A roofing element is described which comprises two spaced skins, an upper skin of relatively thick non-metallic sheet material, such as plywood or chip board, and a lower skin of sheet metal, for resisting compression stresses in the upper skin and tension stresses in the lower skin. The skins are bonded to spacing members extending in the lengthwise direction of the element and provided by composite beams of non-metallic or substantially non-metallic material, having webs of wood-based board ma...

An elastomeric element, suitable for use in a flexible coupling for transmitting torque between two relatively rotatable components, comprises an elastomeric element having an embedded reinforcement of a plurality of parallel interleaving fabric layers spaced apart by a layer of elastomeric material, each fabric layer comprising a plurality of elongate reinforcement members extending parallel to one another and the reinforcement members of successive fabric layers being angled relative to one an...

Pressure-sensitive transfer elements having a plastic film foundation carrying a frangible, complete-release pressure-transfer layer applied by means of a volatile coating vehicle and comprising a solid solution of a fluorescing dye in the resinous binder material of said layer. Such transfer elements are adapted to transfer solid images to the surface of a copy sheet, which images fluoresce under exposure to ultraviolet light and are automatically detectible when sensed on the imaged surface of...

An imaging element which relies upon an aromatic dialdehyde to produce a dye provides improved maximum neutral densities when certain polymers are superimposed over the element. Such polymers seal the element to reduce loss of the dialdehyde during development. An imaging method is also disclosed.

A girder or like structural element of the kind consisting of a pair of chords, which are usually parallel, and a web in the form of a zigzag strip consisting of oblique straights alternating with crests by which the web is joined to and between the chords by welding or otherwise, is characterized in that each of the crests is a flat of parallelogrammatic form and has the larger of the supplementary angles of the parallelogram at between 120.degree. and 150.degree.; and, each of the straights ha...

A method of making on site a ground anchor having at least double corrosion protection about the anchor element, comprises locating a number of fixed lengths of corrosion proof sleeve about the element, applying a cap to the sleeve at the end of the element, and supplying a self-setting composition into the sleeve via the cap to fill an annular clearance between the sleeve and the element. The cap may be left in place on the end of the anchor to protect the anchor during insertion thereof into a...

Refining elements for use in a disk refiner for disintegrating and refining lignocellulose-containing material is disclosed including a pair of opposed refining elements on opposed refining disks which are relatively rotatable with respect to each other, the first and second refining elements including inner, intermediate and outer refining zones including pluralities of alternating bars and grooves extending substantially radially therealong, in which the bars on the inner refining zones on bot...

A novel shock mounting is disclosed for ultra-hard crystalline materials. When used as a drill bit, the crystalline materials last much longer as cutting elements when mounted according to the present invention.

This invention relates to improved abrading elements for honing tools containing a plurality of abrading elements, which may be rotated and/or radially moved in contact with the surface to be honed, the improvement comprising an abrading element embodying an abrasive article, having an abrading face and an opposite, substantially flat, attachment face, in a molded plastic, unitary, support structure, the unitary support structure having a substantially flat support face to which the attachment f...

A polyolefin filter for tobacco products and the like was prepared. The extruded element is an open-cell foamed polyethylene or polypropylene having a TPM filtration efficiency greater than 20%. The filter rod can be made by extruding polyethylene containing less than 0.2 moles of a volatile blowing agent per 100 grams of resin at a melt temperature between 130.degree. C. and 150.degree. C., the temperature of the die being between 120.degree. C. and 136.degree. C. Higher melt temperature and di...