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Production Tip: Setting Mic Levels
Getting proper mic levels is essential to capturing good audio. These simple tips will help make sure your audio sounds as pristine as possible.
Getting proper mic levels is essential to capturing good audio. These simple tips will help make sure your audio sounds as pristine as possible.
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A Videomaker Spotlight Award goes to Nessie from Blue Microphones!
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The EMK4071 ENG/EFP microphone kit exudes its manufacturer's characteristic quality. DPA has put together a complete kit, including a lavalier microphone and necessary accessories that are perfect for electronic news gathering and electronic field production applications.
mhageman - Fri, 12/21/2012 - 1:48pm
It can be a distraction for knowing what you need versus what a large production company with unlimited resources might need. So this list will give you a nice lean collection of the minimums to capture professional quality sound for your projects. Note: This assumes that you are aware of cables, media cards, card readers or any other devices to transfer the data to your editing system.
This list of 7 items that everyone should have in their audio toolkit, plus, as a bonus, a couple extra audio tools that aren't necessary but can make your life much easier.
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Personal computers (PCs) have become common due to their versatility and portability for example laptops and notebooks. It is natural that PCs have found their applications in virtually all walks of life. When it comes to sound recording, the task of recording sound first on the media and then transferring it to a platform for editing or embedding can be inconvenient for amateur users who do not require the use of sophisticated equipment. Rode has provided their Podcaster USB Broadcast Microphone for such type of users.
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So, you've got a small budget and you finally believe that the audio you capture for your project is just as important as the video, (we told you so!) but you can only purchase one mic. Shotgun mics on boom poles are the mainstay in Hollywood, but maybe you just shoot weddings in your spare time, or do a local commercial every now and then to help make ends meet. Well, here's some pros and cons of the most common mic types, and what they're good at.
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Paul & Joe Beaute Tenderness #4 Lip Lacquer Review, Photos, Swatches
Paul & Joe Beaute Tenderness (#4) Lip Lacquer ($20.00 for 0.13 ml) is a beige-peach with surprisingly opaque coverage. It has no shimmer but lots of glossiness–it has the pigmentation of a lipstick but the cushy feel of a gloss. I love that despite it's creaminess it doesn't emphasize lip lines like some creamier shades do. I'm also really impressed by the coverage.The packaging is cute from the box it comes in to the tube itself, and it's easy to apply on the go, so it may become a shade I keep in my bag to have a go-to color (can you believe that I have absolutely no lipstick or lipgloss in my purse?). I couldn't really detect any scent, maybe the faintest sweet fruit aroma, but I really couldn't tell.
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"Four Brothers star Mark Wahlberg has decided not to go under-the-knife to remove his third
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Westmill Solar Park is located near to Watchfield, on the Wiltshire/Oxfordshire border, just off the A420. The site consists of 30 acres of over 20,000 polycrystalline PV panels generating 4.8GWhr/year – approximately the equivalent to a year's electricity consumption of 1,400 homes in Oxfordshire and enough to prevent 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually. It is, we believe, the UK's first and world's largest cooperatively run, community-owned solar farm.
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So that you can see the seasonal variation in power generation, the graph below shows the generation from Westmill Solar for 2013.
Solar power is one of the most well-established and reliable renewable energy technologies.
Solar power is in operation across the world and installed solar capacity is now above 32 GW globally. Solar Photovoltaic (PV) panels have no moving parts and therefore require little maintenance. They produce no noise, vibration or pollution. Solar PV panels operate even in cloudy conditions and have been installed across the country. The South of England is particularly suited to solar PV due to the relatively high levels of sunlight.
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Colorado's higher education funding model is broken, and I agree with my colleague, University of Colorado president Bruce Benson, that it is time for a serious statewide discussion about asking voters to fix it.
Many in Colorado don't realize that the cost of educating a student at Colorado State University in Fort Collins is the same as it was 20 years ago, adjusted for inflation. The only change is that 20 years ago, the state paid two-thirds of the cost; today, it's less than one-third. Public defunding of higher education is the biggest factor in rising tuition rates, and that trend has accelerated in recent years.
State funding for higher education is $163 million below 2009 levels, ranking Colorado 48th nationally in public support for colleges and universities. It's a stunning fact given that Colorado is one of the most educated states in the nation, thanks largely to people who move here with college degrees from somewhere else.


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Senior first baseman Mark Nelson leads the team with six home runs
April 1, 2013
Boca Raton, FL - The Florida Atlantic University baseball team seeks to extend its season-best six-game winning streak in a midweek game against cross town rival Lynn University on Tuesday, April 2 at the FAU Baseball Stadium, 777 Glades Road on the Boca Raton campus.
FAU stands 19-9 on the season and is tied for first place in the Sun Belt Conference (SBC) with a 7-2 record. The team is coming off a three-game sweep of No. 24-ranked University of South Alabama last weekend in Boca Raton. The Owls won the finale 3-0 on Sunday, March 31 behind a complete-game shutout by junior pitcher Jeremy Strawn.
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Freshman shortstop Mitch Morales' bases-loaded ninth-inning walk-off single scored junior third baseman Kyle Newton to give the Florida Atlantic University baseball team a dramatic 3-2 victory over Lynn University on Tuesday in the Battle of Boca Raton at the FAU Baseball Stadium.
Offensively, sophomore shortstop Mitch Morales continues to set the pace for the team's offense with a .351 batting average. The Wellington native has also scored 15 runs while driving in an additional 14 runs.
Senior outfielder Nathan Pittman is batting .314 in the leadoff position in the lineup and is tops on the team with 10 stolen bases.
Senior first baseman Mark Nelson hit his team-leading sixth home run in Sunday's victory against South Alabama. The Orlando native also leads the team with 26 RBI and is hitting at a .284 clip for the season.
Junior designated hitter/catcher Levi Meyer rounds out the .300 hitters with a .307 average. Fellow junior-college transfer Tyler Rocklein has hit five homers with 20 RBI.
On the mound, Florida Atlantic pitching staff leads the SBC with a 2.91 earned run average (ERA). Sophomore Austin Gomber anchors the rotation with a 3-1 record and a 1.75 ERA. Strawn stands 2-1 with a 2.72 ERA, while senior Jake Meiers has posted two wins to round out the weekend rotation.
Lynn, a NCAA Division II school from Boca Raton, is 22-11 on the season and 6-3 in the Sunshine State Conference. Jason Matusik leads the team with a .393 batting average, 30 RBI and 11 doubles. Ryan Lashley has hit five home runs with a .324 average. The Fighting Knights' pitching staff has compiled a 2.60 ERA.
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Owners Fred and Gail Wilson have been partners since 1972, in business as well as marriage. Fred grew up in the structural trades and Gail was schooled in design and decorating. It has been quite a trip as you can imagine, but we are fighters and are still involved on a daily basis with the business of building homes. "We have involved our sons, as well, over the years, and Shawn Wilson is still involved in the Cabinet and Stone business".
Fred started construction as a draftsman. It is funny that a fourth grader would scale the home that his parents owned, but Fred actually drew the scale with real walls (2 lines) and redesigned a better plan. Well, it's been a long time since then; however he has not lost the love of building and designing homes.
