Canada Wire and Cable Limited

Imperial Metal Industries (kynoch) Limited

Michael Alan Dudley

Mellapalayam R Parthasarathy

Douglas C Nethersole

Francis Derrick Bayles

Michael John Chase

Derek Anthony Smith

Douglas C Nerthersole

There is provided an electrocoating bath composition for depositing a coat of polymer material onto an anode. This bath composition comprises an essentially aqueous solution, emulsion or dispersion of the polymer and 0.01 by 2.0% by weight with reference to the bath composition of a compound of one of the general formulae:

Process and bath composition for increasing the rate of polymer

A method for producing a mica based insulation is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of solubilizing a poly (carborane siloxane) containing carborane moieties linked by siloxy groups in a suitable solvent at a loading varying from 20 to 50% by weight of polymer on total weight of the solution, placing a mica sheet of desired thickness on a suitable support, impregnating the supported mica sheet with the solution so as to achieve complete wetting, and curing the impregnated mica sheet by oxidative crosslinking of the polymer for a predetermined time interval and at a predetermined temperature above which oxidative crosslinking of the polymer becomes significant.

Method for producing a mica based insulation

A process for producing thin walled coatings on elongated substrates by the electrostatic application of two superimposed layers of powder material is disclosed. The process comprises the steps of applying electrostatically a first layer of fusible powder material to an elongated substrate, at least partially fusing such first layer of powder material to provide a uniform coating on the elongated substrate, holding the at least partially fused coating at an elevated temperature below the full fusion temperature of the powder material to be applied as the second layer immediately prior to the application of such second layer, applying electrostatically a second layer of fusible powder material to the first layer, and fusing the total applied coating to achieve the desired coating thickness.

Thin walled protective coatings by electrostatic powder deposition

A method for electroimpregnation of paper and non-woven fabrics is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of forming an aqueous solution containing about 1-30% of an ionic material having a specific conductance lower than 0.003 mhos cm.sup.-1, in a bath provided with cathode and anode electrodes submerged in the solution, introducing a sheet of paper or non-woven fabric having a predetermined degree of porosity into the bath in contact with the cathode or anode electrode, dependent on the polarity of the ionic material, and applying a predetermined DC voltage to the electrodes so as to cause the ions of such material to impregnate the paper or non-woven fabric when such ions move toward one or the other of the electrodes and deposit within the paper or non-woven fabric as partially or totally associated molecules. The ionic material may advantageously be a polymeric material to improve the clarity, dielectric strength and moisture absorption resistance characteristics of the paper or non-woven fabric. The ionic material may also be a size or a dye for the paper industry.

Electroimpregnation of paper and non-woven fabrics

An electrostatic fluidized bed coating unit is disclosed. The coating unit comprises a plenum chamber with means for ingress of a gas under a greater than atmospheric pressure, a porous plate located on top of the plenum chamber and extending to the limits of the containing walls of the plenum chamber, containing walls for powder immediately above the porous plate and forming essentially a continuation of the plenum chamber walls, a coating chamber secured to such powder containing walls, and an exhaust system for effecting a uniform fluidizing gas removal from an area essentially directly above the porous plate.

Electrostatic fluidized bed coating unit

A continuous powder feed system for maintaining an essentially uniform powder cloud above an electrostatic fluidized bed coating unit is disclosed. The continuous powder feed system comprises a powder container and discharger for continuously feeding essentially non agglomerated powder into the coating bed of the electrostatic fluidized bed coating unit, powder retaining walls for containing the bed of such coating unit during fluidization, at least one powder retaining wall having a height such as to determine the powder level in the coating bed and permit overflow of excess powder from the coating bed, and a powder collection system for retrieving the overflowing powder from the coating bed.

Continuous powder feed system for maintaining a uniform powder coating

There is provided an electrocoating bath composition for depositing a coat of polymer material onto an anode. This bath composition comprises an essentially aqueous solution, emulsion or dispersion of the polymer and 0.01 to 2.0% by weight with reference to the bath composition of a compound of one of the general formulae:

A mica based electrical insulation for high temperature applications comprising reconstituted micaceous sheets impregnated with an impregnant of the family of poly (carborane siloxane) containing carborane moieties linked by siloxy groups at approximately 2-25% by weight of impregnant based on total weight of impregnated mica. The method for producing the mica based electrical insulation comprises the steps of solubilizing a poly (carborane siloxane) in a suitable solvent at a loading such as to produce a final insulation composite containing the desired weight of impregnant, placing a mica sheet of desired thickness on a suitable support, impregnating the supported mica sheet with the solution so as to achieve complete wetting, and curing the impregnated mica sheet for a time interval and at a temperature sufficient to effect cross-linking of the polymer.

Mica based electrical insulation

A solid propellant rocket motor is provided with a liner between the motor case and the propellant, the liner comprising a terpolymer of ethylene, propylene and a nonconjugated diene and inert fillers. Ablative fillers such as heavy metal halides, calcium hydroxide and magnesium hydroxide may be included.

Rocket motor with ablative insulating casing liner

An apparatus and method are provided for continuous electrocoating of a conducting substrate with a coating of essentially non-conductive material. The invention is especially characterized by the provision of at least one electrode which converges towards the substrate in the direction of travel of the substrate. The electrode so converges in the direction of travel of the substrate that the rate of deposition of the non-conductive material onto the conducting substrate remains substantially constant throughout the electrocating operation.

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Beaconsfield, Canada

Michael Alan Dudley