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Respirator comprised of blown bicomponent fibers
Fibrous webs of bicomponent fibers are made by extruding a layered molten mass through a row of side-by-side orifices into a high-velocity gaseous stream. Bicomponent fibers of small size can be obtained, and the webs offer unique properties.
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Bicomponent fibers have been prepared and commercially marketed for several years in standard textile sizes, e.g., with cross-sectional diameters of at least about 15 micrometers. One characteristic of such fibers is that the components of the fibers tend to split longitudinally, e.g., upon cooling after exit from the spinneret, or when subjected to a thermal shock. Such a splitting is sometimes regarded as useful (see U.S. Pat. No. 4,118,534), but other times has the disadvantage of lessening the strength of the fiber or taking away properties intended to be achieved by the bicomponent nature of the fibers.
The present invention provides new fibrous webs comprising bicomponent blown fibers, preferably averaging less than 10 micrometers in diameter, which have a reduced tendency to split apart and which provide unique web properties. These fibers are prepared by simultaneous feeding of different polymeric materials in molten form to the same die cavity of a fiber-blowing apparatus, where the materials form a lavered liquid mass, and extruding the layered mass through a row of side-by-side orifices into a high velocity gaseous stream. The portions of material extruded through each die orifice are attenuated and drawn into fibers by the high-velocity gaseous stream, and are then carried to a collector such as a moving screen, where the mass of fibers is deposited as a coherent entangled web. Surprisingly the layered liquid mass presented to the individual side-by-side orifices passes through these orifices without undue turbulence or disruption, with the layered structure being maintained in the individual extruded streams, and the layered individual streams are then drawn into bicomponent microfibers in the high-velocity gaseous stream.
Briefly summarized, the fibrous web collected by the above procedure comprises a coherent entangled mass of blown fibers that preferably average less than 10 micrometers in diameter, the individual blown fibers comprising a first polymeric material extending longitudinally along the fiber through a first portion of the cross-sectional area of the fiber and a second polymeric material adhered to the first polymeric material and extending longitudinally along the fiber through a second portion of the cross-sectional area of the fiber.
The collected web exhibits a number of unique properties. Webs loftier than conventional blown fiber webs can be obtained, because the bicomponent fibers tend to be curly, e.g., as a result of differences in shrinkage during cooling for the different components of the fibers. Further, these lofty webs have unique filtration characteristics, with lower pressure drops than conventional blown fiber webs, coupled with higher filtration efficiencies. Also, the side-by-side presence of different polymeric materials in individual blown fibers appears to offer other unique properties as discussed below.
The collected bicomponent webs can be processed in ways not possible with previous blown fiber webs to produce novel products. For example, webs made from fibers comprising components that soften at different temperatures allow novel formation of the webs into molded shapes, such as a cup shape used in disposable molded masks or respirators. A particularly unique example is a web in which the fibers comprise an amorphous but crystallizable material such as polyethylene terephthalate as one component (polyethylene terephthalate can be obtained in the amorphous form in melt-blown fibers) and a thermosoftening polymer such as polypropylene as a second component. When the collected web is molded or conformed in the presence of heat, the amorphous polyethylene terephthalate first crystallizes at a temperature lower than the softening point of the polypropylene, whereupon the polyethylene terephthalate assumes a melting point higher than the melting point of the polypropylene. The temperature of the web can then be further elevated above the softening point of the polypropylene, whereupon the fibers become bonded at their points of intersection by coalescence of the polypropylene at those points of intersection. The crystallized polyethylene terephthalate serves as a supporting network during this softening process, whereby the web retains its porosity and fibrous nature, while the fibers become bonded together so that after cooling the web retains its molded shape.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of apparatus used in practicing the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a greatly enlarged sectional view of a fiber intersection in a portion of a web of the invention; and
FIGS. 3 and 4 show a representative face mask that incorporates a web of blown bicomponent fibers of the present invention, FIG. 3 being a perspective view showing the mask in use, and FIG. 4 being a sectional view along the lines 4--4 of FIG. 3.
A representative apparatus useful for preparing a web or sheet product of the invention is shown schematically in FIG. 1. Part of the apparatus for forming blown fibers is described in Wente, Van A., "Superfine Thermoplastic Fibers" in Industrial Engineering Chemistry, Vol. 48, p. 1342 et seq. (1956), or in Report No. 4364 of the Naval Research Laboratories, published May 25, 1954, entitled "Manufacture of Superfine Organic Fibers," by Wente, V. A.; Boone, C. D.; and Fluharty, E. L. This portion of the illustrated apparatus comprises a die 10 which has a set of aligned side-by-side parallel die orifices 11, one of which is seen in the sectional view through the die. The orifices 11 open from a central die cavity 12.
In the illustrated embodiment of the invention two different polymeric components are introduced into the die cavity 12 through extruders 13 and 14 and conduits 15 and 16. In the die cavity 12 the components form a layered mass (i.e., a mass in which the different components are segregated as discrete layers), which is extruded through the side-by-side orifices 11. Orifices 18 are disposed on either side of the row of orifices 11 for conveying heated air at a very high velocity. The air draws out and attenuates the extruded polymeric material into a mass of fibers, which solidifies after a short travel in the gaseous stream. The solidified fibers travel to a collector, which may take the form of a finely perforated cylindrical screen or drum, or a moving belt, where they are collected as a coherent entangled web. The collected web of fibers can then be removed from the collector and wound in a storage roll. Gas-withdrawal apparatus may be positioned behind the collector to assist in deposition of fibers and removal of gas.
Although the illustrative apparatus shown in FIG. 1 has a single undivided die cavity into which two different polymeric materials are introduced, in different embodiments a separator plate is included in the die cavity to keep the polymeric materials separate until immediately prior to reaching the exit area of the orifices. However, even without such a separator plate, and whether or not the die is arranged horizontally as shown in FIG. 1 or vertically, the different polymeric materials or components pass through the orifices as layered streams without being disrupted by turbulence or because of different specific gravities, and bicomponent fibers are formed. The viscosities of the different polymeric materials being passed through a die should be generally similar, which can be achieved by controlling the temperature and residence time in the extruder, composition of the polymeric material, etc.
The extruded bicomponent fibers are not always arranged as semi-cylinders. For example, a first component may be disposed more in the center of the fiber, with a second component wrapped partially or completely around the first component. In the latter case the first component becomes a core area and the second component becomes a sheath. More than two different polymeric materials may be included in the fibers, e.g., as separate layers, and the term "bicomponent" is used herein to include fibers that have more than two components. The components generally extend continuously along the length of the fiber.
The blown fibers are preferably microfibers, averaging less than about 10 micrometers in diameter, since the components in such fibers are more strongly adhered. Also fibers of that size offer improved filtration efficiency and other beneficial properties. Very small fibers, averaging less than 5 or even 1 micrometer in diameter, may be blown, but larger fibers, e.g., averaging 25 micrometers or more in diameter, may also be blown, and are useful for certain purposes such as coarse filter webs.
Other fibers may be mixed into a fibrous web of the invention, e.g., by feeding the fibers into the stream of blown fibers before they reach a collector. U.S. Pat. No. 4,118,531 teaches such a process for introducing crimped staple fibers which increase the loft of the collected web, and U.S. Pat. No. 3,016,599 teaches such a process for introducing uncrimped fibers. The additional fibers can also have the function of opening or loosening the web, of increasing the porosity of the web, and of providing a gradation of fiber diameters in the web. The most useful results have been obtained by including staple fibers in amounts up to about 90 volume percent, with the amount preferably being less than about 50 volume percent. Also particulate matter may be introduced into the web in the manner disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,971,373, e.g., to provide enhanced filtration, and the particles may be bonded to the fibers, e.g., by controlling process conditions during web formation or by later heat treatments or molding operations.