In 1968 Fred roofed houses after school and in 1970 became a carpenter's helper. By 1972 Fred was a full fledged framing carpenter and started his own business. Fred and Gail then started building homes in 1977 and have not looked back since. Over the years they have built large commercial buildings as well as $1,000,000.00 custom homes.
Fred is active in the local, state and national Home Builder's Association and has been the President of the Amarillo group, Texas Panhandle Builders Association as well as the West Texas Home Builders Association. He is currently a Director of the Texas Association of Builders and a Director of the National Association of Builders. On a National level, he is a member of the Energy Committee and, on a State level, he is a member of the Building Codes and Standards Committee. He currently serves as a Governor Perry appointee of the Texas Industrialized Code Council. Fred is nationally recognized as the regions only certified Graduate Master Builder.
Gail always loved to coordinate colors and is a graduate of an Interior Design Institute. She is involved in all aspects of the building process and helps clients choose their interior and exterior finishes. She is also very active in the Home Builders Association as well as other civic activities.
Ready Builts go back to the 1940s and were started because of the lack of qualified tradesman in the rural areas. Today, there is still a shortage of tradesman, not only in the rural areas but in larger communities as well.
There were many builders that built a variety of some sort of pre-built homes and that has continued through the current time. Men have built sections of walls, trusses, and manufactured houses were also a part of this history.
Lubbock Redi-Built goes way back and includes men like Wayne White, and Pete Durham. A group from Amarillo, Oppel-Jenkins bought Lubbock Redi-Built in 1988 from Mr. White. This group hired a builder from Amarillo to run the business in 1989. That builder, Fred Wilson, is now the owner of Lubbock Redi-Built, Inc and has been involved in the building business since the 1960's.
Here is an interesting piece about Sears that I found.
The hour has arrived. Dad gathers Mom and Sis into the carriage. He hops in the wagon with his brothers to ride off to the railroad station. The day and hour have come to greet the first shipment of your family's brand-new house. All the lumber will be precut and arrive with instructions for your dad and uncles to assemble and build. Mom and Dad picked out No. 140 from Sears, Roebuck and Company's catalog. It will have two bedrooms and a cobblestone foundation, plus a front porch—but no bath. They really wanted No. 155, with a screened-in front porch, built-in buffet, and inside bath (!), but $1,100 was twice as much as Dad said he could afford. In just a few days, the whole family will sleep under the roof of your custom-made Sears Modern Home.
Entire homes would arrive by railroad, from precut lumber, to carved staircases, down to the nails and varnish. Families picked out their houses according to their needs, tastes, and pocketbooks. Sears provided all the materials and instructions, and for many years the financing, for homeowners to build their own houses. Sears's Modern Homes stand today as living monuments to the fine, enduring, and solid quality of Sear's craftsmanship.
No official tally exists of the number of Sear's mail-order houses that still survive today. It is reported that more than 100,000 houses were sold between 1908 and 1940 through Sears's Modern Homes program. The keen interest evoked in current homebuyers, architectural historians, and enthusiasts of American culture indicate that thousands of these houses survive in varying degrees of condition and original appearance.
It is difficult to appreciate just how important the Modern Homes program and others like it were to homebuyers in the first half of the twentieth century. Imagine for a moment buying a house in 1908. Cities were getting more crowded and had always been dirty breeding grounds for disease in an age before vaccines. The United States was experiencing a great economic boom, and millions of immigrants who wanted to share in this wealth and escape hardship were pouring into America's big cities. City housing was scarce, and the strong economy raised labor costs, which sent new-home prices soaring.
The growing middle class was leaving the city for the—literally—greener pastures of suburbia as trolley lines and the railroad extended lifelines for families who needed to travel to the city. Likewise, companies were building factories on distant, empty parcels of land and needed to house their workers. Stately, expensive Victorian-style homes were not options for any but the upper class of homeowner. Affordable, mail-order homes proved to be just the answer to such dilemmas.
Sears was neither the first nor the only company to sell mail-order houses, but they were the largest, selling as many as 324 units in one month (May, 1926). The origin of the Modern Homes program is actually to be found a decade before houses were sold. Sears began selling building materials out of its catalogs in 1895, but by 1906 the department was almost shut down until someone had a better idea. Frank W. Kushel, who was reassigned to the unprofitable program from managing the china department, believed the homebuilding materials could be shipped straight from the factories, thus eliminating storage costs for Sears. This began a successful 25-year relationship between Kushel and the Sears Modern Homes program.
To advertise the company's new and improved line of building supplies, a Modern Homes specialty catalog, the Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans, appeared in 1908. For the first time, Sears sold complete houses, including the plans and instructions for construction of 22 different styles, announcing that the featured homes were "complete, ready for occupancy." By 1911, Modern Homes catalogs included illustrations of house interiors, which provided homeowners with blueprints for furnishing the houses with Sears appliances and fixtures.
It should be noted that suburban families were not the only Modern Home dwellers. Sears expanded its line to reflect the growing demand from rural customers for ready-made buildings. In 1923, Sears introduced two new specialty catalogs, Modern Farm Buildings and Barn. The barn catalog boasted "a big variety of scientifically planned" farm buildings, from corncribs to tool sheds. The simple, durable, and easy-to-construct nature of the Sears farm buildings made them particularly attractive to farmers.
Modern Homes must have seemed like pennies from heaven, especially to budget-conscious first-time homeowners. For example, Sears estimated that, for a precut house with fitted pieces, it would take only 352 carpenter hours as opposed to 583 hours for a conventional house—a 40% reduction! Also, Sears offered loans beginning in 1911, and by 1918 it offered customers credit for almost all building materials as well as offering advanced capital for labor costs. Typical loans ran at 5 years, with 6% interest, but loans could be extended over as many as 15 years.
Sears's liberal loan policies eventually backfired, however, when the Depression hit. 1929 saw the high point of sales with more than $12 million, but $5.6 million of that was in mortgage loans. Finally, in 1934, $11 million in mortgages were liquidated, and despite a brief recovery in the housing market in 1935, the Modern Homes program was doomed. By 1935, Sears was selling only houses, not lots or financing, and despite the ever-brimming optimism of corporate officials, Modern Homes sold its last house in 1940.
Between 1908 and 1940, Modern Homes made an indelible mark on the history of American housing. A remarkable degree of variety marks the three-plus decades of house design by Sears. A skilled but mostly anonymous group of architects designed 447 different houses. Each of the designs, though, could be modified in numerous ways, including reversing floor plans, building with brick instead of wood siding, and many other options.
Sears had the customer in mind when it expanded its line of houses to three different expense levels to appeal to customers of differing means. While Honor Bilt was the highest-quality line of houses, with its clear-grade (no knots) flooring and cypress or cedar shingles, the Standard Built and Simplex Sectional lines were no less sturdy, yet were simpler designs and did not feature precut and fitted pieces. Simplex Sectional houses actually included farm buildings, outhouses, garages, and summer cottages.
