Patents Assigned to Elf Atochem Italia S.r.l.
  • Patent number: 6310155
    Abstract: Process for the polymerization in aqueous suspension of acrylic monomers in the presence of a polymeric suspending agent, homopolymer or copolymer of a compound of formula: wherein: R1 is H or CH3; R2 and R3, equal or different, are H or alkyls C1-C8, optionally branched when possible; M is an alkaline or alkaline-earth metal or ammonium and A is NH, O or NCH3, characterized in that the polymerization aqueous phase is wholly or partly formed by the mother waters obtained after the separation of the acrylic polymer, so as to have a polymerizable suspension containing at least 0.01% by weight and up to about 1% of said suspending agent and at least from 0.05% to 5% by weight of the other products above mentioned obtained during the polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Pasquale Relvini, Fabio Giberti
  • Patent number: 6291617
    Abstract: Compositions for the polymer curing, comprising: a) one or more organic peroxides and b) 3,7-Dimethyl-1,3,6-Octatriene (OCIMENE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Luciano Abrigo, Carla Beretta, Ezio Montessoro, Michele Merenda
  • Patent number: 6274668
    Abstract: Process for reducing the content of residual monomers, expressed as total VOC lower than 600 ppm and deriving from the monomers utilized to obtain the emulsion lower than 100 ppm; having an amount of wet coagula lower or equal to 500 ppm after wet filtering on 125 micron filter of the emulsion at the outlet after the various dropping phases, in polymrizations and copolymerizations in dispersion or emulsion in aqueous phase based on acrylic monomers, characterized in that it comprises as redox couple the utilization of a reducing agent selected from ascorbic acid or an aldehyde having a number of carbon atoms equal to or higher than 4 and containing at least a salifiable hydrogen, organic or inorganic, or its salts and the inorganic salifiable hydrogen being added to a carboxylic group; the aldehyde reducing agent or its salts being soluble in water for at least 5% by weight, preferably 10% by weight; and from an oxidizing agent consisting of an organic hydroperoxide in aqueous solution, excluding those solubl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Carlo Sempio, Leo Mario Saija, Daniele Becchi, Ezio Montessoro
  • Patent number: 6207776
    Abstract: Compositions for curing polymers comprising one or more organic peroxides and trans-stilbene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Luciano Abrigo, Carla Beretta, Ezio Montessoro, Michele Merenda
  • Patent number: 6093675
    Abstract: Process for reducing the content of residual monomers, expressed as total VOC lower than 600 ppm and deriving from the monomers utilized to obtain the emulsion lower than 100 ppm; having an amount of wet coagula lower or equal to 500 ppm after wet filtering on 125 micron filter of the emulsion at the outlet after the various dropping phases, in polymrizations and copolymerizations in dispersion or emulsion in aqueous phase based on acrylic monomers, characterized in that it comprises as redox couple the utilization of a reducing agent selected from ascorbic acid or an aldehyde having a number of carbon atoms equal to or higher than 4 and containing at least a salifiable hydrogen, organic or inorganic, or its salts and the inorganic salifiable hydrogen being added to a carboxylic group; the aldehyde reducing agent or its salts being soluble in water for at least 5% by weight, preferably 10% by weight; and from an oxidizing agent consisting of an organic hydroperoxide in aqueous solution, excluding those solubl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: Elf Atochem Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Carlo Sempio, Leo Mario Saija, Daniele Becchi, Ezio Montessoro
  • Patent number: 6072007
    Abstract: Compositions for the polymer curing, comprising:A) one or more organic peroxidesandB) dicyclopentadiene
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Elf Atochem Italia S.r.L.
    Inventors: Luciano Abrigo, Carla Beretta, Ezio Montessoro, Michele Merenda
  • Patent number: 6066698
    Abstract: Compositions for the polymer curing, comprising:A) one or more organic peroxides andB) trans,trans-2,6-dimethyl-2,4,6-octatriene
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Elf Atochem Italia S.r.L.