Blown fibrous webs are characterized by an extreme entanglement of the fibers, which provides coherency and strength to a web and also adapts the web to contain and retain other materials, such as particulate materials or other fibers. The aspect ratio (ratio of length to diameter) of blown fibers is essentially infinite (e.g., generally at least about 10,000 or more), though the fibers have been reported to be discontinuous. The fibers are long and entangled sufficiently that it is generally impossible to remove one complete fiber from the mass of fibers or to trace one fiber from beginning to end.
A completed web or sheet product of the invention may vary widely in thickness. For most uses, webs having a thickness between about 0.05 and 5 centimeters are used. For some applications, two or more separately formed webs may be assembled as one thicker sheet product. Also webs of the invention may be prepared by depositing the stream of fibers onto another sheet material such as a porous nonwoven web which is to form part of the completed web. Other structures, such as impermeable films, can be laminated to a sheet product of the invention through mechanical engagement, heat bonding, or adhesives.
Webs of the invention may be further processed after collection, e.g., compacting through heat and pressure to control sheet caliper, to give the web a pattern or to increase the retention of particulate materials.
The fibers may be formed from a wide variety of fiber-forming materials. Representative combinations of polymeric materials for the components of a fiber include: polyethylene terephthalate and polypropylene; polyethylene and polypropylene; polyethylene terephthalate and linear polyamides such as nylon 6; polybutylene and polypropylene; and polystyrene and polypropylene. Also, different materials may be blended to serve as one component of a bicomponent fiber. In addition, blown fibers of different combinations of materials may be used in the same web either in mixture in one layer (e.g., by collecting a mixture of fibers from two dies) or in different layers.
The polymeric components in a two-component bicomponent fiber of the invention are most often included in approximately the same volume amounts, or in amounts ranging between about 40 and 60 volume percent for each of the components, but can vary outside that range.
As previously indicated, a particularly useful combination of components in bicomponent fibers of the invention includes a first, crystallizable, component such as amorphous polyethylene terephthalate and a second, thermosoftening, component such as crystalline polypropylene or amorphous polystyrene. Although polyethylene terephthalate fibers prepared by typical spinneret drawing inherently tend to be crystalline, blown polyethylene terephthalate fibers tend to be amorphous (because of the rapid quenching effect of the air stream that attenuates and transports the fibers). When a web comprising blown fibers that contain amorphous polyethylene terephthalate is placed in a mold and heated to a temperature higher than the temperature at which the polyethylene terephthalate becomes crystalline, the polyethylene terephthalate-containing fibers first assume the shape in which they are pressed by the mold and then after the heating process, retain that shape because of their newly crystallized state. If the crystallizing temperature to which the web is heated is lower than the temperature at which the second component of the fibers softens, as is the case with polypropylene, the second component provides a fibrous support in which the first component is intimately and continuously supported over its length, thus helping to maintain the individual fibers as discrete fibers, rather than allowing the web to collapse or coalesce to a film-like condition. The polyethylene terephthalate softens as it is heated to the crystallizing temperature, and some bonding occurs between fibers at intersections where the polyethylene terephthalate component of one fiber engages the polyethylene terephthalate component of another fiber or fiber segment.
Crystallization of the polyethylene terephthalate raises the softening point of the polyethylene terephthalate, and in fact, the softening point is raised past the softening point of the polypropylene. The result is that the web then can be heated to a higher temperature, past the softening point of the polypropylene, with the polyethylene terephthalate component now providing a fibrous support that prevents the web from collapsing or coalescing. Also, during molding operations the web is surprisingly inhibited from sticking to the mold parts, which can occur with webs of fibers that consist wholly of polypropylene. Bonds are formed between fibers where polypropylene components engage. A well-bonded molded web is formed which durably retains its shape.
Other crystallizable polymeric materials such as other polyesters and polyamides can also be obtained in an amorphous form in blown fibers, e.g., by the quenching effect of the process air or by spraying water onto the fibers as they travel to the collector, to give the fibers the described moldable character.
FIGS. 2a and 2b illustrate a representative fiber intersection in a web of the invention, with FIG. 2a showing an exterior view of the fibers, and 2b showing a cross-section through the fibers at their point of intersection.
FIG. 3 shows a perspective view of a cup-shaped face mask or respirator formed from a fibrous web of the invention, and FIG. 4 is a cross-section through the web. An advantage of the invention is that a web of the invention may be used as the sole sheet product of the face mask, as shown in FIG. 4, rather than sandwiching a web of blown microfibers between two molded fibrous webs which serve as the exterior and interior of the web, and hold the blown microfiber web in the cup-like shape of the face mask or respirator. Lofty low-pressure-drop masks or other molded products may be prepared because bonding between fibers and shaping of the web occurs readily through the combination of properties offered by the bicomponent fibers, such as the noted crystallizability and shapeability of polyethylene terephthalate fibers and the fusability of polypropylene heated to its softening point.
Webs of the invention may be electrically charged to enhance their filtration capabilities, as by introducing charges into the fibers as they are formed, in the manner described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,215,682, or by charging the web after formation in the manner described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,571,679. Polypropylene is desirably included as a component in electrically charged fibers of the invention because it retains a charged condition well. Bicomponent fibers of the invention offer the benefit of including polypropylene together with another component that provides other useful properties.
Another advantage of bicomponent fibers of the invention is that a first material which is more susceptible to melt-blowing, e.g., because of viscosity and flow characteristics, can be used as one component with another material that is less susceptible to melt-blowing as a second component to obtain well-formed bicomponent fibers with both materials extending continuously over the length of the fiber.
Fibrous webs of the invention may include other ingredients in addition to the microfibers. For example, fiber finishes may be sprayed onto a web to improve the hand and feel of the web. Additives, such as dyes, pigments, fillers, abrasive particles, light stabilizers, fire retardants, absorbents, medicaments, etc., may also be added to webs of the invention by introducing them to the fiber-forming liquid of the microfibers, spraying them on the fibers as they are formed after the web has been collected, etc.
The invention will be additionally illustrated by the following examples. The examples report measured values for the quality of filtration for dioctylphthalate aerosols, which were measured by using an Air Techniques Inc. 0127 DOP Penetrometer. This instrument thermally generates a monodispersed 0.3 micrometer diameter dioctylphthalate particle at a concentration of 100 micrograms per liter of air and presents the particle-containing stream to the test web at a rate of 32 liters per minute and a face velocity of 5.2 centimeters per second. The quality of filtration index is equal to the negative natural logarithm of the fraction of penetration through the fibrous web divided by the pressure drop through the web in millimeters of water. The higher the quality of filtration index, the better.
