Abstract: An improved game ball is manufactured from a polyurethane foam prepared from a hydroxyl-containing diene polymer, a catalyst system comprised of a tin compound and a tertiary amine and a surfactant system comprised of a non-hydrolyzable silicone-polyether copolymer and a polydialkylsiloxane.

Abstract: Conventional polyurethane foam products are modified by incorporating into the urethane reaction mixture a junction modifying particulate material that is selected with a critically controlled particle size relative to certain dimensional parameters of the foamed polymer matrix. This particulate material is selected with a particle size that results in location of the material in the foam cell wall junction regions rather than in the cell walls. The resulting products provided excellent physical properties (such as modulus of compression, tensile strength, elongation and tear resistance) at lower costs than normally encountered with similar unmodified foams. The preferred junction modifying particulate materials are organic polymeric materials such as ground rubber or plastics. As a result, the large particle size materials needed to achieve the junction modifying properties can be used without causing harmful abrasion or wear of processing equipment surfaces.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to the discovery that the substitution of isocyanate coupled polyols for polyols conventionally used in the art leads to flexible polyurethane foams having significantly enhanced load bearing properties. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a process for the production of a flexible polyurethane foam having improved load bearing characteristics and to the foams so produced. The present process broadly comprises reacting an organic polyisocyanate with a coupled polyol in the presence of a blowing agent, a catalyst and a foam stabilizer. The coupled polyol consists essentially of the reaction product of an organic polyisocyanate and an organic compound having a hydroxy functionality ("functionality" as used herein is intended to mean the average number of reaction groups per molecule) of greater than 2, wherein the ratio of hydroxyl groups to isocyanate groups is greater than 1.0.

Abstract: A sprayable polyisocyanurate composition, which composition is prepared by reacting equal parts of an A side mixture, containing a low-functionality methylene diisocyanate, with a B side mixture which comprises diethylene glycol, a low-hydroxyl polyether triol, a trimerization catalyst and a heat-activated catalyst, to provide a cure time of less than about 30 seconds.

Abstract: A liquefiable peroxide reactive molding composition comprising a reaction product of a polyol, an organic polyisocyanate and a hydroxyl ethylenic containing compound, said liquifiable composition having a free NCO content of less than about 0.3% by weight and an organic peroxide and being useful as an injection molding composition and as an adhesive that is essentially insensitive to atmospheric moisture.

Abstract: High load bearing flexible polyurethane foams are made using novel polyether polyols which may be made by alkoxylating a mixture of initiators. The initiator mixture is made up of about 60 to 90 wt. % of a partially alkoxylated trifunctional initiator and 10 to 40 wt. % of a secondary partially alkoxylated initiator having an active hydrogen functionality of from 4 to 8. Preferably, the alkylene oxide component to be reacted with the initiator mixture is a blend of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide.

Abstract: A polyurethane foam produced by the reaction of a polyisocyanate and a polyether polyol in the presence of a catalyst, a cell regulating agent and water as a blowing agent, the polyether polyol of which consists of a halogenated polyether polyol (I) of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein x is a number of 0 to 7; y is a number of 2 to 3; A is a saturated or unsaturated, brominated polyol residue having a number of functional groups of y; R is hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms and (II) a polyether polyol having a number of functional groups of 2 to 8, a weight ratio of the added amounts of propylene oxide and ethylene oxide within the range of about 75 to 95/25 to 5 and a hydroxyl number of about 20 to 100 mgKOH/g, whereby a weight ratio of (I) to (II) is about 95 to 25/5 to 75 and the amount of water is about 5 to 20 parts by weight against 100 parts by weight of the polyol component.

Abstract: A process for producing a polyurethane foam by reacting an organic polyisocyanate with an organic polyester polyol or polyether polyol in the presence of a catalytic amount of specific amine compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a methyl or ethyl and R.sup.2 is hydrogen or methyl such that when R.sup.1 is methyl, R.sup.2 is methyl and when R.sup.1 is ethyl, R.sup.2 is hydrogen, X is an organic mono or dicarboxylic acid and n is an integer from 0 to 1.

Abstract: No Bake foundry cores and molds for casting metals are prepared by using a binder comprising a polyol generally derived from alkoxylating an amine compound and a polyisocyanate. The binder is especially useful for casting non-ferrous metals, for example, the casting of aluminum, magnesium and other light weight metals. The cores and molds produced for casting aluminum and other light weight metals exhibit excellent shakeout while retaining other desirable core and mold properties. In addition the binders of this invention would have been observed to have an autocatalytic nature.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for producing a reaction mixture from flowable foam-forming or solid-forming components (preferably polyurethane forming components) which are conveyed continuously and are mixed together or are circulated. The quantity to be conveyed is preselected. The injection pressure is preselected and the circulatory pressure is measured for each component. The predetermined quantity and pressure to be conveyed as well as the measured value are preferably fed into a control computer during the circulation and the mixing process and are compared with actual values. Cavities are filled out with the reaction mixture produced and, in particular, molded articles are produced in molds.

