Abstract: Polyphenylene ether compositions having enhanced commercial value as engineering resin, which are excellent in the appearance characteristics, such as surface gloss and weld part beauty, and stress crack resistance. The present resin composition is composed of a polyether resin (PPE) and a rubber reinforced high impact polystyrene (HIPS), if desired, together with a vinyl aromatic compound resin, wherein the PPE has specific characteristics with respect to the intrinsic viscosity, the eluting amount, and others.

Abstract: A rubber mixture is provided for direct bonding to metal surfaces, and includes a base of natural and/or synthetic rubber which contains fillers, processing aids, vulcanizing agents, a bonding agent in the form of a phenol, or derivatives thereof, which form phenolic resins with formaldehyde, a source of formaldehyde, and metallic compounds, preferably oxides of metals, the outer electron shell of which has 2s electrons. The metallic compounds are present in a measured quantity which is about 30 to 400 mMol above the conventional dosage of 40 to 60 mMol for activating the polymerization, with this measured quantity being applicable to each 100 g of rubber. The measured quantity of bonding agent ranges from two to four times the conventional quantity of 40 mMol per 100 g rubber.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a modified hydrocarbon resin suitable for use as a binder in a printing ink from a hydrocarbon resin (I) relatively unsuitable for use as a binder in a printing ink and having a melting point of at most 110.degree. C. which comprises reacting in at least one step in any desired sequence a reactant selected from the group consisting of(I) at least one hydrocarbon resin based on at least one polymerizable hydrocarbon monomer selected from the group consisting of(a) 20 to 100% by weight, referred to the total of polymerizable monomers, of hydrocarbon fractions containing substantial and essential amounts of C.sub.

Abstract: Plasto-elastomeric compositions are prepared which are endowed with an improved processability and consist of a blend or mix of EPDM rubber cross-linked with a thermoplastic olefinic polymer, by means of dynamic vulcanization, using as a cross-linking agent for the rubber a halogen-donor-free system consisting of a phenolic non-halogenated resin and a particular oxide or metal carbonate.

Abstract: A resin composition comprising(I) a granular or powdery resin which is a condensation product of a phenol, an aldehyde and optionally a nitrogen-containing compound having at least two active hydrogens and is characterized by (A) containing spherical primary particles and their secondary agglomerated particles each having a particle diameter of 0.1 to 150 microns, (B) having such a size that at least 50% by weight thereof can pass through a 100 Tyler mesh sieve, and (C) having a free phenol content, determined by liquid chromatography, of not more than 500 ppm, and(II) at least one member selected from the group consisting of (1) a rubbery elastic material, (2) a thermoplastic resin and (3) a curable reisn other than said granular or powdery resin (I) and/or a filler material other than said granular or powdery resin (I).

Abstract: An aramid reinforcing element is treated with a cold gas plasma of air, N.sub.2, He, Ne or Ar or mixture thereof at up to 300 watts power for a few seconds to several minutes to improve its adhesion to rubber compounds.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of reinforced vulcanizates which process comprises vulcanizing a mixture comprising rubber, a novolak and at least one reactive melamine resin obtained by reaction of one mol of melamine with 0.5 to 6 mols of aldehyde, said melamine resin being present in an amount of from 0.5 to 120% by weight, based on the weight of the novolak resin, and the phenolic component of said novolak resin being selected from the group consisting of phenol, polynuclear polyphenols, alkylphenols, a combination of alkylphenols with phenol, and a combination of at least one of said phenols with a further phenol selected from the group consisting of resorcinol, phenylphenol and polyalkylphenols. The invention also includes rubber articles prepared from a product of such a process.

Abstract: In a process of curing solution-polymerized synthetic rubbers, the improvement effected is the retardation of the cure rate and increasing of time to scorch by the addition of small amounts of a heat-curable phenol-formaldehyde resin. This method of controlling cure rate and scorch time complements other techniques known in the art (e.g., cure accelerators), and can be used to adjust the properties of solution-polymerized rubbers to match those of emulsion-polymerized rubbers.

