Japan Synthetic Rubber Co., Ltd.

Amada Company, Limited

Nobuo Sakurai

Kiyoshi Kasai

Masayuki Hattori

Hiromi Takeuchi

Kikuo Moriya

Hisao Ono

Nobuyuki Ito

Eitaro Okuya

Morimasa Kobayashi

Osamu Kikuchi

Haruhiro Hirai

Capsule-shaped polymer particles and a process for the production thereof are described. In one embodiment of the process, a polymerizable monomer component containing a cross-linkable monomer and a hydrophilic monomer, and an oily substance are finely dispersed in water to prepare an oil-in-water emulsion and then the polymerizable monomer component is polymerized, whereupon capsule-shaped polymer particles containing the oily substance as a core material are obtained. Upon removal of the oily substance in the particles, there are obtained capsule-shaped hollow polymer particles. These capsule-shaped polymer particles are excellent in such properties as mechanical strength and heat resistance, and thus can find many applications.

Capsule-shaped polymer particles and process for the production thereof

An aqueous dispersion of polymer particles each consisting essentially of (a) a syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene having 70% or more of unsaturated hydrocarbon groups in the side chains and having a melting point of 70.degree. C. or higher, (b) a polymer mixture of said polybutadiene (a) and other polymer in the form that (a) and (b) co-exist in the same particle, or (c) a copolymer obtained by graft-polymerizing a conjugated diene and/or other polymerizable monomer on said polybutadiene (a), each of said particles having an average diameter of 10 .mu.m or less. Said aqueous dispersion can be produced by a process comprising steps of adding, to an aqueous dispersion of a first catalyst component solution, a conjugated diene monomer and a second catalyst component and polymerizing said conjugated diene monomer, characterized in that the first catalyst component solution contains (A) a cobalt compound, (B) at least one member selected from the group consisting of alkali metals, organometallic compounds of metals of Groups I to III of the Periodic Table and hydrides of metals of Groups I to III of the Periodic Table, and (C) 1 to 1,000 moles, per mole of the cobalt compound (A), of a conjugated diene compound and then the second catalyst component is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of carbon disulfide, phenylisothiocyanic acid and a xanthogen compound.

Polymer particles and process for producing the same

A process for preparing large-sized polymer particles having a particle diameter in a range of 0.1 to 500 .mu.m by seeded polymerization is described, comprising:

Process for preparing large-sized polymer particles

A method for controlling the feeding of a band saw blade in a horizontal band saw machine so that the band saw blade is fed at a uniform optimum cutting rate. A control system is provided for controlling the feeding speed and the driving speed of the band saw blade in such a manner that the ratio of the feeding speed to the driving speed is kept constant during a cutting operation and the ratio of cutting resistance to driving speed is maintained constant to provide a constant cutting power.

Method and apparatus for controlling the feeding of a bandsaw blade of

A method and apparatus for controlling the feeding of a bandsaw blade in a horizontal bandsaw machine so that the bandsaw blade is fed at a uniform optimum cutting rate. A control system is provided for controlling the feeding speed and the driven speed of the bandsaw blade in such a manner that the ratio of the feeding speed to the driven speed is kept constant during a cutting operation.

An apparatus for detecting lateral deviations of a bandsaw blade has a follower which is in contact with and follows lateral movement of the blade. A sensing circuit, which is connected to the follower, generates deviation signals representing movement of the follower. A control circuit which is responsive to the deviation signals stops the bandsaw when the lateral movement of the blade has deviated beyond established limits.

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Yokohama, Japan

Nobuo Sakurai