The American landscape is dotted by Sears Modern Homes. Few of the original buyers and builders remain to tell the excitement they felt when traveling to greet their new house at the train station. The remaining homes, however, stand as testaments today to that bygone era and to the pride of home built by more than 100,000 Sears customers and fostered by the Modern Homes program.
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Media mogul Turner to speak at Toledo Rotary meetingFriday, February 23rd, 2007
and CNN founder Ted Turner, co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, will
be interviewed at the luncheon by Toledo Rotary President Phineas Anderson 11:55
a.m. Feb. 26 at the Park Inn Hotel, 101 N. Summit St. According to a news
release, the interview will address topics that include conservation,
alternative energy, nuclear weapons, the media and Turner's various
philanthropic activities. Turner will also take questions from the audience,
the release said.
Turner is founder of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the United
Nations Foundation, and the Turner Foundation and is the largest private
property owner in the United States, the release said.
Northwest Ohio Restaurant Association benefit setFriday, February 23rd, 2007
A dinner to benefit the Northwest Ohio Restaurant
Association is scheduled for 6 p.m. Feb. 27 at The Docks restaurants. According
to a news release, the event will begin with a sparkling champagne, martini bar
and hors d'oeuvres presented at the Navy Bistro followed by a quick margarita
at Tango's Mexican Cantina. Down the river walk, Zia's will serve antipasti
paired with wines, the release said, followed by dinner next door at the Real
Seafood Co. A live Maine lobster dinner will then be served, the release said,
followed by desserts and cordials.
During the evening, dining guests will also have an
opportunity to bid on silent auction items. Purdue football tickets, several
restaurant packages including reserved tables during the riverfront Fourth of
July fireworks display, hotel packages, golf opportunities and much more will
be available to the highest bidder, the release said.
The event is open to the public with reservations being made
through Real Seafood reservation line, 1-888-456-DINE. Tickets are $100 per
person and limited to the first 100 reservations.
Fund-raiser channels Elvis for kidsFriday, February 23rd, 2007
"Elvis donated to so many charities, like the March of Dimes, Boys Club of America, and the Shriners. It was a passion of his. He gave more away than he kept," said Michelle Rosencrantz, organizer of the Elvis charity concert being held at the Franciscan Center in Sylvania on March 3. "He donated to so many charities, but he never wanted any credit for it. So a lot of people never knew about it."
Headlining the Sylvania Elvis concert is singer Ronnie McDowell, who scored his first hit with the August 1977 single, "The King is Gone." Accompanying McDowell is Elvis's original drummer from 1954-68, D.J. Fontana, gospel legend Donnie Sumner, and local tribute artist Robert Rosencrantz with the Toledo ensemble The Roustabout Show Band.
The event is hosted by the Elvis Presley's Sweet Sweet Spirit Fan Club, a Toledo organization which seeks to preserve the memory of Elvis's charitable nature.
"We wanted to carry out his legacy, since he gave to so many," said Michelle Rosencrantz, president of the fan club. "Elvis cared about helping the needy. He was raised poor, so he would never treat anybody different. He would treat a shoeshine boy as well as he would treat an executive of a big company. We thought, let's do Elvis's work for him. Let's do what he would have wanted us to do."
As a result, all proceeds of the Elvis concert go to the Little Kids Rock organization, which is dedicated to bringing free musical instruments and music instruction to public school children.
"Elvis's mom bought him a guitar because she couldn't afford a bicycle," Rosencrantz said. "He really wanted a bicycle, but they were very poor. What would've happened if she hadn't bought him that guitar? Little Kids Rock thinks that every child should have a chance to learn to play. Who is that kid out there now, that if somebody didn't help him, could end up being a legend?"
The fan club's past charity Elvis concerts have drawn fans from as far away as Scotland. Rosencrantz expects a similar turnout for the March 3 show, especially with the featured celebrity lineup.
"The sound is so phenomenal that people actually think that it's Elvis," said Rosencrantz about performers McDowell and Fontana.
"But we're not saying he's Elvis," she laughed. "I mean, there's only one Elvis."
Country hunk Keith Anderson building strong careerFriday, February 23rd, 2007
Keith Anderson can't wait to hit the stage.
"We've been in the studio for two and a half months, so we're biting at the bit, the band and I, to get out and play some live shows," he said.
Anderson was calling from Nashville, where he's finishing his second disc, which will be released later this year.
"This next record is so important. I'm glad I had the time to really concentrate on it," he said. "There was a time when you could have two hits and you were going to be around a long time. In today's world, it's such a competitive market; you have to continue to deliver and bring great music."
Anderson's 2005 debut, "Three Chord Country and American Rock & Roll," pumped out four hits —"Pickin' Wildflowers," "Every Time I Hear Your Name," "XXL" and "Podunk."
"I write as much as I can from what I've lived and what I know, whether it's a big party song or a love song," said the native of Miami, Okla. "You need to have real lyrics, and to go along with that, you have to have an amazing melody that captures and gets in your ear and stays there."
It doesn't hurt to be a knockout. Anderson was included in People magazine's "50 Hottest Bachelors" issue in 2005 and named "Ultimate Country Star" by Men's Fitness magazine.
"One of the first things we do is try to find a gym. That's part of our rider when we come in to town — ask ahead of time where the local gym is and have a ride to get there," he said. "Me and a couple guys from the band go every day."
Anderson will open for Dierks Bentley at 7:30 p.m. March 1 at the SeaGate Convention Centre. Tickets are $34.75 and $29.75.
Photography exhibit challenges perceptions of teenage pregnanciesFriday, February 23rd, 2007
The Toledo Museum of Art is hosting photographer Michael Nye's traveling exhibition "Children of Children" into its Community Gallery.
"Children of Children," which has traveled to more than 50 cities worldwide, is a collection of stories of men and women ranging in age from 12 to 100 whose lives have been affected by teenage pregnancy. Featured are 50 black and white photographs, each accompanied by audio stories told by the individuals in the portraits. Viewers of this exhibit listen to the narratives through headphones mounted by each portrait.
The multimedia exhibit is a catalyst for family, student and community discussions as it explores teen pregnancy and parenting in its full context — without criticism or approval — in a non-threatening setting.
Nye, a former attorney and the husband of poet Naomi Shihab Nye, has been a recipient of a Mid-America National Endowment for the Arts grant in photography, a 2003 Kronkosky Foundation grant and a participant in two Arts America tours in the Middle East and Asia. He has lectured widely in Morocco, India and many museums and universities. "Children of Children" has been traveling for more than five years.
According to Nye, the exhibit's intention is not to condemn, condone or romanticize teenage pregnancy in any way, but to explore the context of young pregnancy and parenting in our society.
"These photographs and stories are glimpses into much larger, complex lives. Each person carries a separate, very particular history. Whether the early pregnancy occurred in 1918 or today, it is a dramatic, life-changing event," Nye said.
"Children of Children" is on exhibit through March 11.
Visit www.toledomuseum.org for more information.
Love the customers who love you backFriday, February 23rd, 2007
Sometimes the last thing you want is to get stuck behind a big, slow-moving truck on a country road. Yet one morning, as we were driving our children to school, this is exactly what happened to my wife and me. At first a little annoyed, we eventually relaxed and accepted that our morning commute would take longer than usual.
