Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the preparation of a finely divided, stable and relatively low viscosity dispersion of a polyisocyanate polyaddition product and an aminoplast and/or phenoplast and/or copolymer thereof in a hydroxyl containing compound and the use of such a dispersion as the starting component for the production of a polyurethane resin.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a device for the discontinuous production of block foam comprising a mixing unit, a means for moving the unit approximately vertically into and/or out of a mold with the unit having reaction component feed lines, a stirring means, and a mixing container having a plate with feed openings for the reaction components characterized in that(A) a distributing device is arranged below the feed opening for one of the components and(B) the mixing container comprises a bottomless cylindrical shell, the lower rim of which can be placed on the bottom of the mold.

Abstract: The invention relates to compositions containing both amino groups and hydroxyl and/or mercapto groups. The products are obtained by reacting relatively high molecular weight polyols and/or polythiols with less than equivalent quantities of isatoic acid anhydride.

Abstract: The instant invention relates to a process for the production of isocyanates in which tert.-alkyl urethanes are reacted with phosgene and to isocyanatoaryl sulphonic acid esters obtainable for the first time by this process.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method, and an apparatus, for the production of articles which consist of filler-containing synthetic material, in particular a foam, wherein flowable reactants, at least one of which has previously been charged with filler, are injected into a mixing zone under predetermined injection pressures, wherein the reaction mixture is subsequently introduced into a mold.Cellular materials such as flexible, semi-rigid, rigid or structured foam based, for example, on polyurethane or isocyanurate, and also non-cellular materials such as elastomers, may be produced by methods of this type.

Abstract: The instant invention broadly relates to a process and apparatus for filling a cavity with a reactive mixture. More particularly, the invention relates to a process for filling cavities, particularly mold cavities, with a reactive, flowable mixture which preferably forms foam, wherein at least two reaction components are brought into a mixing zone, where they are mixed and then brought into the cavity, the improvement wherein at the beginning of the filling process, during a limited time interval, the reaction mixture is fed into the cavity under low flow velocity until the mixture has reached a certain level in the cavity, and subsequently the remaining mixture to be injected, is fed in under increased flow velocity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to equipment for the continuous production of foam boards, and particularly rigid foam boards, which may be laminated between facings. The apparatus broadly comprises a conveyor, which at the pouring end is equipped with an inclined table and a transverse distribution device, and a foam mixture application device provided above the table.

Abstract: The instant invention is directed to a process for the production of isocyanate polyisocyanates containing at least 50%, by weight, of tris-isocyanatomonoisocyanurates and at most 3%, by weight, of isocyanurate-free diisocyanate. The process comprises catalytically trimerizing the organic diisocyanates free from isocyanurate groups and terminating the trimerization reaction by deactivation of the catalyst after 5 to 40% of the isocyanate groups of the isocyanurate-free diisocyanate have been trimerized. The unreacted isocyanurate-free diisocyanate is then distilled off in the presence of from 1 to 30%, by weight, based on the end product obtained as distillation residue, of an inert liquid distillation aid which boils at a temperature at least 50.degree. C. above the boiling point of the isocyanurate-free diisocyanate.The invention is also directed to the products produced by this process.

Abstract: The instant invention is directed to polyurethane plastics which may be cellular, produced by reaction of polyisocyanates with relatively high molecular weight polyhydroxyl compounds and, optionally, low molecular weight polyhydroxyl compounds, and diamines, said polyurethane plastic containing structural units corresponding to the general formula ##STR1## in which R' represents a straight or branched divalent aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic radicals containing from 2 to 20 carbon atoms andR" represents hydrogen, a straight or branched alkyl radical containing from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an aryl radical containing from 6 to 15 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl radical containing from 4 to 12 carbon atoms, halogen, --NO.sub.2, --CN, --OR'" or a radical ##STR2## where R"' represents a straight or branched alkyl radical containing from 1 to 6 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A reaction product of a fatty acid ester and an organic polyisocyanate is included in a foamable reaction mixture containing an organic polyisocyanate to provide a molded product which can be removed from a mold whose surface has not been coated with conventional mold release agents.

Abstract: This invention relates to storable, solvent-free, thermosetting polyurethane-based molding compositions containing a fibrous reinforcing material and to the production of fiber-reinforced moldings using these molding compositions.

Abstract: The instant invention is directed to aminomethyl cyclododecanes selected from the group consisting of aminomethyl cyclododecanes, bis-(aminomethyl)-cyclododecanes, tris-(aminomethyl)-cyclododecanes and mixtures thereof. The invention is also directed to a process for producing aminomethyl cyclododecanes, bis-(aminomethyl)-cyclododecanes, tris-(aminomethyl)-cyclododecanes, and mixtures thereof comprising reacting cyclododeca-1,5,9-triene with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a rhodium-containing catalyst at temperatures of from 80.degree. to 180.degree. C. and under pressures of from 30 to 900 bars, separating the catalyst off from the hydroformylation product and treating the hydroformylation products with hydrogen at from 50.degree. to 150.degree. C. in the presence of ammonia and a hydrogenation catalyst, optionally after separating by distillation into the individual components.

