Abstract:
Improved reinforced rubber compositions are provided by dispersion into a vulcanizable rubber of dehydrated precipitated silicas in combination with polyethylenimine.
Abstract:
NATURAL AND SYNTHETIC RUBBERS CONTAINING A FILLER ARE CROSS LINKED WITH TRIAZINES OF THE FORMULAE
-(SY-(4-Z-S-TRIAZIN-2,6-YLENE)-SX)N-, OR H-(SY-(4-Z-S-
TRIAZIN-2,6-YLENE-SX)N-H
WHERE N IS 3 TO 20, X AND Y ARE 1 TO 4, Z IS PHENYL, ALKYLPHENYL, ALKOXY, ALKYLTHIO,
-N(-R2)-R3
WHERE R2 AND R3 ARE HYDROGEN, ALKYL, BENZYL OR CYCLOALKYL OR TOGETHER WITH THE NITROGEN FORM A RING HAVING 5 TO 8 ATOMS WITH UP TO ONE FURTHER NITROGEN OR OXYGEN ATOM.
Abstract:
A PREMIX IS MADE FOR INCORPORATION IN A NATURAL OR SYNRHETIC VULCANIZABLE RUBBER MIXTURE OF IMPROVED ADHESION TO TEXTILES BY CONGULATING AN AQUEOUS DISPERSION OF FINELY DIVIDED PRECIPITATED SILICIC ACID OR SILICATE AS A RUBBER LATEX AND MIXING RESORCINOL AND HEXAMETHYLENETETRAMINE AS RESIN-FORMING COMPONENTS INTO THE DRY COGULATE. THE INVENTION ALSO COMPRISES THE VULCANIZABLE PREMIX THUS MADE IN WHICH SPECIFIC AMOUNTS OF SYNTHETIC RUBBER, SILICIC ACID, RESORCINOL AND HEXAMETHYLENETETRAMINE ARE INCORPORATED.
Abstract:
Halobutyl rubber compositions which are rubbery and elastic at room temperatures but which can be softened and remolded on shearing and/or heating comprise the reaction product of a halobutyl copolymer and a tertiary amine.
Abstract:
Process for improving the properties of elastomers reinforced with siliceous fillers, consisting of incorporating in the vulcanizable mixture an additive which is a polyvinyl alcohol or a polyvinylacetate and the new composition obtained by application of the process.
Abstract:
THIS INVENTION INVOLVES A PROCESS FOR PREPARING HARD, TOUGH, HEAT-RESISTANT PLASTICS BY THE PEROXIDE CURING OF BUTADIENE POLYMERS HAVING A DILUTE SOLUTION VISCOSITY OF 0.19-0.7 AND HAVING A HIGH VINYL CONTENT AND A NARROW MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION, USING A PEROXIDE WHICH GIVES FREE RADICALS OF THE STRUCTURE R2(CH3)CO, ALTHOUGH THE PEROXIDE CURING OF BUTADIENE POLYMERS GENERALLY RESULTS IN PRODUCTS HAVING ELASTOMERIC POPERTIES AND BEING SWELLABLE IN BENZENE, THE PROCESS OF THIS INVENTION PERMITS VERY RAPID CURING WITHOUT CRAZING OR CRACKING TO GIVE RIGID, HEAT-RESISTANT POLYMERS. THE BUTADIENE POLYMERS HAVE AT LEAST 40%, PREFERABLY AT LEAST 70% BY WEIGHT BUTADIENE THEREIN, ADVANTAGEOUSLY HAVING AT LEAST 80% IN THE VINYL-TYPE OF REPEATING UNITS, THE AVERAGE MOLECULAR WEIGHT BEING AT LEAST 12,500 WITH A MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION SUCH THAT AT LEAST 50% AND PERFERABLEY AT LEAST 90% IS ABOVE 10,000 MOLECULAR WEIGHT AND AT LAST 95% IS ABOVE 2,000 THE PROPORTION OF PEROXIDE USED, PREFERABLY DICUMYL PEROXIDE, IS 0.5-6, PERFERABLY 1-5 PATS PER 100 PARTS OF POLYMER, AND THE CURING TEMPERATURE IS AT LEAST 250*F (120*C), PREFERABLY 300-350*F. (150-180*C.) THIS PROCESS LENDS ITSELF TO LIQUID COMPOUNDING FOR THE INCORPORATION OF THE PEROXIDE AND ANY MODIFIERS, AND FOR MIXTURE WITH FILLER.
