Abstract: Microfine silicas that are useful as rubber reinforcing fillers and thickening agents, and are readily dispersible are prepared by modifying the surface layer of the silica. The surface modification results from including in or affixing to the surface of the silica certain inorganic polyvalent ions.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 11, 1975
Date of Patent:
June 14, 1977
Assignee:
Philadephia Quartz Company
Inventors:
Eric W. Vessey, James R. Miller, Klaus Robert Lange
Abstract: Fracture and stress free disks of alkali metal silicate are prepared by casting molten silicate glass in cylindrical molds with a very short vertical dimension and cooling. Said disks constitute dust free products or can be further processed into other dust free products.
Abstract: Dispersible colloidal particles of .alpha. alumina monohydrate are prepared by conditioning aqueous solutions of an aluminum salt with an organic solvent and the precipitating alumina with an aqueous solution of base. The reaction mixture is heated under pressure, filtered, washed and dried to obtain the product.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 2, 1974
Date of Patent:
June 29, 1976
Assignee:
Philadelphia Quartz Company
Inventors:
M. Robert Derolf, Elliot P. Hertzenberg
Abstract: Products of a generally spherical nature with particulate matter embedded in the walls are prepared by forming a suspension of said particulate matter in a solution of a film-forming substance in a volatile solvent, spray drying said suspension-solution thereby forming the product which may be further dried if necessary to remove solvent and to "set" the walls. Such products can be used to provide pigmenting, reactive and/or fire retardant properties to organic systems to which they are added as fillers. The density of the product can also be controlled by this method for use as fillers in applications in which segregation of such fillers from the plastic matrix is normally a problem.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 2, 1974
Date of Patent:
June 1, 1976
Assignee:
Philadelphia Quartz Company
Inventors:
David I. Netting, Elliot P. Hertzenberg
Abstract: Double silicate salts of alkali metals and quaternary nitrogen compounds are prepared by the reaction of (a) an alkylene oxide, (b) an amine, and (c) an alkali metal silicate.
Abstract: Stable aqueous dispersions of alumina are formed at concentrations of above about 25% Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 by dispersing alumina dried with a strongly acidic solution. Said stable aqueous dispersions of alumina are stable for at least 2.5 months.
Abstract: Composite crystals of alkali metal silicate, particularly hydrated sodium metasilicates such as sodium metasilicate pentahydrate with sequestering agents, are formed by co-crystallization of liquors that contain both alkali metal silicate and sequestering agents.