Abstract: The invention relates to a composition and method for setting and grouting tile on various substrates characterized by quick setting times and excellent chemical and physical properties.

Abstract: A composite floor covering comprising a rubbery backing strip or layer in intimate contact with the floor, ceramic tiles placed over the backing layer and flexible grouting between the tiles.

Abstract: New and improved fungicidal grout compositions are disclosed having a Portland cement base with a halogenated aromatic dinitrile added as an active fungicidal ingredient. The dinitrile is first wet blended with an inert solid fungicidal carrier and a surfactant, then dried and finely divided into a powder. The powder is blended with the other dry ingredients of a Portland cement grout to form a grout composition which is ready to be mixed with water to form a workable mortar for the grouting and setting of ceramic tiles. The resulting fungicidal grout compositions have improved fungicide dispersion and prolonged leach-life characteristics.

Abstract: A dry-set Portland cement based grout composition having less than 75% by weight of Portland cement, filler, bentonite clay, and no more than about 0.35% by weight of a composite of a cellulose ether and a long chain polymer such as polyacrylamide.

Abstract: A solventless, cross-linked adhesive bonding composition composed of a resin base portion comprised of an epoxy resinous material containing terminal epoxy groups and being essentially free from units derived from vegetable oils and aliphatic ethers, and a filled hardener portion containing a mixture of a modified polyamine and polyamido-amine.

Abstract: Dry-set mortar compositions adapted to be mixed with water containing, in the dry state, sand, Portland cement and a cellulose ether improved by the inclusion of anionic polyacrylamide and Bentonite Clay.

Abstract: There are provided dry-set cement mortars comprising hydraulic cement and water soluble, high molecular weight polymers and gelatinous metal hydroxides and metal salts capable of forming gelatinous or hydrated hydroxides in the presence of aqueous base. These metal hydroxides and metal salts may be the hydroxides or salts of aluminum, the transition element metals, and the mixed salts of alkali metals or ammonium with certain trivalent metallic cations together with the appropriate anions. The novel sag resistant compositions allow for the replacement of asbestos fibers which are used to impart sag resistance in state-of-the-art dry-set Portland cement mortars.

Abstract: Adhesive dressing compositions are disclosed which are useful in restoring and improving adhesive joint surfaces such as grout surfaces in ceramic tile installations by easy, efficient methods. Such compositions form stain resistant, water repellent, washable coverings which adhere to most adhesive surfaces and further have properties of preferential adherability to certain adhesive surfaces compared with adjacent adherend surfaces. The compositions comprise a polymer in the form of an emulsion, an alkali-thickenable polymer, an alkaline material and water with other components including pigments, plasticizers and solvents.

Abstract: The water retentive properties of dry-set mortars containing water retentive agents such as cellulose ethers can be improved by the addition of small amounts of a promoter material such as ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, propylene glycol, 1,3-propane diol, glycerol monoacetate and diacetate, ethyl glycolate and mono- and di-ethanol amines.

Abstract: Adhesive dressing compositions are disclosed which are useful in restoring and improving adhesive joint surfaces such as grout surfaces in ceramic tile installations by easy, efficient methods. Such compositions form stain resistant, water repellent, washable coverings which adhere to most adhesive surfaces and further have properties of preferential adherability to certain adhesive surfaces compared with adjacent adherend surfaces. The compositions comprise a polymer in the form of an emulsion, an alkali-thickenable polymer, an alkaline material and water with other components including pigments, plasticizers and solvents.

Abstract: There is provided a new sag resistance imparting agent selected from among gelatinous metal hydroxides and metal salts capable of forming a gelatinous or hydrated hydroxide in the presence of a water soluble alkaline material, the agent being useful for providing sag resistance in various adhesive compositions including (a) hydraulic non-dry-set compositions comprising an hydraulic cement or plaster of paris, and (b) non-hydraulic compositions comprising a room temperature hardening polymer in the form of a resinous liquid or an emulsion, suspension, dispersion, partial solution or total solution. Methods of imparting sag resistance to adhesive compositions such as the aforementioned and methods of use for the sag resistant compositions in the installation of wall and floor covering surfaces are also provided.

Abstract: This invention relates to improved hydraulic cement mortar compositions which have the advantages of dry-set mortars and which have superior compressive strength as well as bond strength to both vitreous and non-vitreous tile.

Abstract: There are provided dry-set cement mortars comprising hydraulic cement and water soluble, high molecular weight polymers and metal salts capable of forming gelatinous or hydrated hydroxides in the presence of aqueous base. These metal salts may be the salts of aluminum, the transition element metals, and the mixed salts of alkali metals or ammonium with certain trivalent metallic cations together with the appropriate anions. The novel sag resistant compositions allow for the replacement of asbestos fibers which are used to impart sag resistance in state-of-the-art dry-set Portland cement mortars.

Abstract: Novel aqueous non-hydraulic mortar compositions are disclosed comprising a film-forming, water-dispersible, room temperature cross-linkable polymer and a water-insoluble filler. Setting and grouting of ceramic tile by these compositions are also disclosed.

Abstract: Adhesive dressing compositions are disclosed which are useful in restoring and improving adhesive joint surfaces such as grout surfaces in ceramic tile installations by easy, efficient methods. Such compositions form stain resistant, water repellent, washable coverings which adhere to most adhesive surfaces and further have properties of preferential adherability to certain adhesive surfaces compared with adjacent adherend surfaces. The compositions comprise a polymer in the form of an emulsion, an alkali-thickenable polymer, an alkaline material and water with other components including pigments, plasticizers and solvents.

Abstract: Portland cement mortar compositions containing sand and a cellulos ether are modified with certain clay, certain long-chain organic compounds, or mixtures thereof.

Abstract: A cementious composition is provided which comprises 25 to 100% Portland cement and from 0.001 to 0.25% of certain long-chain organic polymers having a Flocculation Index of less than 0.5. A dry-set grout composition may be prepared using the composition or a sag-resistant dry-set mortar compound may be prepared using the composition.

Abstract: Hydraulic cementitious compositions are disclosed which have as an additive to provide sag resistance a compound selected from among magnesium oxide having an iodine number of greater than twenty or magnesium hydroxide.

Abstract: Novel aqueous non-hydraulic mortar compositions are disclosed comprising a film-forming, water-dispersible, room temperature cross-linkable polymer and a water-insoluble filler. Setting and grouting of ceramic tile by these compositions are also disclosed.

Abstract: A new and improved grouting composition for impervious tile is provided which comprises not less than 50 per cent by weight of an inert filler aggregate which shall be graded with not more than 10 per cent passing a number 140 sieve and none retained on a number 6 sieve and an AFS Grain Fineness Number less than 100, but greater than 30; a water-resistant polymer emulsion having a solids content of at least 40 per cent and providing 7 to 15 per cent by weight of polymeric solids; volatile components from 5 to 15 per cent by weight and 10 to 35 per cent by weight of fine fillers which shall have an average particle size less than 140 mesh. In addition, a method for grouting impervious tiles employing such composition is also provided.