Patents by Inventor Harry W. Cocain

Harry W. Cocain has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4789703
    Abstract: Pelletized thermoplastic polymers or resins containing (--CONH--) groups such as the nylons can readily be brominated or chlorinated in organic solvents to convert the (--NH--) units to (--NBr--) or (--NCl--) units and to form solutions of the N-brominated or N-chlorinated thermoplastic polymers or resins. These N-brominated or N-chlorinated thermoplastic polymer solutions can be coated on a cellular or solid rubbery hydrocarbon polymer substrate, such as an EPDM rubber in the form of a weatherstrip or glass run channel, dried and irradiated with ultraviolet light or heated at a temperature and for a period of time sufficient to reform the amide (--CONH--) groups and to provide the rubbery substrate with an adherent and abrasion resistant coating which also exhibits reduced ice adhesion and coefficient of friction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1988
    Assignee: GenCorp Inc.
    Inventors: Hubert J. Fabris, Earl G. Melby, Kohji Y. Chihara, Harry W. Cocain
  • Patent number: 4720518
    Abstract: Thermoplastic polymers or resins containing amide groups such as the nylons can readily be brominated or chlorinated in organic solvents to convert the (--NH--) units to (--NBr--) or (--NCl--) units and to form solutions of the N-brominated or N-chlorinated thermoplastic polymers or resins. These N-brominated or N-chlorinated thermoplastic polymer or resin solutions can be blended with silicones (siloxanes) and optionally with at least one finely divided material selected from the group consisting of inorganic and organic fillers and pigments and then can be coated on a cellular or solid rubbery hydrocarbon polymer substrate, such as an EPDM rubber in the form of a weatherstrip or glass run channel, dried and irradiated with ultraviolet light or heated at a temperature and for a period of time sufficient to reform the amide groups and to provide the rubbery substrate with an adherent and abrasion resistant coating which also exhibits a reduced coefficient of friction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1988
    Assignee: GenCorp Inc.
    Inventors: Kohji Y. Chihara, Hubert J. Fabris, Earl G. Melby, James L. Cowell, Harry W. Cocain
  • Patent number: 4676995
    Abstract: Pelletized thermoplastic polymers or resins containing (--CONH--) groups such as the nylons can readily be brominated or chlorinated in organic solvents to convert the (--NH--) units to (--NBr--) or (--NCl--) units and to form solutions of the N-brominated or N-chlorinated thermoplastic polymers or resins. These N-brominated or N-chlorinated thermoplastic polymer solutions can be coated on a cellular or solid rubbery hydrocarbon polymer substrate, such as an EPDM rubber in the form of a weatherstrip or glass run channel, dried and irradiated with ultraviolet light or heated at a temperature and for a period of time sufficient to reform the amide (--CONH--) groups and to provide the rubbery substrate with an adherent and abrasion resistant coating which also exhibits reduced ice adhesion and coefficient of friction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1987
    Assignee: GenCorp Inc.
    Inventors: Hubert J. Fabris, Earl G. Melby, Kohji Y. Chihara, Harry W. Cocain
  • Patent number: 4547550
    Abstract: Flexible thermoplastic vinyl chloride polymers are prepared by graft or over copolymerizing said polymers with a mixture of certain acrylates and nitriles or by blending said vinyl chloride polymer with a terpolymer of certain acrylates and nitriles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1985
    Assignee: The General Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Earl G. Melby, Hubert J. Fabris, Russell A. Livigni, Harry W. Cocain
  • Patent number: 4511700
    Abstract: Flexible thermoplastic vinyl chloride polymers are prepared by graft or over copolymerizing said polymers with a mixture of certain acrylates and nitriles or by blending said vinyl chloride polymer with a terpolymer of certain acrylates and nitriles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1985
    Assignee: The General Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Earl G. Melby, Hubert J. Fabris, Russell A. Livigni, Harry W. Cocain
  • Patent number: 4511699
    Abstract: Flexible thermoplastic vinyl chloride polymers are prepared by graft or over copolymerizing said polymers with a mixture of certain acrylates and nitriles or by blending said vinyl chloride polymer with a terpolymer of certain acrylates and nitriles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1985
    Assignee: The General Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Earl G. Melby, Hubert J. Fabris, Russell A. Livigni, Harry W. Cocain
  • Patent number: 4480076
    Abstract: Flexible thermoplastic vinyl chloride polymers are prepared by graft or over copolymerizing said polymers with a mixture of certain acrylates and nitriles or by blending said vinyl chloride polymer with a terpolymer of certain acrylates and nitriles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1984
    Assignee: The General Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Earl G. Melby, Hubert J. Fabris, Russell A. Livigni, Harry W. Cocain
  • Patent number: 4423193
    Abstract: Vinylchloride resins such as polyvinylchloride, copolymers of vinylchloride and vinyl acetate and copolymers of vinylchloride and vinylidene chloride are dehydrochlorinated in water at 150.degree. to 180.degree. C. to provide a dehydrochlorinated vinylchloride resin which can be graft copolymerized with one or more copolymerizable monomers containing polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated double bonds. Grafted copolymers in which the grafting monomer is butyl acrylate and the like provide an internally plasticized vinylchloride resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1983
    Assignee: The General Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Earl G. Melby, Harry W. Cocain, Hubert J. Fabris