Abstract: Process of providing a rubberized asphalt from reclaimed rubber produced from whole scrapped tires and having a composition of about 15-20 percent acetone extractible oils, resins, and other rubber compounding ingredients such as antioxidants, antiozants, emulsifiers, and the like, about 10-35 percent carbon black, about 10-20 percent ash primarily from zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, clay, whiting, and talc, and about 35-45 percent rubber hydrocarbon of which 15-30 percent is a mixture of synthetic rubbers such as SBR, neoprene, polybutadiene, isoprene, butyl, and chlorobutyl, and other 10-20 percent is natural rubber and an asphalt at a level of 5-25 percent rubber to 75-95 percent asphalt by weight, the asphalt having a composition of 20-30 percent asphaltenes, 5-15 percent nitrogen bases, 10-20 percent first acidaffins, 30-40 percent second acidaffins, and 10-20 percent paraffins, and the rubber and asphalt being cooked at about 350-450 degrees F.

Abstract: Previously vulcanized rubber to be reclaimed is fed in particulate form (e.g. ground tire stock) together with reclaiming agents to a passageway between an essentially smooth stator and an essentially cylindrical rotor arranged to provide an axial shear zone therebetween in which the rubber is frictionally propelled by the rotor action and subjected at least to the generated pressure and heat and expelled axially through an orifice. The action may be assisted by mixing a suitable amount of previously reclaimed rubber or of unvulcanized rubber with or in advance of the particulate vulcanized rubber, and/or by supplemental heating. In other aspects of the invention, previously-reclaimed previously-vulcanized rubber is similarly fed and acted upon as a substitute for conventional refining operations.

Abstract: A portland-cement stabilized soil base for a roadway is covered with an elastic rubber-asphalt layer and thereafter with a surfacing layer. The elastic layer may be formed by reacting 1 to 30% by weight of asphalt with 99-70% by weight of rubber and be applied hot as by spraying; and the surfacing layer will ordinarily be asphalt concrete composed of asphalt binding aggregate particle such as coarse stone, together. Preferably the elastic layer covered with a layer to prevent bonding of the elastic layer with an overlying asphalt concrete layer. Such bonding-preventing layer may be finely crushed stone, roofing paper, non-woven fabric, or plastic film, or the like.

Abstract: There is provided a polyurethane ground rubber composite and a new method for formation and preparation thereof. The composite is suitable for use in laminated and other surfacing or as a surfacing and has excellent flexibility, resiliency, weatherability, and elastomeric qualities; and comprises particulate vulcanized rubber substantially coated on each particle with about 3 to about 8 microns, and in some instances about 3 to about 10 microns, of a cross-linked binder derived from an essentially solvent-free polymeric isocyanate prepolymer having a number average molecular weight of 800-4000, the cross-linking of the isocyanate prepolymer being accomplished by controlled reaction with water using an equivalent ratio of NCO/OH of 0.14/1 to 0.