Patents Represented by Attorney Tyler A. Stevenson
  • Patent number: 6911075
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing pigments, which comprises subjecting a crude pigment or mixture of crude pigments and a crystalline inorganic salt or mixture of crystalline inorganic salts together, essentially in the absence of other constituents, to the action of a rotor having a tangential speed of at least 10 m/s, so that a temperature of at least 80° C. is attained by means of friction effects; and subsequently kneading the product of this treatment with an organic liquid, during which it is possible if desired to add additional substances selected from the group consisting of inorganic salts, inert additives and colorant. These pigments and their use in polymers, printing inks and colours filters are also claimed. The invention in particular relates to a novel pigment form of Pigment Violet 23 obtained by above-mentioned process and having higher colour strength and colour saturation as well as excellent other applications properties in particular in printing inks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: CIBA Specialty Chemicals Corp.
    Inventors: Yves Grandidier, Albert Riegler, Klaus Ruf, Urs Schlatter, Takashi Deno
  • Patent number: 6908650
    Abstract: A mixture of a polyester, such as poly(ethylene terephthalate) PET, or a polyamide, and a suitable stabilizer selected from the group consisting of hydroxylamine stabilizers, substituted hydroxylamine stabilizers, nitrone stabilizers and amine oxide stabilizers, when extrusion compounded exhibits a lower residual acetaldehyde content than does polyester or polyamide alone when similarly treated. The invention pertains to any polyester or polyamide used in the manufacture of molded articles, fibers or films, for instance bottles or containers which are used to store consumer materials, for example food, beverages and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Paul A. Odorisio, Stephen M Andrews, Dario Lazzari, Dirk Simon, Roswell E. King, III, Melissa Stamp, Roger Reinicker, Michael Tinkl, Natacha Berthelon, Daniel Müller, Urs Hirt
  • Patent number: 6905525
    Abstract: White, dyed, dipped, unscented and/or scented candle wax is effectively stabilized against discoloration and fading by the incorporation therein of a triazine-based piperazinone stabilizer in combination with a UV absorber and/or an antioxidant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Mervin G. Wood, Andrea R. Smith, Deborah Judd
  • Patent number: 6902695
    Abstract: A process for the production of polyolefin hollow articles comprises charging the polyolefin with a stabilizer combination comprising (a) at least one compound from the group of the organic phosphites or phosphonites, (b) one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of i.) hydroxylamine derivatives and ii.) amine oxide derivatives and (c) at least one compound from the group of the hindered amine stabilizers, filling this mixture into a mold, heating this mold in an oven to above 280° C., such that the stabilized polyolefin fuses, rotating the mold around at least 2 axes, the plastic spreading to the walls, and cooling the mold while still rotating, opening it and taking the resultant hollow article out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventor: Urs Leo Stadler
  • Patent number: 6900268
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of grafting unsaturated carboxylic acid derivatives onto thermoplastic polymers, which comprises heating a mixture of thermoplastic polymer, unsaturated carboxylic acid or carboxylic acid derivative and a hydroxy-lamine ester having at least one structural unit of formula (I) or (I?) wherein X is hydrogen, C1-C36alkyl, C2-C36alkenyl, C2-C18alkynyl, C6-C10aryl, —O—C1-C18alkyl —O—C6-C10aryl, —NH—C1-C18alkyl, —NH—C6-C10aryl, —N(C1-C6alkyl)2; X? is a direct bond or C1-C36alkylene, C2-C36alkenylene, C2-C36alkynylene, —(C1-C6alkylene)-phenyl-(C1-C6alkylene) or a group in a processing apparatus for thermoplastic polymers, to above the softening point/melting point of the thermoplastic polymer and allowing the components of the mixture to react with one another
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.
