Patents Represented by Attorney J. D. Wolfe
  • Patent number: 4168354
    Abstract: An improved polyvinyl chloride film casting composition is obtained by using a combination surfactant of glycerol monooleate with at least a second surfactant composed of sorbitan monolaurate, sorbitan monopalmitate, sorbitan monostearate and sorbitan monooleate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1979
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: William A. Watts
  • Patent number: 4168342
    Abstract: A method of making a composition useful for making a terpolymer laminate with polyvinyl chloride, polyurethanes and metals. The terpolymer is an alkyl acrylate or alkyl methacrylate where the alkyl group contains 1 to 30 carbon atoms with vinyl nitrile and N,N'-dimethylacrylamide. Improved adhesion is achieved where 1 to 50 parts of organic isocyanate or polyisocyanate is used per 100 parts of terpolymer, where the PVC contains high amounts of plasticizer and with some polyurethanes and metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1973
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1979
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Jin-Liang Wang
  • Patent number: 4166058
    Abstract: A color sensitive primer comprising 100 parts of an ethylenically unsaturated elastomer; 300 to 800 parts of a phenolic resin, A or B stage; 0 to 100 parts inorganic filler; 10 to 30 parts epoxy resin; about 0.5 to 10 parts heat sensitive dye; and about 0.5 to 3 parts sulfur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1979
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: John A. Svigelj, Thomas G. Rabito
  • Patent number: 4165347
    Abstract: A thermoplastic ionic polymer composition composed of 10 to 90 weight percent of a soft segment ionic polymer and 90 to 10 weight percent of a hard segment ionic polymer reacted with at least 10% to 100% of a metal ion based on the amount of free acid in said composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1979
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard G. Bauer, Diego C. Rubio
  • Patent number: 4153777
    Abstract: A polyurethane, being the reaction product of a polyester or polyether polyol with 1.5 to 2.5 equivalents of polyisocyanate, 0.05 to 0.40 equivalents of water cured with a polyol having less than 800 molecular weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1979
    Assignee: Goodyear Aerospace Corporation
    Inventor: Edwin C. Slagel
  • Patent number: 4151345
    Abstract: A process for preparing polyurethanes comprising reacting a polyol with an organic polyisocyanate in the presence of a catalytic amount of nickel acetylacetonate, wherein the polyol and nickel acetylacetonates are held at elevated temperatures prior to being mixed with the polyisocyanate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1979
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Donald V. Hillegass
  • Patent number: 4148855
    Abstract: A process for casting a foamed mattress having a crown area with cored-out areas therein to modify the harshness of feel of said mattress. A mold cavity having gates therein to give the cored-out pattern in the crown of the mattress is provided and a liquid foamable urethane resin reaction mixture is deposited and distributed in a fan-shaped arc in the cavity from preferably two or more distributing beads in response to the relative movement of the depositing and distributing means to that of the mold. The deposited mixture is then permitted to foam in order to fill the mold and to their cure prior to removing the product from the mold cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1979
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Robert J. Stalter, Theodore B. Burkholder
  • Patent number: 4141852
    Abstract: A mixture of low and high molecular weight polyether polyols are stabilized by including in the mixture one to 10 percent by weight of a grafted polypropylene ether polyol of 2-4 hydroxyls having a molecular weight of 1500 to 3500 where the graft monomer is acrylonitrile or acrylonitrile styrene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1979
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: James M. Hogan, John R. White
  • Patent number: 4139436
    Abstract: A liquid ethylenically unsaturated polyetherurethane composition having a viscosity at 24.degree. C. of 1000 to 10,000 centipoises dispersible in dilute aqueous sodium hydroxide is capable of being polymerized by actinic light to yield a solid having a Shore A hardness of at least 30 when the composition contains 0.5 to 15 percent dialkyl, aminoalkyl, acrylate or methacrylate. The resulting polymer is capable of taking on excellent halftone or half dot quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1979
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Shirish R. Jasani
  • Patent number: 4137384
    Abstract: Thioperimidone has been discovered to be useful as an accelerator in the curing of chlorinated ethylenically unsaturated polymers such as polychloroprene with metal oxides such as magnesium oxide or zinc oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1979
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Anthony F. Finelli, Thomas G. Hutchins
  • Patent number: 4135180
    Abstract: An aftermixer for an impingement mixer that accumulates initial material from the mixer and then divides the rest of the material into aliquots in a ring cavity before recombining the aliquots as it is charged to a mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: John R. White
