Patents Represented by Attorney Lisa R. Ryan
  • Patent number: 5869555
    Abstract: A polymeric composition in pellet form comprising a tacky hot melt composition, comprising a) from about 5% by weight to about 90% by weight of a thermoplastic polymer, b) from about 0% by weight to about 65% by weight of a tackifying resin, c) from about 0% to about 50% by weight of a plasticizer, d) up to about 2% by weight of an antioxidant, and a pelletizing aid, wherein the tacky hot melt composition has some minimum amount of tackifier or plasticizer and is a pressure sensitive adhesive having a storage modulus, G', at about 25.degree. C., of less than about 5.times.10.sup.6 dynes/cm.sup.2, and each pellet has a substantially tack-free surface.This invention further discloses a polymeric composition in pellet form suitable for molding articles. The composition comprises a tacky hot melt composition comprising at least one high molecular weight triblock copolymer of the general configuration A-B-A and a plasticizer and a pelletizing aid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: H. B. Fuller Licensing & Financing Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene R. Simmons, Kevin J. Sweeney, Jeffrey S. Lindquist, Christopher E. Olson, Freddie C. Carter, James R. Farmer