Abstract: Provided are vinyl chloride polymer compositions having a composite elastomer modifier incorporated therein, whereby said polymers exhibit on excellent balance of the physical properties of thermal resistance, transparency, and impact resistance. The composite elastomer modifier is comprised of (A) 20 to 60% by weight of a graft copolymer prepared by grafting methyl methacrylate and styrene onto a butadiene rubber in a specified sequential multi-stage polymerization procedure of (B) 40 to 80% by weight of a copolymer comprised of .alpha.-methylstyrene, methyl methacrylate and acrylonitrile. The composite elastomer modifier may be prepared by either blending graft copolymer (A) with copolymer (B) or by polymerizing a monomer charge of copolymer (B) in the presence of graft copolymer (A).

Abstract: Resinous vehicles suitable for use in cationic electrodeposition are disclosed. The vehicles comprise the reaction product of any epoxy-containing organic material and an organic tertiary amine acid salt or sulfide-acid mixture; the amine and the sulfide containing blocked isocyanate groups capable of unblocking at elevated temperatures to cure the resinous vehicle.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a composition comprising a mixture of three components, the first two thermoset resin components comprising together from 30 to 70 percent by volume and a third component which may be added from 10 to 30% by volume, which mixture hardens into a synthetic epoxide enamel-like coating compound, particularly useful although not limited in use to the art of coating, mending and restoring ceramics. No firing or heating is required. The composition when properly combined and applied has suitable pot life to permit application by brush or by hand. Further, the composition can be mixed with oil base paints or pigments limited with oil base colors and applied as a finish or enameling coat to stoneware, pottery or porcelain ceramics. The composition is adhesive, airdrying and self-curing.

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 process for decomposing a polyurethane foam comprising heating the polyurethane foam at a temperature of about 50.degree. to 180.degree. C in the presence of an alcoholate alone, an alcoholate and an alkali hydroxide; or a combination of an alcoholate, or the alcoholate and alkali hydroxide and a decomposition accelerator, where the alcoholate is produced by alcoholating a part of the hydroxyl groups of an alcohol, or a part of the hydroxyl groups of an adduct of the alcohol or amine and an alkylene oxide, with an alkali metal, and the decomposition accelerator is selected from the group consisting of amines such as straight chain aliphatic amines, branched chain aliphatic amines, alicyclic amines, heterocyclic amines, and aromatic amines; those compounds produced by cyanoethylating the above amines or by partly adding an alkylene oxide to the above amines; and amines and urea based compounds, or in the presence of the alcoholate, decomposition accelerator, and an alkali hydroxide.

Abstract: Unsaturated polyester resins, the polyesters of which contain 0.3 - 0.7 moles, relative to the alcohol component, of units of monohydric alcohols are outstandingly suitable for the production of cured lacquer films which are uniformly matt without matting additives when a barrier agent is used.

Abstract: A tetrafluoroethylene polymer comprising primary particles having core and shell portions, the core portion comprising tetrafluoroethylene polymerized in the presence of a perfluoroalkyl or alkoxy trifluoroethylene comonomer, particularly hexafluoropropylene, and shell portion consisting of tetrafluoroethylene homopolymer, or a copolymer of tetrafluoroethylene in which the comonomer concentration is less than half that in the core portion.

Abstract: Recompoundable polyvinyl chloride suitable for reuse, for example, in cable and wire production is recovered from a scrap material which includes plasticized polyvinyl chloride. A charge of plasticized polyvinyl chloride scrap material is treated with a solvent to form a solvent mixture with one component thereof being a solvent solution of dissolved vinyl chloride polymer and plasticizers. The mixture is heated and agitated and scrap metal and other gross solids, if present, are removed. Then the solvent mixture is treated with an acid which advantageously causes a flocculation of suspended insolubles such as pigments and fillers. Except when using cyclohexanone as the solvent, the treatment with the acid must be accomplished, unexpectedly, in the presence of an additional flocculating agent.

Abstract: A resin composition comprising (A) 5 to 95 parts by weight of a copolyphenylene ether derived from a mixture of 50 to 98 mole% of a 2,6-dialkylphenol and 2 to 50 mole% of a 2,3,6-trialkylphenol and (B) 5 to 95 parts by weight of a styrene resin. The composition has superior thermal resistance and oxidation stability under heat and satisfactory mechanical properties, and retains these desirable properties after heat-aging. The composition is suitable for preparation of molded articles.

Abstract: Compositions are provided which consist of a solid suspension of:a. a prepolymer obtained by reacting a N,N'-bis-imide of an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid of general formula: ##STR1## in which D represents a divalent organic radical containing a carbon-carbon double bond and A represents a divalent organic radical possessing from 2 to 30 carbon atoms, and a polyamine of general formula:R (NH.sub.2).sub.xin which x represents an integer at least equal to 2 and R represents an organic radial of valency x, the bis-imide being used in an amount from 0.55 to 25 mols per mol of --NH.sub.2 group introduced by the polyamine, suspended in:B. water, and optionally,C. a polar water-miscible organic solvent having a boiling point between 110.degree. C and 270.degree. C in an amount up to 50% by weight of the liquid phase. These compositions are thixotropic and useful for coating and impregnating fibrous materials and the like from which valuable resinous composites can be obtained.

