Eastman-kodak Company

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Ciba-geigy Corporation

Gary T Clark

Max Allen Weaver

Jean Carroll Fleischer

Rebecca Reid Stockl

Hieu D Phan

Ronald J Maner

John N Rasar

Clarence A Coates, Jr

Martin Frederick Schick

Bill A Eller

William C Hickman

A device and method for temporarily mounting a tool to a member such as an upright board without the need for any prior attachments to the board. A member securing element attached to the tool is secured to the upright board when gripping surfaces engage opposite sides of the board as a result of rotation of the tool brought about by an off-set center of gravity.

Method of mounting a tool

Tool mounting device and method of mounting a tool

A track mounted system for closing rail car doors that enables the simultaneous closing of multiple car doors. After hopper car contents such as aggregate or coal are unloaded, the doors are closed in pairs by semi-automated door closing arms that are positioned on the track and are operated by hydraulic cylinders, pneumatic cylinders, or electric motors. The closing arms are configured in specific shapes to adapt to a variety of hopper door configurations. The closing arms may be added in pairs depending on the number of doors. The door closer can be sequenced to accommodate frontward or rearward facing doors. Hydraulic cylinders with a differential bell crank can be used to activate the closer arm assemblies. Closer arms can be mounted side by side on the inside or outside of the track or separately inside and outside of the track.

Rail car door closer

A composition useful in printing inks exemplified as comprising:

Ink compositions and preparation

This invention relates to a polymer blend comprising water-dissipatable, sulfonate containing, a hydantoin-formaldehyde resin.

Ink and coating compositions containing a blend of water-dispersible

Disclosed is a novel blend of a water-dissipatable polyester material, an acrylic polymer and a water-dissipatable vinyl polymer. The acrylic polymer and the vinyl polymer must be compatible with the polyester. The polyester is exemplified in having an acid component of from about 75 to about 84 mole % isophthalic acid and conversely from about 25 to about 16 mole % 5-sodiosulfoisophthalic acid, and having a glycol component of from about 45 to about 60 mole % diethylene glycol and conversely from about 55 to about 44 mole % 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol or ethylene glycol or mixtures thereof. The polymer blends are useful for preparing ink compositions having improved block resistance, water resistance, and alcohol resistance.

Ink composition containing a blend of a polyester, an acrylic polymer

Compositions useful as printing inks or as dry or wet concentrates for the preparation of inks, comprising substantially homogenous blends of from about 0.1 to about 50.0 wt. % water dispersible polyurethane, and conversely from about 99.9 to about 50.0 wt. % water dispersible polyester, and preferably containing from about 1.0 to about 95.0 wt. % of a solvent system comprising water or water admixed with cosolvent, the cosolvent comprising up to about 30.0 wt. % of the solvent system. These blends show exceptionally marked improvements in certain physical properties such as: stability of viscosity to ambient and process conditions; linearity of viscosity change with water dilution; consistency of viscosity for a great variety of pigments; and greatly improved shelf-life (no significant polymer segregation of layering). Such properties greatly enhance the utility of these blends for use in pigmented or dyed printing inks and in other substrate coating formulations which may or may not contain colorants. Also disclosed is a process useful for the preparation of such compositions.

Aqueous dispersion blends of polyesters and polyurethane materials and

This invention relates to novel azo dyes containing a 4-nitropyrazole azo moiety which may be substituted, for example, with an alkyl group which itself may be substituted, and an aniline coupler which may be substituted. The dyes produce bright red shades on hydrophobic textile fiber including polyesters, polyamides, and cellulose esters and show unexpected improvements in one or more of such properties as fastness to light, wash, ozone, gas such as oxides of nitrogen, perspiration, crock and sublimation, dyeability at desirable low energy levels to deep shades, build, pH stability, bloom resistance, leveling, migration, dye bath exhaustion, dye transfer, and the like.

Azo dyes from 5-amino-4-nitropyrazole compounds and aniline couplers

Disclosed are novel azo dyes containing an isothiazole azo moiety which may be substituted, and a heterocyclic coupler which also may be substituted. The dyes produce yellow shades on, for example, hydrophobic textile fiber including polyesters, polyamides, and cellulose esters and have excellent fastness properties including lightfastness, washfastness and resistance to sublimation, and dye at unusually low energy levels. The dyes have the general formulae: ##STR1## wherein the various substituents, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each selected from hydrogen and a wide variety of groups such as lower alkyl, --CN, halogen, and the like, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are each selected from hydrogen, lower alkyl, benzyl and phenyl, and Z represents the atoms necessary to complete a five or six membered ring.

Isothiazole type azo dyes containing imidazo type couplers

Disclosed are novel azo dyes containing a substituted thiophene diazo moiety which produces bright blue shades on polyester and also have good affinity, dyeability and other properties on cellulose esters. The dyes have the formula ##STR1## wherein R is selected from alkyl, phenyl and phenyl substituted with 1-3 of alkyl, alkoxy, halogen or nitro; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each alkyl or one of which is also selected from hydrogen; R.sub.3 is selected from hydrogen, cycloalkyl, alkyl, alkoxy, alkylamino, phenyl, phenyl substituted as for R above, and alkyl substituted with 1-3 of hydroxy, alkoxy, acyloxy, halogen, phenyl, phenoxy or cyclohexyl; X is hydrogen, alkyl, or alkoxy; and wherein each alkyl and alkoxy moiety is straight or branched and contains from 1-8 carbons.

Azo dyes from 2-amino-3-nitro-5-acylthiophene

Disclosed is a process for the preparation of disperse dye couplers of the general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are typical groups such as straight or branched alkylene for R.sub.1, phenyl, cyclohexyl or straight or branched substituted or unsubstituted alkyl for R.sub.2, hydrogen, lower alkyl, halogen, lower alkoxy, acylamido and the like for R.sub.3, and n is 1, 2 or 3, comprising contacting under hydrogen atmosphere a mixture of at least one amine compound of the formula ##STR2## or its nitro precursor and at least one compound of the formula ##STR3## in the presence of from about 1 to about 10 parts of a hydrogenation catalyst per part of the amine or its nitro precursor, and from about 5.3.times.10.sup.-4 to about 1.0.times.10.sup.-1 mole per mole of said amine or its nitro precursor of one or more of lower alkyl sulfonic acid or benzenesulfonic acid which may be substituted with 1-3 lower alkyl groups such as p-toluenesulfonic acid.

Preparation of N-substituted anilines

Disclosed are monoazo dyes derived from diazotized 5-amino-4-halo-3-methylisothiazoles and m-acylaminoaniline couplers. These dyes impart scarlet and red shades on nylon and polyester fibers and exhibit good fastness properties. The dyes are represented by the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each selected from lower alkyl, cycloalkyl, substituted cycloalkyl, or lower alkyl substituted with phenyl, cyano, sulfonamido, carboxamido, alkoxy, hydroxy, or an imide radical; R.sub.3 is lower alkyl, lower alkyl substituted as above, phenyl, or trifluoromethyl; and X is chlorine or bromine.

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Kingsport, TN, United States of America

Gary T Clark