Abstract: Phenolic resin compositions comprising a polymeric substance having a phenolic OH group such as phenol resins, and a rubber having an epoxy group and an epoxy equivalent of 500 to 30,000 such as butadiene copolymers, acrylic copolymers, chloroprene copolymers and urethane copolymers are provided. These resin compositions exhibit improved properties having overcome the drawback of brittle properties intrinsic of conventional phenolic resins, and also exhibit cold resistance; hence they are used as molding materials, laminating materials, casting materials, binders, etc. Further, molding resin compositions having improved solvent-resistance and metal insert properties are provided.

Abstract: Novel compositions are provided which comprise a polyphenylene ether, optionally a high impact polystyrene, optionally, an effective amount of an aromatic phosphate flame retardant, and a low molecular weight polymer selected from a polyolefin glycol or a polyamide, said composition being free from or excluding a substantial content of polyolefin, such as polyethylene. Such compositions when molded are readily paintable, and exhibit good adhesion between the paint and the molded compositions as distinguished from compositions containing polyolefins, such as polyethylene, which has been found to adversely affect paint adhesion. In addition, the novel compositions possess good or improved Izod and Gardner impact strengths, and in the case of polyolefin glycol, such as polyethylene glycol, the mutual solubility of all the components of the compositions is increased. Included within the disclosure of the invention are methods of preparing and molding such compositions and the molded products obtained therefrom.

Abstract: A rubber composition comprising rubber, novolak-type phenolic resin and carbon black is very rigid and is adapted to be used as a bead filler rubber of a tire. Tires using the rubber composition are excellent in the high speed performance, lateral rigidity, ride feeling and durability.

Abstract: A vulcanizable rubber mixture which will give the desired properties of leather-hard rubber and can also be extruded with a mixture which gives soft rubber. The composite profile from the extrusion has an area of leather-hard rubber and an area of soft rubber. The composite profile is heated by hot air and/or uhf radiation to 180.degree. to 280.degree. C. and the vulcanized profile cooled very rapidly to 10.degree. to 50.degree. C.

Abstract: An aqueous coating composition for filamentary materials that are to be used in reinforcing elastomeric matrix materials is provided that renders reinforced elastomeric materials having improved properties of flexibility and fatigue resistance. The aqueous adhesive coating composition has a vinyl-pyridine-containing copolymer or terpolymer latex, a phenolic aldehyde condensate polymer, and a non-self-crosslinkable elastomeric latex with a low gel content of less than around 40 weight percent and a low average particle size of less than around 2000 angstroms. The vinyl pyridine-containing elastomeric latex is produced from a vinyl pyridine-containing monomer, 1,3 diene hydrocarbon monomer or the terpolymer is produced in the same way with the addition of a vinyl containing monomer. In addition the aqueous adhesive coating composition may contain a wax emulsion, antioxidant, and carboxylated styrene butadiene copolymer latex.

Abstract: N-methylolated/methoxymethylated aryldisulfonamides useful as rubber crosslinking agents are provided of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein x is between about 1 and 2, and y is between about 1 and 3, z is between about 0 and 1.5, the total of x, y and z being about 4.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a modified hydrocarbon resin free of indene. This resin is suitable for use as a binder in a printing ink. It is made from a hydrocarbon resin which is relatively unsuitable for use as a binder in a printing ink.

Abstract: Condensation products of aniline, a phenol or alkylated phenol and an aldehyde, especially formaldehyde, may be used as tackifiers and aging retardants for rubber, especially natural rubber.

Abstract: Phenolic resin compositions comprising a polymeric substance having a phenolic OH group such as phenol resins, and a rubber having an epoxy group and an epoxy equivalent of 500 to 30,000 such as butadiene copolymers, acrylic copolymers, chloroprene copolymers and urethane copolymers are provided. These resin compositions exhibit improved properties having overcome the drawback of brittle properties intrinsic of conventional phenolic resins, and also exhibit cold resistance; hence they are used as molding materials, laminating materials, casting materials, binders, etc. Further, molding resin compositions having improved solvent-resistance and metal insert properties are provided.

Abstract: A thermoplastic composition having an improved impact modifier is described. In an admixture of polyphenylene ether and butadiene-modified alkenyl aromatic resin, a resin which is a network polymer combining poly-alkenyl aromatic and polybutadiene membrane is employed. On subjection to high shear, the continuous membrane phase is shredded into discrete segments which impart an increased impact strength to the composition.