Then, suddenly, the truck stopped in the road and flashed its hazards. Before either of us could ask what was going on, we saw the stopped school bus on the other side of the road. While it may have been policy for the truck to stop and apply its hazards for children boarding the school bus, it seemed pretty rare.
These days, most stories regarding trucks on the road are far from positive, so my wife and I were surprised to see a truck driver so cautious for the safety of school children. Noticing the "How is my driving?" sticker on the rear of the truck, my wife grabbed her cell phone. She was so moved by the positive action of the truck driver that she felt she had to say something.
The customer service representative listened as my wife explained how overcome she was by the responsible truck driver. She requested that her appreciation be forwarded to the driver, and the representative assured her it would.
But before hanging up, my wife had to ask, "Do you receive many positive phone calls like this?" The woman replied, "While we do receive glowing reports of our drivers on occasion, unfortunately, most of the calls we receive are for negative reasons."
The sad truth is that this is the norm in almost any business, and, most likely, even yours. Just think of the time you spend in one work week responding to negative calls. How many of your calls are for trying to make a sale, completing an order, or responding to a complaint?
Compared to these types of phone calls, how much time do you spend communicating with satisfied customers – the ones who love and support your business? These customers certainly deserve more time than you currently give them.
Giving your immediate full attention to a customer with a problem comes naturally. While these types of calls certainly require your time, don't let yourself be consumed by them.
Instead of spending all your time putting out fires, dedicate a fraction of your week to make a phone call, a visit or a lunch appointment with one of your satisfied customers. Thank them for their continued support and use the opportunity to ask them if there is anything you can do to better serve them.
By showing your genuine appreciation, you are building on the good relationship you have with your customers and strengthening their loyalty to your business. Doing this will also give yourself the added bonus of hearing positive affirmations and positive suggestions from encouraging customers.
Knowing you are doing a good job satisfying customers will lift your spirits and recharge you for even the toughest of work weeks. You will walk into your next sales call with more self-confidence than you could ever muster on your own.
Not only will it make you feel better, it will also help you develop into a stronger businessperson. Being open with your customers will allow you to see how you can serve them better, giving you the chance to strengthen your weaknesses. It will also help you discover your strengths as you hear exactly what has made your customers happy with your service.
You can't walk around with a sticker on your backside that reads, "How is my service?" So make the effort to call current customers and find out. Spending just a portion of your time with happy customers will build on the good relationships you have already made and help you build more like them.
Tom Richard is a Toledo-based sales trainer, gives seminars, runs sales meetings and provides coaching for salespeople. For more information, visit www.TomRichard.com, call (419) 441-1005 or e-mail email@example.com.
National sales tax complicates already difficult processFriday, February 23rd, 2007
Presidential candidates from both parties, and others, have proposed a national sales tax be enacted to replace the current income tax. They say a national sales tax would be much simpler than the current system, increase tax fairness and permit a shutdown of the IRS as it now exists.
However, all is not so green in the other pasture. A report by the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) of Congress says a national sales tax may be a fatally flawed proposal and just as bad as the system it's designed to replace.
Let's look at what these sales tax advocates want to do. They claim a tax of 16 to 18 percent could raise all of the revenue now collected by the IRS.
And the rate will have to be higher than that if the tax provides for exemptions. For example, investment outlays, exports and government purchases are almost certain to be exempt.
With these items excluded, a national sales tax becomes, in effect, a tax on personal consumption expenditures. Using this as a base would require a tax rate of at least 32 percent to replace current revenues. And, of course, this does not include any sales taxes that states impose.
What about being taxed on services, which are exempt from most states' sales taxes? If they enact this national tax, every time the plumber or electrician visits, a tax will have to be paid. The same is true for other services, such as doctor's visits, haircuts, taxi rides and funeral services.
The government report makes some strong arguments about why this type of tax would be bad, maybe even worse than the current IRS system. It says a national sales tax of 19 percent on everything sold would be required to equal current income tax revenues. Historically, it has proven difficult to impose a sales tax on services at the state level. Imagine trying to collect such a tax at the federal level.
No one making these kinds of proposals has answered: Who is going to collect this sales tax if there is no IRS?
Sales tax advocates suggest the federal tax can be piggybacked onto state sales tax collections. Bad idea. First of all, five states have no sales tax. They would have to put in place sales tax collection procedures they don't have. The rest of the states would have to add a whole new bureaucracy to collect and remit this federal sales tax.
It's estimated the extra cost of collecting federal sales taxes will create a new financial burden on states of at least $12 billion.
Some states would exempt items taxed at the federal level and vice versa. In some states, food is exempt. In others, medicine is tax-free. And so on.
Think about the issues of business versus individual taxation. Would businesses get exemptions on the tax if they were to resell the goods? To avoid this double tax, producers, wholesalers and service providers will have to be given tax registration numbers allowing them to avoid paying the sales tax on inputs used in their businesses.
But this creates complications for retailers, as well as easy opportunities for evasion.
And what is to stop people from engaging in sham businesses simply to obtain a tax exemption? According to the JEC report, there will have to be a vast auditing procedure that could make today's IRS methods tame by comparison.
A national sales tax would give people an enormous incentive to consume as much as possible before the tax takes effect, drawing down savings and even going into debt to buy everything they could possibly need in the future.
Having done so, consumption after the tax takes effect will collapse, at least for a time. This could cause a recession.
What about payroll taxes? If the Social Security payroll tax is not eliminated along with the income tax, the IRS would still be required to collect it. If the payroll tax is eliminated, a drastic revision of the Social Security benefits system would be required, since benefits are currently linked to taxes paid, which, in turn, are linked to earnings.
Everyone agrees our current tax system stinks. Other possibilities, like a national sales tax, might be even worse.
Troy Neff is managing director of Advanced Retirement Solutions. He also hosts "The Troy Neff Show" each weekday 6 to 9 a.m. on WCWA 1230 AM. He may be contacted by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Mickus juggles roles at Mercy, Catholic Healthcare PartnersFriday, February 23rd, 2007
Juggling responsibilities as CEO of a seven-hospital health care system while also serving as executive vice president of its parent organization may seem overwhelming, but there is one thing that helps Steven Mickus fulfill a role that goes on "all day long" — the power of prayer.
"I pray regularly about all the things I do," Mickus, president of Mercy Health Partners, who last month was named divisional president of the new Northwest Ohio Division of Catholic Healthcare Partners, said. "I'm thankful for the strength the Lord gives me and the intellect, interpersonal skills and high energy to do my job."
Mickus, who began his career with Mercy Health Partners in 1995 as chief operating officer at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, now oversees 13,000 employees in Toledo, Lima and Lorain for Catholic Healthcare Partners.
Originally from New Jersey, Mickus got his start in hospital administration when he graduated with a master's degree in business administration from George Washington University and went on to complete a two-year residency at Borgess Health in Kalamazoo, Mich. He then completed a baccalaureate degree with a concentration in finance from Nazareth College, where he would later go on to teach courses in economics and labor management.