    Inventors: Jochen Fink, Michael Roth, Rudolf Pfaendner, Peter Nesvadba, Andreas Kramer
  • Patent number: 6900280
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising: a) an acid monomer or oligomer of acrylic acid or of an acid derivative of acrylic acid or mixtures thereof; or a mixture of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer or oligomer and an acid monomer or oligomer of acrylic acid or of an acid derivative of acrylic acid; b) at least one radical initiator which forms a radical upon heating or upon irradiation with (UV) light in the range from 305 nm to 450 nm; and c) a compound of the formulae (I), (Ib) or (Ic) wherein Y represents a group that activates nucleophilic addition reactions at the adjacent double bond; X represents halogen or the anion of an aliphatic or aromatic monocarboxylic or dicarboxylic acid of 1-12 carbon atoms, of a monovalent or divalent oxo acid or of a complex acid; n represents 0 or 1; R1, R2, R3 independently of one another represent hydrogen, C1-C18alkyl, C3-C18alkyl interrupted by at least one nitrogen or oxygen atom, C3-C18alkenyl, C3-C18alkynyl, C7-C9phenylalkyl, C3-C12 cycloalkyl and C3-
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: CIBA Specialty Chemicals Corp.
    Inventor: Peter Murer
  • Patent number: 6900328
    Abstract: An amine ether of formula (A) wherein a is 1 or 2; and when a is 1, E is E?; when a is 2, E is L; E? is C1-C36 alkyl; C3-C18 alkenyl; C2-C18 alkinyl; C5-C18 cycloalkyl; C5-C18 cycloalkenyl; a radical of a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic bicyclic or tricyclic hydrocarbon of 7 to 12 carbon atoms; C2-C7alkyl or C3-C7alkenyl substituted by halogen; C7-C15aralkyl or C7-C15 aralkyl substituted by C1-C4 alkyl or phenyl; or E? is a radical of formula (VII) as explained in claim 1; T? is tertiary C4-C18alkyl or phenyl, each of which are unsubstituted or substituted by halogen, OH, COOR21 or C(O)—R22; or T? is C5-C12cycloalkyl; C5-C12cacloalkyl which is interrupted by at least one O or —NR18—; a polycyclic alkyl radical having 7-18 carbon atoms, or the same radical which is interrupted by at least one O or —NR18—; or T? is —C(G1)(G2)—T?; or C1-C18alkyl or C5-C12cycloalkyl substituted by F(I)T? is hydrogen, halogen, NO2, cyano, or is a monovalent organic radical comprising 1-50 carbon atoms; or T? and T? together for
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Hafner, Hans Jürg Kirner, Franz Schwarzenbach, Paul Adriaan Van Der Schaaf, Peter Nesvadba
  • Patent number: 6896726
    Abstract: The present invention relates to surface-treated organic pigments, to a process for their preparation and to their use in colouring a high molecular weight organic material. Compared with untreated pigments, the surface-treated pigments exhibit better rheological properties and/or no warping in the pigmenting of partially crystalline plastics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.
    Inventors: Philippe Bugnon, Caroline Sansonnens
  • Patent number: 6890977
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of compounds of the formula R1, R2, R3 and R4 independently of one another are hydrogen, halogen, R6, OR6 or SR6, R5 is hydrogen or linear or branched C1-C12alkyl, benzyl or phenethyl, and R6 is an apolar group which is unsubstituted or substituted one or more times by halogen or by OC1-C6alkyl, with the proviso that if R5 is hydrogen, R1, R2, R3 or R4 is R6, OR6 or SR6, as additives in the pigmentation of partially crystalline plastics, especially those processed by injection moulding, with pigments containing at least one each of groups which are joined to one another as or are in conjugation with one another. Preferred pigments are quinacridone pigments, disazo condensation pigments, isoindolinone pigments and pyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole pigments, especially pyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole pigments. Corresponding formulations and novel compounds are likewise claimed. By these means it is possible to avoid warping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Franck Rey Flandrin, Guo-Hua Hu, Philippe Bugnon, Zhimin Hao
  • Patent number: 6891008
    Abstract: The present invention relates to selected 1-alkoxy-2,2 diethyl-6,6 dimethyl piperidine and 1-alkoxy-2,6 diethyl-2,3,6 trimethyl piperidine derivatives which are substituted in the 4 position by an oxygen or nitrogen atom; a polymerizable composition comprising a) at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer and b) said piperidine derivatives. Further aspects of the present invention are a process for polymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers, and the use of 1-alkoxy-2,2 diethyl-6,6 dimethyl piperidine and 1-alkoxy-2,6 diethyl-2,6 dimethyl piperidine derivatives which are substituted in the 4 position by an oxygen or nitrogen atom for controlled polymerization. The intermediate N-oxyl derivatives, a composition of the N-oxyl derivatives with ethylenically unsaturated monomers and a free radical initiator, as well as a process for polymerization are also subjects of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.