Abstract: A sound attenuating composition for use as a molded-in backer stock between a brake backer plate and the wear stock of a brake shoe comprising approximately in percent by volume:non-fibrous organic components=15-40%fiber reinforcement=20-50%inorganic components=15-50%phenolic resin=5-10%.

Abstract: A resin composition suitable for injection moulding and having excellent heat resistance, impact resistance and crack resistance, which is composed of polyphenylene ether and rubber-reinforced styrene resin and an amount of volatile matters in the resin having molecular weight of about 300 or less is 5000 ppm or less. This resin composition is prepared by melting and kneading the two resins above in an extruder with a vent under keeping the vent part under reduced pressure.

Abstract: A curable composition comprising (1) at least one rubber selected from the group consisting of natural rubber, a diene rubber and a diene copolymer rubber, (2) a sulfide resin as a curing agent having the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein X is methylene group, ethylene group, --S-- or --S--S--, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are independently a C.sub.1-10 alkyl or alkylene group, Y.sup.1 and Y.sup.2 are independently the residue of a phenol compound, p is an integer of 2 to 8, and n is an integer of 2 to 5, (3) a phenolic thermosetting resin and (4) a hardener for hardening said thermosetting resin. The composition shows a low viscosity upon milling and also does not take place scorching and blooming, and can provide a cured rubber having a high dynamic modulus of elasticity with improved workability and processability. The cured rubber is suitable for use in radial tires as bead filler rubber.

Abstract: This invention relates to normally liquid, stable polymer/polyol compositions formed by polymerizing, in the presence of a free radical catalyst, an ethylenically unsaturated monomer or monomers dissolved or dispersed in a polyol mixture including a coupled polyol consisting of the reaction product of a polyol having a functionality in excess of 2 reacted with polyisocyanate in such proportion that the ratio of hydroxyl groups to isocyanato groups is greater than 1. In one embodiment, the coupled polyol is made in situ in the base polyol by addition thereto of the required amount of the polyisocyanate. The novel polymer/polyol compositions are convertible to polyurethane foams and elastomers.

Abstract: A process for the production of a phenolic resin modified with a liquid polybutadiene being useful as an impregnating varnish in the production of a copper-clad laminate for a printed circuit, which comprises preparing an adduct of a liquid polybutadiene having a number average molecular weight of 150 to 5,000 with an .alpha., .beta.-unsaturated dicarboxylic acid or its anhydride, subjecting the adduct to an addition reaction with one or plurality of phenols in the presence of an acid catalyst to obtain a composition and reacting the composition with formaldehyde in the presence of a basic catalyst.

Abstract: Offset ink compositions are disclosed which contain as a vehicle a resin (III) obtainable by the steps of:(a) copolymerizing 100 parts by weight of a five-membered ring compound having a conjugated double bond, represented by the general formula: ##STR1## (wherein H is hydrogen, R is an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, and m and n are each 0 or an integer of 1 or more such that m+n=6) and/or a Diels-Alder addition product of said five-membered ring compound (Component A), with 10 to 150 parts by weight of a codimer (Component B) of said five-membered ring compound and 1,3-butadiene;(b) reacting 100 parts by weight of the resulting hydrocarbon resin (I) with 1 to 15 parts by weight of an unsaturated carboxylic acid or an anhydride thereof (Component C); and(c) reacting at elevated temperatures 100 parts by weight of the resulting acid-modified resin (II) with 5 to 100 parts by weight of a phenol resin (Component D) obtainable by the condensation of a phenol with formalin.

Abstract: This invention relates to a cured novolak fiber-reinforced, chlorinated rubber molded article having excellent flameproofness, the main components of which are(A) fibers or a fibrous structure containing at least 50 weight % of cured novolak fibers and(B) a rubber composition consisting mainly of chlorinated rubber as a rubber component,the content of said fibers or fibrous structure being 2-80% by weight; and a process for the preparation of said article comprising adhering an organic solvent solution or dispersion of the rubber composition (B) to the fibers or the fibrous structure (A) or impregnating the fibers or fibrous structure with said solution or dispersion, or mixing the fibers with the rubber composition (B), and without any further processing, or during or after the pressing or molding, vulcanizing said chlorinated rubber composition at a temperature of 100.degree.-200.degree. C.

