Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm J. Gary Mohr
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Patent number: 4514271Abstract: Composition consisting essentially of:a. Poly (alkylated vinylpyrrolidone) which is a linear copolymer of:1. alpha olefin having at least two carbon atoms; and2. N vinyl monomer of the formula ##STR1## where R represents H, CH.sub.3 or C.sub.2 H.sub.5 ; and b. N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone as diluent monomer, the N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone being present in an amount between about 25 and about 30 wt % based on the total of N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone and poly (alkylated vinylpyrrolidone).Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 1983Date of Patent: April 30, 1985Assignee: GAF CorporationInventors: Earl P. Williams, Lindley S. Wood
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Patent number: 4513045Abstract: Sheet type felt material comprising 5-20 wt % glass fibers, 40-80 wt % cellulosic fibers, 5-25% binder and 3-20 wt % asphalt. The felt is made on conventional felt making equipment and may be used as siding or roofing underlayment or as facer for foam insulating boards.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1984Date of Patent: April 23, 1985Assignee: GAF CorporationInventors: Alfredo A. Bondoc, Eugene J. Flood, Frederick W. Sieling
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Patent number: 4513076Abstract: This invention describes an improved ionizing radiation sensitive material having high contrast, high sensitivity and comprised of a metal complex of a mixed half-ester or half amide product of the reaction of an N-hydroxy or N-aminoalkyl amide and a hydroxy alkyl terminally unsaturated compound with an alkylvinyl ether-maleic anhydride copolymer. A typical material is made by reacting a metal salt with the mixed half-ester or half-amide product of the reaction of an N-hydroxy or N-amino alkyl amide and a hydroxy alkyl terminally unsaturated compound with an alkyl vinyl ether-maleic anhydride copolymer.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1983Date of Patent: April 23, 1985Assignee: GAF CorporationInventor: David F. Lewis
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Patent number: 4472243Abstract: Sheet type felt material and sheet type roofing material such as shingles and rolls made therefrom. The felt comprises 10-60 wt % glass fibers of varying lengths, 15-80 wt % cellulosic fiber and 5-25% binder. The roofing material is felt of the invention saturated with asphaltic saturant and coated with filled asphaltic coating material and conventional roofing granules.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 1984Date of Patent: September 18, 1984Assignee: GAF CorporationInventors: Alfredo A. Bondoc, Eugene J. Flood, Frederick W. Sieling
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Patent number: 4469851Abstract: Molding composition which is a blend of polybutylene terephthalate and segmented thermoplastic copolyester elastomer. The elastomer contains recurring polymeric long chain ester units derived from phthalic acids and long chain glycols and short chain ester units derived from phthalic acids and a mixture of 1,4-butanediol and 1,4-butenediol.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1983Date of Patent: September 4, 1984Assignee: GAF CorporationInventors: John J. Charles, Suzanne B. Nelsen
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Patent number: 4451296Abstract: Rust is removed from metal surfaces by applying a coating of an aqueous solution of a copolymer of maleic acid and monomer of the formula CH.sub.2 .dbd.CHR wherein R represents H, CH.sub.3, OR.sup.1 or OCOR.sup.1 and R.sup.1 represents CH.sub.3 or CH.sub.2 CH.sub.3. The rust becomes incorporated into the coating during drying and the coating detaches itself from the metal surface for easy removal.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 1982Date of Patent: May 29, 1984Assignee: GAF CorporationInventor: Eugene S. Barabas
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Patent number: 4451278Abstract: A method of inhibiting the growth of weeds is provided by applying to the situs to be treated, an effective herbicidal amount of a compound containing the 1-anthraquinonyloxy moiety, such as 1-hydroxyanthraquinone.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 1972Date of Patent: May 29, 1984Assignee: GAF CorporationInventor: David I. Randall
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Patent number: 4448710Abstract: An aqueous composition for inhibiting the corrosion of metals placed therein is described. The composition comprises a non-oxidizing acid, and, as a corrosion inhibitor, an effective amount of a 3-dialkylamino-3-phenylethenylprop-1-yne.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1981Date of Patent: May 15, 1984Assignee: GAF CorporationInventors: Eugene V. Hort, Lowell R. Anderson, Dru W. Alwani
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Patent number: 4448982Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the preparation of hydroxy alkyl phenoxy benzoates in a purified state involving the reaction of ethylene or propylene carbonate and a phenoxy benzoic acid having the formula ##STR1## wherein X is O or S; G is selected from the group of nitro, halo, cyano or a hydrogen atom; L, M and N are independently selected from the group of halo, trihaloalkyl, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy and nitro or a hydrogen atom at a temperature within the range of from 90.degree. C. to 125.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1983Date of Patent: May 15, 1984Assignee: GAF CorporationInventors: Kou-Chang Liu, Michael J. Brown
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Patent number: 4448905Abstract: This invention relates to the reaction products of butyrolactone and an aliphatic amine utilizable as a chain extender and curing agent for castable polyurethanes and to the process employing said products in preparing castable polyurethane elastomers and to the process for preparing the butyrolactone amine adducts. The aliphatic amine reactants employed in preparing the butyrolactoneamine adducts are defined by the formula: ##STR1## wherein X is amino (--NH.sub.2) or hydroxy (--OH); R is hydrogen (--H) or methyl (--CH.sub.3) and n has a value of 1 to 2, which amines are reacted with butyrolactone in a mole ratio of between about 1:1 and about 1:3 to provide a curing agent having superior mechanical properties and having the formula: ##STR2## wherein R is hydrogen or methyl, R' is a hydroxy group or ##STR3## and n has a value of 1 or 2.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1982Date of Patent: May 15, 1984Assignee: GAF CorporationInventors: I. Sioun Lin, Stanley J. Gromelski, Jr., Eugene V. Hort, Lowell R. Anderson, Earl P. Williams
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Patent number: 4448932Abstract: This invention relates to a polyvinyl chloride resin composition containing said resin and a significant amount of a polymer of butadiene in the form of a shell-core polymer wherein a polymer of methylmethacrylate forms said shell and completely encapsulates the core containing the butadiene polymer.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1982Date of Patent: May 15, 1984Assignee: GAF CorporationInventors: Yehuda Ozari, Suzanne B. Nelsen, Andrew Klein
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Patent number: 4444917Abstract: Polyisocyanurate foam in which the polyol content is largely a polyol mixture prepared by the transesterification with a glycol of a residue obtained from the manufacture of dimethyl terephthalate and in which the foam has been prepared using fluorocarbon blowing agent and amine triol to improve compatibility between the polyol and the blowing agent.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1983Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: GAF CorporationInventors: Louis L. Grube, Charles J. Horner, Jr.