Abstract: The instant invention is directed to a novel process for the separation of substantially pure cycloaliphatic diisocyanate reactive (cis-form) stereoisomers from cycloaliphatic diisocyanate non-reactive (trans-form) stereoisomers comprising reacting cycloaliphatic diisocyanates of the formula ##STR1## where R can be hydrogen or an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, at least one of said R's being an aliphatic hydrocarbon having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms and wherein the isocyanato groups are both positioned axially or equatorially in the presence of catalysts selected from the group consisting of lead catalysts, tertiary amines, alkali metal hydroxides and sodium methoxide, thereby producing a cyclic nylon-1 type linear polymer having regularly reoccurring bicyclic structural units of the formula ##STR2## precipitating said cyclic nylon-1 type linear polymers, filtering and washing said precipitated cyclic nylon-1 type linear polymers, then decomposing said precipitated polymer using dis

Abstract: The instant invention is directed to a suspension which is stable in storage comprising:(1) 0.5 to 80%, by weight, based on the total suspension, of an inorganic filler in(2) 20 to 99.5%, by weight, based on the total suspension, of polyhydroxyl compounds containing aliphatic or cycloaliphatic combined hydroxyl groups,wherein said polyhydroxyl compounds (2) contain from 0.05 to 10% by weight based on (1)+(2) of a graft polymer and stabilizer which was produced by the free radical polymerization of(a) from 1 to 35%, by weight, based on the graft polymer, of an olefinically unsaturated carboxylic acid and(b) from 0 to 60%, by weight, based on the graft polymer, of other olefinically unsaturated monomers, in the presence of(c) from 5 to 99%, by weight, based on the graft polymer, of polyhydroxyl compounds,wherein the carboxyl groups of the graft polymer are completely or partially neutralized by organic or inorganic bases.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for producing polyurethane resins using novel catalysts selected from the group consisting of a process for the production of cellular or non-cellular polyurethane resins comprising reacting:(a) polyisocyanates; with(b) compounds having at least 2 isocyanate reactive hydrogen atoms; in the presence of(c) tertiary amines as catalysts; optionally with the addition of(d) blowing agents, stabilizers and other known additives; characterized in that the substances used as component (c) comprise compounds selected from the group consisting of ##STR1## and mixtures thereof in which formulae: the symbols R may be the same or different and represent straight or branched-chain alkyl groups having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms;the symbols n may be the same or different and represent 2 or 3;the symbols m may be the same or different and represent 2 or 3; andk represents an integer of from 1 to 5.

Abstract: The instant invention is directed to a process for the production of dispersions of aminoplast condensates in organic polyhydroxyl compounds by the oligo-condensation or polycondensation of substances capable of aminoplast formation, in said organic polyhydroxy compounds, the improvement wherein said dispersions are reacted at from about -5.degree. C. to about 180.degree. C. with an amine compound selected from the group consisting of:(a) organic aliphatic or cycloaliphatic mono or polyamines containing at least one primary or secondary amine group, and which are gaseous or liquid at room temperature, and(b) organic alkyl hydrazines containing at least one primary or secondary amine group and which are gaseous or liquid at room temperature.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for the production of plastics, including foams, containing urethane groups and predominantly isocyanurate groups by reacting polyesters having a molecular weight of from 350 to 10,000, and containing at least two hydroxyl groups and containing phthalic acid residues and, optionally, other polyhydroxyl compounds having a molecular weight of from 400 to 10,000 and/or chain extenders having a molecular weight of from 32 to 400 with an excess of polyisocyanates in the presence of isocyanate-trimerization catalysts and optionally blowing agents, foam stabilizers and other additives, the improvement characterized in that polyesters are used whose acid components comprise at least 50%, by weight, phthalic acid residues and wherein 10 to 49%, preferably 20 to 40%, by weight, of the isocyanate groups react to form urethane groups and 51 to 90%, preferably 60 to 80%, by weight, of the isocyanate groups react to form isocyanurate groups.

Abstract: This invention relates to urethanes which contain at least one sulphonic acid group and at least two free OH-groups and to a process for the preparation thereof.

Abstract: The instant invention is directed to novel polyols and the use thereof in producing polyurethane foams. The polyols comprise the adduct obtained by first reacting toluene diamine with from three to five moles of ethylene oxide and thereafter with from 1 to 5.1 moles (per mole of toluene diamine) of a vicinal alkylene oxide of from 3 to 9 carbon atoms, with the proviso that the total number of moles of ethylene oxide plus vicinal alkylene oxide does not exceed 8.1 and is no less than 5. When polyurethane foams are produced using the novel polyols herein, foams of low friability and good dimensional stability result.

Abstract: The instant invention is directed to a process for the production of molded polyisocyanate-based foam products having a compact, light- and yellowing-resistant polyurethane-based top layer comprising the steps of:A. coating a mold with a liquid polyurethane-polyurea-based coating agent, containing a binder, which reacts to form a light- and yellowing-resistant top layer andB. introducing a foamable reaction mixture into said mold,wherein said binder comprises:(i) at least one isocyanate prepolymer having at least two exclusively aliphatically and/or cycloaliphatically bound isocyanate groups and(ii) a hardener mixture composed of water and primary polyamines, at least partly in aldimine- or ketimine-blocked form, which have aliphatically and/or cycloaliphatically bound amino groups.