Preparation of Fibrous Web
A fibrous web was prepared using apparatus as shown in FIG. 1 and forming the fibers from polyethylene terephthalate having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.59 and polypropylene having a melt flow of 35. The extruder for the polyethylene terephthalate had a screw diameter of 1 inch (2.54 centimeters) and a length to diameter ratio of 25. The extruder for the polypropylene had a screw diameter of 11/2 inches (3.8 centimeters) and a length-to-diameter ratio of 25. The first extruder elevated the temperature of the polyethylene terephthalate through a temperature profile of 400.degree., 510.degree., and 600.degree. F. (204.degree., 266.degree., and 316.degree. C.), and the polyethylene terephthalate reached the die with a temperature of 615.degree. F. (323.degree. C.). The second extruder elevated the temperature of the polypropylene through a temperature profile of 350.degree., 450.degree. and 500.degree. F. (177.degree., 232.degree., and 260.degree. C.), and the polypropylene and a temperature of 490.degree. F. (254.degree. C.) upon reaching the die. The polyethylene terephthalate introduced into the extruder had first been dried in a desiccant dryer for three hours at 350.degree. F. (177.degree. C.).
The two polymers were introduced into the die cavity in an amount sufficient to provide about 50 weight-percent polyethylene terephthalate and 50 weight-percent polypropylene, and were extruded through the die orifices 11 at a rate of about one pound per hour per inch width of die (0.18 kilogram per hour per centimeter). The die had about 55 orifices 11 per inch width (22 per centimeter). Air heated to 750.degree. F. (400.degree. C.) was forced through the air orifices 18 of the dies at a rate of 20 cubic feet per minute at 20 pounds per square inch (0.57 cubic meter per minute at a pressure of 1.4 kilograms per square centimeter). Different zones of the die were heated to different temperatures, the first zone (i.e., including the die orifices) being heated to 600.degree. F. (315.degree. C.), and the rear zone being heated to 570.degree. F. (300.degree. C.).
Bicomponent blown fibers were collected on a screen-type collector which was spaced about 38 centimeters from the die and was moving at a rate of 3 meters/minute. The collected web weighted about 101 grams per square meter and was about 5 millimeters in thickness. When tested at a face velocity of 32 liters per minute, the web exhibited a pressure drop of about 0.1 millimeter water.
The collected fibers had an average diamter of 4 micrometers. The two components extended continuously along the length of the fibers, and in cross-section were arranged generally as semi-cylinders.
A web as prepared was sectioned by cutting with a razor blade and examined under a microscope, and it was found that the fibers of the web remained intact. By contrast, when a web of 30 micrometer-diameter fibers of the same two components prepared in a spinneret was cut in the same manner, the fibers tended to split apart.
Example 1 was repeated with several samples being made from the described polymeric components: in sample A the fibers comprised 70 weight-percent polypropylene and 30 weight-percent polyethylene terephthalate; in sample B the fibers comprised equal weight amounts of polypropylene and polyethylene terephthalate; and in sample C the fibers comprised 30 weight-percent polypropylene and 70 weight-percent polyethylene terephthalate. For comparative purposes two comparative samples M and N were prepared, comparative sample M comprising fibers that consisted only of polypropylene and comparative sample N comprising fibers that consisted only of polyethylene terephthalate. The dioctylphthalate filtration quality indexes measured for the different samples were 0.58 for sample A, 1.39 for sample B, and 1.0 for sample C. Comparative sample M exhibits an index of 0.25 and comparative sample N, 0.5.
A web was prepared with equipment and process conditions as described in Example 1 using as the polymeric components polypropylene like that used in Example 1 and a nylon-6 polyamide having a medium viscosity (No. 523 supplied by Foster Grant). The extruder for the polypropylene had a temperature profile of 350.degree., 400.degree., 450.degree. and 500.degree. F. (177.degree., 205.degree., 232.degree., and 260.degree. C.) and the polypropylene had a temperature of 550.degree. F. (288.degree. C.) upon reaching the die. The extruder for the nylon had a temperature profile of 350.degree., 450.degree., 550.degree., and 650.degree. F. (177.degree., 232.degree., 288.degree., and 343.degree. C.) and the nylon had a temperature of 650.degree. F. (343.degree. C.) upon reaching the die. Two samples were prepared, sample A including 70 weight-percent polypropylene and 30 weight-percent nylon in the fibers, and sample B including equal parts of the polypropylene and nylon. For comparative purposes another web was prepared in which the fibers comprised 100% of the stated nylon. The dioctylphthalate filtration quality index was 0.99 for sample A, 0.93 for sample B, and 0.19 for the comparative sample made from fibers that comprised only nylon.
A web of bicomponent fibers was made using the apparatus described in Example 1 and using as the polymeric components the polypropylene described in Example 1 and a general purpose clear polystyrene. The extruder for the polystyrene elevated the temperature of the polystyrene through a temperature profile of 350.degree., 450.degree., 600.degree. F. (177.degree., 232.degree., and 316.degree. C.) and the other extruder elevated the temperature of the polypropylene through the same temperature profile. A coherent handleable web was collected comprising bicomponent fibers of polystyrene and polypropylene.
Molding of fibrous web of Example 1
Fibrous web as described in Example 1 was placed between the mating parts of a cup-shaped cast aluminum mold. The top, or female, half of the mold was heated to 210.degree. F. (98.degree. C.), and the male, or bottom, half to 195.degree. F. (90.degree. C.), and the web was left in the mold for 3 seconds. Upon removal from the mold the web retained its molded shape. By viewing the web under a polarizing light microscope, it was determined that the polyethylene terephthalate portions of the fibers had become crystallized, and that some bonding between fibers had occurred at points of engagement by polyethylene terephthalate portions of the fibers.
The molded web was then heated in an air oven for 60 seconds to a temperature of about 170.degree. C. Upon re-examination of the web under a microscope it was seen that polypropylene portions of the fibers at points of intersection of the fibers had fused or coalesced together, and to a lesser extent there were bonds between polyethylene terephthalate portions of the fibers at points of intersection. In other words, the heating in the air oven had given the molded web further permanence of the molded shape, i.e., had further "heat-set" the molded web into its molded shape.
The effects of heating the molded webs in an air oven to different temperatures were examined with a series of tests. Flat webs were first heated for about 5 minutes at 250.degree. F. (121.degree. C.) to crystallize the polyethylene terephthalate portion of the fibers, thereby simulating the conditions that occur during the molding operation described above. The webs were then exposed in an air oven to the temperatures listed in Table I, described as heat-setting temperatures. The degree of shape-retention was indicated by subjecting the web to compression and measuring the change in thickness of the web. The original thickness of the web before molding was 1.6 centimeters, measured while the web was under a pressure of 2.3 grams per square centimeter to provide a standard measure of thickness. The molded, heat-set web was then compressed by applying a total pressure of 7 grams per square centimeter to the web. The percent compression was equal to the initial thickness minus the final thickness divided by the initial thickness, with the quotient being multiplied by 100 to obtain percent. The percent compression obtained for different heat-setting temperatures is given in Table I.
TABLE I ______________________________________ Heat-Setting Temperature Percent Compression (.degree.F.) (.degree.C.) (Percent) ______________________________________ 250 121 32.5 275 135 23.5 300 149 24 325 163 21 350 177 6 400 204 7.3 ______________________________________
The above experiments indicate that significant heat-setting or additional bonding of fibers in the web occurs and at a temperature between 325.degree. and 350.degree. F. (163.degree. and 177.degree. C.), which is about equal to the melting point of polypropylene, and which indicates that the fibers are being bonded at their intersection points by coalescence of the polypropylene.
