Abstract:
IN A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING MICROCAPSULES CONTAINING HYDROPHOBIC OIL DROPS BY COMPLEX COACERVATION INCLUDING A CONVENTIONAL PREHARDENING TREATMENT IN WHICH AN ALDEHYDE AND AN ALKALI MATERIAL ARE ADDED TO THE SYSTEM, THE IMPROVEMENT WHICH COMPRISES ADDING GELATIN HAVING AN ISOELECTRIC POINT LOWER THAN THAT OF THE GELATIN EMPLOYED FOR FORMING THE WALLS OF THE COACERVATES TO THE SYSTEM AT A TEMPERATURE LOWER THAN THE GELLING POINT OF THE GELATIN EMPLOYED FOR FORMING THE WALLS OF HE COACERVATES, BUT PRIOR TO THE SIMULTANEOUS PRESENCE IN THE SYSTEM OF SAID ALDEHYDE AND ALKALI MATERIAL, IN AN AMOUT SUFFICIENT TO PREVENT AN INCREASE IN VISCOSITY DUE TO THE REACTION OF GELATIN AND ALDEHYDE DURING SAID PREHARDENING STEP.
Abstract:
METHOD OF PRODUCING MICROCAPSULES CONTAINING HYDROPHOBIC OILY LIQUID, WHICH COMPRISES, IN PRODUCING MICROCAPSULES BY COMPLEX COACERVATION, USING GELATIN, AS AT LEAST ONE HYDROPHILIC COLLOID, ADDING AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION OF SHOCK PREVENTING AGENT AT A TEMPERATURE LOWER THAN THE GELLING POINT OF GELATIN IN ORDER TO PREVENT A RISE IN VISCOSITY DUE TO REACTION OF GELATIN AND ALDEPHYDE DURING HARDENING PRETREATMENT AND RAPIDLY ACCOMPLISHING HARDENING PRETREATMENT.
Abstract:
Process of microencapsulation employing acid precursor (type A) gelatin as the encapsulating macrocolloid, particularly applicable to the formation of liquid center microcapsules containing a basic (cationic) nitrogen compound. For example, an aqueous solution of acid-precursor gelatin is mixed at an alkaline pH with a water-immiscible organic solvent solution of the nitrogen compound, such as an amine or quaternary. The pH of the mixture and the gelatin phase is reduced to at least 4.0 and preferably 3.0 or below, the liquid phases being intermixed to disperse and emulsify the organic solvent phase in the aqueous phase, thereby providing minute droplets of the basic nitrogen containing organic solvent surrounded by the aqueous solution of the acid-precursor gelatin. On the completion of the pH reduction, the gelatin will have formed a coating around the individual droplets to provide encapsulating skins therefor. While the encapsulated droplets can be recovered with some success at the lowest acid pH, it is much preferred to raise the pH to a pH at least above 5.5 and preferably to an alkaline pH before recovering the microcapsules. An auxiliary coating can be applied to the recovered microcapsules by contacting them with an aqueous solution of alkali-precursor gelatin.
Abstract:
A METHOD IS DISCLOSED FOR PREPARING MINUTE CAPSULES, EN MASSE, IN A LIQUID MANUFACTURING VEHICLE, SAID CAPSULES HAVING WALLS COMPRISING A COMPLEX OF GELATIN AND DERIVATIVES OF SULFOSUCCINATES OR ORGANIC PHOSPHATE ESTERS. FURTHER, AS AN ADDITIONAL EMBODIMENT, A METHOD IS DISCLOSED FOR TREATING WATER-SWOLLEN GELATIN-CONTAINING CAPSULE WALLS WITH DERIVATIVES FOR SULFOSUCCINATES OR ORGANIC PHOSPHATE ESTERS IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE WATER CONCENTRATION THEREIN.
Abstract:
A process is disclosed for manufacturing capsules, en masse, by use of a liquid-liquid phase separation which includes certain inorganic material as complexing, phase-separation-inducing, polymer. The disclosed process is conducted in an aqueous capsule manufacturing vehicle and the material which emerges as a liquid phase is an aqueous solution of organic hydrophilic polymeric material and inorganic polymeric material complexed together. The liquid-liquid phase separation of this invention is the type generally named ''''complex'''' coacervation wherein the separated, emergent, liquid phase includes a major portion of both, the organic hydrophilic polymeric material and the phase-separationinducing material; in this invention, inorganic polyacid polymeric material. The organic polymeric material and the inorganic polymeric material are complexed together by virtue of opposite electrical charges, the complex is at least partially immiscible with the manufacturing vehicle, and the manufacturing vehicle contains only a minor amount of either polymeric material. Preferred materials for use in practicing the present invention include gelatin as the organic hydrophilic polymeric material and polymolybdates and polytungstates as the inorganic polymeric phase-separation-inducing material.
Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR REINFORCING MICROCAPSULES USED IN PRESSURE SENSITIVE COPYING PAPERS WHICH COMPRISES INCORPORATING A GRANULAR RESINOUS POLYMER IN A COATING LIQUID CONTAINING THE MICROCAPSULES AND COATING THE LIQUID ON A PAPER SUPPORT TO PREPARE A PRESSURE SENSITIVE COPYING PAPER. THE MICROCAPSULES CONTAIN AN ADSORBABLE COLORLESS ORGANIC COMPOUND WHICH FORMS A COLOR DYEING CONTACT WITH AN ELECTRON RECEPTIVE ADSORBENT MATERIAL. SPECIFIC RESINOUS MATERIALS ARE DEFINED IN THE SPECIFICATION. A PRESSURE SENSITIVE COPYING PAPER AND A PRESSURE SENSITIVE COPYING UNIT UTILIZING THE ABOVE MATERIALS IS ALSO DESCRIBED.
Abstract:
A METHOD OF FORMING DUAL WALLED MICROCAPSULES AROUND CORE PARTICLES OR NUCLEL OF OILY OR SOLVENT MATERIAL IN WHICH THE OILY OR SOLVNET MATERIAL CONTAINING A DIBASIC OR LONG-CHAIN ORGANIC ACID CHLORIDE IS DISPERSED IN AN AQUEOUS SOLSUTION OF A HYDROPHILIC SOLLOIDAL PROTEIN AND A SECOND HYDROPHILIC COLLOID WHICH IS ADAPTED TO UNDERGO COACERVATION WITH THE COLLOIDAL PROTIEN UPON A REDUCTION IN THE PH OF THE AQUEOUS SOLUTION. THE ACID CHLORIDE REACTS WITH THE PROTEIN TO FORM A THIN FILM OF INSOLUBILIZED PROTEIN AROUND THE CORE PARTICLES OR NUCLEI, RELEASING HYDROCHLORIC ACID AS A REACTION BY-PRODUCT WHICH LOWERS THE PH OF THE AQUEOUS SOLUTION TO THE POINT AT WHICH COACERVATION OF THE COLLOIDS TAKE PALCE, DEPOSITING AN OUTER SHELL OF COMPLEX COACERVATE, THE DUAL-WALLED CAPSULES CAN BE GIVEN A HARDENING TREATMENT, USING FORMALDEHYDE OR THE LIKE. THE RESULTANT CAPSULES RETAIN EVEN RELATIVELY VOLATILE MATTER FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME.