Abstract: A water-borne thermosetting coating composition comprising a stable dispersion or solution of:(A) a terminally functional epoxy resin reacted with(B) a tertiary amine; and(C) a nitrogen resinIs provided. Such composition is useful for spray-, flow-, dip-, roller-, and electro-coating metal and paper substrates and provides coatings of improved properties, including high degree of flexibility during machining and stamping of the coated articles, corrosion resistance, gloss, hydrolytic stability, and non-adulterating of foods and beverages in contact therewith.

Abstract: A rubber-modified polystyrene resin composition consisting essentially of a rubber-modified polystyrene and a transparent, resinous styrene-butadiene block copolymer containing 65 to 95% by weight of styrene and 5 to 35% by weight of butadiene. This resin composition is excellent in impact strength, elongation, flexural stress clouding, hinging endurance, and surface gloss.

Abstract: A novel thermoplastic resin composition consisting essentially of polystyrene and a styrene-butadiene block copolymer. This resin composition is transparent, is excellent in mechanical properties, particularly in elongation, impact strength, and stiffness, is not liable to become cloudy on being bent, and is favorable in hinging endurance as well as in thermal resistance.

Abstract: A tackifier system which includes the reaction product of oxirane bearing materials with alkyl phenol novolacs for elastomers of alpha-olefin polymers which are sulfur curable.

Abstract: A tackifier system which includes the reaction product of oxirane bearing materials with alkyl phenol novolacs for elastomers of alpha-olefin polymers which are sulfur curable.The invention is directed to reaction products of alkyl phenol novolacs with oxirane bearing materials. The reaction products of alkyl phenol novolacs with oxirane bearing materials have been found to be excellent tackifiers for various types of elastomers.Further, the invention is directed to elastomer compositions containing reaction products of alkyl phenol novolacs with oxirane bearing materials. Elastomer compositions containing the reaction products of alkyl phenol novolac resins with oxirane bearing materials exhibit excellent tack properties.Tackifiers are employed in elastomeric compositions to produce wider practical ranges of elastomer properties, such as stiffness and tack. Tackifiers are used to improve adhesion, and sometimes cohesion without necessarily stiffening or softening the elastomer composition.

Abstract: The process for producing polyamide acid and polyimide polymers for use as coating materials by reacting an aromatic dianhydride reactant with an aromatic diamine reactant to produce a polyamide acid polymer wherein said reactants are present in approximately equal molar quantities, by utilizing the steps of forming an anhydrous mixture of an aromatic dianhydride reactant and an aromatic diamine reactant in an organic solvent wherein the reactants are in the molar ratio of about two-to-one, reacting said reactants at a temperature below that at which imidization occurs to form an amide acid intermediate having two free carboxyl groups each ortho to an amide group, and further reacting said amide acid intermediate with a reactant of the character of the original reactant initially present in the lesser amount with said additional reactant being in the molar amount equal to the molar amount of said lesser initial reactant thereby to form a polyamide acid polymer for use as a coating material.

Abstract: A radiation curable coating composition for various substrates containing an adduct of acrylic acid and an epoxy resin (which may be modified with an anhydride, such as maleic anhydride), and a reactive acrylate monomer vehicle. The coating composition can be pigmented and can also contain additives commonly used in coatings, such as wetting agents and flow control agents. The coating composition does not require the usual hydrocarbon vehicles that give rise to air pollution problems. Surface gloss of a UV cured film obtained from a pigmented coating composition can be increased by using a photosensitizer combination of 2-chlorothioxanthone and a phenyl ketone, such as benzophenone. Adhesion of a cured coating is improved by replacing the tertiary amine co-sensitizer, at least in part, with dimethylaminoethyl acrylate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a water soluble textile finishing resin composition, the process for preparing the same, the process for finishing textile materials therewith, and to the textile materials so treated. More particularly, the invention relates to infinitely water-soluble mixtures of substantially fully etherified substantially fully methylolated melamine resins and urea:formaldehyde:glyoxal reaction products which are characterized by having a low free formaldehyde content and excellent storage stability, to the method for preparing the same, to the process for treating textile materials therewith and to the textile materials so treated.

Abstract: A photopolymerizable composition comprising at least one polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated material, for example, an ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and a photosensitive catalyst comprisingA. at least one photosensitizer having the structure ##STR1## where X is >C=O, >CR.sub.1 R.sub.2 or >CR.sub.3 OR.sub.4, especially >C=O, R.sub.1 to R.sub.4 and hydrogen or hydrocarbyl groups, n is 0 or 1, and the groups A are hydrocarbyl or substituted hydrocarbyl groups, the groups A being aromatic or substituted aromatic when n is 1 and X is >CR.sub.1 R.sub.2 and when n is 0, andB. at least one reducing agent, for example, an amine or a phosphine, capable of reducing the photosensitizer when the photosensitizer is in an excited state.