    Inventors: Luciano Abrigo, Carla Beretta, Ezio Montessoro, Michele Merenda
  • Patent number: 5994473
    Abstract: Peroxidic compositions utilizable for curing elastomers and polyolefins having scorch retardant properties, which comprise:(A) a peroxide in powder or in the form of granules or master batch(B)+(C) inhibitor and promoter in powder, granules or master batch,wherein (B) is an inhibitor derived from hydroquinone and (C) is a curing promoter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Elf Atochem Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Carlo Sempio, Giorgio Angeloni, Massimo Cesana, Luciano Abrigo
  • Patent number: 5994441
    Abstract: Use of monovalent salts of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids C.sub.10 -C.sub.18 as external lubricants in granules formulation based on acrylic polymers for injection molding at temperatures from 180.degree. C.-220.degree. C. of articles having a thickness greater than 10 mm, preferably the lubricant amount is from 10 to 100 ppm; and related compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: ELF Atochem Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Andrea Anghileri, Michele Fatica, Pasquale Relvini
  • Patent number: 5888581
    Abstract: This invention relates to aqueous emulsions based on acrylic polymers and their use for preparing films to be used in processes of preparation of cathode ray tubes, having filming temperature between about 20.degree. and 40.degree. C. which after drying produce films which, submitted to heating in nitrogen atmosphere, have a weight loss, for films having a thickness of 1-2 mm, and for the following cycle of heating:11.degree. C./minute from 25.degree. to 375.degree. C.,5.degree. C./minute from 375.degree. to 440.degree. C.,isotherm at 440.degree. C. for 45 minutes,respectively of:from 25.degree. to 245.degree. C. lower than 15% by weightfrom 245.degree. to 375.degree. C. from 30 to 70% by weightfrom 375.degree. to 440.degree. C. of 97-99% by weightafter the isotherm at 440.degree. C. the remaining residue is lower than about 0.3% by weight, the curve gradient in the on set point ranging from 0.03 to 0.08 mg/.degree.K., and at 360.degree. C. from 0.12 to 0.30 mg/.degree.K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Elf Atochem Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Ivan Fuso Nerini, Massimo Cesana, Daniele Becchi
  • Patent number: 5733992
    Abstract: Process for the polymerization in aqueous suspension of acrylic monomers in the presence of a polymeric suspending agent, homopolymer or copolymer 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.3, characterized in that the polymerization aqueous phase is wholly or partly formed by the mother waters obtained after the separation of the acrylic polymer, so as to have a polymerizable suspension containing at least 0,01% by weight and up to about 1% of said suspending agent and at least from 0.05% to 5% by weight of the other products above mentioned obtained during the polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1998
    Assignee: Elf Atochem Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Pasquale Relvini, Fabio Giberti
  • Patent number: 5731378
    Abstract: This invention relates to aqueous emulsions based on uncured and uncurable acrylic polymers and their use for the forming process of the cathode ray tube comprising as comonomers the following components:A) butylmethacrylate from 45-70 parts by weightB) methylmethacrylate from 20-45 parts by weightC) methacrylic acid from 1-4 parts by weightD) ethylacrylate from 5-9 parts by weighthaving a minimum filming temperature such as to produce film between about 20.degree. and 40.degree. C., with or without the use of coalescent agents, the nitrogen thermal cycle which simulates that utilized in the CRT process, being the following:1.degree. scanning: from 25.degree. C. to 375.degree. C. at 11.degree. C./min.2.degree. scanning: from 75.degree. C. to 440.degree. C. at 5.degree. C./min.3.degree. scanning: isotherm at 440.degree. C. for 45 minutes,the organic residue after said thermal treatment being lower than 0.05% by weight, preferably 0.01%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Elf Atochem Italia S.r.L.
    Inventors: Ivan Fuso Nerini, Massimo Cesana, Daniele Becchi
  • Patent number: 5721310
    Abstract: Process for reducing the content of residual monomers, expressed as total VOC lower than 600 ppm and deriving from the monomers utilized to obtain the emulsion lower than 100 ppm; having an amount of wet coagula lower or equal to 500 ppm after wet filtering on 125 micron filter of the emulsion at the outlet after the various dropping phases, in polymerizations and copolymerizations in dispersion or emulsion in aqueous phase based on acrylic monomers, characterized in that it comprises as redox couple the utilization of a reducing agent selected from ascorbic acid or an aldehyde having a number of carbon atoms equal to or higher than 4 and containing at least a salifiable hydrogen, organic or inorganic, or its salts and the inorganic salifiable hydrogen being added to a carboxylic group; the aldehyde reducing agent or its salts being soluble in water for at least 5% by weight, preferably 10% by weight; and from an oxidizing agent consisting of an organic hydroperoxide in aqueous solution, excluding those solub
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Assignee: Elf Atochem Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Carlo Sempio, Leo Mario Saija, Daniele Becchi, Ezio Montessoro
  • Patent number: 5342683
    Abstract: The invention concerns films or plates of acrylic polymers, in particular polymethylmethacrylate, rendered no drop by coating with a monomeric composition, polymerized and reticulated by ultraviolet light, consisting of:a) from 50 to 70% by weight of acrylates or methacrylates of C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyls, C.sub.4 -C.sub.12 cycloalkyl, polycycloalkyl or alkylidene having from 7 to 14 C atoms;b) from 10 to 30% of acrylate or methacrylate of C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 hydroxyalkyl;c) from 10 to 30% by weight of acrylic or methacrylic acid or their salts;d) from 1 to 10% by weight of a reticulation agent consisting of a polyfunctional acrylic monomer;e) from 0.01 to 3% by weight of hydrophilic colloidal metal oxides;f) from 0 to 0.06% by weight of a U.V. polymerization initiator,being 100 the sum of the a)+b)+c)+d)+e)+f) amounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Assignee: Elf Atochem Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Marco Rigamonti, Franco Marciandi, Massimo Cesana
  • Patent number: 5183851
    Abstract: This invention relates to low haze impact-resistant transparent compositions, comprising:(a) 40-99% by weight of a thermoplastic resin based on homopolymers and/or copolymers of alkyl-methacrylates with minor amounts of alkyl-acrylates, wherein the alkyl group contains from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, and(b) 60-1% by weight of a polymer having a multi-layer structure, based on elastomers arranged sequentially to thermoplastic resins as defined in step (a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Assignee: ELF Atochem Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Francesco Visani, Carlo Tavazzani, Giuseppe Ajroldi, Giovanni Castiglioni
  • Patent number: 5180634
    Abstract: Coextruded multilayer sheets comprising a first outer layer consisting of a blend containing polyvinylidene fluoride having an average mollecular weight (Mw) not higher than 250,000 and an acrylic resin and at least a layer of a homo or copolymer of an alkylmethacrylate, having a Vicat degree (49N, 50.degree. C/h) of at least 90.degree. C., in mixture with 5-40% by weight of an elastomer in the grafted form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1993
    Assignee: Elf Atochem Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Carlo Sempio, Andrea Anghileri, Marc Binaghi, Tullo Ronchetti, Italo Vailati