PROCESS FOR MAKING ANGSTROM SCALE AND HIGH ASPECT FUNCTIONAL PLATELETS

    公开(公告)号:WO2003046245A3

    公开(公告)日:2003-06-05

    申请号:PCT/US2002/038292

    申请日:2002-11-27

    Abstract: A process for making functional or decorative flakes or platelets economically and at high production rates comprises applying a multi-layer sandwich of vapor deposited metal and release coats in alternating layers to a rotating chilled drum or suitable carrier medium contained in a vapor deposition chamber. The alternating metallized layers are applied by vapor deposition, and the intervening release layers are preferably solvent soluble thermoplastic or lightly crosslinked polymeric materials applied by vapor deposition sources contained in the vapor deposition chamber. The multi-layer sandwich built up in the vacuum chamber is removed from the drum or carrier and treated with a suitable organic solvent to dissolve the release coating from the metal in a stripping process that leaves the metal flakes essentially release coat free. The solvent and dissolved release material are then removed by centrifuging to produce a cake of concentrated flakes which can be air milled and let down in a preferred vehicle and further sized and homogenized for final use in inks, paints or coatings. In one embodiment the finished flakes comprise single-layer thin metal or metal alloy flakes or flakes of inorganic materials, and in another embodiment flakes are coated on both sides with protective polymeric coatings that were applied from suitable vacuum deposition sources or the like contained in the vapor deposition chamber. The release coat material can be a radiation curable, crosslinkable vapor deposited polymeric material of low crosslink density. Exposure to a high energy radiation source crosslinks the release material sufficiently to produce essentially tack-free, solvent soluble release coat layers. In one embodiment, the multi-layer vapor deposit is built up on an endless belt passing from the vapor deposition chamber through a vacuum lock to a separate adjacent stripping chamber. Both chambers are maintained at vacuum pressures below atmospheric while depositing the flake material on the endless belt. The vapor deposit is periodically removed by reducing the belt speed, idling the vacuum deposition sources in the deposition chamber, and sealing a vapor deposit collection device to the stripping chamber through vacuum locks below the endless belt in the stripping chamber. The vacuum locks maintain the stripping chamber at its vacuum pressure below atmospheric during the process of removing the multi-layer vapor deposited material from the endless belt.

    CLEAR CONFORMABLE ORIENTED FILMS AND LABELS
    4.
    发明申请
    CLEAR CONFORMABLE ORIENTED FILMS AND LABELS 审中-公开
    清晰的面向对象的薄膜和标签

    公开(公告)号:WO1996021563A1

    公开(公告)日:1996-07-18

    申请号:PCT/US1996000142

    申请日:1996-01-04

    Abstract: Machine-direction oriented polypropylene homopolymer and propylene copolymer films are described wherein the propylene copolymer is one selected from the group consisting of propylene-ethylene copolymers containing up to about 10 % by weight of ethylene and propylene-1-butene copolymers containing up to about 15 % by weight of 1-butene wherein the oriented films have an opacity of less than about 10 % and a haze of about 10 % or less in the machine-direction and in the cross-direction.

    Abstract translation: 描述了机械取向的聚丙烯均聚物和丙烯共聚物膜,其中丙烯共聚物是选自包含最多约10重量%的乙烯的丙烯 - 乙烯共聚物和含有至多约15个的丙烯-1-丁烯共聚物 重量百分比的1-丁烯,其中定向膜在机器方向和横向上具有小于约10%的不透明度和约10%或更小的雾度。

    MULTI-COPY FORM
    6.
    发明申请
    MULTI-COPY FORM 审中-公开
    多复制形式

    公开(公告)号:WO1993001939A1

    公开(公告)日:1993-02-04

    申请号:PCT/US1992005695

    申请日:1992-07-08

    Abstract: A multi-copy form (10) which may be used with laser printers or electrostatic (xerographic) copies to make duplicate copies by passing the form only one time through the printers or copiers. The multi-copy form (10) has at least one thermally sensitive imaging sheet (12) sandwiched between two sheets (14, 16) of paper. The imaging sheet (12) may be releasably held to the two sheets (14, 16) of paper by a pressure-sensitive adhesive (18) which allows the sheets to be peeled apart. Toner (32) is fused to the top sheet (12) of paper by heat and pressure from top and bottom rollers (30) making images thereon, and heat transferred from the toner (32) to the underlying thermally sensitive imaging sheet (12) forms substantially duplicate images (38) on the imaging sheet (12). The thermally sensitive imaging sheet (12) has a thermal image layer applied to it which forms an image (38) when heat is transferred to the imaging sheet (12). The bottom sheet of paper (16) furnishes insulation against heat from the bottom roller (30). Different colored copies may be made by varying the dye formers and developers used for the thermal image layer. In another embodiment, the bottom sheet of paper may be eliminated.

    Abstract translation: 可以与激光打印机或静电(静电复印)复制一起使用的多份复印件(10),以便通过打印机或复印机传递一次表格来复制副本。 多重复制形式(10)具有夹在两张纸(14,16)之间的至少一个热敏成像片(12)。 成像片(12)可以通过允许片材剥离的压敏粘合剂(18)可释放地保持在两张纸(14,16)上。 调色剂(32)通过来自顶部和底部辊(30)的热和压力与纸张的顶片(12)熔合,在其上形成图像,并且从调色剂(32)传递到下面的热敏成像片材(12) 在成像片(12)上形成基本上重复的图像(38)。 当热传递到成像片(12)时,热敏成像片(12)具有施加到其上的热图像层,其形成图像(38)。 底部纸张(16)提供绝热以防止来自底部辊(30)的热量。 可以通过改变用于热图像层的染料成型剂和显影剂来制备不同的着色份。 在另一个实施例中,可以去除底部纸张。

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