Abstract: A heat-curable coating composition contains a polymer having pendant amine groups and a bis-maleimide cross-linking agent in aqueous dispersion. The amine groups of the polymer are protonated to render the polymer water dispersible. The amine groups are adapted to become de-protonated for cross-linking with the bis-maleimide under heating to form a fully cured film. In a preferred embodiment, the coating composition serves as a cathodic electrocoating composition.

Abstract: A method of preparing varnishes based on polyester resin, which do not turn green on polymerization. It comprises forming a reducing agent during polycondensation, by reacting a magnesium compound with the reagents present. Applicable chiefly to the furniture industry.

Abstract: An aqueous amphoteric polyurethane emulsion is prepared by reacting an isocyanate-terminated urethane prepolymer with an excess of a polyalkylene polyamine to form a polyurethane-urea-polyamine; reacting a portion of the free amino groups contained in the resulting product with a blocked polyisocyanate having one free isocyanate group; rendering the remaining amino groups contained in the resulting product amphoteric either (I) by reacting said amino groups with a compound selected from the group consisting of 1,3-propane sultone, 1,4-butane sultone, .beta.-propiolactone, .gamma.-butyrolactone, .epsilon.-caprolactone, .delta.-valerolactone and a monohalogenated sodium carboxylate having the formulaX(CH.sub.2).sub.

Abstract: A white, bright and opaque urea formaldehyde pigment is prepared in a continuous process by precipitating a urea formaldehyde resin or prepolymer having a relatively low water tolerance and a relatively high viscosity in an aqueous precipitating bath containing an acid catalyst. The reaction is carried out by supplying the urea formaldehyde resin to one or more reactors each containing the precipitating bath at an elevated temperature and under agitation, wherein a precipitate begins to form almost immediately. The reaction is allowed to progress for a length of time sufficient to permit most of the higher molecular weight fractions of the resin to precipitate out, the precipitate is then filtered preferably at the reaction temperature, washed and collected.

Abstract: A transparent vinyl chloride resin composition excellent in surface gloss and resistant to weathering and impact, comprising 97 to 60 parts by weight of a vinyl-chloride polymer and 3 to 40 parts by weight of a graft copolymer (B) obtained by emulsion-polymerizing a mixture of an aromatic vinyl monomer and a polyfunctional crosslinking agent having at least one allyl group, then polymerizing, in the presence of the resulting polymer latex, a mixture of an alkyl acrylate having 2 to 10 carbon atoms in the alkyl group and a polyfunctional crosslinking agent having at least one allyl group to form an acrylic elastomer (A) in the first stage the proportions of said alkyl acrylate and said aromatic vinyl monomer being 50 to 70% by weight and 50 to 30% by weight, respectively, and the amount of said crosslinking agent used being 0.

Abstract: Silicic-amino compounds are formed by the chemical reaction of silicic acid with amino compounds in the presence of a suitable alkali at a suitably elevated temperature, and then by reacting the resultant compounds with an aldehyde, a condensation product is formed.

Abstract: A thermosetting resin composition having improved properties as an electrical insulating material and being particularly suited for use in printed circuit boards, consists essentially of an acryloyloxyl- or methacryloyloxyl- terminated butadiene homopolymer or copolymer, for example, with acrylonitrile or styrene, an ethylenically unsaturated monomer capable of copolymerizing with the terminating acryloyloxyl or methacryloyloxyl groups of the butadiene homopolymer or copolymer, and an acid anhydride containing at least one ethylenically unsaturated group in its molecule. In preferred compositions of the invention, there are from 1.5 to 3.0 terminating acryloyloxyl or methacryloyloxyl groups per molecule of the butadiene homopolymer or copolymer, and the amounts of the ethylenically unsaturated monomer and of the acid anhydride are from 50 to 200 weight percent and from 5 to 20 weight percent, respectively, based on the weight of the terminated butadiene homopolymer or copolymer.

Abstract: Certain quaternary ammonium salts are incorporated in unsaturated polyester thermosetting molding compositions containing peroxyketal initiators to accelerate free radical initiated curing of these compositions.

Abstract: Strong base quaternary ammonium cellulose derivatives prepared under anhydrous conditions are further chemically modified in selected organic solvents by a sequential process that produces a partial cellulose ether in fibrous form that can be used in electro-chemical reactions covering a range of oxidation-reduction potentials. These new derivatives can be prepared such that they stabilize a given anion in the cellulose matrix until such time as its oxidation or reduction power is needed in desired chemical reactions. Although prepared in nonaqueous media, these red-ox cellulosic anion exchangers can be used to regulate oxidation-reduction reactions in aqueous media. Some of these new red-ox anion exchangers are dispersible in water and can be reprecipitated by organic solvents without losing their red-ox abilities during the process. Others are water insoluble.

Abstract: Coating compositions applicable by conventional coating techniques as well as by electrodeposition are provided by reacting an epoxy-containing organic material with a compound containing at least one phenolic hydroxyl group and a group hydrolyzable to a carboxyl group. Examples of such hydrolyzable groups include ester groups, amide groups and nitrile groups. Compounds include esters of benzoic, salicylic and diphenolic acids, and phenolphthalein. The resultant product may then be hydrolyzed and solubilized, using any of the known hydrolyzing agents, e.g., aqueous potassium hydroxide, aqueous sodium hydroxide and aqueous solutions of the various amines used in the art.