Mickus has also taught classes for professionals in the health field through the Chicago-based American College of Healthcare Executives.
Bringing three different branches of Catholic Healthcare Partners together under one person's leadership helps standardize good health care practices in a world where health care is becoming "more and more complex," he said.
"Suddenly we can see where we can coordinate our efforts and that leads to better efficiency," Mickus said.
If not for efficient systems, Mercy Health Partners and the Catholic Healthcare Partners would not be able to provide one of the most essential services — free care to those who cannot pay.
"We do what people need without regard to if someone can pay or not," Mickus said. "We set up clinics in neighborhoods, we hold free blood pressure screenings. Unless we're operating efficiently we can't afford to do the most important things we do."
It's this mentality that makes Mickus so well suited for his new position, said Jeff Hardesty, an instructor at Owens Community College who has known Mickus for 10 years through their church, Sylvania's Westgate Chapel.
"He graciously accepts responsibility," Hardesty said. "He says, 'I can do this and I should do this.' That's great leadership, because he's not reactive — he's proactive."
Those leadership abilities have helped Mickus spearhead many innovative projects during the past few years for Mercy Health Partners, including investing in a surgical robot called DaVinci, which surgeons can use to operate on patients.
Mickus is also overseeing the creation of a heart pavilion where "open-heart surgeons can work side by side with cardiologists with patients," using the latest technology in extra-large operating rooms. There are also plans to build a cancer center in the next year.
Tom Welch, a cardiologist at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center who has known Mickus for about 20 years, said it is Mickus' intelligence and confidence that allow him to pursue such high goals.
"He's articulate, he's a great speaker who exudes so much confidence," Welch said. "And he's reliable. He tells the truth."
Mickus said his new role leaves room to improve.
"I'm looking for the preferred state, how to do things better. With Catholic Health Partners, we're trying to care for more than just a physical ailment, but also solve spiritual and emotional problems," he said. "That's what makes this an outstanding career."
UT hoops halftime shows pass the batonFriday, February 23rd, 2007
Stan Joplin's story has been told over many campfires this year. After years of failed expectations and dwindling attendance, a remarkable run at the end of the 2006 basketball season led to Joplin's contract renewal. This year, the Toledo Rockets have continued their surge from last year in front of several thousand fans.
Equally impressive from the first 10 years of Joplin's era is a facet of the game that has no impact on the score, but rather the bitterness of the fans who one day would be sports bloggers: halftime entertainment.
In the past, UT's halftime shows would consist of either little girls twirling batons or little girls twirling batons. In the rare exception the halftime entertainment wasn't little girls twirling batons, it was either a pickup basketball game between two elementary school basketball teams or other little girls twirling batons.
This year the halftime entertainment has gone from elementary to … whatever the opposite of elementary is. (Montessori?)
The UT athletic department didn't disappoint with its first performer of the year. In its home opener against UNC-Wilmington, UT brought in a contortionist known only as Rubberboy. Once he shimmied himself through a toilet seat, it was clearly a metaphorical omen for where the halftime entertainment quality was heading.
Since Rubberboy squeezed through Savage Hall, and our hearts, UT booked several novelty acts, all of which have previously performed for several NBA crowds:
• The Stickman, a dude balancing a spinning basketball on a 40-foot pole and taking a 3-point shot with it.
• The Jabali Acrobats, a troupe of tumbling, flame-avoiding Kenyans.
• The Skyriders, a trampoline trick duo.
• Red Panda Acrobat, a woman flipping bowls onto her head while operating a rather tall unicycle.
• The Piano Juggler, a man who juggles balls downward onto a special keyboard, playing classic songs.
• Quick Change, a man and woman shifting between outfits like nobody's business.
The UT basketball experience has certainly improved. Well, usually. In the game against Northern Illinois, Quick Change lived up to its name and canceled at the last minute, forcing Savage Hall to bring its B-game, which was nothing more than some man wearing a UT fleece singing a tune from "Phantom of the Opera." Perhaps that night was the only time I ever prayed for twirling batons.
Matt Sussman runs the sports blog The Futon Report at www.futonreport.net.


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March 30, 1965 R. c. VANSTRUM 3,175,935
METHOD OF MAKING REFLECTIVE PARTICLES AND RESULTANT ARTICLE Filed May 8. 1961 //Vl/EN7'0,Q 605527 C. Kwysreun MM ZF A770 NE United States Patent Ofifice 3,175,935 Patented Mar. 30, 1965 3,175,935 METHOD OF MAKING REFLECTIVE PARTICLES AND RESULTANT ARTICLE Robert C. Vanstrum, White Bear Lake, Minn., assiguor to Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St.
Paul, Minn., a corporation of Delaware Filed May 8, 1961, Ser. No. 108,450 7 Claims. (Cl. 1563) This invention relates to a novel method for coating base core members or granules and the articles formed thereby.
The invention provides freely-fiowable granules comprising base core members adherently coated with non tacky solid thermoadhesive particles. These freely-flowable granules, particularly when spherical in shape as is preferred, are useful as a molding material to make porous shapes such as, for example, filters. They also are useful as intermediates in the manufacture of a variety of products. One such product is reflex-reflecting granules of high brilliancy reflection and capable of reflexreflecting light regardless of its angle of incidence.
Heretofore it has been difficult to manufacture reflexreflecting granules of very small size inasmuch as the reflex-reflecting combinations, which consist of lens elements (transparent microspheres) and underlying specular reflectors, must be oriented about core particles and bonded in position without bonding adjacent core particles and reflex-reflecting combinations in a mixture of the same into a clump or aggregate, and without destroying the operability of the reflex-reflecting combinations so bonded. Attempts to manufacture small granules by using tacky resin bonds has resulted in agglomeration or clumping of the tacky resin coated cores when the tacky resin is applied over the cores at a satisfactory thickness level to provide a bond for the reflex-reflecting combinations. The reflex-reflecting combinations should be embedded up to about half the diameter of the lens elements employed, and this requires a quantity of resin which inherently causes at least some clumping or agglomeration. Coatings of bond resin insufficiently thick do not retain the lens elements and underlying reflectors against removal.
The present invention provides a novel method of manufacture which solves this problem. The method involves building up the necessary thickness for a binder layer about core members by applying non-tacky thermoadhcsive powdered resin particles over tacky resin coated core members to form an intermediate product having utility, among other things, in the manufacture of reflexretlecting granules.
The invention will be described by reference to a drawing, made a part hereof, wherein:
FIGURE 1 is an enlarged cross-section of an illustrative resin coated core of the invention; and
FIGURE 2 is an enlarged cross-section of an illustra live reflex-reflecting granule hereof.
As illustrated in FIGURE 2, reflective granules formed according to the process hereof comprise a non-friable core 10 surrounded by a binder layer 11 and reflex-reflecting complexes consisting of transparent microspheres 12 with associated underlying specuiar-reflectors 13. In forming the reflective granules, resin coated cores are used having the non-friable core 10 surface-coated with a tacky resinous material 14 and overcoated with nontacky solid thermoadhesive particles 15, as illustrated in FIGURE 1.
