Abstract:
1. IN A PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF RESILIENT COMPOUND FOAMS WHEREIN A REACTION MIXTURE OF (A) PREFOAMED SOFT ELASTIC OLEFIN POLYMER PARTICLES HAVING A PARTICLE SIZE OF FROM ABOUT 5 TO 50 MM. AND (B) 20 TO 100 G., PER LITER OF SAID PREFOAMED PLASTICS PARTICLES, OF A FOAMABLE MIX OF POLYISOCYANATES, POLYOLS, WATER, CATALYST AND, OPTIONALLY, (C) OTHER AUXILIARIES, PLASTICIZERS, FINGICIDES, BACTERICIDES, ING OF STABILIZERS, PLASTICIZERS, FUNGICIDES, BACTERICIDES, FLAME RETARDANTS, DYES AND FILLERS IS FOAMED IN A MOLD HAVING A MOVABLE LID, THE IMPROVEMENT WHICH COMPRISES: (1) COATING WATER ONTO SAID PREFOAMED SOFT ELASTIC OLEFIN POLYMER PARTICLES, SAID PARTICLES HAVING A SMOOTH SURFACE AND BEVELLED OR ROUNDED EDGES AND FURTHER HAVING A BULK DENSITY OF FROM 5 TO 100 G./L.; (2) PLACING THE REMAINING COMPONENTS OF SAID FOAMABLE MIX IN THE MOLD WITH A LAYER OF SAID (3) COVERING SAID REMAINING COMPONENTS OF SAID FOAMABLE MIX IN THE MOLD WITH A LAYER OF SAID PREFOAMED SOFT ELASTIC OLEFIN POLYMER PARTICLES COATED WITH WATER; (4) CLOSING THE MOLD; (5) CAUSING SAID COATED PREFOAMED SOFT ELASTIC OLEFIN POLYMER PARTICLES TO CONTACT SAID REMAINING COMPONENTS OF SAID FOAMABLE MIX BY TURNING SAID MOLD; AND (6) ALLOWING THE REACTION MIXTURE TO FOAM WHEREBY A POLYURETHANE FOAM IS FORMED IN WHICH FROM 200 TO 800 ML. OF THE PREFOAMED SOFT ELASTIC OLEFIN POLYMER PARTICLES PER LITER OF FOAM ARE EMBEDDED IN SAID FOAM.
Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MOLDINGS OF EXPANDED POLYMERS OF OLEFINS HAVING TWO OR THREE CARBON ATOMS IN WHICH THE EXPANED PARTICLES OF THE POLYMER, WHICH CONTAIN CROSSLINKED PORTIONS, ARE HEATED IN MOLDS AND FUSED TOGETHER, IF DESIRED UNDER PRESSURE.
Abstract:
A process for the manufacture of foams by heating polymers containing polymerized units of esters of ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable acids having three or four carbon atoms with tert-butanol at elevated temperatures wherein a pH of from 2.0 to 0.1 is set up in aqueous systems of the polymers, the water is evaporated and the residue is heated to temperatures above the decomposition temperature of the carboxylic esters.
Abstract:
Production of chlorinated polyethylene foams by heating a mixture of chlorinated polyethylene, a crosslinking agent and an expanding agent. The foams, which are flexible and selfextinguishing may be used for example as insulating material, upholstery padding and packaging components.
Abstract:
Production of flexible expanded moldings from olefin polymers by heating a mixture comprising an olefin polymer, a peroxide and a solid expanding agent in a mold, which is gastight when closed and is filled with a volume of said mixture equal to from 95% to 100% of its capacity, to a temperature above the softening point of the olefin polymer and above the decomposition temperature of the peroxide and of the expanding agent, starting to release the pressure in the mold to atmospheric pressure, immediately increasing the volume of the mold to from 3 to 35 times the volume of the expansible melt within from 0.1 to 20 seconds and then cooling the expanded molding. The moldings are used as thermal and sound insulating materials and as upholstery padding.
Abstract:
PRODUCTION OF FLEXIBLE AND RESILIENT FOAMED PLASTICS BY FOAMING A VULCANIZABLE LATEX, MIXING THE FOAMED PRODUCT WITH EXPANDED PARTICLES OF AN OLEFIN POLYMER, FILLING THE MIXTURE INTO A MOLD, HEATING THE MIXTURE THEREIN TO A TEMPERATURE OF FROM 70* TO 150* C., REMOVING THE FLEXIBLE AND RESILIENT FOAM THEREFROM AND DRYING SAID FOAM. THE FLEXIBLE AND RESILIENT FOAMED PLASTICS ARE USED AS UPHOLSTERY PADDING, FOR THERMAL INSULATION AND AS SHOCKABSORBING MATERIALS.