Gaf Corporation

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Quaker Chemical Corporation

Alkaril Chemicals, Inc.

Polytracker, Inc.

Joseph J Fanelli

Anthony J O'Lenick, Jr

Alexander C Pummer

Robert D Evans

Randy L Rayborn

George C Coakley

John E Drach

James P Johnson

Matthew Homer

David M Freedman

Joyce A Rodriguez

Donald Jenkins

Angela M Crowe

Method and apparatus for deterring theft of manually operated wheeled vehicles, reducing unauthorized use and removal of steel or steel and plastic constructed swivel-wheel shopping carts by preventing the free movement of one or more of the installed wheels. Attached to the frame of the shopping cart, a braking device in accordance with the present invention, when activated, measures the distance traveled beyond an activating point by counting the number of wheel rotations made by the cart and compares this to a preprogrammed stored attribute that defines the allowable distance the cart is allowed to travel once outside the shopping facility. Depending on the direction the cart is travelling, the counter is 'armed' or 'disarmed' when the cart passes over low-frequency magnetic arrays placed at the entry or exit of the shopping facility.

Method and apparatus for deterring theft of manually operated wheeled

A siloxane-based lubricant composition contains a mixture of nonreactive and reactive polydimethylsiloxanes, crosslinker and sufficient amounts of surfactant and water to provide an emulsion. The composition contains no methyl hydrogen silane, dimethyl hydrogen silane and/or polymethyl hydrogen siloxane and therefore releases no hydrogen gas during storage or during use.

Non-hydrogen evolving siloxane-based lubricant composition

An improved apparatus for drying gel is provided and consists of a tray assembly having a surface on which the gel is disposed, a microwave oven for applying microwave energy to the gel in the tray assembly to uniformly dry the gel and a vacuum pump assembly for applying a vacuum to the tray assembly for removing water vapor therefrom during the drying of the gel.

Apparatus and method for drying gel

The present application relates to cationic block polyesters useful as soil release agents, softeners and antistatic agents. In addition to cleaning performance, laundry detergent compositions should have other benefits. One is the ability to impart soil release properties to fabrics woven from polyester fibers.

Cationic soil release polymers

The invention relates to mixtures of cationic benzene carboxylate polymers, a method for their preparation and use, which polymers are defined by the formula ##STR1## wherein R and R' are selected from the group consisting of alkyl or alkenyl having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, aryl, ##STR2## with the proviso that at least one of R and R' is quaternized; Q is hydrogen, SO.sub.3 -alkali metal, SO.sub.3 H, COOH or COO-alkali metal, between about 55% and about 90% of Q in said mixture being hydrogen and between about 10% and about 45% of Q in said mixture being other than hydrogen;

Mixture of cationic benzene carboxylate polymers from the reaction of

The present invention relates to a class of compounds which have superior soil release properties over heretofore known soil release polymers. The compounds are prepared by the reaction of an aromatic hydroxy containing polyester soil release agent with trimellitic anhydride under acid catalysis to produce an aromatic terminal capped carbonyloxy soil release polymer.

Anionic soil release compositions

The present application relates to cationic block polyesters useful as soil relese agents, softeners and antistatic agents. In addition to cleaning performance, laundry detergent compositions should have other benefits. One is the ability to impart soil release properties to fabrics woven from polyester fibers.

Novel imidazolinium compounds, and a method of using the compounds for softening and conditioning fibers, hair and skin and as surfactants, and debonders for cellulose pulp having the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is an n-alkyl, branched alkyl, alkenyl, branched alkenyl alkadienyl or branched alkadienyl group containing 8 to 21 carbon atoms; R.sub.2 is a radical selected from the group consisting of (a) --OH, (b) amide radicals each of which has the structure ##STR2## (c) a substituted imidazolinium group which has the structure: ##STR3## R.sub.3 is a radical which has the structure ##STR4## or --OR.sub.5 ; R.sub.4 is an alkyl or alkenyl group containing 1 to 17 carbon atoms; R.sub.5 is R.sub.1 or mono or dialkyl phenyl; A is an integer of from 0 to 20 and B is an integer of from 0 to 20 and A+B&gt;0; x is either chlorine or bromine are provided.

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Alpharetta, GA, United States of America

Joseph J Fanelli