The core member 10 is preferably spheroidal inasmuch as it is difficult to coat irregularly shaped cores with a reasonably uniform layer of tacky resinous binder. Irregular projections tend to be starved of tacky coating material. Another reason spheroidal core members are preferred over irregularly surfaced cores such as obtained by crushing lithic materials is that when spheroidal base cores are employed, the resulting resin coated articles tend to be spheroidal and thus more uniform in character. End products of more uniform characteristics are therefore more easily formed.
Usually core members are at least about 5 mils in diameter, although smaller core members may be employed where extraordinarily minute (e.g., minus 400 mesh) non-tacky thermoadhesive resin powder particles are to be bonded to the tacky coating surrounding the cores. Of course, small cores, if used as the base for reflective granules, should be coated with extraordinarily small reflex-reflecting combinations (having a diameter not over about one-half the average diameter of the cores employed). Core preferably do not exceed about 40 or mils diameter. However, cores may be coated satisfactorily using the process hereof even when they are as large as Vs inch diameter, or even onehalf inch or larger in diameter. Smaller cores up to about 50 mils diameter provide cnd reflex-reflecting articles which possess greater resistance against dislodgment from a paint strip or resin bond under abrasion conditions, and thus are preferred. Resin coated cores designed primarily for molding uses also are preferably no larger than about 40 or 50 mils in diameter. Since individual cores in a mass thereof will vary in diameter to some extent, as is true with any mass of particles, it sometimes is convenient to refer to the average diameter of cores in a mass, which simply means the statistical average. This is done in the specific example to follow. While the numerical figures for diameter set forth here are not average diameter figures, it must be realized that a few cores outside the limits expressed may be present in a batch without unduly upsetting preferred results, so long as the majority of the mass by weight is within the limits here discussed as preferred. From the standpoint of process, the upper diameter limit for cores is only governed by the ability to conduct the process as described hereinafter. However, the advantages of the process become particularly apparent when handling the smaller core members.
Generally core members are selected for their nonfusible properties under conditions of use to which they are subjected as well as their non-friable properties under conditions of use. Where a reflex-reflecting granule is to be employed as a horizontal marker, the core preferably consists of a transparent glass bead of refractive index of about 1.5 or higher. When such beads are used as cores in combination with pigmented binder for bonding of the reflex-reflecting combinations thereabout, the resulting reflex-reflecting granules will exhibit some measure of residual reflex-reflection even after traffic abrasion tears off reflex-reflection complexes and pigmented binder from the upper surface of the core member. In effect, the result of such traffic abrasion provides one, where a transparent bead core and pigmented binder are used, with a residual" reflex-reflection property analogous to that heretofore gained with reflex-reflecting trafiic marking paints.
The binder 11 for reflex-reflecting complexes or combinations surrounding core members is actually formed and consists of two essential parts, as may be observed by referring to the article illustrated in FIGURE 1. The two parts of the binder for the reflex-reflecting complexes are an inherent feature of the process of making reflexrefiecting granules according to the invention. In this process, a layer of tacky resinous material is first applied over the surfaces of core members as a film coating. While only a thin film coating of tacky resinous material is preferred, this film has been found in practice to be of such a nature as to convert a mass of core members, which in the uncoated state are freely-llowable, into a non-freely-fiowable state. They in effect clump together into agglomcrates so that cores of the mass no longer flow readily past one another when attempt is made to pour the same. No more tacky resinou material than that sufiicient to provide a thin film coating and thereby convert the freely-flowable cores into an essentially nonfrcely-flowable state is necessary. If desired, amounts of tacky resinous material may be adjusted upwardly so long as the layer about core members is not converted into a continuous matrix within which core members remain embedded. Satisfactory film coatings of various thicknesses are reached when the cores tend to clump together as aforementioned and yet are separable into discrete granules by the application of non-tacky particulate over the tacky coatings, as to be discussed.
The next step in manufacture involves application of the non-tacky solid thermoadhesive resin particles over the tacky coated core members. This step is accomplished by mixing the tacky coated core members with sufficient non-tacky solid thcrmoadhesive resinous particles to essentially completely cover the tacky surfaces of the core members. During this mixing step, the tacky coated cores are gradually converted from the non-freelytlowable state in to articles having the structure illustrated in FIGURE 1 which are again freely-fiowablc, rolling over one another when poured.
Non-tacky solid thcrmoadhesive resinous particles useful in the practice of the invention preferably are finelydivided powder particles small enough to pass through a screen of 200 mesh. Indeed, particles on the order of microns or less give excellent results. However, it has been found that relatively large particles present in a mass of thcrmoadhesive solid particles do not interfere greatly with the conduct of the process so long as smaller sized thcrmoadhesive particles in the mass are present in suflicient amount to coat tacky surfaced core members during the mixing step. Sufficiently small-sized thermoadhesive particles are those which are at least small enough to pass through a screen of 50 mesh and in no event larger than about one-fifth the diameter of core members upon which they are coated. Any excess of applied solid thcrmoadhesive resin particles not picked up by the tacky coating on cores during mixing may be removed from the mass of freely-flowable resin coated cores by screening after the coating operation (where the largest particles of thcrmoadhesive are smaller than the resin coated cores), or by flotation procedures relying on differences in density (where solid resin particles of widely varying size are used including sufiicient of the required smaller sized particles).
Resinous materials suitable to employ in forming the freely-flowable resin coated cores hereof may vary widely. For example, the tacky resinous materials may be of low molecular weight and even in a pasty or liquid state. Where freely-fiowable resin coated cores designed, for example, for use in molding applications are contemplated, resinous materials having a rubbery character may even be employed. Liquid resins such as liquid epoxy materials are also quite suitable to use. Various ingredients such as flow inhibitors, fillers, etc., may be incorporated in the resinous material or blend to control viscosity or to gain added properties as imparted by the addition. The required tackiness of the tacky resinous material is gained when the film applied upon the core possesses suificient adhesive power to pick up and retain solid thcrmoadhesive particles on it. While a Wide variety of tacky resinous materials are therefore suitable to employ in fabricating the thin tacky film coating over the core members, it is greatly preferred to employ solventdiluted tacky resinous materials which increase in tack as solvent is evaporated from the material or blend. It is also preferable to employ resinous materials which are thermosetting in character, such as, for example, epoxy and hardener or curing combinations, phcnol-aldehyde addition polymers, etc.
The outer layer of non-tacky solid thcrmoadhesive resinous particles, as in the case of the underlying tacky layer, preferably is formed of thermosetting resin powder, particularly in cases where strong bonds for added elements on the exterior of the resin coated granule are to be formed. Nevertheless, thermoplastic resinou powdery materials (e.g., vinyls, polyethylenes, etc.) are suitable to employ provided they remain as a solid non-tacky material under the storage temperature conditions to which the tacky coated cores are subjected. Ordinarily this means that a thermoplastic binder not rendered tacky at temperatures below about or F. is suitable to employ. Lacking the stronger bond strength exhibited by thermosetting materials, it is preferable to limit the use of thermoplastics to coated cores which it is expected will be used in applications where any added elements affixed by additional processing upon their outer surface need not be resistant to abrasive removal.