  • Patent number: 4125526
    Abstract: A method of making a vacuum blanket for vacuum curing elastomeric and plastic materials and more specifically, it relates to making a vacuum blanket by spray coating a polyurethane liquid reaction mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1973
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1978
    Assignee: Goodyear Aerospace Corporation
    Inventor: John E. McCready
  • Patent number: 4125660
    Abstract: A zero pressure device is composed of either a microcellular or homogeneous polyurethane made by reacting an organic polyisocyanate with at least three polyols, a monomeric polyol of 2 to 3 hydroxyls having a molecular weight of less than 250, a polyester polyol of 2 to 3 hydroxyls having a molecular weight of 800 to 3000 and a polyether polyol of 2 to 3 hydroxyls having a molecular weight of 4 to 7000. When the zero pressured device is a run-flat ring for a tire-wheel assembly, it has an average density of 60 to 65 pounds per cubic foot and 30 to 42 pounds per cubic foot when it is a tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1978
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: John R. White, Frank J. Murray, Cletus A. Becht
  • Patent number: 4125691
    Abstract: A zero pressure device is composed of either a microcellular or homogeneous polyurethane made by reacting an organic polyisocyanate with at least three polyols, a monomeric polyol of 2 to 3 hydroxyls having a molecular weight less than 250, a polyether triol having a molecular weight of 4600 to 6000 and a polyether glycol having a molecular weight of 3500 to 4200. When the zero pressured device is a run-flat ring for a tire wheel assembly, it has an average density of 60 to 65 pounds per cubic foot and 30 to 42 pounds per cubic foot when it is a tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1978
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: John R. White
  • Patent number: 4110296
    Abstract: Flame retardant acrylic terpolymer compositions comprise the reaction product of (1) an alkyl acrylate or alkyl methacrylate where the alkyl radical contains 1 to 16 carbon atoms, (2) vinyl nitrile, and (3) a halogenated monomer selected from the class consisting of vinylidene chloride, halogenated phenyl acrylate, halogenated phenyl methacrylate, compounded with a flame retardant plasticizer of triorgano phosphate, either alone or combined with decabromodiphenyl oxide or tris (.beta.-chloroethyl) phosphate or the metal oxides of antimony and zinc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1978
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Jin L. Wang
  • Patent number: 4110510
    Abstract: A sound barrier material comprised of a polyvinyl chloride impregnated mesh sheet having a coating of about 0.02 to 3.2 inch gauge of a barium sulfate loaded chlorinated polyethylene laminated to a foam of 1.5 to 2.5 pounds per cubic foot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1978
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Paul E. Oliveira
  • Patent number: 4103726
    Abstract: A tire having a reticulated or foraminous plastic reinforcing member within an elastomeric body. This tire can be made by reticulating polyester or nylon type plastic to give a foraminous member and then injecting a liquid elastomer or elastomer precursor into a mold to fill the interstices of the foraminous body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1973
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1978
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: James D. Wolfe
  • Patent number: 4097442
    Abstract: A polyurethane adhesive that is sandable when cured, the adhesive being the reaction product of a mixture of about one mol of a polyester polyol or polyether polyol of 2-4 hydroxyls having a molecular weight of 500 to about 3000 and 2.5 to 7 mols of isocyanate composition of a mixture of toluene diisocyanate and methane di(phenyl isocyanate) containing a filler composed of silica platelets and glass spherical platelets, a plasticizer amount of polyvinyl chloride plasticizer and a curative amount of monomeric nitrogen containing tetraol of 200 to 1000 molecular weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1978
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Alvin J. Kieft, Richard L. Cline, Thomas G. Rabito
  • Patent number: 4097548
    Abstract: A hot melt adhesive composition suitable for adhering polyester and polyvinyl fluoride compositions is prepared by making a blend of about 9 to 30 percent of a copolymer of ethylene and ethyl acrylate or methacrylate, about 40 to 45 percent of a copolyester of a terephthalate of ethylene and neopentyl glycol and about 50 to 55 percent of a terpolyester obtained by condensing ethylene glycol with a mixture of terephthalic acid, isophthalic acid and azelaic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1978
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Mohan V. Kulkarni, John Von Kamp
  • Patent number: 4092751
    Abstract: A contoured foam seat characterized by having a foamed seat and back member with grooved-out portions to give a raised area whereby the seat has contoured body fitting aspects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1978
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Theodore B. Burkholder, Robert J. Stalter