewise variation in glossiness.

Abstract: Photographic images may be produced on a backing such as paper and polyester sheets, from photographic negatives which encompass line rendering, design comps, copy, complex color separation or the like with water-based varnishes and pigments, the resulting images closely resembling, if not exactly, the same image in its commercially printed form. Thus all aspects of color proofs produced by this invention provide greatly improved predictability as to the appearance of the final printed job, with a further improvement of cost savings over conventional techniques of preparing color proofs. Also, said proofing method can be used to provide a "transfer" so that one may transfer the colored image or images to a more suitable or required backing.

Abstract: A photosensitive layered sheet for producing transferrable decorative foil designs comprising a solvent resistant, hydrophobic plastic film having superimposed thereon the following sequential layers of coatings:(a) a clear or colored water insoluble lacquer;(b) a clear water soluble polymer;(c) an organic solvent containing from 2-8% by weight of aluminum platelets having their largest dimension not greater than about 5000 microns and a thickness not greater than 1000 angstroms;(d) an ink extender;(e) an ink coat powder, and(f) a pre-sensitized photographic emulsion.A method of making these photosensitive layered sheets.

Abstract: A direct pigment photographic printing process and composition based on a two-step coating process comprising a first coating applied to a sealed substrate containing between 2 to 8 and 8 to 2 weight parts of gum arabic to gelatin, and then applying a second top coating containing preferred ratios of gum arabic to gelatin. The process is based on heating the first and second coating compositions sufficiently above about 105.degree. F. prior to application to the substrate to assure homogeneous mixtures of each coating at the time of application.

Abstract: There are disclosed decorative products such as lampshades, vitrages, or wall and table ornaments made of plastic material and having a decorative pattern made of metal bonded to the plastic, wherein the thickness of the metal bonded to the plastic is uniform.

Abstract: A photosensitive element suitable for manufacture of an external nameplate comprises a substrate carrying a cured non-etchable background surface, an etchable curable polymeric layer that can be etched imagewise to provide an image viewable against a background, and a photosensitive layer. A nameplate or other sign is obtained by imagewise photoexposure of the photosensitive layer, developing the image to reveal the curable layer, etching the revealed curable layer imagewise, removing the residual photosensitive material and then baking the product.

Abstract: Intricate lightweight metal ornaments having an aesthetically pleasing laciness. Such ornaments are produced in a sequence of metal forming and coating steps utilizing an etching process to permit an almost infinite variety of designs to be produced without the use of dies or molds. A defined sequence of etches and partial etches of prescribed depths and dimensions into opposite sides of a metal sheet, typically brass, first produces a metal form of intricate edge and surface patterns that have qualities resembling the fine needlework of lace. To complete the decorative impression, the etched form is subsequently coated with a thin, adherent but flexible decorative layer that enhances the impression of laciness. The resulting ornament is intricate, pretty, easy to care for, durable, and can be bent without loss of the adherence of the coating.

Abstract: An optical apparatus for focusing at least one image and optionally only one image of an object, said apparatus comprising a receiving surface and an optical imaging device between the image and the object to form an image of the object on the receiving surface. The imaging device comprising at least one glass body, at least a portion of which is a photonucleated opacified glass. The body has opposed surfaces, at least one of the surfaces having raised light focusing transparent optical pattern portions integral therewith and transparent channels connecting the raised transparent pattern portions to the surface opposed to the surface containing the pattern.

Abstract: There is disclosed an improved optical device of the type disclosed in application Ser. No. 520,456 and embodying an array of lenses integral with and raised above a crystalline matrix. The improvement comprises an ion-exchanged surface on the lenses wherein the lithium ion from the lens glass is exchanged with a larger monovalent ion, preferably sodium or potassium from a bath, and the contents of such alkali metal ions in the lens are defined by both radial and axial concentration gradients. The device may be heated above the glass strain point to relieve stress and enhance lens power, either simultaneously with or subsequent to the ion exchange.

Abstract: A process for making highly sensitive positive electron beam resists comprised of copolymers of methacrylic acid (MAA) and methyl .alpha.-chloroacrylate (MCA) is disclosed in which a thin film of high molecular weight MAA/MCA copolymer is applied to a suitable substrate. Prior to exposure, the copolymer is prebaked at a temperature below the decomposition temperature to improve the sensitivity and resolution of the resist. The exposed resist is developed by spraying with a suitable solvent. The positive electron resists produced in accordance with the present invention exhibit a high sensitivity and good submicron resolution.

Abstract: A photosensitive material and a process for developing the same are disclosed.The photosensitive material is obtained by forming on a base material a layer of photosensitive composition comprising (A), 100 weight parts of a water soluble resin binder containing at least 60 weight % of acrylamide-diacetoneacrylamide copolymer, the copolymerization ratio of acrylamide and diacetoneacrylamide being 8:2-5:5 and average polymerization degree being 300-1500, and (B), 5-20 weight parts of a water soluble diazonium salt.The photosensitive material is developed by using an aqueous alkali solution.

Abstract: A foil laminated board having a pattern formed in the metallic foil is placed in close contact with a metallized substrate such as a metallized plastic film. The two metal surfaces are subjected to a microwave energy field which duplicates or copies the foil pattern on the metallized substrate or film.

Abstract: Two basic methods for texturizing or structurizing high-polymer materials are disclosed. One method resides in selectively irradiating a high-polymer material so as to form chemically active species in the material. The material is contacted with a treating medium which reacts with the chemically active species in such a manner as to cause shrinkage of the material. The texturizing or structurizing effects are due to the fact that the irradiated areas of the material will shrink to a different extent in dependence upon the concentration of the chemically active species and/or that the irradiated areas of the material will shrink to a different extent than the nonirradiated areas of the material. The other method resides in homogeneously irradiating a high-polymer material so as to form chemically active species in the material. The chemically active species in certain areas of the material are at least partially destroyed by contacting selected areas of the material with a suitable medium.