Abstract: An novel golf ball is disclosed having an improved cover composition comprising a blend of a first copolymer of an olefin and a sodium salt of an unsaturated carboxylic acid, a second copolymer of an olefin and a zinc salt of an unsaturated carboxylic acid, and a third copolymer of an olefin and a lithium salt of an unsaturated carboxylic acid. The novel golf balls having the improved cover compositions exhibit improved playing properties.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods, compositions, and articles manufactured from scrap treated skin and/or leather which has been finely pulverized and mixed with synthetic resin. It further includes a method for the manufacture of improved leather products made from animal skin and/or leather and/or animal gelatin including the products derived therefrom and the method of producing skin and/or leather powder by use of steam and pulverization for combining with a fluid plastic material or resin in which the powder is uniformally dispersed in the plastic resin material for molding, extruding or manufacture of sheet material or for incorporation into coatings, paint or other plastic resinous products.

Abstract: A high structured carbon black having a relatively large particle size and a high surface activity is provided for use in the tread rubber of a pneumatic tire. Tires made using the black demonstrate improved irregular wear and roll resistance properties.

Abstract: Heat ablative compositions, comprises a binder and a filler including a combination of aluminum sulfate hydrate and aluminum ammonium sulfate hydrate. The combination produces a synergistic effect on the fire protection rating of the composition. The binder may be chosen from inorganic or organic binders.

Abstract: One-piece and multi-layered golf balls are improved in flying performance by forming the one-piece ball entirely or multi-layered golf ball core from a rubber composition comprising a base rubber and a co-crosslinking agent in the form of a premix of an unsaturated fatty acid metal salt and a liquid polymer.

Abstract: Pneumatic rubber tire with a rubber tread composition of styrene/butadiene copolymer rubber, cis 1,4-polyisoprene rubber and cis 1,4-polybutadiene rubber with a required glass transition temperature differentiation between the rubbers.

Abstract: Polymer compositions in the form of spheroidal particles with average diameter between 0.5 and 7 mm, comprising:A) 10-50 parts by weight of homopolymer of propylene with an isotactic index greater than 90 and an intrinsic viscosity from 0.5 to 1.5 dl/g;B) 50-90 parts by weight of propylene-ethylene copolymer containing 15-45% by weight of ethylene and having an intrinsic viscosity between 0.5 and 1.5 dl/g. The compositions are suitable for the modification of bitumens.

Abstract: This invention relates to a composition and method for improving the storage stability of polymer modified asphalts. More specifically, the storage stability of an asphalt which contains greater than 1.0 wt. % polymer can be improved by adding the polymer to an asphalt which has previously been reacted with an inorganic acid. The storage stable acid treated polymer modified asphalt thus produced is particularly well suited for use as a binder in paving materials and as a coating or saturant for roofing shingles.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for the recovery of hydrocarbon products from elastomeric products such as discarded vehicle tires and other rubber products. The elastomeric products are immersed in a liquid heat transfer medium and heated to a temperature in the range of from about 575.degree. F. to about 600.degree. F. for a period of from about 0.5 to about 2.0 hours. The process produces a methane-containing gas product, a low boiling fuel oil fraction, a light fraction elastomeric hydrocarbon solid, a heavy fraction elastomeric hydrocarbon solid, and steel cord when steel belted radial tires are processed.

Abstract: Contact lenses which are optically clear, wettable, flexible, and of high oxygen permeability in the aqueous ocular environment of use, of a polymer containing polyoxyalkylene backbone units are disclosed, as well as the preparation thereof and methods of treating vision defects therewith.

Abstract: Butadiene polymer rubber compositions containing a polymeric activator have particularly beneficial characteristics. The activator is an interpolymer of a vinylpyridine monomer and a diene hydrocarbon monomer which interpolymer contains from 20% to 65% by weight of vinylpyridine units. Composite articles made from these rubber compositions together with contiguous portions of a dissimilar rubber compound show greater strength and adhesion as a result of the presence of a activator in the butadiene polymer rubber composition.

