Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A VAPOR PERMEABLE, MICROPOROUS, LEATHERLIKE SHEET MATERIAL BY DISSOLVING A POLYURETHANE IN A FIRST LIQUID (SOLVENT) TO WHICH IS ADDED A SECOND LIQUID (NON-SOLVENT) IN WHICH THE POLYURETHANE IS INSOLUBLE BUT WHICH IS MISCIBLE WITH SOLVENT, SHAPING THE SOLUTION ON A SUITABLE SUBSTRATE AND REMOVING BOTH THE SOLVENT AND THE NON-SOLVENT.
Abstract:
A process for the production of polyurethane coatings having high resistance to light, solvents, bending and abrasion. The process consists of reacting prepolymers based on cycloaliphatic and aliphatic diisocyanates in equimolar quantitative ratios with special chain extending agents in soft solvents, adding special polyisocyanates to the resulting solutions and then letting the resulting tack free coating set until crosslinking takes place.
Abstract:
MICROPOROUS SHEET STRUCTURES ARE PREPARED BY REACTING A COMPOUND HAVING AT LEAST TWO TERMINAL NCO GROUPS AND A MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF BETWEEN 100 AND 10,000 A COMPOUND HAVING AT LEAST TWO OH/NH GROUPS AND A MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF 500 TO 10,000 AND/OR A COMPOUND HAVING A MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF 18 TO 500 WHICH CONTAINS AT LEAST TWO OH, TWO NH OR AT LEAST ONE OH AND ONE NH GROUP IN AN INERT MEDIUM THAT DISSOLVES THE REACTANTS BUT NOT THE PRODUCT, THE REACTION BEING CONDUCTED CONDUCTED STEPWISE BY ADDING ONE OF THE REACTANTS TO THE OTHERS IN AT LEAST TWO INCREMENTS SUCH THAT THE REACTION IS SUBANTIALLY COMPLETE AFTER EACH ADDITION, APPLYING THE REACTION MIXTURE TO SUBSTRATE AND REMOVING THE INERT MEDIUM.
Abstract:
Microporous sheet structures are provided and a method for their production which comprises reacting an organic polyisocyanate with an organic compound containing at least two hydroxyl or amino hydrogen atoms reactive with NCO groups as starting materials to produce a polyaddition product which in the homogeneous state exhibits a shore A hardness greater than 40 and a softening range above 100*C. The said reaction is effected in an organic liquid which dissolves the starting materials, does not dissolve the polyaddition product, boils below 250*C and contains 1 to 300 percent by weight, based on the polyaddition product to be formed, of a polar solvent which is inert to the starting materials. Said polar solvent has a greater evaporation number than the components of the aforesaid organic liquid (in the following called nonsolvent), the nonsolvent being such that while the polyaddition product forms, it gradually becomes increasingly insoluble in the mixture of polar solvent and nonsolvent. This mixture has no significant swelling effect upon the polyaddition product.
Abstract:
POLYURETHANE MICROPOROUS SHEETS ARE PREPARED BY REACTING AN ORGANIC COMPOUND CONTAINING AT LEAST TWO TERMINAL HYDROXYL GROUPS AND HAVING A MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF FROM ABOUT 500 TO 10,000 AND A CHAIN LENGTHENING AGENT CONTAINING AT LEAST TWO HYDROXYL OR AMINO GROUPS AND HAVING A MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF FROM ABOUT 50 TO ABOUT 600, THE REACTIVE GROUPS OF THIS EXTENDER BEING WITHIN A FACTOR OF 5 AS COMPARED TO THE REACTIVITY OF THE HYDROXYL GROUPS OF THE COMPOUND HAVING A MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF FROM 500 TO 10,000, AND AN ORGANIC POLYISOCYANATE IN AN AMOUNT SUCH THAT THE NCO TO OH OR THE NCO TO AMINO PLUS HYDROXYL RATIO IS FROM ABOUT 0.8 TO 2, THE REACTANTS FORMING A PRODUCT WHICH WHEN IN A HOMOGENEOUS STATE EXHIBITS A SHORE A HARDNESS OF AT LEAST 50 AND A TENSILE STRENGTH OF AT LEAST 50 KG./CM2, THE REACTION BEING CONDUCTED IN A 10 TO 80 PERCENT BY VOLUME SOLUTION AT A TEMPERATURE OF UP TO ABOUT 150* C., THE SOLVENT OR MIXTURE OF SOLVENTS OF THE SOLUTION EXHIBITING THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:
(A) DISSOLVES THE STARTING MATERIAL AT THE INITIAL REACTION TEMPERATURE, (B) DISSOLVES THE POLYURETHANE BEING FORMED LESS AND LESS READILY AS THE DEGREE IN POLYADDITION INCREASES AND FINALLY PERMITS THE POLYURETHANE TO GEL AFTER NOT MORE THAN 2O MINUTES UNDER THE REACTION CONDITIONS, (C) DOES NOT CAUSE SUBSTANTIAL SWELLING OF THE RESULTING POLYURETHANE, AND (D) HAS AN EVAPORATION NUMBER HIGH ENOUGH TO INSURE ITS PRESENCE IN SUFFICIENT QUANTITY UNDER THE REACTION CONDITIONS UNTIL THE FILM SOLIDIFIES.
Abstract:
MICROPOROUS SHEET STRUCTURES ARE PREPARED BY REACTING A COMPOUND HAVING A MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF FROM ABOUT 500 TO ABOUT 10,000 AND AT LEAST TWO TERMINAL OH GROUPS (1), AN ORGANIC POLYISOCYANATE (2) HAVING AT LEAST TWO NCO GROUPS AND A MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF FROM ABOUT 100 TO ABOUT 10,000 AND WATER (3) IN AMOUNTS SUCH THAT THE NCO:OH OR NCO TO NH IS FROM 0.8/1 TO 2/1, THE PRODUCT OF THE REACTION HAVING A SHORE A HARDNESS OF AT LEAST 50, A TENSILE STRENGTH OF AT LEAST 50 KG. WT./CM.2 AND A SOFTENING POINT ABOUT 100*C. THE REACTION OCCURRING IN A SOLVENT THUS DISSOLVES THE COMPOUNDS (1) AND (2) AND DISSOLVES THE POLYURETHANE UREA FORMED WITH INCRESING DIFFICULTY AS POLYADDITION INCREASES AND CAUSES GELLING AFTER 20 MINUTES AT THE MOST, DOES NOT CAUSE SUBSTANTIAL SWELLING OF THE COMPLETELY REACTED POLYMER AND IS SUBSTANTIALLY REMOVED AFTER SOLIDIFICATION AND POURING THE REACTION MIXTURE INTO A SUPPORT.
Abstract:
SHAPED PRODUCTS ARE OBTAINED BY COAGULATING AQUEOUS DISPERSIONS (LATICES) OR POLYMERS OF OLEFINICALLY UNSATURATED COMPOUNDS, FOR EXAMPLE AN EMULSION OF POLYVINYL CHLORIDE, BY PREPARING A POLYURETHANE-POLYUREA IN THESE DISPERSIONS.
Abstract:
Microporous sheet structures are prepared by reacting a polymeric polyamine having a molecular weight of from about 350 to about 6000 with substantially an equivalent amount of an organic polyisocyanate in the presence of a nonsolvent for the product, shaping the reaction mixture into a sheet structure before polyaddition is complete and removing the nonsolvent.