A fibrous web was prepared by mixing 60 weight-percent bicomponent fibers prepared in the manner described in Example 1 with 40 weight-percent polyethylene terephthalate macrofibers (15-denier fibers having lengths of about 11/4 inches (3.2 centimeters), with 6.5.+-.1 crimps per inch (2.5.+-.0.4 crimps/centimeter). The web was prepared by introducing the macrofibers from a lickerin roll into the blown fiber stream in the manner described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,118,531. The resulting web, which had a basis weight of 250 grams per square meter, was molded in a mold as described in Example 5 using a temperature of 275.degree. F. (135.degree. C.) for the top half of the mold and a temperature of 210.degree. F. (98.degree. C.) for the bottom half. The sample was left in the mold for 261/2 seconds and the mold parts were pressed together at a pressure of 8 pounds per square inch. The molded web was heat set by heating in a forced air oven for one minute at 350.degree. F. (177.degree. C.).
The sample exhibited a dioctylphthalate filtration quality index of 2.8.
Compression tests were performed on the various samples of the product of this example. At 50 grams loading, which equaled 0.89 gram per square centimeter pressure, the web as made exhibited a thickness reduction of 12%, and at 150 grams loading exhibited a thickness reduction of 41%. After the web was heat set at 275.degree. F. (135.degree. C.) for five minutes the web exhibited a thickness reduction of 8% at 50 grams loading and 25% at 150 grams loading. When heated a second time at 350.degree. F. (176.degree. C.) for one minute, the web exhibited a thickness reduction of 5% at 50 grams loading and 16% at 150 grams loading.
A fibrous web was prepared that comprised a mixture of (a) 80 weight-percent of bicomponent fibers made from 50 weight-percent polypropylene and 50 weight-percent of a high-density polyethylene having a melt index of 42 and a density of 0.96, and (b) 20 weight-percent of macrofibers which were bicomponent and comprised a polypropylene core almost entirely sheathed by polyethylene (ES Fibers supplied by Chisso Corporation). Both the polyethylene and polypropylene in the fibers were crystalline, but they had different melting points. Different webs were made using staple fibers of different denier: sample A used 1.5 denier fibers; sample B used 5 denier fibers; sample C used 15 denier fibers and sample D used 18 denier fibers. The webs were heated in an oven at 290.degree. F. (145.degree. C.) for 1-5 minutes. Scanning electron microscopic examination of the web showed good welding between the fibers in all of the samples.
A web was prepared with equipment and process conditions as described in Example 3 using as the first polymeric components polypropylene like that used in Example 1 and as the second component a 95/5 weight-percent blend of a medium-viscosity nylon-6 polyamide (No. 523 supplied by Foster Grant) and an amorphous polypropylene having a ring and ball softening point of 310.degree. F. (154.degree. C.) (No. 900EP AFAX supplied by Hercules). The extruder temperatures were the same as those used in Example 3. Three samples were prepared, Sample A including 70 weight-percent of the first component and 30 weight-percent of the second blended component, sample B including equal parts of the two components, and sample C including 30 weight-percent of the first component and 70 weight-percent of the second component.
The dioctylphthalate filtration quality index was 1.10 for sample A, 1.16 for sample B and 1.05 for sample C and 0.39 for a comparative sample made from fibers that comprised only the second, or a blend, component.
A web was prepared as described in Example 1. A rectangular sample of this web measuring 5 cm by 10 cm and weighing 0.52 gms was placed into a circulating hot air oven at 275.degree. F. (135.degree. C.) for 1 minute to crystallize the PET component. The web was then placed in a container with 20 gms of 320 grit aluminum oxide abrasive granules, and the container placed into a circulation hot air oven at 350.degree. F. (176.degree. C.) for about 5 minutes. The container was then rapidly shaken while hot. The final web had a weight of 1.28 gms. Light micrographs showed the aluminum oxide abrasive to be adhered in the web to the polypropylene side of the microfibers.
1. A respirator comprising a fibrous web molded to a cup shape adapted to cover the mouth and nose of a person wearing the respirator, the fibrous web comprising a coherent entangled mass of blown bicomponent fibers which individually comprise a first polymeric material extending longitudinally along the fiber through a first portion of the cross-sectional area of the first fiber and a second polymeric material adhered to the first polymeric material and extending longitudinally along the fiber through a second portion of the cross-sectional area of the fiber, said fibers being prepared by extruding a layered molten mass of said first and second polymeric materials through a row of side-by-side orifices into a high-velocity gaseous stream, where the extruded streams are attenuated and drawn into a mass of entangled fibers having an essentially infinite aspect ratio.
2. A respirator of claim 1 in which the blown fibers average no more than about 10 micrometers in diameter.
3. A respirator of claim 1 further comprising staple fibers interspersed with the blown fibers.
4. A respirator of claim 3 in which the staple fibers are crimped.
5. A respirator of claim 2 further comprising crimped staple fibers interspersed with the blown fibers.
6. A respirator of claim 1 in which the fibrous web is bonded into a shape-retaining form by coalescence of said polymeric material at points of fiber intersection.
7. A respirator of claim 1 in which the fibers of the fibrous web carry an electric charge.
8. A respirator of claim 1 further comprising particulate material dispersed in the fibrous web.
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Patent History
Type: Grant
Filed: Sep 25, 1986
Date of Patent: Mar 8, 1988
Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (St. Paul, MN)
Inventors: Dennis L. Krueger (Hudson, WI), James F. Dyrud (New Richmond, WI)
Primary Examiner: Lorraine T. Kendell
Attorneys: Donald M. Sell, James A. Smith, Roger R. Tamte
Application Number: 6/911,394
International Classification: A62B 700; D02G 300;


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This is a magazine cover that has recently caught my eye. I like the money theme, particularly the silver crease and the bold text. A great piece of Graphic Design and illustration!
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Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Graphic Design: A user's manual
This is a book i've just bought called 'Graphic Design: A user's manual' by Adrian Shaughnessy. Its a book giving an insight into the world of Graphic Design, should be a good read i'm sure!
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Monday, 13 September 2010
Design Week - Graphic Bedrock
This is the first job I did for Design Week for the Private View section of the magazine. The article was about posters being used as an effective way of campaigning for a general election.
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IGN has put together a video that'll tell you everything you need to know about Apocalypse. Why? Because with X-Men: Days of Future Past just a few months away, the build towards its sequel, X-Men: Apocalypse, is going to kick into high gear. If you're someone like me, who's never really followed comic books, this video may do the trick and catch you up.
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#570 | Sunday, December 23rd, 2001
I was at work in a college bookstore - a little after 9am a student called to ask if we had a certain title - there was a lot of noise in the background and he told me that a plane had hit one of the towers. Shortly after someone came into the store and said that the second tower had been hit and that the pentagon had been hit. I was so stunned I couldn't even talk, I just sat there trembling. The college closed a bit later and the first thing I did when I got home was turn on the television (even though I didn't want to)- that's when I learned that the towers had collapsed. I started crying - I think I've been crying ever since.
For weeks after I would see the towers collapsing in my mind like a film and suddenly I would remeber that it wasn't a film, but real - every time that happened I felt I had been hit hard in the stomach and heart. It still doesn't seem real - I keep thinking I'm going to wake up and the towers will be there (and I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that way). But there is one thisg to remember - one very important thing - and that is that over 30,000 people survived Sept. 11th in New York City - and countless thousands in Washington, DC (I forget how may thousands work at the pentagon - but it's a lot).
Have I become more patriotic? No. I was always very patriotic, always proud to be an American - when people ask me what nationality I am - I alway say American. I've always worn the flag with pride and always cried at the rising of the flag - and the singing of God Bless America and other patriotic songs. The only difference is now I cry more - and more openly.
