An improved apparatus for the production of particulate metal is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a containment vessel having a sidewall extending to a bottom plate, a source of metal external to said vessel and nozzle means carried by said bottom plate, said nozzle means including a central bore and providing communication between said vessel and said external source of metal, the sidewall and ...

An adhesion promoter, for increasing the adhesion of metal type components to rubber, comprises the reaction product of a nickel or cobalt salt of a carboxylic acid and an alkaline earth metal borate. The reaction product shows improved performance over the reactants used alone or in combination. The preferred alkaline earth metal is calcium and preferred carboxylic acids are neodecanoic and napht...

A poly(arylene sulfide) polymer is cured in the presence of an ozone containing gas thereby reducing the time required for the curing process.

Cured polyorganosiloxane foams exhibiting a uniquely high resistance to burn-through and disintegration when exposed to flames contain at least 0.1% by weight each, based on the weight of said foam, of at least one finely divided nonmetallic fibrous heat resistant material, at least one finely divided nonmetallic cellular heat resistant material, and at least 5 ppm of platinum in elemental or chem...

A process for producing a multi-layer coating upon a substrate surface, in which there is first applied to the surface a pigmented basecoat composition and then there is applied to the basecoat film a transparent topcoat composition; characterized in that the basecoat composition is based upon a dispersion in an aqueous medium of crosslinked polymer microparticles which have a diameter of 0.01-10 ...

A method of coating automotive outer parts having components made of metals and of plastics by a system of two coating steps and one baking step, the method comprising coating the surface of the metal and plastics components with a single base coat composition; coating the base coat over the metal component with a clear topcoat composition prepared for metal components and the base coat over the p...

Benzophenone tetracarboxylic dianhydride, and esters or mixtures thereof when reacted with various hydrocarbyl amines provide automotive fuel additives for liquid hydrocarbon fuels, and such additives are highly useful as fuel detergents, intake valve and exhaust gas valve deposit reducers and as agents for preventing undesired deposits in the carburetor of an internal combustion engine in which l...

Compact disc package and blank for same, which package may be used as a consignment package, return consignment package and storage case. The package and blank are provided with a removable strip (10) for address purposes.

PURPOSE:To speed up vector operation process by providing a cache memory of high speed and large capacity in a vector operation unit, and at the same time, providing an exclusive address controller in a vector processor. CONSTITUTION:A cache memory 24d of high speed and large capacity that can store all operation data used for vector operation is provided in the vector operation unit 24. After wri...

A cementitious composition comprising (a) at least one hydraulic cement, (b) water, (c) at least one polymeric water-soluble or water-dispersible additive which is capable of aiding in the processing of the composition, and (d) at least one particulate material insoluble in the composition and having an ultimate particle size of less than 0.1 micron, and a cement product produced therefrom.

In uninterrupted and neat machining of a workpiece or material, particularly extremely hard material, with an ultrosonic tool is obtained by keeping constant or substantially constant the contact pressure between the tool and the worked surface. This is done, for example, by feeding the tool by means of a spindle sleeve which is mounted for displacement in a feed head. The other end of the spindle...

Dental compositions which can be produced andworked by the action of oscillations and method for the preparation thereof Curable compositions are described which contain a binder and a high proportion of fillers having a mean (weight average) grain size of < 50 .mu.m and being characterized in that their filler proportion is so high that they cannot be used for the intended purpose because of thei...

Soundproofing materials consisting essentially of zinc oxide whisker particles having a nucleus body and needle crystal portions extending radially from the central body in different plural directions. The materials may comprise a support material for supporting the zinc oxide whisker particles. Such support materials include inorganic materials such as metals, ceramics, glasses, cements, mortars ...

A method of manufacturing a short inorganic fiber-reinforced metal composite. An aqueous solution of a high polymer binder and short inorganic fibers are blended in a predetermined blending ratio, and agitated into a mixed solution. The mixed solution is charged into a water-absorbent form having a cavity of a predetermined shape, and soaked in the form for a predetermined period of time to become...

PURPOSE:To guide an operation instructing request to a method corresponding to the intention of a user even when the operation instructing request to a computer can not be comprehended by providing a means to detect a conflict in the contents of an operation instructing command and a means to output the detected result. CONSTITUTION:This system is equipped with a morpheme analysis part 1, unknown ...

PURPOSE:To carry out the group work with high efficiency by providing a cooperative area to which plural participants can have accesses and an individual area where each participant has his speech and adding a lock function in order to eliminate the conflict among simultaneous accesses occurring in the cooperative area. CONSTITUTION:An editing control part 24 applies the editing processing to a co...

PURPOSE:To reduce the programming/modeling manhour by combining the icons to which plural functions are assigned in order to define a simulation model and then acquiring the icon connection information. CONSTITUTION:When the connection information on the node icons NI 4 and 5, for example, the network icons NWI 6 and 7 are first retrieved and then the NI 4 and 5 connected to each other are searche...

PURPOSE:To attain the path connection processing in a stand-alone operation mode by relieving the closed path connection through a lower rank processor and transferring the control of the path connection to a higher rank processor when a stand-alone operation mode is returned to a normal mode. CONSTITUTION:When an inter-processor signal link PL 3 is cut, a lower rank processor LP 2 performs the pa...

PURPOSE:To transmit data to the terminal of the other party without waiting due to incoming of an erroneous telephone call or the like by starting to settle a data link not by an incoming call but by an outgoing call. CONSTITUTION:A CPU 11 counts a frequency in call based on incoming call report from a facsimile adapter 17; and when it reaches 10, the CPU 11 connects a line to a terminal which req...