Abstract: Improved pressure sensitive adhesive compositions based on acrylate ester polymers and the substrates coated therewith. The improved adhesive and cohesive properties result from the addition to the polymer of specified quinone ultraviolet sensitizers and the subsequent crosslinking thereof by exposure to an ultraviolet source.

Abstract: Improved process for the preparation of water-soluble, high molecular weight imidazole polymers comprising irradiating an aqueous solution of an imidazole monomer and a chemical, free-radical initiator under conditions to cause radiation-induced polymerization of the monomer, terminating radiation of the system when less than all the monomer has been converted to polymer and when the temperature of the system is such that the chemical, free-radical initiator dissociates with the proper rate to sustain polymerization, and continuing the polymerization to completion by the free radicals generated by the thermal decomposition of the chemical initiator. The radiation-induced polymerization is terminated before more than 95% of the monomer is converted to polymer and preferably before 90% of the monomer is converted to polymer. The remaining monomer is converted to polymer by the free radicals generated by the thermal decomposition of the chemical initiator.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are polyblend molding compositions which comprise (A) a polymethylmethacrylate matrix polymer; (B) polychloroprene rubber which is grafted with methylmethacrylate; and (C) a metal oxide. Specimens molded from these polyblends have a UL-94 rating of at least V-1 and a smoke level of less than 300 D.sub.m Flaming using the NBS smoke test.

Abstract: A flexible photopolymerizable resin is prepared in a two-stage process by the esterification of castor oil which chlorendic anhydride to yield a chlorendic anhydride half ester and the subsequent reaction of the half ester with a reagent having acrylic functionality, a cure retardant and an acrylic functional monomer. The resultant acrylic ester evidences superior insulation resistance during aging.

Abstract: Liquid mixtures which are curable by exposure to ultraviolet light when appropriately photosensitized are provided by etherifying a polyepoxide with an at least 25% stoichiometric excess of an hydroxy alkyl ester of an alpha, beta-monoethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic acid, expecially hydroxy ethyl acrylate. The unreacted hydroxy alkyl ester is then consumed by reaction with at least 1 molar equivalent of a monoanhydride, such as a monoepoxide, a lactone, or a monoisocyante.

Abstract: Aqueous coating compositions comprising ionizable salts of specific epoxy-amine adducts and acids of pK.sub.a value 1.5 - 6.0 are disclosed. The coatings are particularly useful in a cathodic electrodeposition process.

Abstract: A moulding composition comprising (a) a melamineformaldehyde resin having a molar ratio of melamine to formaldehyde in the range 1:1.5 to 1:2.5 which upon hardening is capable of withstanding heating at 200.degree. C concerned for 2 hours in air without causing significant structural damage or color change to moulded articles made from moulding compositions in which it has been incorporated, (b) an accelerator derived from a mono- or dibasic organic acid, (c) an inorganic filler having low adsorption characteristics and an oil adsorption value of 10 to 40, (d) a further inorganic filler and (e) an external lubricant comprising at least one carboxyorganosiloxane esterified with an alcohol containing up to 4 carbon atoms and the process of preparing said moulding compositions.

Abstract: Photopolymerizable composition of matter for the production of formed-in-place artificial nails.

Abstract: A complex of polyphenylene ether resin and methylene chloride obtained by polymerizing a phenol in methylene chloride and then cooling the mixture to cause the complex to precipitate, is mixed with a vinyl aromatic compound, e.g., styrene monomer, heated to decompose the complex and remove methylene chloride from the blend, and thereafter the vinyl aromatic compound is polymerized. The products are useful as molding resins and the like.

Abstract: Disclosed are block-type aryl copolyesters, the process for obtaining these as well as the filaments produced therefrom, and the process for obtaining such filaments.The aryl copolyesters contain from 10 to 90% of recurring flexible units of the formula ##STR1## WHERE R is an aliphatic, alicyclic or araliphatic radical, x is an integer from 2 to 6, and y = 0 or 1, andFrom 90 to 10% of recurring rigid units of the formula ##STR2## and have an inherent viscosity of at least 0.25. The raw spun filaments produced therefrom possess a modulus of elasticity of at least 1,000 g/tex, and preferably at least 1,500 g/tex, and are obtained by melt-spinning at a temperature such that the copolyester is optically anisotropic at rest and in the relaxed state, followed by winding up the filament in a per se known manner. Such filaments can be used advantageously as reinforcing filaments.

Abstract: In a homogeneous molded golf ball comprising a filled elastomer highly cross-linked into a three dimensional network with long, flexible cross-links formed of a polymerized cross-linking monomer, the improvement which comprises using as said cross-linking monomer a metal-containing cross-linkable monomer whereby said comonomer simultaneously functions as said filler at least in part. The preferred elastomer is cis-polybutadiene. The metal-containing cross-linkable monomer can be formed in situ or added as such and preferably comprises a salt of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of zinc, magnesium and calcium, and at least one acid selected from the group consisting of methacrylic, acrylic, cinnamic, acotinic, crotonic, vinylacetic, itaconic, styrenesulfonic and benzoylacrylic acids. Additional filler may be added to adjust the density to the desired value.