Then, of course there's New York City - the city of my heart. I literally swell with pride every time I see how wonderfully people have come together to help (financially and emptionally) the city the rest of the country loves to hate. And what a wonderful example of courage under fire the people of New York City are. "New York's Finest" and "New York's Bravest" are no longer slogans they are the truth (they always have been - but now the rest of the world knows that also) - those Bravest and Finest have shown us what real heros are. And Mayor Guiliani has showed us what a mayor - and leader - is, and should be. As I write this Time magazine has named him "Man of the Year" - which is just recognizing what has been true since Sept. 11th.
The times I've been to the pentagon always made me feel proud - especailly the Hall of Flags. Unfortuately I never made it to the observation deck of the Towers - the winds were too hich or a storm was coming in everytime I went there.
I'm proud of my country and of the people who have come together like never before - at least in my lifetime.
There's so much more to be said - but it could be summed up in 6 words -
Katie Coleman | 50 | Connecticut
#571 | Monday, December 24th, 2001
Hai readers,
I am Indian from Andhra pradesh.I came to know about this attack a few hours after it due to timing constraints.It's so sad that even a powerful country like USA had also became a victim of this bloody terrorism.I pay my deep condolence to all the families of the victims.
I strongly feel that Mr.Bush had done a right thing by delcaring a war against terrorsim.But one thing,he should have laid the foundation of WTC on the day itself when he declared the war.I came to know that the person who had taken WTC for lease is ready to built it again.Better late than never.Just build it more stronger and more higher.It should convey that the spirits are high of American's ;infact not only Americans but of everyone who is against terrorism.If by God' grace if I had got a chance to fight against terrorism in the battle field, I will surely fight untill I shed my last drop of blood.It's a promise by the bottom of my heart.
I hope the festival of Christmas and New year will bring this world peace and Joy.
This world has lost it's glory
Let's start a brand new story.
Why don't we stop this evil
killing and destruction and
sing the song of freedom
and Love.
let's join us together
and see the magic
we can do.
Hope veryone who is against terrorism will do agree with me .
Kiran.k | 23 | India
#572 | Monday, December 24th, 2001
When the attack first happened, I was getting ready for school. I don't listen to the radio in the morning so I had no clue as to what everyone on the bus was talking about. I really didn't have a clue until lunchtime, when my friend, Stephanie, asked my other friend, Gail if she wanted to watch the news in Mrs. Usher's room. It was then that I found out that the Twin Towers were hit by planes and had come down.
I sat in Usher's classroom for the whole lunch hour, and for once during lunch, my mind wasn't on food. Everyone in the classroom watched the planes go into the Towers over and over again. Once in a while, I would steal glances at Usher. She looked like she was going to cry. When the bell did ring for period 7, nothing seemed real anymore. It was like a dream. During period 7, Alan and them didn't do anything stupid, and Mr. Miller left us alone.
When period 8 came, I was in Usher's classroom. And we were watching at the news. It was then that I found out that one of her friends worked on the second top floor of one of the twin towers. By the time, the bell rang, she looked like she was going to cry.
The attacks made me realize how important our friends were. Even though I live in Canada, and attacks like these are very unlikely, it still makes you thankful for what you have.
Stephanie Chan | 15 | Canada
#573 | Monday, December 24th, 2001
I don't have a TV, the only thing i noticed that evening was that it was suddenly very quiet in our students house.
The next day the math teacher said something important had happened, like the Vietnam war and the fall of the Wall. Finally i dared to ask, and later that day i viewed pictures on CNN.
I couldn't concentrate on the lessons anymore that day. I almost started to cry in the middle of the classroom while viewing these pictures. During the following evenings i noticed the city was very quiet, maybe because a lot of islamic people live in the neighbourhood.
Eric Brands | 27 | Netherlands
#574 | Monday, December 24th, 2001
As with many people going about their daily routines on that fateful day, I was at work. I am a dialysis nurse. To pass the time of day while on the dialysis machine, my patients often watch tv. One of the patients was turning channels to find something to watch, when he suddenly called for me to " come here". I naturally thought there was something medically wrong. When I reached his side he turned his tv around so that I could see and he stated "Look at this." I did not immediately realize what I was viewing, but I did notice that the patient had the tv turned to CNN. It was then I saw a plane going towards a tall building. I still did not realize that this was a " real" event taking place,I thought it was a movie. I pulled up a stool and sat there watching tve tv while the patient began to explain what was happening. As we sat there watching the ongoing coverage, I noticed that there was what appeared to be firemen spraying water on the already burning building from the first plane. Suddenly from what seemed to be coming from out of nowhere, was a second plane crashing into the building. I suddenly realized, in a state of shock and anger, that this was no accident. Once the supposed "suspect(s)" were announced, I immediately wanted to have the country or countries supporting these guys to be bombed off the face of the earth. That feeling lingered for quite a while. Unlike Desert Storm, where I was afraid that someone I personally knew would be going to war and I hpoed and prayed that he wouldn't go, I decided that if I was needed for this war I would go myself. Sometimes I feel that the Government is not moving as fast as they need to remedy this situation, I still feel like they are trying their best. JUST KEEP THE PEOPLE INFORMED !!
Debra Edwards | 38 | Arkansas
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Ogden uses strong pitching effort to beat Orem 6-1
By Orem Owlz | August 27, 2018 10:50 PM
OREM - James Outman slugged two home runs in Ogden's 6-1 win over Orem on Monday night.
The Owlz and the Raptors were tied up at 1-1 at the end of the first inning. Jeremy Arocho scored for Ogden after Marcus Chiu grounded out. Kevin Maitan scored for the Owlz from a D'Shawn Knowles single.
Outman opened up the second inning for the Raptors by blasting a homer to right field. The Raptors led 2-1 after the home run.
Cristopher Molina was relieved by Adalberto Pena with two out and runners on first and second in the fourth inning. Molina recorded two strikeouts, four hits and two earned runs in his 3.2 innings of play.
Ogden's starter, Caleb Sampen, threw for 2.1 innings and recorded six strikeouts.
Outman hit another homer in the top of the fifth. His second homer scored Chiu who was on second base. Ogden led 4-1 after the two-run home run.
Outman grabbed his third run of the game in the top of eighth rom a Jon Littell double. Littell also scored from a Tre Todd double. These two runs put the Raptors up 6-1 to close the eighth.
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I've decided I am just not satisfied with all the fun new book's I've gotten, I want to know what books you've gotten too! Be sure to link up at the bottom of this post so I can check out your fun, new reads!
Peas in a Pod
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illustrated by Tina Snerling
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Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
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Yay Retro // Homes & Antiques
Have you seen February's edition of Home & Antiques?
I love all things 'kitchenalia'. The word, the concept, the things you can collect. Under that category all things are beautiful (and wonderful) to me.
I tend to browse 'a lot' for kitchenalia. My own kitchen is testament to that.
One of my favourite places to to seek all things wonderful is via Sue at 'Yay Retro'. She sources amazing vintage 'kitchenalia' that would make any enthusiast quiver at the knees.
Just before Christmas I acquired (via Yay Retro) a set of Hornsea pottery spice jars. They are a gorgeous deep blue and I fell in love with them...instantly.
I got talking to Sue via email and she mentioned that the very same pots were used in the Homes & Antiques February edition for a Horsea pottery special.
Don't you just love it when 'a thing' has a story.
They now sit preciously on an 'out of reach' shelf where I can lovingly admire them.
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Thomas Ashdown, the managing director and founder of Scotland's leading letting portal Citylets, has been discussing the latest trends in the country's letting sector.
