摘要:
A heat and pressure fusing apparatus for fixing toner images to substrates such as plain paper, the toner comprising a thermoplastic resin. The apparatus includes two nip forming members which cooperate to form a nip having an asymmetrical pressure profile. Thus, the pressure profile through the nip, from entrance to exit, is such that toner images on a substrate passing through the nip are first subjected to relatively low pressure which continues until the toner begins to flow. Once toner flow commences, the images are subjected to pressure high enough to force the toner into the substrate. The nip is readily variable for accommodating different fusing speeds for different processors.
摘要:
Pellets of iron ore or other water insoluble particulate material are made from a mixture of the particulate material, moisture and a pelletizing binder by forming moist green pellets, a water displacing additive is applied to the surface of these pellets after they are substantially wholly formed, and the pellets are then dried. The preferred water displacing additive is a solution of a silicone in an organic solvent.
摘要:
Particulate metal ore is pellitized by use of a novel polymeric binder that comprises aggregates of polymer particles and that have a size mainly above 100 .mu.m and the aggregates are disintegrated during the process.
摘要:
An aqueous organic or inorganic suspension can be coagulated and then flocculated by flowing it past a shaped body comprising a mixture of water soluble multivalent metal coagulant and a water soluble organic polymeric flocculant in the form of substantially discrete particles. The surface of the shaped body is eroded by the flowing stream to form a solution of the coagulant in which the polymeric flocculant particles are entrained, and these subsequently dissolve into the suspension.
摘要:
A cross linked high molecular weight polymer formed from a water soluble monomer or blend of monomers and which has IV and/or solubility and/or rheology properties indicating that it would be unsuitable for use as a flocculant can be used as a flocculant after shearing the polymeric material. The shearing may be applied to the polymeric material before addition to the suspension that is to be flocculated or can be applied to the suspensionthat is being flocculated. The shearing increases the intrinsic viscosity of the polymeric material and can improve its rheology and solubility. The polymeric material must be of high molecular weight.
摘要:
When flocculating an aqueous suspension of suspended solids using a high molecular weight synthetic polymeric flocculant, the shear stability of the flocs is increased if the polymeric material includes polymeric particles of below 10 .mu.m dry size. The flocculated solids can therefore be subjected to shear without increasing the amount of discrete suspended solids in the aqueous medium and generally they are subjected to shear by shearing the aqueous medium containing them, either before dewatering, generally on a centrifuge, piston press or belt press, or by continuously agitating them, for instance in a chemical reaction medium. The polymeric material is generally formed by mixing into water polymeric particles made by reverse phase or emulsion polymerization in the presence of added cross linking agent. Alternatively, particles insolubilized by insoluble monomer may be used. A reverse phase dispersion of water soluble polymer may be used if the particles remain undissolved, e.g. if they are added in the absence of an oil in water emulsifying agent.
摘要:
An electrical firing arrangement for the sequential firing of a plurality of mortars stacked in end-to-end relationship within a single launching barrel. The firing arrangement comprises a pulse generator for producing mortar firing pulses and a circuit for applying these pulses to an electro-magnetic stepping switch which applies the pulses in turn over pairs of wires to igniters of the respective mortars as the stepping switch is stepped from one position to the next. The stepping switch comprises normally-open contacts which close when an operating coil is effectively energized by a firing pulse and switch wipers move out of engagement with one pair of associated contacts on the stepping switch towards the next pair of associated contacts on the same switch. The normally-open contacts are restored to their open condition when the operating coil is fully de-energized at the end of each firing pulse so that any short-circuit condition which may exist across a pair of associated contacts due to short-circuiting of a pair of wires to an igniter of a mortar being fired will not deprive the operating coil of current upon the arrival of a firing pulse whereby the stepping switch would fail to step to its next position.
摘要:
Iron ore particles or other water insoluble non-swellable particulate material is converted into pellets or other agglomerates by mixing with substantially dry binder in the presence of moisture and is then bonded into agglomerates. The binder comprises substantially dry bentonite and particulate polymeric material, and the bentonite is blended with the insoluble particulate material and moisture before addition of the polymeric material.
摘要:
Measurement of the ionic value X of a solution of a polyelectrolyte after shearing, for instance by a rotating blade, and/or measurement of the ionic value Y of a solution of polyelectrolyte before shearing, and especially the difference between t he values X and Y, gives a useful indication of the degree of cross linking of the polyelectrolyte and so can be utilized to control the manufacture of the polyelectrolyte, for instance drying conditions, or the storage or use of the polyelectrolyte, for instance its suitability or dosage in a flocculation process.
摘要:
A high solids, pumpable stable dispersion of substantially anhydrous water soluble or swellable polymer particles contains at least 70% by weight polymer and contains 1 part by weight fine polymer particles below 10 microns in size and 0.1 to 7 parts by weight coarse polymer particles having a size of 10 to 300 microns with substantially no particles above 300 microns.