Abstract: A tire tread rubber composition including a diene rubber and at least one of silica and carbon black, the composition being characterized in that the amount of extract (E) defined below satisfies the equation (1) and that a hard filler 0.01 to 5 mm in mean particle size and at least 100kg/mm.sup.2 in Knoop hardness is used in an amount of 3 to 80 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the component rubber of the composition subjected to extraction with acetone/chloroform after the vulcanization of the composition, wherein said equation isE<0.4 (A-38)(1)wherein E and A are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: Phenolic molding compositions, particularly useful as sheet molding compositions comprise: 1) a resole phenole resin, 2) a thickening agent selected from the group consisting of alkaline earth metal oxides or hydroxides and silanes, 3) a filler selected from the group consisting of clay, talc, and mixtures thereof, and 4) an epoxy resin.

Abstract: A process of using compositions comprising certain thermoplastic elastomeric polymers for damping and damping compositions comprising soft thermoset polymer containing microscopically discrete segments of said thermoplastic elastomeric polymers.

Abstract: A method for preparing an advanced epoxy cationic resin from an epoxy-based resin containing oxirane groups by converting at least some of the oxirane groups to cationic groups is improved by using as the epoxy-based resin a blend of (I) an epoxy-based resin obtained by reacting in the presence of a suitable catalyst (1) a diglycidylether of an aliphatic diol which diol is essentially free of ether oxygen atoms, such as a condensation product of 1,4-butanediol and epichlorohydrin, optionally (2) a diglycidylether of a dihydric phenol, for example a diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A, (3) a dihydric phenol such as bisphenol A, and optionally (4) a capping agent such as p-nonylphenol and (II) a different cationic epoxy-based resin. Such resin blends can be utilized in cathodic electrodeposition coating systems.

Abstract: Hot melt wax compositions and a process for producing said hot melt wax compositions are disclosed. The wax compositions are suitable for coating fibrous materials, for example, paper and corrugated paper boards. The coating compositions comprise a mixture of a fully refined paraffin wax, a petroleum wax selected from the group consisting of a recrystallized heavy intermediate wax, a microcrystalline wax and mixtures thereof, a polymeric hydrocarbon compound, a tackifier resin and optionally, a phenolic anti-oxidant.

Abstract: Thermoplastic materials are separated and recovered, according to the present invention, utilizing a process wherein a mixture of the thermoplastic material to be recovered and one or more contaminants are simultaneously heated and agitated. The mixture is heated to the temperature at which the thermoplastic will adhere to itself, but at which the contaminant has not become tacky. Impacting thermoplastic particles agglomerate, while the contaminant particles do not adhere to other contaminant particles or to the thermoplastic particles. The resulting mixture is passed through a series of screens of increasing mesh size to separate the larger thermoplastic particles from the smaller contaminant particles.

Abstract: A grease compatible cyclic olefin extended polyurethane comprising the reaction product of an isocyanate terminated polyisocyanate with a polyol in the presence of a cyclic olefin extender and, a plasticizer having a total solubility parameter of .[.between about 8.3 and 8.9 or.]. about 9.1 and 9.7. Certain extended polyurethanes are characterized as being reenterable, such that they can be used for repairing, encapsulation or reclaiming electrical or telephone cables. Alternate formulations can be used as hard volume encapsulants for general elastomer use.

Abstract: A plasticized polyurethane gel system comprising the reaction product of an isocyanate compound and a polyol in the presence of a plasticizer compound having a total solubility parameter of .[.between about 8.3 and 8.9 or.]. between about 9.1 and 9.7.

Abstract: A plasticized polyurethane gel system comprising the reaction product of an isocyanate compound and a polyol in the presence of a ricinoleate plasticizer compound having a total solubility parameter of .[.between about 8.3 and 8.9 or.]. between about 9.1 and 9.7 .Iadd.to 10.1. .Iaddend.