Abstract: Process for the polymerization of acrylic monomers in aqueous suspension, wherein at least a comonomer has a solubility in water of at least 5 g per 100 g of water, to obtain copolymers containing the hydrosoluble comonomer up to 60% by weigh, in the presence of a radical initiator soluble in The monomer and of a polymeric suspending agent selected from the homopolymer of a compound of formula: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1 is H or CH.sub.3 ; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, equal or different, are H or alkyls C.sub.1 -C.sub.8, optionally branched when possible; M is an alkaline or alkaline-earth metal or ammonium and A is NH, O or NCH.sub.

Abstract: Antinoise and antifragmentation plates based on acrylic polymers employing a polymeric continuous film placed inside the plate, wherein the film is characterized by an elastic modulus lower than the one of PMMA of at least 30%, and/or elongtion at break higher than at least 40%, measured by the test according to ISO 527 standard for plates or for films.

Abstract: Antinoise and antifragmentation plates based on acrylic polymers containing filaments of plastic material placed at a distance comprised between 20 and 35% of the thickness with respect to the surface opposite to impact.

Abstract: Moldable and pigmentable heat-curable compositions which can be employed for forming molded articles with zero or practically zero shrinkage (low profile type) or a small expansion include a heat-curable resin, a catalyst, a (meth)acrylic polymer in powder form with a dimension smaller than 150 .mu.m, at least one inorganic filler and, optionally, reinforcing fibers and organic or inorganic pigments.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a thermoformable acrylic resin sheet having a granite-like appearance after thermoforming, wherein ground particles of a methyl methacrylate resin which has been slightly cross-linked by means of 0.005-0.2 wt. % of a polyfunctional monomer, said particles having a size smaller than 1 mm, are incorporated in an amount of 0.3-1.5 wt. % into a liquid methyl methacrylate matrix resin composition containing a cross-linking monomer in an amount which is sufficient for effecting cross-linking of the matrix resin to a degree which is equal to or higher than the degree of cross-linking of the ground resin particles, at least one of the resin particles and the matrix resin composition containing a coloring material providing a color difference between them, whereupon the liquid mixture is brought into a flat mold and is kept therein to allow the resin particles to settle and the mixture is then polymerized to produce the thermoformable acrylic resin sheet.

Abstract: The invention relates to an adhesive composition for plastics based on (meth)acrylic (co)polymer derived from 80 to 100% by weight of methyl methacrylate and from 0 to 20% by weight of at least one monomer containing ethylenic unsaturation which can be copolymerized with the methyl methacrylate. The adhesive composition comprises 1,3-dioxolane combined with formic acid or a mono-, di- or tetraglyme, dissolved (meth)acrylic (co)polymer, and optionally diluent additives. The invention further relates to articles made of (meth)acrylic (co)polymer obtained by casting, extrusion or injection and comprising a bonding joint formed from the said adhesive composition.

Abstract: The invention relates to compositions for flame-retardant cast panels made of (meth)acrylic polymers.The composition comprises at least one (meth)acrylic ester monomer, (meth)acrylic acid and at least one phosphorus compound which is anhydrous and is chosen from phosphoric acids, phosphoric acid esters or their mixtures, optionally in combination with an optionally halogenated neutral phosphoric ester. The amount of (meth)acrylic acid and of phosphorus compound, by weight with respect to the total mixture constituting the composition, is such that the flame-retardancy coefficient FRC: ##EQU1## is greater than 0.95.

Abstract: Process for preparing beads based on acrylic polymers which comprises the preparation of microbeads from 10 to 40 micron by means of a polymerization process in suspension of acrylic monomers in the presence of at least a crosslinking monomer at least bifunctional, characterized in that a second polymerization of the acrylic monomers is carried out in absence of crosslinking monomers and using as suspending phase a fraction of the suspension obtained in the preceding polymerization containing a crosslinking agent, said fraction containing an amount of microbeads comprised between 3 and 40% by weight with respect to the final polymer obtained in the second polymerization.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process to confer antiscratch and antiabrasion properties onto a shaped article based on thermoplastic acrylic polymers by coating the article with a composition comprisinga) 40-98.5% by weight of a methacrylic or acrylic monomer and/or an oligomer of the methacrylic or acrylic monomer, the monomer or oligomer having at least two polymerizable double bonds;b) 1-20% by weight of a polar methacrylic or acrylic monomer and/or oligomers of the polar monomer;c) 0.5-10% by weight of a UV photoinitiator;and optionally containing silica, UV stabilizers and non ionic surfactants; by polymerizing and crosslinking in situ said composition by UV light, at temperatures of 20.degree.-65.degree. C.

Abstract: The invention refers to a process to render antiscratch and antiabrasion shaped articles based on thermoplastic acrylic polymers consisting in coating the article by a composition comprising(A) 55-95% by weight of at least a (meth)acrylic monomer and/or oligomer having at least two double bonds;(B) 5-25% by weight of monomers and/or oligomers of divinylethers and/or epoxides(C) 0-20% by weight of monomers and/or oligomers containing polar groups of monofunctional (meth)acrylaytes and/or monovinylethers, when (A) or (B) do not contain polar groups, and comprising a mixed system of photoinitiators of radical and cationic type, then in submitting the coated article to U.V. irradiation, at temperatures of 30.degree.-70.degree. C. to polymerize and crosslink the coating in situ.

Abstract: Molding process of articles having color contrast areas on the surface comprising the coating of the surface or of part of the surface of the mold with a colored composition polymerized before filling the mold with a polymerizable fluid composition wherein the colored composition is a fluid, stable and redispersable dispersion, comprising:a) a solvent consisting essentially of polymerizable liquid monomers, optionally in admixture with a non-polymerizable volatile organic solvent;b) from 0.1 to 10% by weight of a color composition as inorganic pigment or from 0.0001 to 1% by weight of an organic pigment or organic dye;c) from 1 to 30% by weight of an unsaturated polyester resin soluble in the solvent a),the component a) being at least 20% by weight of the total composition.

Abstract: The invention concerns films or plates of acrylic polymers, in particular polymethylmethacrylate, that have no drop properties. The films or plates are coated with a monomeric composition, polymerized and reticulated by ultraviolet light, consisting of:a) from 50 to 70% by weight of acrylic or methacrylic esters of C.sub.2 -C.sub.18 aliphatic glycols or of (poly)alkylenoxides formed by 1 to 6 of C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 alkyleneoxide units;b) from 10 to 30% by weight of C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 hydroxyalkyl acrylate or methacrylate;c) from 10 to 30% by weight of acrylic or methacrylic acid or their derivatives;d) from 1 to 10% by weight of a reticulation agent consisting of a polyfunctional acrylic monomer containing at least three double bonds, the components of class a) excluded the sum of Components (a)-(d) being 100%, and;e) from 0.01 to 3 parts by weight for 100 parts by weight of a+b+c+d of hydrophilic colloidal metal oxides and;f) from 0 to 0.06% parts for 100 parts by weight of a+b+c+d of a U.V.