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Patent number: 4444916Abstract: Polyisocyanurate foam in which the polyol content is largely a polyol mixture prepared by the transesterification wtih a glycol of a residue obtained from the manufacture of dimethyl terephthalate and in which the foam has been prepared using fluorocarbon blowing agent and amide diol to improve compatibility between the polyol and the blowing agent.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1983Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: GAF CorporationInventors: Louis L. Grube, Charles J. Horner, Jr.
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Patent number: 4444915Abstract: Polyisocyanurate foam in which the polyol content is largely a polyol mixture prepared by the transesterification with a glycol of a residue obtained from the manufacture of dimethyl terephthalate and in which the foam has been prepared using fluorocarbon blowing agent and alkoxylated alkyl amine to improve compatibility between the polyol and the blowing agent.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1983Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: GAF CorporationInventors: Louis L. Grube, Charles J. Horner, Jr.
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Patent number: 4435588Abstract: Novel and highly effective herbicidal compounds in the diphenylether class are provided herein.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1981Date of Patent: March 6, 1984Assignee: GAF CorporationInventor: Kou-chang Liu
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Patent number: 4431437Abstract: The present invention relates to novel agents for increasing the basipetal translocation of agricultural chemicals such as plant growth promoters, inhibitors, fungicides, insecticides or herbicides hereinafter referred to as "bioactants". The present agent comprises a mixture of N-heterocyclic amide and a haloethyl phosphonic acid in a mole ratio of between about 5:1 and about 1:10, employed in an inert carrier at a concentration between about 25 ppm to about 10,000 ppm which mixture can be applied to a plant prior to, or simultaneously with, the bioactant.The translocating agent may be a mixture of the N-heterocyclic amide, e.g. N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, and the haloethylphosphonic acid, e.g. 2-chloroethylphosphonic acid, it may comprise a mixture of said components with the complexed compound derived from the addition of said components or it may be the complexed compound per se.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 1981Date of Patent: February 14, 1984Assignee: GAF CorporationInventors: Jonathan M. Kliegman, James M. Williams
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Patent number: 4430158Abstract: What is described herein is a method of improving the wet tensile strength of sized glass fiber mats characterized by forming the mat from a plurality of glass fibers and a binder composition therefor which consists essentially of a urea-formaldehyde resin and about 0.01 to 5% by weight of a surfactant which is both highly water soluble and which wets the surfaces of sized glass fibers. The preferred surfactant is an anionic surfactant such as a sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate. The glass mats thus made retained up to 79% of their tensile strength upon being subjected to severe wet conditions.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 1981Date of Patent: February 7, 1984Assignee: GAF CorporationInventors: Philip A. Jackey, V. Robert Canfield
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Patent number: 4429146Abstract: This invention relates to substituted diphenyl ethers having selective herbicidal properties and having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is a saturated or unsaturated, straight chain or branched aliphatic hydrocarbon radical of from 1 to 18 carbon atoms wherein one or more of the --CH.sub.2 -- groups can be replaced with --O--, --S--, --S--S--, --SO--, --SO.sub.2 -- or --NR.sub.2 -- and said hydrocarbon radical is optionally substituted with halogen, trihalomethyl, cyano, aryl, hydroxy, alkoxy, nitro or cycloalkyl having 3 to 6 carbon atoms;R.sub.1 is ##STR2## R.sub.3 is ##STR3## R.sub.2 is hydrogen or a saturated or unsaturated straight or branched chain aliphatic radical having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, optionally substituted with halogen, hydroxy, alkoxy, cyano or nitro;R.sub.4 and R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1982Date of Patent: January 31, 1984Assignee: GAF CorporationInventor: Kou-Chang Liu
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Patent number: 4427439Abstract: This invention relates to a composition comprising a mixture of a N-heterocyclic amide, such as N-methylpyrrolidone, and a 2-haloethylsulfinamide having from 3 to 16 carbon atoms for the treatment of plants, including trees, shrubs, farm crops and ornamentals to achieve promotional and sustained hormonal ethylene plant growth regulatory effects; and the method of using said composition.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 1980Date of Patent: January 24, 1984Assignee: GAF CorporationInventor: Michael J. Brown
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Patent number: 4424079Abstract: Rust is removed from metal surfaces by applying a coating of an aqueous solution of vinylpyrrolidone/maleic acid copolymer. The rust becomes incorporated into the coating during drying and the coating detaches itself from the metal surface for easy removal.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1982Date of Patent: January 3, 1984Assignee: GAF CorporationInventor: Eugene S. Barabas