Patents by Inventor Franciszek Sitek

Franciszek Sitek has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6525158
    Abstract: Recycled mixtures of plastics, predominantly thermoplastics, as predominantly produced in the household, in commerce and also in industry and useful material collections, can be stabilized against thermooxidative degradation by adding a combination of a sterically hindered phenol with an organic phosphite or phosphonite and an inorganic compound from the series consisting of metal oxides, hydroxides and carbonates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Kurt Hoffmann, Heinz Herbst, Rudolf Pfaendner, Hans-Jürgen Sander, Franciszek Sitek
  • Patent number: 6251972
    Abstract: Single-material recycled thermoplastics from commercial and industrial waste can be stabilized against thermal oxidative degradation by adding a combination of a sterically hindered phenol with an organic phosphite or phosphonite and an inorganic compound from the series consisting of metal oxides, hydroxides and carbonates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.
    Inventors: Kurt Hoffmann, Heinz Herbst, Rudolf Pfaendner, Franciszek Sitek
  • Patent number: 5804623
    Abstract: Recycled plastics, predominandy thermoplastics, from domestic, commercial and industrial waste can be stabilized against thermooxidative degradation by adding a combination of a sterically hindered phenol with an organic phosphite or phosphonite and a metal salt of a fatty acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Kurt Hoffmann, Heinz Herbst, Rudolf Pfaendner, Hans-Jurgen Sander, Franciszek Sitek
  • Patent number: 5789470
    Abstract: The invention relates to stabilized recycled plastics, which can be obtained from domestic, commercial and industrial waste or valuable material collections, comprising a macrocyclic compounds containing a radical of formula (I) or (II), in the macrocycle or in a side group of the macrocycle, where the macrocycle comprises at least 8 atoms and in which the substituents R, independently of one another, are methyl, ethyl or propyl, or two radicals R on the same carbon atom are, together, a pentamethylene radical, and a is the number 0, 1 or 2. The invention also relates to a process for the stabilization of recycled plastics and to the use of the above macrocyclic compounds as stabilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Heinz Herbst, Kurt Hoffmann, Franca Masina, Rudolf Pfaendner, Franciszek Sitek
  • Patent number: 5643985
    Abstract: Recycled plastics, predominanty thermoplastics, from domestic, commercial and industrial waste can be stabilized against thermooxidative degradation by adding a combination of a sterically hindered phenol with an organic phosphite or phosphonite and a metal salt of a fatty acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1997
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Kurt Hoffmann, Heinz Herbst, Rudolf Pfaendner, Hans-Jurgen Sander, Franciszek Sitek
  • Patent number: 5629356
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula I, II, III and IIIa ##STR1## in which Ar.sup.1 is an unsubstituted or substituted aromatic radical and at least one of the radicals R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 is an alkenyl, cycloalkenyl or arylmethyl group, are effective photoinitiators for photopolymerization of unsaturated compounds. They are particularly suitable for photocuring of pigmented systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignee: Ciba Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Vincent Desobry, Kurt Dietliker, Rinaldo H usler, Werner Rutsch, Manfred Rembold, Franciszek Sitek
  • Patent number: 5554663
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula I, II, III and IIIa ##STR1## in which Ar.sup.1 is an unsubstituted or substituted aromatic radical and at least one of the radicals R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 is an alkenyl, cycloalkenyl or arylmethyl group, are effective photoinitiators for photopolymerization of unsaturated compounds. They are particularly suitable for photocuring of pigmented systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Vincent Desobry, Kurt Dietliker, Rinaldo H usler, Werner Rutsch, Manfred Rembold, Franciszek Sitek
  • Patent number: 5534629