Abstract: Described are compounds characterized by the following formula: ##STR1## wherein C.sub.n H.sub.2n is alkylene from 2 to 12 carbon atoms and C.sub.m H.sub.2m is alkylene from 2 to 20 carbon atoms. Each of the alkylene groups can, optionally, be substituted by inert substituents. The compounds contain a free isocyanato group and a masked isocyanate group, namely, the cyclic urea moiety, which, when the compounds are heated, preferably in the presence of a catalyst, opens to give the group OCN--C.sub.n H.sub.2n --. Thus, the compounds can be reacted via the free isocyanate group with active hydrogen-containing monomers or polymers to form storage stable compositions which, upon heating, are curable via reaction with the cyclic urea group.

Abstract: Disclosed is a one-can type pressure-sensitive adhesive composition which contains a polyurethane polyol obtained by the reaction of an isocyanate component having oxadiazine-2,4,6-trione ring, other organic diisocyanate and a polyol component having a molecular weight of 400 to 50,000 at a specific proportion. This composition has an excellent heat resistance, stable pressure-sensitive adhesion, holding power and tackiness.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the manufacture of noncellular polyurethane elastomers by reacting 4,4'-diisocyanato-1,2-diphenylethane or diisocyanato-1,2-diphenylethane isomer mixtures with a 4,4'-diisocyanato-1,2-diphenylethane content in excess of 95 percent by weight, higher molecular weight polyhydroxyl compounds and low molecular weight chain extenders optionally in the presence of auxiliaries and additives.The polyurethane elastomers produced in accordance with this invention excel by a greater hardness and improved mechanical properties compared with polyurethane elastomers based on 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate with otherwise comparable composition.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a blend of a polyether polyol and a polymer polyol, the blend having a solids content of from about 2 to about 15 percent by weight and the use of such blends in manufacturing polyurethane products.

Abstract: Stable water glass solutions are obtained(A) by mixing a solution of an aqueous alkali silicate solution and alkali hydroxide with a tertiary amine and subsequently oxyalkylating the resultant two-phase reaction mixture with at least one alkylene oxide in such an amount that a uniform solution forms or(B) by oxyalkylating a tertiary amine with at least one alkylene oxide and mixing the resultant reaction mixture with a solution of an aqueous alkali silicate solution and alkali hydroxide.The stable water glass solutions are suitable for the preparation of organo silicate foams.For the preparation of the organo silicate foams, a mixture of the stable water glass solutions and tertiary amino group-containing polyether polyols is reacted with organic polyisocyanates in the presence of catalysts, blowing agents and optionally auxiliaries and additives.

Abstract: Glycerol esters of modified rosin are useful tackifiers in rubber adhesive compositions. Esters made with rosin modified by reducing the abietic acid concentration to 5% or less, will retain tackifying properties for longer periods in storage before use. The esters are prepared by simultaneously disproportionating and esterifying unmodified rosin with glycerol in the presence of p-t-amyl phenol and phosphoric acid, for example.

Abstract: A vulcanizing press for vulcanizing flat articles having locking pawls for locking the pressing plates of the press at a certain distance from each other in the closed vulcanizing position of the press. By letting one of the pressing plates being without heating elements and carrying an inflatable member such as a membrane driven by a pressure fluid which membrane in the closed position of the press is positioned and adapted to supply a uniform pressure substantially over the whole flat side of the vulcanizing article positioned between the pressing plates is obtained an even surface pressure all over the textile side of the vulcanizing article substantially independent of the thickness of the article and without use of toggle mechanisms or high power hydraulic cylinders.

Abstract: An improved two component adhesive whereby said adhesive exhibits sag resistance on a vertical surface substantially immediately after the two components are mixed with adequate gel time for use thereof said two component adhesive being composed of a polyurethane prepolymer component and a curative component mixed at a ratio of 4:1.

Abstract: Mixtures of aromatic polyols containing ester functionalities suitable for use in rigid foams prepared by reacting a dimethyl terephthalate waste stream containing methyl p-formylbenzoate over a metal alkoxide catalyst and subsequently transesterifying the product with a polyalkylene glycol in the presence of heat are described. These novel polyols may be blended with conventional polyols to yield excellent rigid foams, thus serving as useful polyol extenders. These low hydroxyl number extender polyols unexpectedly have a low relative viscosity.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polyurethane composition of multi-pack type, curable at ambient temperature, which comprises an isocyanate component having oxadiazinetrione ring, an active hydrogen component and a Lewis base whose basic site has no hydrogen active to NCO group and a process for producing polyurethane from the composition.The composition has excellent curability at ambient temperature and is useful for coatings, adhesives and elastomers as high solid content type or solventless type. The cured product polyurethane has good mechanical properties.