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Christ, we're up to Finland already? Alright then! Finland is the wet dream of every rally driver and co-driver around the world. Ridiculous speed, ridiculous jumps, ridiculous roads, and with half a million people showing up for the rally (in a country with a population of just five million) ridiculous fans. If only rally were this popular everywhere! Two of our Fantasy WRC players, Chris Duplessis and Alex Kihurani, actually competed in Rally Finland back in 2012 as part of the WRC Academy. They've both said it more than lives up to the hype and, at the time, was their favorite rally anywhere. Alex has since run a few rounds of the European Rally Championship, including Rally Azores, so he may have a new favorite at this point. How about it, Alex?
Rally Finland is an event that tends to favor Scandinavian drivers, with only five non-Scandis winning the event since the advent of the World Rally Championship back in 1973. That said, there's been a bit of a Scandinavian dry spell as a "local" hasn't won the event since Latvala won it in 2010. Monsieur Loeb, the only non-Scandi to win in Finland more than once, won it in '11 and '12 (he also won it in 2008), and last year Seb Ogier took his first Finland victory.
For top contenders this year the safe money is on the ones who grew up driving these roads, but that really doesn't narrow your picks down much. Between Finland and Norway there are seven drivers entered at the top level. Hirvonen, Latvala, Mikkelsen, and Ostberg are all very strong picks this time around, and if I were ever to declare Ostberg a favorite to win a rally it would be now while he's still riding high from beating Marcus Motherfucking Gronholm at the Helsinki Battle. The Scandinavian wild cards are Henning Solberg, who has scored points in nine of his last ten WRC events, factory Hyundai driver Juho Hanninen, and Jarkko Nikara, who has three previous WRC starts, all in Prodrive Minis, with two no-scores and a fifth in Spain, so who knows how he'll do. Before you go filling your roster with Finns and Vikings though, do keep in mind that Sebastien Ogier is still Sebastien Ogier.
WRC 2, by the way, has a Finn as well, with Jari Ketomaa running one of the DMack-backed R5 Fiestas. Ketomaa has scored points in Finland twice in WRC-spec cars, and last year finished seventh in an R5 Fiesta, so he could sneak into the top 10 and steal some point this year as well. You know, just in case you were looking for a real sneaky dark horse pick. Other notable WRC 2 drivers include Ott Tanak, Karl Kruuda, and Fuck Matie.
And with that it's time to make some picks and start the ritualistic smacktalk. If you've forgotten the rules or are new to Fantasy WRC (WELCOME!) be sure to read them all here. Below are the WRC competitors entered for Rally Portugal. For the full entry list (WRC2 drivers, etc. Remember, you can pick any driver on the entry list) click here. And, as always, the data spreadsheets are available for you numerophiles.
Sebastien Ogier - Avg points last 10 races: 22.6 / Avg points Finland: 16.5
Jari-Matti Latvala - Avg points last 10 races: 15.4 / Avg points Finland: 9.1
Kris Meeke - Avg points last 10 races: 4.9 / Avg points Finland: 0.0
Mads Østberg - Avg points last 10 races: 8.6 / Avg points Finland: 5.4
Mikko Hirvonen - Avg points last 10 races: 7.1 / Avg points Finland: 12.8
Elfyn Evans - Avg points last 8 races: 5.5 / Avg points Finland: N/A
Thierry Neuville - Avg points last 10 races: 8.5 / Avg points Finland: 9.0
Juho Hanninen - Avg points last 10 races: 2.4 / Avg points Finland: 0.0
Andreas Mikkelsen (VW) - Avg points last 10 races: 9.4 / Avg points Finland: 0.3
Robert Kubica (FORD) - Avg points last 4 races: 1.5 / Avg points Finland: N/A
Martin Prokop (FORD) - Avg points last 10 races: 4.5 / Avg points Finland: 1.0
Henning Solberg (FORD) - Avg points last 10 races: 6.1 / Avg points Finland: 5.0
Hayden Paddon (Hyundai) - Avg points last 2 races: 2.0 / Avg points Finland: N/A
Jarkko Nikara (Ford) - Avg points last 10 races: 3.3 / Avg points Finland: 0.0
Craig Breen (Ford) - Avg points last 1 races: 2.0 / Avg points Finland: N/A
Michal Solowow (Ford) - Avg points last 3 races: 0.0 / Avg points Finland: N/A
Jari Ketomaa - Avg points last 10 races: 1.6
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Oval Tulip Table
Eero Saarinen
Oval Tulip Table
Eero Saarinen (1910 – 1961) was a Finnish American architect and furniture designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project: simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism.
Eero Saarinen shared the same birthday as his father, Eliel Saarinen. They emigrated to the United States of America in 1923, when Eero was thirteen. He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where his father was a teacher at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and he took courses in sculpture and furniture design there. He had a close relationship with fellow students Charles and Ray Eames, and became good friends with Florence Knoll.
Saarinen first received critical recognition, while still working for his father, for a chair designed together with Charles Eames for the "Organic Design in Home Furnishings" competition in 1940, for which they received first prize. The "Tulip Chair", like all other Saarinen chairs, was taken into production by the Knoll furniture company, founded by Hans Knoll, who married Saarinen family friend Florence (Schust) Knoll. Further attention came also while Saarinen was still working for his father, when he took first prize in the 1948 competition for the design of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis, not completed until the 1960s. The competition award was mistakenly sent to his father. He designed furniture with organic architecture.
During his long association with Knoll he designed many important pieces of furniture including the "Grasshopper" lounge chair and ottoman (1946), the "Womb" chair and ottoman (1948), the "Womb" settee (1950), side and arm chairs (1948–1950), and his most famous "Tulip" or "Pedestal" group (1956), which featured side and arm chairs, dining, coffee and side tables, as well as a stool. All of these designs were highly successful except for the "Grasshopper" lounge chair, which, although in production through 1965, was not a big success.
Saarinen's architectural legacy communicates this sentiment of giddy potential and unfettered optimism in post-war America. Iconic projects like the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Washington D.C.'s Dulles International Airport Terminal and the Kresge Auditorium on MIT's campus express his groundbreaking brand of mid-century modernism.
As his designs show, Eero Saarinen was a man of vision. He died of a brain tumor in 1961 at the age of 51, and is buried in Michigan. Though his life was tragically cut short, his vision lives on through the structures that he created. The Gateway Arch marked the beginning of his career just as the "Gateway to the West" marked the beginning of a new life for countless pioneers. In both cases the desire was to move boldly toward the future. The Arch is ultimately a monument to all those with a vision; Thomas Jefferson, the American pioneers, and Eero Saarinen.
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The Saarinen Tulip Oval Table is a high quality reproduction of the original created by Eero Saarinen in 1956. The Saarinen Tulip Oval Table is a true classic! Stylish and modern, the Saarinen Tulip Oval Table is a design masterpiece that fits seamlessly into any environment.
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Its performance results were touted.
Shands HealthCare is one of five organizations to receive the 2008 Governor's Sterling Award, "the highest award an organization can receive for performance excellence in Florida," according to a release from Gov. Charlie Crist's office.
Winners will be honored for superior management and operations at the Governor's Sterling Award Banquet on May 30 in Orlando.
Other winners were the Marion County Sheriff's Office, the Hillsborough County Tax Collector, the Orange County Clerk of Courts and the Ritz-Carlton in Sarasota.