Abstract:
RUBBERY COMPOSITION IS PREPARED BY MIXING 100 PARTS BY WEIGHT OF A HYDROGENATED HYDROCARBON COPOLYMER HAVING A GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE OF ABOVE -100*C. AND HAVING POLYMERIC MONOMER UNITS WHICH CONSIST OF (1) 5 TO 60% BY WEIGHT OF VINYL-AROMATIC HYDROCARBON UNITS, (2) NOT LESS THAN 10% BY WEIGHT OF HYDROGENATED CONJUGATED DIOLEFIN UNITS AND (3) UNHYDROGENATED CONJUGATED DIOLEFIN UNITS, WHEREIN SAID VINYL-AROMATIC HYDROCARBON UNITS ARE ESSENTIALLY RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED IN THE POLYMERIC MONOMER UNITS, AND 5 TO 200 PARTS BY WEIGHT OF AN INORGANIC REINFORCING FILLER HAVING A NUMBER AVERAGE PARTICLE DIAMETER OF LESS THAN 500 MU.
Abstract:
CURBING OF SILICA PIGMENT LOSSES AND THE PROMOTION OF UNIFORMITY OF PRODUCT IN THE PREPARATION OF AN ELASTOMER-SILICA PIGMENT MASTERBATCH ARE EFFECTED (A) BY COMBINING (1) AN AQUEOUSLY WET HYDRATED SILICA PIGMENT PRECIPITATE WHICH HAS A BOUND ALKALI CONTENT, WHICH HAS BEEN PREPARED BY PRECIPITATION FROM AN AQUEOUS ALKALI METAL SILICATE SOLUTION, AND WHICH HAS BEEN CONTINUOUSLY MAINTAINED IN AN AQUEOUSLY WET STATE WITHOUT HAVING BEEN DRIED THEREFROM AFTER ITS PRECIPITATION, WITH (2) A QUANTITY OF OLEPHILIC QUATERNARY AMMONIUM MATERIAL, (3) COMBININB THE RESULTING TREATED WET SILICA PIGMENT WITH AN AQUEOUS DISPERSION OF THE ELASTOMER CONTAINING AN ANIONIC DISPERSING AGENT, WITH OR WITHOUT (4) CARBON BLACK AND/OR PROCESSING OIL, AND (5) WITH SELECTED REACTANT-COAGULANT, AND (B) RECOVERING THE RESULTING COAGULUM AS A MASTERBATCH, THE STEPS PRIOR TO (B) HAVING RENDERED THE SERUM OF THE AQUEOUS MIXTURE ESSENTIALLY FREE OF SILICA PIGMENT. PRIOR TO COMBINATION WITH THE ELASTOMER DISPERSION THE TREATED ALKALINE SILICA PIGMENT MAY BE RECOVERED AS A USEFUL DISPERSIBLE ALKALINE SILICA PIGMENT PRODUCT, OR THE WET PIGMENT MAY BE TREATED WITH WATER SOLUBLE SALTS OF ALUMINUM OR ZINC AND/OR WITH MINERAL ACID, AS WELL AS WITH THE OLEOPHILIC MATERIAL, AND AFTER SUCH TREATMENT THE RESULTING PIGMENT COMPOSITION MAY BE RECOVERED FROM THE SLURRY AS A USEFUL DISPERSIBLE SILICA PIGMENT PRODUCT, OR THE SO TREATED WET SILICA PIGMENT MAY BE COMBINED AS IN (3), (4) AND (5) ABOVE, AND BE RECOVERED AS IN (B) ABOVE IN THE FORM OF A MASTERBATCH.