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula I, II, III and IIIa ##STR1## in which Ar.sup.1 is an unsubstituted or substituted aromatic radical and at least one of the radicals R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 is an alkenyl, cycloalkenyl or arylmethyl group, are effective photoinitiators for photopolymerization of unsaturated compounds. They are particularly suitable for photocuring of pigmented systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Vincent Desobry, Kurt Dietliker, Rinaldo Husler, Werner Rutsch, Manfred Rembold, Franciszek Sitek
  • Patent number: 5510539
    Abstract: Liquid highly active photoinitiators are obtained by dissolving a solid photoinitiator of the titanocene type in liquid photoinitiators of the acetal or ketal type. The liquid mixtures have a long dark storage stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1996
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Godwin Berner, Franciszek Sitek, Rinaldo Husler
  • Patent number: 5298540
    Abstract: Recycled mixed plastics from domestic and commercial waste can be stabilized against thermal oxidative degradation by adding a combination of a sterically hindered phenol with a phosphite or phosphonite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Jean-Roch Pauquet, Franciszek Sitek, Roberto Todesco
  • Patent number: 5288917
    Abstract: Liquid highly active photoinitiators are obtained by dissolving a solid photoinitiator of the titanocene type in liquid photoinitiators of the acetal or ketal type. The liquid mixtures have a long dark storage stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1994
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Godwin Berner, Franciszek Sitek, Rinaldo Husler
  • Patent number: 5091439
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which a is 1, 2, or 3, R.sup.1 is an uncharged, carbocyclic or heterocyclic aromatic ring, unsubstituted or substituted, R.sup.2 is an unsubstituted or substituted cyclopentadienyl or indenyl anion, and .vertline.X.vertline..sup.a- is an a-valent anion, are suitable for use as latent curing catalysts for two-component polyurethane coatings which are activated by irradiation with actinic light or by heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Godwin Berner, Manfred Rembold, Franciszek Sitek, Werner Rutsch
  • Patent number: 5077402
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula I, II, III and IIIa ##STR1## in which Ar.sup.1 is an unsubstituted or substituted aromatic radical and at least one of the radicals R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 is an alkenyl, cycloalkenyl or arylmethyl group, are effective photoinitiators for photopolymerization of unsaturated compounds. They are particularly suitable for photocuring of pigmented systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Vincent Desobry, Kurt Dietliker, Rinaldo Husler, Werner Rutsch, Manfred Rembold, Franciszek Sitek
  • Patent number: 5026625
    Abstract: Titanocenes containing two 5-membered cyclodienyl gropus, for example cyclopentadienyl, and one or two 6-membered carbocyclic or 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic aromatic rings which are substituted by a fluorine atom in at least one of the two ortho-positions to the titanium-carbon bond and contain, as further substituents, a substituted amino radical, are suitable as photoinitiators for radiation-induced polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1991
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Riediker, Eginhard Steiner, Harry Beyeler, Franciszek Sitek, Rinaldo Husler
  • Patent number: 4970136
    Abstract: Titanocenes with, for example, .pi.-cyclopentadienyl ligands in which one or two carbo- or heterocyclic aromatic rings are bonded to the titanium, the aromatic rings being substituted by fluorine in at least one of the two ortho-positions relative to the matal-carbon bond and being substituted by at least one free or etherified or esterified polyoxaalkylene radical, are suitable as photoinitiators for the photopolymerization of ethylenically unsaturated substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1990
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Riediker, Eginhard Steiner, Harry Beyeler, Manfred Rembold, Franciszek Sitek
  • Patent number: 4963470