Abstract: Compositions useful as frictions particles comprised of tri- and/or tetrafunctional phenol, rubber, aldehyde, protective colloid and a reaction promoting compound. The friction particles are formulated into friction elements. A process for producing the friction particles in particulate form.

Abstract: Polymers of anionically polymerized monomers such as mono-olefins, conjugated dienes, vinyl substituted aromatics, vinyl substituted pyridine, vinyl substituted quinolines, various aldehydes, various epoxides, various oxetanes, various oxygen-containing compounds, and the like are produced and end capped with a polyisocyanate or polyisothiocyanate having the formula R--N.dbd.C.dbd.X).sub.n wherein R is a hydrocarbon, n is 2 or 3, and X is oxygen or sulfur. Such end capped polymers, of course, contain one reacted or connected isocyanate or isothiocyanate group and at least one free isocyanate or isothiocyanate end group, which free end group(s) reacts with an amide to give an imide end group. The imide terminated polymer is then hydrolyzed to form a stable amine terminated polymer. The reaction of the amide compound with the isocyanate(s) or isothiocyanate(s), followed by hydrolysis, results in the replacement of the free isocyanate or isothiocyanate end group(s) with an amine group(s).

Abstract: A binder for a heat-curable aqueous coating composition for metallic surfaces comprises:(A) 60-95% by weight of a water-soluble and/or water-dispersible addition compound of 10-35% by weight of one or more .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated dicarboxylic acids and 65-90% by weight of a butadiene polymer which is liquid at 20.degree. C., contains at least 50 mole % of butadiene units and has a molecular weight of 500 to 6,000, the addition compound being at least partially neutralized with a basic compound and partially esterified,and(B) 5-40% by weight of a water-soluble and/or water-dispersible crosslinking resin having, on the average, at least 2 chemically different reactive groups per mole,wherein the addition compound (A) is esterified to 10-70 equivalent percent, based on its acid number, with one or more unsaturated alcohols of the formula ##STR1## and wherein at least one of the reactive groups of the crosslinking resin (B) is of formula II ##STR2## wherein, for both formulae I and II, R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.

Abstract: A tire cord dipping composition and a method of adhering textile materials to rubber, are disclosed, wherein an N-methylol group containing polymer is employed.

Abstract: Rubber compositions having excellent vibration isolating properties at a high hardness are produced by compounding 100 parts by weight of at least one of natural rubbers, diene rubbers and diene copolymeric rubbers or a rubber blend of these rubbers and a halogenated butyl rubber, 0.5-35 parts by weight of an oil modified phenol resin, a modified ratio of which is 20% or more, and 2-30 parts by weight based on said resin, of a hardening agent for the phenol resin and hardening the resulting mixture. The use of such rubber compositions is possible to make a rubber mounting to be a small size.

Abstract: A curable composition comprising (1) at least one rubber selected from the group consisting of natural rubber, a diene rubber and a diene copolymer rubber, (2) a sulfide resin as a curing agent having the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein X is methylene group, ethylene group, --S-- or --S--S--, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are independently a C.sub.1-10 alkyl or alkylene group, Y.sup.1 and Y.sup.2 are independently the residue of a phenol compound, p is an integer of 2 to 8, and n is an integer of 2 to 5, (3) a phenolic thermosetting resin and (4) a hardener for hardening said thermosetting resin. The composition shows a low viscosity upon milling and also does not take place scorching and blooming, and can provide a cured rubber having a high dynamic modulus of elasticity with improved workability and processability. The cured rubber is suitable for use in radial tires as bead filler rubber.

Abstract: An aqueous alkaline dispersion of a rubbery polybutadiene and a water soluble, heat reactive phenolic resin is useful in forming an adhesive for bonding polyamide or polyester reinforcing elements or cords to ethylene-propylene-diene rubbery polymer (EPDM) compounds or stocks. After dipping the polyamide or polyester cord in the adhesive dip, the coated cord is heated to dry it and heat cure or heat set the adhesive on the cord. Thereafter, the adhesive containing polyamide or polyester cord is combined with, or laminated to (calendered), a curable or vulcanizable EPDM compound and the resulting assembly is cured to form a composite in which the polymide or polyester cord is bonded to the EPDM rubber by means of said adhesive.

