Abstract:
Tire inner-liners and inner-tubes are prepared from blends of general purpose rubbers and silicate clay. The clays provide the requisite low air permeability without adversely affecting the flexibility of the rubber composition.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to novel alpha-olefin copolymers having both a molecular weight distribution less than 2.0 and compositional segmentation of copolymerized polar functionalities, and to the process for preparing these copolymers.
Abstract:
A composite film comprising at least one layer of a first plastic polymer and a substrate of a second polymer/first plastic polymer composition is prepared by intimately mixing about 15 to about 90 wt.% of first plastic polymer and about 10 to 85 wt.% of the second polymer, extruding the mixture through a film die while cooling at least one surface of the die outlet at least about 10oC below the melting point of the plastic polymer and cooling the film. In a preferred embodiment the first plastic polymer has a semi-crystalline or crystalline melting point which is at least 10oC above the softening or melting point of the second polymer. A sandwich type laminate comprising two outer skins of first plastic polymer enclosing a core comprising a blend of first plastic polymer and second polymer can be prepared by cooling both die outlet surfaces. Where a blown film die is utilized the inner and outer die layers must be cooled to accomplish this end. In a sheet die both the upper and lower die layers are cooled.
Abstract:
Disclosed are unsaturated alpha -olefin/ alpha , omega -diene copolymers, and a method of preparation thereof. The copolymers are generally crystalline, free of gel and cross-links, and contain unsaturated side chains and long chain branching. The copolymers contain up to 5 mole percent diene incorporated therein, and may be prepared by copolymerization using a solid-phase, insoluble coordination catalyst, without a solvent, and below the crystalline melting point of the copolymer.
Abstract:
A polymer grafting process, apparatus and products obtained therewith are disclosed. The process comprises the melt-phase grafting of a polyolefin containing unsaturation sites with an enophile (such as maleic anhydride) under ene reaction conditions at 180 DEG -265 DEG C in reactor with a mean residence time of 12-40 minutes and a relatively narrow residence time distribution such that 90 percent of the reactor throughput has a residence time within 75-175 percent of the mean. The apparatus comprises means for supplying molten, pressurized unsaturated polyolefin and enophile, a distributively mixed reactor for receiving the pressurized, molten reactants, for maintaining the ene reaction conditions and for producing a grafted polymer product, and a finishing extruder for removal of unreacted enophile. The grafted polymer product contains ene grafted enophile, and has an intact molecular structure substantially unchanged from that of the polymer prior to grafting.