    Abstract: Titanocenes with silylated .pi.-cyclopentadienyl ligands in which one or two carbo- or heterocyclic aromatic rings are bonded to the titanium, the aromatic rings being substituted by fluorine, --CF.sub.3, --C.sub.2 F.sub.5, --CF.sub.2 CL or --CF.sub.2 CH.sub.3 in at least one of the two ortho-positions relative to the metal-carbon bonds, are suitable as photoinitiators for the photopolymerization of ethylenically unsaturated substrates. They are distinguished by a high sensitivity, stability to air and the action of heat, and a high activity in the region of UV light to visible light. They are furthermore readily soluble in the photopolymerizable compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1990
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Bernd Klingert, Franciszek Sitek, Manfred Rembold
  • Patent number: 4960746
    Abstract: Liquid, highly active photoinitiators are obtained by dissolving a solid photoinitiator of a titanocene type in liquid photoinitiators of the type of the .alpha.-hydroxy- or .alpha.-amino-acetophenones or in a liquid mixture of an .alpha.-hydroxy- or .alpha.-aminoacetophenone photocuring agent with one or more other photoinitiators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1990
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Rinaldo Husler, Werner Rutsch, Manfred Rembold, Franciszek Sitek
  • Patent number: 4894399
    Abstract: Light-stabilized polymer microparticles, which contain at least one light stabilizer and free epoxy groups, and processes for the preparation of these microparticles by polymerization of suitable monomers, at least one of these monomers being an epoxide which contains at least one further reactive group, and at least part of the polymerization being carried out in the presence of at least one light stabilizer, are described. The polymer microparticles can be used in coating compositions which comprise a disperse phase, containing these particles, and a liquid continuous phase.Coatings and paints based on the compositions according to the invention are distinguished by improved weathering resistance, in particular high light stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1990
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Jean Rody, Mario Slongo, Franciszek Sitek, Andreas Valet
  • Patent number: 4880859
    Abstract: Light-stabilized star polymer microparticles are described which are prepared with particular advantage by group transfer polymerization. The light stabilization is effected by carrying out at least a part step of the polymerization in the presence of a light stabilizer, for example a hindered amine or/and a UV absorber. With particular advantage, those light stabilizers are used which contain reactive groups in the molecule and, in this way, can be chemically incorporated into the polymer. The polymer microparticles show excellent light stability and are outstandingly suitable as constituents in coating compositions which can be processed, for example, to give coating films of high light stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1989
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Mario Slongo, Jean Rody, Franciszek Sitek, Andreas Valet
  • Patent number: 4861806
    Abstract: Coatings of polyisocyanates, which contain a latent catalyst of the formula I[(R.sup.1) Fe.sup.II (R.sup.2)].sub.a.sup.+ [X].sup.a- Iin which a is 1, 2 or 3, R.sup.1 is an uncharged carbocyclic or heterocyclic, unsubstituted or substituted aromatic ring, R.sup.2 is an unsubstituted or substituted cyclopentadienyl or indenyl anion and [X].sup.a- is an anion from the series comprising F.sup.-, Cl.sup.-, Br.sup.-, I.sup.-, CN.sup.-, NCO.sup.-, NCS.sup.-, CH.sub.3 COO.sup.-, CF.sub.3 COO.sup.-, SO.sub.4.sup.2-, PO.sub.4.sup.3-, NO.sub.3.sup.-, ClO.sub.4.sup.-, [(phenyl).sub.4 B].sup.-, C.sub.6 H.sub.5 SO.sub.3.sup.-, CH.sub.3 C.sub.6 H.sub.4 SO.sub.3.sup.-, CF.sub.3 C.sub.6 H.sub.4 SO.sub.3.sup.-, CH.sub.3 SO.sub.3.sup.-, CF.sub.3 SO.sub.3.sup.-, C.sub.4 F.sub.9 SO.sub.3.sup.-, C.sub.6 F.sub.13 SO.sub.3.sup.-, C.sub.8 F.sub.17 SO.sub.3.sup.-, C.sub.6 F.sub.5 SO.sub.3.sup.-, BF.sub.4.sup. -, AlF.sub.4.sup.-, AlCl.sub.4.sup.-, TiF.sub.6.sup.2-, PF.sub.6.sup.-, SbF.sub.6.sup.-, SbCl.sub.6.sup.-, GeF.sub.6.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Manfred Rembold, Franciszek Sitek, Werner Rutsch, Godwin Berner