Westvaco Corporation

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James J Foster

Leo Thomas Mulcahy

A motion resistance suit provides adjustable musculoskeletal compression and increasing resistance over a user's full range of motion. The suit provides increasing resistance over the range of user movements through the use of a porous elastic material that allows for the body to dissipate heat and perspiration. The suit utilizes pockets located in strategic areas for the addition of weights, thereby controlling the amount of resistance felt during use. The pockets are located to allow full range of motion. Cinches are used to control the amount of compression and to create a snug fit which minimizes unwanted movement of the suit and weights. The suit consists of a shirt portion, detachable sleeves, a pants portion, and detachable pant extensions. The user is able to quickly and easily change the amount of weight and the amount of compression based on the exercises being performed and the desired effect.

Restriction compression weighted therapy suit

This invention relates to chemical additive management systems. Such structures of this type, generally, allow a manufacturer to determine if a chemical additive to be used will contain a chemical component or reaction product that is of toxicological concern to the end-user.

Additive management system

This invention relates to a method for producing anti-counterfeit paper. Such processes of this type, generally, add a certain percentage of wood fiber lumens which have been loaded with one or more fluorescent agents. These wood fiber lumens would look normal under regular light, but will glow when exposed to various manners of radiation.

Process for making and detecting anti-counterfeit paper

This invention relates to recently developed systems which produced bleached recycled fibers from high lignin content recovered paper materials such as old corrugated containers and old newspapers. Such systems of this type, generally, use chemical digestion (e.g., the kraft process) to reduce the lignin content prior to bleaching. Since recovered paper materials normally have high levels of aluminum, which are derived from the paper sizing and pH control chemical, aluminum sulfate; and since soluble aluminum causes scaling of evaporators in the kraft digestion-chemical recovery cycle, there is a need for a means to remove soluble aluminum from the recovered paper materials prior to digestion.

Method for aluminum reduction in recycled pulp and paper

This invention relates to a method for reducing off-taste and/or odor from hygienic paper packages (such as food and beverage packaging) by heating and steam stripping the surface of the paper web. Such methods of this type, generally, remove undesirable compounds that create off-taste and/or odor from the paper package in a simple, cost-effective manner.

Method to reduce off-taste and/or odor from hygienic paper packages

This invention relates to a method for producing packaging materials containing reclaimed/recycled fiber by chemically hydrolyzing the fiber, treating the fiber at elevated temperature greater than 100.degree. C., adding a reduced sulfur agent to the fiber to reduce the sulfur content of the fiber by forming insoluble heavy metal sulfide compounds which precipitate from the hydrolyzed fiber, oxidizing and then washing the fiber to produce a paper pulp. Such methods of this type, generally, produce reclaimed/recycled fiber that is sufficiently hygienic for food grade and medical device packaging applications.

Method for producing recycled materials for hygienic end uses

Instruments for determining the degree of delignification corresponding to a sample of kraft or soda process digested wood pulp are calibrated with a predetermined quantity of refined lignin. For convenient use and application, a standardized solution comprising such refined lignin and an organic solvent such as ethylene glycol may be prepared for distribution to use points. Such standardized refined lignin, whether tested as a powdered solid or as a standardized solution yields a consistent 'K' Number, 'Permanganate' Number, 'Kappa' Number or 'Klason' Number value from standardized titration test procedures.

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Clifton Forge, VA, United States of America

James J Foster