ACIIYLIC COAft.. COIIPOSII'IOIIU.S. Patent 5,859,136. Jan. 12, 1999C. Scopazzi et ai., assignors to E.!.du Pont cU Nemours & Co.,Wilmington, Del.A coating composition comprising40 to 90% by weight of film form­ing binder and 10 to 60% byweight of an organic liquid car­rier; wherein the binder com­prises 50 to 90% by weight, basedon the weight of the binder, of adispersed acrylic polymer and 10to 50% by weight, based on theweight ofthe binder, ofan organicpolyisocyanate crosslinking agent.

cw........U.S. Patent 5,860,184. Jan. 19, 1999S.J. W. Platzer et al., assignors toAGFA·Gevaert AG, Leverkusen,GermanyA process for the mechanicalroughening of the surface of aprinting plate substrate and cyl­inder wire brush for carrying outthe process.

1lIOII WII'H -.TAL-IILA'IID .....U.S. Patent 5,860,234. Jan. 19, 1999S.M. Hall, Cheshire, Conn., assignorto HP Intellectual Corp., MiamiLaus, Fla.

An iron having a housing with askirt, a soleplate connected to thehousing, and means for heatingthe soleplate, wherein the im­provement comprises the skirthaving a molded body comprisedof dielectric material, wherein therim has a metal plating adhereddirectly onto the rim to give anappearance of a metal skirt.

.......... -.-vu.s. Patent 5,861,054, Jan. 19, 1999N. Miyashita et al., assignors to KKToshiba, Kawasaki, JapanA polishing slurry comprising anacidic solvent; polishing particlescolloidally dispersed in the sol­vent comprising silicon nitride;and wherein a primary particlesize of said polishing particles is0.01 to 1,000 nm.

Wingerde, assignors to Akzo NobelNV, Arnhem, NetherlandsAn aqueous coating compositioncomprising a resin component in­cluding a functional group-con­taining crosslinkable resin andoptionally, a curing/crosslinkingagent for functional groups of thecrosslinkable resin.

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