Entek Manufacturing LLC

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Robert E Howard

James Phillip Young

Karl E Kaser

A thin panel consisting essentially of a compressed non woody lignocellulosic material and a binder. The thin panel has a thickness of less than about 0.10 inch (2.54 mm), preferably between about 0.06 inch (1.6 mm) and about 0.10 inch (2.54 mm). The preferred binder is a polyisocyanate. The non-woody lignocellulosic material may be straw, bagasse, hemp, flax shives or jute sticks. The preferred non-woody lignocellulosic materials are selected from the group consisting of straw and bagasse. The bagasse may be substantially non-depithed. The thin panel is useful as core stock in plywood.

Thin panels of non-woody lignocellulosic material

Fibers and filaments of an ultra-high-molecular-weight polyolefin that have a void volume greater than about 20% and are wettable. Wettability is imparted to the fibers and filaments by incorporating a filler into the composition that is hygroscopic, has a particle size less than about 10 microns in diameter and a surface area greater than about 30 square meters per gram. The preferred fillers are those that contain surface silanol groups. The fibers and filaments are formed by the process of preparing a mixture of an ultra-high-molecular-weight polyolefin, filler and plasticizer, metering the mixture to an extruder, heating and kneading the blend in the extruder, conveying the extrudate to a fiber or filament forming type die, expressing the extrudate through the die openings to form fibers or filaments, and extracting at least a portion of the extractable plasticizer to provide the desired porosity. The fibers and filaments may be formed into nonwoven webs directly by the melt blown or spun bonded process or by airlaying or wetlaying techniques. Such webs are particularly useful as a battery separator. The filaments may also be woven into fabric.

Nonwoven webs of microporous fibers and filaments

Process of forming microporous fibers and filaments

Fibers and filaments of an ultra-high-molecular-weight polyolefin that have a void volume greater than about 20% and are wettble. Wettability is imparted to the fibers and filaments by incorporating a filler into the composition that is hygroscopic, has a particle size less than about 10 microns in diameter and a surface area greater than about 30 square meters per gram. The preferred fillers are those that contain surface silanol groups. The fibers and filaments are formed by the process of preparing a mixture of an ultra-high-molecular-weight polyolefin, filler and plasticizer, metering the mixture to an extruder, heating and kneading the blend in the extruder, conveying the extrudate to a fiber or filament forming type die, expressing the extrudate through the die openings to form fibers or filaments, and extracting at least a portion of the extractable plasticizer to provide the desired porosity. The fibers and filaments may be formed into nonwoven webs directly by the melt blown or spun bonded process or by airlaying or wetlaying techniques. Such webs are particularly useful as a battery separator. The filaments may also be woven into fabric.

Microporous filaments and fibers, and articles made therefrom

Fibers and filaments of an ultra-high-molecular-weight polyolefin that have a void volume greater than about 20% and are wettable. Wettability is imparted to the fibers and filaments by incorporating a filler into the composition that is hydroscopic, has a particle size less than about 10 microns in diameter and a surface area greater than about 30 square meters per gram. The preferred fillers are those that contain surface silanol groups. The fibers and filaments are formed by the process of preparing a mixture of an ultra-high-molecular-weight polyolefin, filler and plasticizer, metering the mixture to an extruder, heating and kneading the blend in the extruder, conveying the extrudate to a fiber or filament forming type die, expressing the extrudate through the die openings to form fibers or filaments, and extracting at least a portion of the extractable plasticizer to provide the desired porosity. The fibers and filaments may be formed into nonwoven webs directly by the melt blown or spun bonded process or by airlaying or wetlaying techniques. Such webs are particularly useful as a battery separator. The filaments may also be woven into fabric.

Microporous filaments and fibers

A rechargeable dispensing apparatus, particularly suitable for use as a fire extinguisher, includes a generally spherical, enclosed dispensing container adapted to receive a liquid extinguishant therein, and has a flexible pickup tube shiftably confined therewithin which is provided with a weighted orifice for maintaining the latter at the bottom of the container below the level of remaining liquid within the container, whereby to allow continuous dispensing of the extinguishant in spite of tilting or turning of the apparatus by the user during the dispensing operation. A single, ordinary faucet-type valve, adapted to interchangeably couple with a filler pipe and a dispensing hose, provides the two-fold function of permitting introduction of liquid under pressure into the container and maintaining the same in a pressurized storage state, while also allowing the user to selectively release the liquid from the container through the dispensing hose, without the need for multiple, specially configured valve mechanisms.

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Corvallis, OR, United States of America

Robert E Howard