Abstract:
Disclosed herein are sheets or webs of a resin-impregnated fibrous material, including an impregnating resin, which includes a combination of a) at least one resin component A, which is selected from the group consisting of aminoplast resins and phenoplast resins and mixtures thereof; and b) at least one resin component B, which is an oligomer or polymer having ethylenically unsaturated double bonds, where at least 40 mol % of the ethylenically unsaturated double bonds are selected from the group consisting of allyl groups, acryl groups and methacryl groups. Further disclosed herein is a process for producing a resin-impregnated fibrous material, which includes impregnating a fibrous material in the form of a sheet or a web with a liquid resin composition including a combination of a) the resin component A; and b) the resin component B.
Abstract:
The disclosure provides a décor paper prepared from a dispersion having improved optical performance without negatively impacting mechanical strength, wherein the dispersion comprises a TiO2 particle slurry comprising a treated TiO2 particle having a surface area of at least about 30 m2/g, and a cationic polymer; wherein the treatment comprises an oxide of silicon, aluminum, phosphorus or mixtures thereof; and the treatment is present in the amount of at least 15% based on the total weight of the treated titanium dioxide particle; paper pulp; and a cationic polymer; wherein the cationic polymer in the slurry and the cationic polymer in the dispersion are compatible; wherein for equal optical performance, the amount of treated TiO2 particle in the dispersion is reduced by about 10% when compared to a dispersion not comprising the treated TiO2 particle of (a). These décor papers are useful in preparing paper laminates.
Abstract:
An aqueous resin solution for the impregnation of paper webs contains 2-40 parts by weight of a polyurea composed of urea and of a polyamine per 100 parts by weight of a melamine/formaldehyde precondensate. The impregnated paper webs are suitable for coating woodbase materials, especially chipboard.
Abstract:
A transferable film composition coated on a temporary support is used in the manufacture of heat and pressure consolidated laminates to produce laminates of improved surface strength and functional properties. The film is composed of polyvinyl butyral resin and melamine resin which reacts with a resin in the laminates. Additives may be included in the film composition for functional purposes and appearance.
Abstract:
A decorative, high pressure, conductive laminate for flooring material is formed of a plurality of phenolic impregnated carbon-containing core sheets, a melamine resin impregnated decor sheet containing about 3-5% carbon fibers having a length greater than 1/16 inch and preferably 1/8 inch or more, and a melamine resin impregnated abrasion resistant overlay. The overlay melamine resin also contains an ionic salt and a tertiary aliphatic amine, both also preferably being in the decor melamine as well. The laminate has a volume resistance of 2.5.times.10.sup.4 to about 10.sup.6 ohms. To make the product more dimensionally stable, carbon containing core sheets are interleaved with non-carbon-containing kraft sheets, the phenolic resin of which also contains ionic salt.
Abstract:
Modified aminoplast resin comprising:(a) 60 to 99.5% by weight of an aminoplast precondensate which has been etherified with a lower alkanol to an extent not exceeding 10% and(b) 0.5 to 40% by weight of a modifying agent which comprises a mixture of (i) a water-soluble polyester prepared from carboxylic acids with at least one carboxyl and dihydric or polyhydric alcohols, and (ii) sufficient free diol or polyol whereby the mixture has a ratio of the sum of free and esterified hydroxyls of 0.8 to 4.5 moles for each mole of the sum of free and esterified carboxyls which resins are useful in impregnating webs for producing laminates and panels of wood-based materials.
Abstract:
Hydroxyalkylmelamines are disclosed as ingredients in various resins which find use as the resin component of heat and pressure consolidated laminates, especially decorative laminates having either post-formability or a core having a color matching that of the decor sheet.
Abstract:
Cationic resins soluble in water and stable in solution, based upon melamine and formaldehyde, primary or secondary aliphatic amines, alkanolamines or a polyamine are prepared by reacting melamine with formaldehyde in a methylolation reaction in methanol in the presence of one or more of the aforementioned amines by heating for a period of fifteen minutes to two hours at an alkaline pH of 7.5 to 10 at a temperature of 60.degree. to 85.degree. C. The methylation-condensation reaction which follows is carried out at a pH of 5 to 6, preferably 5.4 to 5.7 until a viscosity is obtained which has a minimum of seventeen seconds measured at 20.degree. C. by an AFNOR No. 6 consistometric head. The methylation reaction is then terminated by the addition of aqueous formaldehyde and condensation is carried out for thirty minutes to two hours at 60.degree. to 90.degree. C. and a pH of 5.5 to 7, preferably a pH of 6 to 6.5. The product has longterm stability and can be used as a water-resisting or humidity-resistant coating or sizing for paper or as an adhesion promoting coating for solid supports to which a varnish is to be applied.
Abstract:
A composition of matter comprising a mixture of a melamine/formaldehyde resin, an elastomer comprising an ethylene/vinyl chloride copolymer containing amide groups, a butadiene/acrylonitrile copolymer containing carboxyl groups or a polyurethane resin containing carboxyl groups and an alkylene polyamine, is disclosed.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a process for making carrier sheets containing hardenable polyester resins by treating the carrier sheets with solutions or emulsions of polyester resins, which comprisesA. impregnating the carrier sheet with an aqueous solution of a hardenable water-soluble polyester resin,B. substantially drying the carrier sheet containing the aqueous solution of the hardenable polyester resin,C. applying a polymerizable unsaturated compound onto the resin-containing carrier sheet in a quantity sufficient for subsequent cross-linking,D. coating the treated resin-containing carrier sheet with a solution or an aqueous dispersion of a water-insoluble hardenable polyester resin containing a cross-linking agent, andE. substantially drying the resultant product of the process.