As a specific illustration of the process of the invention and preferred resin coated cores and reflective granules formed according to this process, the following is offered.
Spheroidal transparent glass beads of an average diameter of about 12 mils (varying in diameter from about 8 to about 16 mils) and having a refractive index of about 1.5 are treated with a dilute solution (1% solids in water) of an amino-functional silane such as sbld under the trade designation Z6020" by Dow Corning Corporation. Brief treatment followed by drying is satisfactory. Such treatment is optional, and desired results are achieved without it, particularly when using non-glassy lithie cores, or metal or phenolic cores, either spheroidal or irregular; but the treatment, or any of a variety of other suitable surface active treatments (e.g., vinyl trichlorosilane), may be used to improve adhesion between the glass core and tack resin coating to be applied.
To 100 pounds of dry coated cores under agitation in a mixer are added 4 pounds of a tack resin composition previously blended by roll mixing and satisfying the following composition:
Parts by weight Liquid epoxy resin (Epon 828) 106 Epoxy resins are available commercially and have, on the average, more than one 1,2-epoxy group in a molecule. They may be made by the reaction of 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenol) propane (i.e., Bisphenol A) and epichlorhydrin in alkaline media at elevated temperatures within the approximate range within 50 to 150 C. In the rcaction the Bisphenol A may be replaced in whole or in part by polyhydric phenols, e.g., resorcinol, or polyhydric compounds such as ethylene glycol, etc. Likewise, sources of epoxy radicals other than epichlorhydrin may be ernployed in the reaction. The Epon 828" is but an illustrative liquid epoxy resin which melts at about 8 to 12 C., and has an epoxide equivalent of about to 210. In other words, about 190 to 210 grams of this resin contain one gram equivalent of epoxide, i.e., oxirane oxygen. Epon 1001 is a solid epoxy resin prepared by using less epoxy radical source material than in the case of liquid epoxy resins melting at about 6476 C. and having an epoxide equivalent of about 450 to 525.
Suitable organophilic thioxotropic flow inhibiting fillers are described in Hauser US. Patent No. 2,531,427, here incorporated by reference. It is preferable to disperse fiow inhibiting fillers (e.g., alkyl ammonium montmorillonite, colloid silica, etc.) in toluene or the like prior to adding and blending the same with remaining ingredients of the composition.
In blending the foregoing formula, care is taken to maintain the temperature below about 100 F, and addition of the isophthalyl dihyclrazide is delayed until passing the mixture about twice through a paint mill for final blending.
Mixing of the core elements with the tack resin is suitably accomplished using mild stirring agitation. After thoroughly dispersing the ingredients in a mixer and coating the core members, a stream of air is directed through the ingredients so as to drive off solvent. As the solvent is removed, a sticky doughy mass of beads with tack coating thereon results. The mass is quite firmly clumped together.
Thereafter, about 15 pounds of a resin powder, previously compounded on a rubber mill and ground under reduced temperature conditions (about 40 F.) to pass through a 200 mesh screen, is added to the clumped material in the mixer. The following is a specific illustrative composition for this resin powder:
Parts by weight Solid epoxy resin (Epon 1004") 127 Isophthalyl dihydrazide l Finely-divided copper powder pigment 13 Epon 1004" is a solid epoxy resin of the type aforediscussed. It has a molar ratio of epichlorhydrin to Bisphenol A of about 1.22 and a melting point of about 100 C.
Mixing of the solid non-tacky resin powder with the clumped mass in the mixer is then carried out under violent stirring agitation for about minutes or so until the tack-coated cores are essentially completely covered with a layer of the non-tacky powder resin. During this operation, agglomerates of the tacky-coated core are broken up and the mixture is converted into a relatively free-flowing mass consisting of cores with powdered resin covering the same and held in position by the tacky underlying resin coating. In this manner adequate thickness of binder solids is built up on the core elements so that firm bonding of small reflex-reflecting complexes embedded up to about half their diameter can be achieved. Indeed, by screening out fines and classifying the resin particulate to be added, it is possible to control extremely accurately the thickness of the solid resin particulate layer and therefore the thickness or depth of resin on core elements.
Next, since an excess of non-tacky resin powder is added to the mixer, the material from the mixer is withdrawn and screened to remove such excess powder. It is suitable to use a screen of about 80 mesh, through which the excess powder particles pass, but through which the coated cores do not pass.
The specific product formed as illustrated may be stored or even shipped in commerce and used in a variety of applications as will be discussed. Under room temperature conditions its resin coating (both layers) does not advance or cure appreciably for several months. Of course, if a highly reactive tack coating or solid particulate resin coating is employed, the shelf life of the product may be relatively short at room temperature; therefore, it may be necessary, under such conditions, to store and ship the product under refrigeration.
The next step in forming the composite reflux-reflecting granules hereof involves application of metalloid coated microspheres to the binder coating on the core member. There microspheres consist essentially of transparent glass beads surrounded by a metalloid coating. The transparent glass microspheres will generally have a diameter ranging from about 10 up to about 250 microns, preferably no more than about 75 microns, and have a refractive index which may vary from about 1.7 to about 2.7. Within the range of about 1.7 to 2.7,
microspheres having refractive indices of about 1.7 to 2.0 are used where maximum brilliance of reflex-reflection is to be realized under dry conditions, whereas microspheres having refractive indiccs of about 2.4 to 2.7 are used where maximum reflux-reflection is to be realized under conditions Where the microspheres of the granule are coated with a film of water.
A suitable method for forming metalloid coated microspheres is as follows: Charge 1200 pounds of deionized water into a stainless steel mixing vessel. Dissolve 12 pounds silver nitrate therein. Add 300 pounds of clean transparent glass microspheres having an average diameter of microns (varying from 30 to 70 microns) and a refractive index of 1.9. Then add 25 pounds of 28% aqueous ammonia solution, 42 pounds of 23.8% water solution of dextrose, and 42 pounds of 15.8% water solution of potassium hydroxide. Stir the contents and allow the reaction to proceed for about 15 minutes in the mixing vessel. Pour the contents in a filter vessel, where the silver-coated microspheres are collected and separated from the solution of other ingredients. Wash the silvercoated microspheres with water and then dry them by vibrating them over a heated plate. Normally, 250 to 300 pounds of glass microspheres may be silvcrcd in a bath as here described, but the size of the batch of microspheres or small beads to be silvered varies depending upon the average diameter of microspheres in the batch, smaller batches being used where beads of smaller and smaller diameter are treated.
Application of silvered microspheres to the non-tacky particulate resin coated cores is accomplished by pouring the coated core material into a large excess of silvered microspheres, and feeding the mixture onto a vibrating conveyor passing through a heating zone. Vibration serves to increase contact of silvered microspheres to the resin coated core members. Heating up to about 230 F. or so is used to soften and tackify the non-tacky particulate resin coating on the core member so as to cause the silver coated microspheres in contact therewith to partially embed themselves within the resin coating on the core member. If desired, either the microspheres or the resin coated cores may be preheated before mixing the two together, but very satisfactory results are gained by delaying major heating until the ingredients are reasonably well blended as described. Preheating of the resin coated core elements to elevated temperatures causing softening and tackification of the particulate resin particles thereof is to be avoided until after the microspheres are blended therewith. Excess beads are removed from the final product at the terminal end of the conveyor by Screening, suitably using a screen of about mesh which allows them to pass but retains the granules.
