General Electric Company

Connie H Shannon

Donald S Johnson

David C Gross

Michael Joseph Molezzi

Harry W Crumbacher

Bernard McConville

A precipitation jet includes a nozzle having an inlet for receiving liquid resin solution, a conical tip, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart outlets extending through the nozzle tip for discharging the resin solution. A tubular receiver is disposed coaxially with the nozzle tip and is spaced axially therefrom. The receiver includes a frustoconical impingement surface spaced axially from the nozzle tip to define therewith an annular flow channel having at opposite ends thereof a channel inlet for receiving steam and a channel outlet for discharging an atomized spray of the steam and resin solution for precipitating resin powder from the spray.

Steam precipitation jet

A method is provided for controlling the cure time of a platinum-catalyzed addition cured silicone foamable composition, comprising the step of adding to the composition an aqueous buffer solution having a pH of about 2 to about 10, wherein cure time is increased if the pH of the buffer solution is higher than the pH of the composition prior to the addition thereto of the buffer solution and decreased if the pH of the buffer solution is lower than the pH of the composition prior to the addition thereto of the buffer solution.

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Evansville, IN, United States of America

Connie H Shannon