To be considered, organizations must submit a 50-page application and undergo a five- to six-day site visit. Eleven examiners interviewed more than 500 employees of Shands at the University of Florida, Shands AGH, Shands HomeCare, Shands Jacksonville, Shands Lake Shore, Shands Live Oak, Shands Starke, Shands Rehab Hospital and Shands Vista.
"Shands HealthCare shows strong performance results across all facilities for 80 percent of reported results, consistently performing in the top 25 percent in key healthcare industry measures with some approaching top 10 percent or benchmark levels," the release said.
"This wasn't management that was talking to them, which makes it phenomenal that deployment has gone to every level of the organization to every type of employee," said Jodi Mansfield, Shands' executive vice president and chief operating officer. To do that, she said, "You get very focused, provide goals to leadership and you measure and monitor that and reward and recognize people who do it well."
Sterling Council Executive Director Dione Geiger said Shands' performance means it is better able to serve patients and generate more revenue to serve more of the underserved population for which Shands is tasked with providing health care.
Mansfield said Shands applied for the award to use the suggestions in Sterling's report in ongoing efforts to improve operations. The report cited strengths as well as opportunities for improvement.
In the area of customer and market focus, patient satisfaction was considered a strength, while Sterling found an opportunity to build on work to satisfy referring and staff physicians' needs, Mansfield said.
Sterling reported that the work force is very engaged and Shands has a great talent development process, but volunteers could be better integrated into the work force, she said.
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Our Office Manager in Marbella's Golden Mile office, Robert Christen is Dutch so the following information was to be expected.
April 30th in The Netherlands is a national party and celebrates the Queen's birthday nation wide. But, as he is here in Marbella for years now, he is happy to see that once again Marbella centre will take an Orange color as the Dutch community (about 1.000 residents) is celebrating the Queens day here as well.
The Marbella city council, through the delegation of Tourism & Foreigners, together with members of the Dutch community organized this celebration, starting at 19:00 hours in the Parque de la Alameda. Anybody is invited to come and enjoy culinary sampling of Dutch products, some music & dancing and of course a drink.
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This blog post is written by our Intern Isobel.
Education, we believe, is a basic human right that is essential in breaking the cycle of poverty. Our Encouraging Education project enables children to learn through informal education classes, when they can no longer access education. These classes mean children wont miss out on learning vital skills for the future.
Recently, I've been reading some of the lovely letters written by the children in Uganda, talking about what their life is like and how Kids Club Kampala impacts them. Some of the letters describe daily life and some of the things the children enjoy doing. However, they really begin to paint a descriptive picture of what life is really like for these children and how Kids Club Kampala really does bring hope and love to these vulnerable children…
'I was staying with both my parents when I was younger. However, when my Mother and Father separated, this caused problems at home. I was four years old, and my two sisters were only six and eight. My Father didn't abandon us because my sisters and I were still studying. However, my sister had to come back from school and cook supper and I started doing the housework.
With God's mercy, I have grown to 10 years old, however school fees have started to become a problem. Sometimes I go to school but sometimes I can't afford to go. I go to Kids Club for Education support, until my Father gets enough money to send me back to school. I spend my free time at Kids Club Kampala. I find it fun, especially playing sports on the field.'
'I am 14 years old and I am Ugandan by nationality. I am in Primary six, but due to lack of school funding my parents failed to send me back to school. I am happy that I am able to get education support from Kids Club Kampala. Some of the programmes we get from them are: education support, games and sport. Most of my free time I spend in Kids Club. My hobbies include: sports, football, bible study and netball. In Uganda I stay in Kampala, one of the slum areas. People have many houses that are over crowded and there is pollution from industries.'
'I am 11 years old. I am in Primary five, moving into Primary six. I like to sing, play and dance. I have three sisters and one brother. I live with both my parents. The main problem we are facing is school fees and school requirements.
In Uganda, even when it's sunny we face the problem of famine. At school, we have four lessons a day. In my free days, I go to Kids Club Kampala where I have new friends. I thank Kids Club Kampala for the support it has provided for us, like the children who don't have enough support to go to school.'
'I go to Kids Club as my school. My parents failed to pay for my school fees but Kids Club came to me to give me hope and love. Through Kids Club I can read and write and I am healthy because food is given to us. Kids Club have offered services freely and this has changed my society.'
'I go to Kids Club as my school. Here through it's programmes I am happy and we are loved so much by the teachers and all Kids Club leaders. Through Kids Club support, I am a happy girl because I am able to read and write. My health is also good because we are given a balanced diet.'
A few to make you smile…
'I am five years old. I like playing football. I go to Kids Club Kampala and I enjoy football and music. I live in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. I like learning English at Kids Club. Our meals are very nice.'
'I very much like football. I am Ugandan and I speak Luganda and English. I am six years old. In my class there are 25 children. My favourite subject is math. When I grow up I want to be a doctor.'
'I live in Kampala. My family is huge: I have three brothers and three sisters. I have no pets because I have no space to keep them, but I very much like cats. In school, I like English, Maths, and Science and also I like swimming but at my school we don't have swimming lessons. I wish to explore London one day.'
'I live in Kampala. I have black hair. My favourite sports are dodge-ball and rope skipping. The weather here in Uganda is sunny. I like singing and I speak three languages. I like food in Uganda and my favourite food is rice and chicken. I like interacting with friends.'


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Most of us have been told, at one time or another, that we're the spitting image of one of our parents. Perhaps you had a teacher say how much you look like an older sibling (and what a joy she was to have in class). But some people draw stares not because of a family resemblance, but because they look like a celebrity.
Most of us have been told, at one time or another, that we're the spitting image of one of our parents. Perhaps you had a teacher say how much you look like an older sibling (and what a joy she was to have in class). But some people draw stares not because of a family resemblance, but because they look like a celebrity.
Considering we all share common ancestors, it's not surprising that the genes occasionally will align in such a way so that, say, a doctor's office receptionist in Springfield will look like a slightly younger version of the 2005 Academy Award winner for Best Actress.
We've found several people here locally who regularly get told they resemble someone famous. Since in today's celebrity-obsessed society looking famous is almost as good as being famous, they occasionally get to enjoy, or in some cases tolerate, the attention of sort-of-star-struck strangers.
Sheri Lornitis wasn't living in Springfield back in 2003 when they were filming scenes for the movie "Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde" at the state capitol. If she had, the producers would have had a perfect stand-in for their star, Reese Witherspoon.
"In high school, when 'Cruel Intentions' came out, I got told I looked like her a lot," Lornitis said, adding that she mimicked a particular scene from that movie when posing for a picture after being voted class clown.
Since then, as Witherspoon's popularity has risen, the comments have become more common. Lornitis doesn't see the physical resemblance herself, but does think that her personality is reminiscent of some of the characters Witherspoon has played on screen.
"I have a friend who calls me Miss Alabama because she thinks I'm so much like the character in 'Sweet Home Alabama.'"
The resemblance has made her a bigger fan of Witherspoon's work. She said that she and a friend like to quote lines and sing songs from "Walk the Line," the movie for which Witherspoon won an Academy Award for her portrayal of country-music matriarch June Carter Cash.
Lornitis, who works for Capitol Healthcare, has fun when people make comments, but wishes her life mirrored Witherspoon's in one other respect.
"Some of my patients call me Reese when they come in," Lornitis said. "I just laugh and say, 'I wish my paycheck looked like hers.' "
Gary Wessel has a familiar face. Even those who've never met the 49-year-old systems analyst think they've seen him before, or least someone who looks like him.