    Inventors: Peter Nesvadba, Marie-Odile Zink, Andreas Kramer
  • Patent number: 6888031
    Abstract: A description is given of processes for the preparation of mono- and bisacylphosphines and of mono- and bisacylphosphine oxides and mono- and bisacylphosphine sulfides, which comprises first reacting organic P-monohalogenophosphines or P,P-dihalogenophosphines, or mixtures thereof, with an alkali metal or magnesium in combination with lithium, where appropriate in the presence of a catalyst, and then carrying out the reaction with acid halides and, in the case of the process for the preparation of oxides, carrying out an oxidation step and, in the case of the preparation of sulfides, reacting the phosphines so obtained with sulfur. It is characteristic, inter alia, that the processes are carried out without isolation of the intermediates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: David George Leppard, Eugen Eichenberger, René Kaeser, Gebhard Hug, Urs Schwendimann
  • Patent number: 6881773
    Abstract: Stabilized thermoplastic polymer, especially polyolefin compositions comprising a flame retardant selected from b1) melamin based flame retardants, or one of the compounds b2) bis-(hexachlorocyclopentadieno)cyclooctane, b3) tris-(2,3-dibromopropyl)-isocyanurate, b4) ethylene-bis-tetrabromophthalimide; b5) 1,2,5,6,9,10-hexabromo-cyclo-dodecan, b6) ethane-1,2-bis(pentabromophenyl); and c) a sterically hindered amine light stabilizer of the hydrocarbyloxyamine or hydroxyhydrocarbyloxyamine class and optional further components combine optimum outdoor weathering stability and good flame retardant properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.
    Inventors: Jürg Zingg, Jürgen Link
  • Patent number: 6881774
    Abstract: Synthetic polymers which possess outstanding stability to oxidative, thermal or light-induced degradation comprise as stabilizer at least a compound of the formula I wherein R1 and R2 are each independently of one another hydrogen or C1-C8alkyl, R3 and R4 are each independently of one another C1-C12alkyl, and R5 is C1-C7alkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.
    Inventors: Kerstin Schrinner, Pascal Xanthopoulos
  • Patent number: 6878843
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of a compound of formula (I) wherein R1 and R2 are each independently of the other C1-C8alkyl, cyclopentyl or cyclohexyl, m is 1, 2 or 3, preferably 2, n is an integer from 1 to 30, and R3 is an n-valent radical from linear or branched C4-C30alkyl, which is optionally interrupted by one or more oxygen atoms, or (when n=1-12) an n-valent radical from C5-C12cycloalkyl, or a radical R4—[NR5—CmH2m—]p, R4 is hydrogen, an n-valent radical from linear or branched C4-C30alkyl, which is optionally interrupted by one or more —NR5— groups, or (when n=1-12) an n-valent radical from C5-C12cycloalkyl, R5 radicals, each independently of any other(s), are hydrogen or methyl or —CmH2m—, preferably hydrogen, and p corresponds to the number of —[NR5—CmH2m—] groups that gives n —CmH2m— radicals per molecule, by reaction of a compound of formula (II) wherein R is C1-C3alkyl, with a compound of formula (III) R3(OH)n??(III) wherein R3 and n have the definitions given, wherein the reaction
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.