Then, in the case of the thermosetting binder as particularly illustrated in this example, the product from the conveyor is subjected to 300 F. for about 2 hours so as to more fully cure or essentially completely cure the binder resin holding the beads in position about the core member. During this step, the silvered microspheres tend to become more fully embedded up to about one-half their diameter in the binder layer it not earlier drawn into this position by a combination of surface tension forces and pressure applied upon them by contacting adjacent granules of the mass.
Thereafter the material is poured into an excess of a solution formed by adding about 3.4 pounds of potassium dichromate and 11.5 pounds of concentrated sulfuric acid to about 400 pounds of water. About 30 seconds in this solution serves to etch silver from the exposed surface of the partially embedded silver coated microspheres. The product is washed with water and dried (suitably by placing it in an oven for a few hours at an elevated temperature of say 220 F.).
If desired, prior to completely drying the product after washing the etching solution therefrom, other specialized materials may be applied thereto for various purposes.
For example, a dilute solution of an olcophobic fluorocarbon sizing agent such as, for example, a chromium complex of para fluorocarbon carboxylic acid may be applied thereto. Some acids of this general type are described in Reid US. Patent No. 2,662,835, issued December 15, 1953, and in Brown U.S. Patent No. 2,934,450, issued April 26, 1960. It is important that only an infinitesimally-thin invisible surface coating be employed in rendering the granules oil repellent and water repellent without preventing adequate bonding of the granules to dried paint films. Such treatments prevent capillation of paint about the reflex-reflecting granules after application of the same in paint films of relatively low viscosity. Problems of capillation and masking over of the reflecting granules may, course, be avoided by the expedient of employing highly viscous paint films on which to apply the reflecting granules.
Resulting granules, when applied over a paint film as upon an aircraft runway, cause brilliant reflex-reflection of light regardless of the angle at which an incident light impinges thereon, and yet the appearance of the marker during daytime is essentially that of a mere paint film.
Sheet material manufactured according to the teaching in Gebhard et al. US. Patent No. 2,326,634, but containing the smaller reflective granules made as taught herein as a replacement for the conventional reflex-reflecting bead complexes disclosed in that patent, exhibit brilliant reflex-reflection regardless of the angle of incident light, and present essentially the type of lentieular surface commonly associated with highly brilliant beaded reflex-reflectors.
While the resin coated cores hereof are especially useful in the manufacture of small reflective granules as specifically illustrated, they also may be used in the manufacture of various granular products having other small particulate material (e.g., pearls, metal flake, irregular particles, etc.) bonded on their outer surface.
That which is claimed is:
1. Freely-flowable granules comprising non-friable cores no greater than about 50 mils in diameter, surrounded by an adherent outer layer of discrete non-tacky solid thermoadhesive thermosettable particles held upon said core members by a substantially continuous tacky resinous layer about said core members and located intermediate said core members and said outer layer of said thermoadhesive thermosettable particles, the thermoadhesive thermosettable particles of said outer layer being at least small enough to pass a screen of 50 mesh and not larger than about one-fifth the diameter of underlying cores.
2. Freely-fiowable granules comprising spheroidal nonfriable cores no greater than about 50 mils in diameter, surrounded by an adherent outer layer of discrete nontacky solid thermoadhesive thermosettable particles hed upon said core members by a substantially continuous tacky resinous layer about said core members and located intermediate said core members and said outer layer of said thermoadhesive thermosettable particles, the thermoadhesive thermosettable particles of said outer layer being at least small enough to pass a screen of 200 mesh.
3. Freely-fiowable granules comprising spheroidal nonfriable inorganic cores no greater than about 50 mils in diameter surrounded by an adherent outer layer of discrete non-tacky solid thermoadhesive thermosettable particles, said particles being at least small enough to pass a screen of 50 mesh and not larger than about one-fifth the diameter of underlying cores, and said non-tacky solid thermoadhesive thermosettable particles further being held in position by a tacky binder layer about said cores and located intermediate said thermoadhesive thermosettable particles and said cores.
4. The method of forming freely-flowable granules comprising non-friable core members surrounded by adherent non-tacky solid thermoadhesive thermosettable particles, said method comprising mixing a mass of nonfriable frcclyllowablc core members no greater than about 50 mils in diameter with sufficient tacky resinous material to provide a substantially continuous fi'm coating of said tacky material over the surfaces of said core members and convert said core members into a non-freelyfiowable state, and then mixing said tacky coated core members for a sufficient time with sufiicient finelydividcd non-tacky thermoadhesive thermoscttable resinous particles to distribute and bond a layer of said noirtacky resinout particles over the tacky coatings of said core members and render the mass thereof freely flowable, said nontaclty thermoadhesive resinous particles being small enough to pass a screen of 50 mesh and no larger than about one-fifth the diameter of underlying cores.
5. The method of forming frcc'y-flowable granules Comprising non-friable spheroidal inorganic core members surrounded by adherent non-tacky solid lhermoadhcsive thermosettable particles, said method comprising mixing a mass of non-friable freely-flowabl spheroidal inorganic core members no greater than about 50 mils in diameter with sufficient tacky resinous material to provide a substantially continuous film coating of said tacky material over the surfaces of said core members and convert said core members to a non-freely-flowable state, and then mixing said tacky coated core members with finelydivided nontacky thermoadhesivc thermosettable resinous particles of a size at least small enough to pass a screen of 50 mesh and not larger than about one-fifth the diameter of underlying core members to which said resin particles are to be adherently bonded, said mixing being continued until said resinous particles are distributed and bonded over the tacky coatings of said core members and render the mass thereof freely flowable.
6. The method of forming reflex-reflecting granules comprising mixing a mass of non-friable freely-flowable core members between about 5 mils and 50 mils in diameter with sufficient tacky resinous material to provide a substantially continuous film coating of said tacky material over the surfaces of said core members and convert said core members into a non-freely-flowable state, mixing said tacky coated core members for a sumcient time with sufficient finely'divided non-tacky thermoadhesive thermosettable resinous particles to distribute and bend a layer of said non-tacky resinous particles over the tacky coatings of said core members and render the mass of said coated cores freely flowable, said thermoadhesive resinous particles being small enough to pass a screen of 50 mesh and no larger than one-fifth the diameter of underlying core members to which said resinous particles are adherently bonded, mixing the thus coated core members with metal coated transparent microspheres between about 10 and microns in diameter under conditions of heat at least sufiicient to soften the coating of said core members and partially embed said metal coated microspheres therein, heat-curing the thermosettable material of the coating about said core members, and then etching metal from the exposed surface of said partially embedded microspheres.
7. Reflex-refiecting granules formed by the process of claim 6.
References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS EARL M. BERGERT, Primary Examiner.
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