Abstract: A process for the cross-linking of high density polyethylene in the solid state according to which the polyethylene is admixed with the agents normally used for the vulcanization of unsaturated rubber compounds, then processed into the desired article and thereafter cross-linked at a temperature lower than the melting point of the polyethylene, the process being carried out in polyethylene containing a certain number of unsaturated bonds along the polymer chain.

Abstract: Resins having a softening point of from 50.degree. to 130.degree. C., an OH-number of from 250 to 400 and an iodine number of from 90 to 160, obtainable by reacting an alkyl phenol-formaldehyde novolak or an alkyl phenol mixture-formaldehyde novolak under acid-catalysed conditions with a polunuclear phenol or polynuclear phenol mixture and formaldehyde and/or an aliphatic aldehyde or aliphatic aldehyde mixture, the ratio by weight of the alkyl phenol or alkyl phenol mixture to the polynuclear phenol or polynyclear phenol mixture being from 2.2:1 to 1:10.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for adhering rubber and reinforcing materials simultaneously with vulcanization, without defects such as fume and bloom phenomena of formaldehyde-acceptors, deliquescence and blocking, which is characterized in the use of a vulcanizable rubber composition containing an improved co-polycondensate resin which is prepared by condensing (A) a resol type pre-polycondensate prepared by at least one phenol and formaldehyde or acetaldehyde in the presence of an alkaline catalyst, and (B) resorcinol, m-aminophenol or the like, while distilling off water present in the reaction system, and then solidifying the reaction mixture.

Abstract: A tire having excellent withstand-voltage property, wear resistance and resistance against heat build-up is disclosed. The tire has a tread, at least the contact area of the tread with road surface being made of a rubber composition containing a specifically limited softening agent and a specifically limited carbon black.

Abstract: A rubber composition comprising a sulfur-vulcanizable rubber, N,N'-dithiodiamine, a thermosetting resin and a curing agent has a high dynamic modulus in the vulcanizate. A tire using the vulcanizate as a bead filler rubber has improved impact absorbing property and vibration damping property and is excellent in the ride feeling.

Abstract: Chloroprene polymer-phenolic resin-metal oxide-solvent adhesives, which are non-phasing and which contain from about 4 to 6 parts by weight based on polymer of a rosin which must contain less than 2.16 parts by weight based on polymer of dehydroabietic acid, a constituent of rosin.

Abstract: A blend of rubber comprising 100 parts of a rubber, from 5 to 150 parts of a carbazole/phenol/formaldehyde resin, from 1 to 5 parts of a vulcanizing agent for the rubber and from 5 to 15 parts per hundred parts of the resin of a formaldehyde donor, is made up. This is done in any usual manner. The blend is then heated, preferably under pressure, to vulcanize the rubber and cross-link the resin. A preferred method of making the resin is described. The invention also comprises reinforced rubbers made according to the process.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a modified hydrocarbon resin suitable for use as a binder in a printing ink from a hydrocarbon resin (I) relatively unsuitable for use as a binder in a printing ink and having a melting point of at most 110.degree. C. which comprises reacting in at least one step and in any desired sequence (I) as defined below with (II) approximately 3-20% as much by weight of a dicarboxylic acid unit as defined below and with (III) approximately 1-100% as much by weight of an alkyl phenol-aldehyde resin or its equivalent as defined belowwherein(I) is a hydrocarbon resin containing at most 20% by weight of indene or methyl indene units and is based on a considerable proportion of polymerizable hydrocarbon monomers containing about 5 to 11 carbon atoms and at most 20% by weight of indene or methyl indene(II) is selected from the group consisting of(IIa) an .alpha., .beta.

Abstract: 1. An improved char and erosion resistant ablative thermal insulator comption, which can be used for flexible combustion chambers which comprises:(a) 70-140 parts by weight of a phenolic-aldehyde resin,(b) 40-100 parts by weight of a filler selected from the group consisting of Group I and II metal phosphates, carbonates, acetates, oxalates and sulfites, and(c) 100 parts by weight of a butadiene-acrylonitrile polymer having an acrylonitrile content between about 20 and 45%.