Wessel's lendable looks make it easy when Halloween rolls around. In the past, with help from his wife, Bobbie, he's gone as Howdy Doody, a Lollipop Kid from "The Wizard of Oz," Pugsley Addams and a leprechaun.
"She has her costumes for me. It's fun," Gary Wessel said.
There's one well-known face that Wessel gets compared to fairly often, although the comparison initially was lost on him.
His wife recalled one time when he was telling her about a woman in his Abe's Army running group, but couldn't he remember the person's name. He attempted to identify the woman by saying, "She's the one who thinks I look like John Wayne Gacy. You know, that actor."
Fortunately, Wessel looks nothing like the notorious serial killer. He meant to say William H. Macy, the respected character actor of such films as "Fargo," "The Cooler" and Wessel's personal favorite, "Wild Hogs." In fact, Wessel will be decking himself out in biker gear this Halloween and going as Dudley Frank, Macy's character in last year's popular comedy.
Not everyone sees the Macy thing. Earlier this summer, after enjoying a show in Branson, Mo., one of the performers approached Wessel and told him how much he looked like David Caruso, the popular television actor.
Since people can't seem to agree on who he looks like, perhaps technology can help.
There are numerous Web sites where users can upload a picture of themselves and, in seconds, be matched to famous people through the application of facial-recognition technology. After examining Wessel's mug on one such site, the technology didn't see the Caruso resemblance, but did think he looked like another "NYPD Blue" and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" alum, Kevin Chapman. It also picked up traces of Clint Eastwood's famously chiseled visage.
People can say what they will, but Bobbie Wessel thinks that her husband is a better catch than any of his alleged look-alikes.
"I think he's cuter," she said. "Now if he just had their money."
Teachers and students at Auburn Middle School always have had a hard time telling identical twins Michael and Scott McDermand apart. Put them in a room with Dylan and Cole Sprouse — identical-twin actors playing the title characters on the Disney Channel's "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" — and they'd probably think they were looking at quadruplets, compounding the confusion.
According to their mother, Jill Horn, people started mentioning the resemblance after her 12-year-old boys started to let their hair grow. Soon after, they were getting double takes and hearing comments about how much they look like the mop-topped characters. But the similarities don't end there.
"It's amazing how much they look alike, but they share the same personalities, too," Horn said.
On the Disney show, Zack is an outgoing cut-up, while Cody is more serious and studious. So how do the McDermand boys match up?
Michael said he's more of a Cody, and offers a blunt assessment as to why.
"In the TV show, he's smarter than Zack, and, um, I'm smarter than Scott," he said, laughing.
Scott doesn't dispute the claim, nor does his mother.
"He's goofy and a ham," she said of Scott. "Just like the character on the show."
As further evidence, Horn cited a T-shirt of Scott's, adorned with the slogan "I Rock." Later, they noticed his double wearing the same self-appreciative shirt in an episode. If that wasn't enough, on the show Zack is older than Cody, and, in real life, Scott is older than Michael, by one minute.
While the McDermand twins have become bigger fans of the Sprouse twins, Springfield's Jessica Ryan takes a more critical view of another pair of TV-star twins.
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were adorable, 9-month-old babies when they began making audiences coo in 1987 on the ABC TV show "Full House." Now in their early 20s, the twins have shed their saccharine-sweet image for one that appeals more to readers of scandal-mongering tabloids than viewers of family-oriented sitcoms.
"They're not the best role models for young teenage girls," Ryan said. "In magazines, there are pictures of them smoking and drinking."
Ryan, 12, resembles the Olsens when they were still in their cute stage, before they heavily lined their big blue eyes to affect that bored, bohemian-chic look. Ryan will, however, occasionally put on a pair of dark sunglasses and mock the Olsens' perpetual pout, a pose that always cracks her mother up.
Gina Romer, Jessica's mom, recalled one trip to the mall where they were stopped three separate times by people who couldn't help but point out what, to Jessica, has become almost too mundane to mention.
"Jessica has gotten to the point where now when someone tells us this, she'll smile and say 'Thank you,' and then discreetly look at me and roll her eyes," Romer said.
Although the novelty of looking like one or another of the most famous twins in the world has worn off, Jessica understands that people still get a kick out of seeing her for the first time.
There's a world of possibilities for those who favor a famous person. They might find work in Hollywood as a stand-in or stunt double. They could tour the hotel-lounge circuit as a professional impersonator or swindle their way cross-country as a criminal imposter.
The locals interviewed for this article, however, aren't looking to cash in. They know that people get excited when they spot a celebrity, or even somebody who looks like one, but they're more than happy just being themselves.
Dan Naumovich is a freelance writer and the author of BlogFreeSpringfield.com. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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U.S. Patients Treated with Varian HyperArc High Definition Radiotherapy
Varian has announced that five patients with brain cancer became the first patients in the U.S. to be treated using the company's HyperArc High Definition Radiotherapy (HDRT), a new type of radiosurgery treatment, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center. HyperArc is designed to automate and simplify sophisticated treatments such as stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and make them available to more cancer patients around the world.
"We have been doing preclinical and clinical development of single isocenter radiosurgery for a decade," said John Fiveash, M.D., professor and vice chair for academic programs in the UAB Department of Radiation Oncology. "Over the last five years, our radiosurgery plan quality has improved to equal or exceed our Gamma Knife. Physicians and patients preferred the frameless and highly efficient delivery on our TrueBeam and Edge systems and our Gamma Knife was decommissioned June 2017. HyperArc planning automates much of the radiosurgery treatment planning strategies that we have implemented at UAB and could enable more clinics to perform higher quality radiosurgery for more patients."
"Working closely with leading institutions like UAB played an important role in the development of HyperArc," said Kolleen Kennedy, president of Varian's Oncology Systems business. "We value their continued contributions to the advancement of cancer care and we are excited that HyperArc treatments have now begun in the U.S."
HyperArc capitalizes on the unique capabilities of Varian's TrueBeam and EDGE treatment systems. HyperArc treatments allow clinicians the ability to deliver more compact radiation doses that closely conform to the size, shape and location of tumors while sparing more surrounding healthy tissue. These advanced treatments can be delivered in a conventional treatment time slot. The treatment planning for HyperArc is supported by Varian's Eclipse treatment planning software.
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Jammu: An intruder was shot dead by security guards on Saturday for breaching security at former Chief Minister Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah's residence here, police said.
The incident took place at Bhatindi this morning. The man drove his black SUV at a high speed and banged his car against the main gate, they said. 'He was stopped by security guards. He had a scuffle with one of the guards who sustained injuries during the scuffle," the police said.
He then entered the lobby and started vandalising property. The man was then shot dead near the stairs that led to the bedrooms of the house, they added.
An identity card carried by the slain intruder revealed his name was Morifat Khan from Poonch district. His father runs a gun factory at Ban-Talab in Jammu. The family was living in Jammu region.
Abdullah, a sitting Lok Sabha member from the Srinagar constituency, is away in New Delhi for the ongoing Parliament session.
The incident is being seen as a major breach in the security of Abdullah, a Z-plus category protectee.
Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, tweeted: "I am aware of the incident that took place at the residence my father and I share in Bhatindi, Jammu. Details are sketchy at the moment. Initial reports suggest an intruder was able to gain entry through the front door and in to the upper lobby of the house'.


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SUPERTRAIN This Weekend in Calgary! April 12th and 13th/
SUPERTRAIN 2014 is this weekend! We will be attending again this year with our modular layout. Make sure you stop by and say hello. We are always looking for new members!
More info about the show can be found here: http://www.supertrain.ca