    Inventor: Christoph Kleiner
  • Patent number: 6875831
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a compound of formula (I), (II) or (III) wherein R1 and R2 are independently of each other hydrogen, C1-C18alkyl, C3-C18alkenyl, C3-C18alkinyl or phenyl which are unsubstituted or substituted by NO2, halogen, amino, hydroxy, cyano, carboxy, C1-C4alkoxy, C1-C4alkylthio, C1-C4alkylamino or di(C1-C4alkyl)amino; A is a group capable of forming a stable free nitroxyl radical A*, which is bound via its oxygen atom to the carbon atom; Y is O, NR3 or CHR3—Xa, wherein Xa is O, S or NR3; R3 is hydrogen, C1-C18alkyl, C3-C18alkenyl, C3-C18alkinyl or phenyl which are unsubstituted or substituted by NO2, halogen, amino, hydroxy, cyano, carboxy, C1-C4alkoxy, C1-C4alkylthio, C1-C4alkylamino or di(C1-C4alkyl)amino; Q1 is an organic or inorganic radical, derived from a compound having at least one functional group being capable of reacting with a hydroxy group; Q2 is an organic radical derived from a mono or polyfunctional alcohol, mono or polyfunctional aminoalcohol, mono or polyfunctional amine
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: CIBA Specialty Chemicals Corp.
    Inventors: Andreas Kramer, Peter Nesvadba, Marie-Odile Zink, Wiebke Wunderlich
  • Patent number: 6875870
    Abstract: Hindered amine compounds which are substituted by a long hydrocarbon chain are useful in a number of applications where the solubility or compatibility afforded by said substitution is needed. This is seen particularly for example with white, dyed, dipped, unscented and/or scented candle wax which is effectively stabilized against discoloration and fading by the incorporation therein of a long chain hindered amine alone or in combination with a UV absorber and/or an antioxidant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Mervin G. Wood, Andrea R. Smith, James P. Galbo
  • Patent number: 6872832
    Abstract: Hindered amines substituted on the N-atom with an —O-E-OH moiety are particularly effective in stabilizing polyolefin and automotive coating compositions against the deleterious effects of oxidative, thermal and actinic radiation where the presence of the OH group on the compounds adds important properties not attainable by the use of normal —O-E moieties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: James Peter Galbo, Robert E. Detlefsen
  • Patent number: 6872839
    Abstract: Benzofuran-2-ones, compositions comprising benzofuranones, processes for preparing them, and their use as colorants for high or low molecular mass organic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Cibaspecialty Chemicals Corp.
    Inventors: Leonhard Feiler, Thomas Ruch, Olof Wallquist, Peter Nesvadba
  • Patent number: 6872764
    Abstract: Certain essentially phenol antioxidant-free stabilizer systems that comprise either a binary hindered amine/hydroxylamine or nitrone or amine oxide or benzofuranone system or a ternary hindered amine/hydroxylamine or nitrone or amine oxide or benzofuranone/organic phosphite or phosphonite system are especially effective towards protecting polyolefins against the deleterious effects of gamma irradiation. Polyolefin articles such as medical packaging, hospital garments, draperies, woven and non-woven fiber products, surgery utensils, blow-molded I.V. bottles, hypodermic syringes, needle shields, laboratory ware such as trays, funnels, Petri dishes and filters, and hygiene related articles may be sterilized with gamma irradiation and are stabilized according to the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventor: Roswell E. King, III
  • Patent number: 6869472
    Abstract: A new high chroma, opaque gamma 2,9-dichloroquinacridone pigment specified by its particle shape and size and characterized by C.I.E color space values in masstone, and a process for its preparation is dislosed. The new gamma 2,9-dichloroquinacridone pigment is especially useful for coloring coating compositions, such as automotive paints, and plastics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventor: Fridolin Bäbler