Abstract: Homogeneous copolyamides having high melting points and good flexibility, well adapted for the production of textile materials and plastic shaped articles, are prepared by prepolymerizing lower dicarboxylic acid(s) with an excess of hexamethylenediamine in the presence of a catalytically effective amount of a strong inorganic or organic oxyacid, or alkali or alkaline earth metal salt thereof, and thence polycondensing the resulting prepolymer with a fatty acid dimer.

Abstract: Polyamide-based molding compositions having enhanced flexibility and resilience, especially at low temperatures, are prepared from (1) semirigid copolyamides prepared from fatty acid dimers, (2) elastomers containing moieties compatible or reactive with such copolyamides (1) and comprising olefinic copolymers bearing carboxyl and/or carboxylate groups, copolyester-amides, polyurethanes, organopolysiloxane and polyurethane block copolymers, and copolymers produced from a latex which comprises suitable functional groups, and, optionally, (3) conventional polyamides.

Abstract: Homogeneous copolyamides having high melting points and good flexibility, well adapted for the production of textile materials and plastic shaped articles, are prepared by prepolymerizing lower dicarboxylic acid(s) with an excess of hexamethylenediamine in the presence of a catalytically effective amount of a strong inorganic or organic oxyacid, or alkali or alkaline earth metal salt thereof, and thence polycondensing the resulting prepolymer with a fatty acid dimer.

Abstract: Novel, homogeneous and flexible block copolyetheramides, having a melting point of at least 150.degree. C., a glass transition temperature not exceeding -5.degree. C. and a melt viscosity of at least 100 poises, are preferably prepared by prepolymerizing a mixture of a salt of a short-chain aliphatic dicarboxylic acid and a short-chain aliphatic diamine with a fatty acid(s) dimer or amino derivative thereof, and then polycondensing the prepolymer in the presence of a strong organic or inorganic oxyacid, with a polyoxyalkylenediamine or a polyoxyalkylenedicarboxylic acid having a number-average molecular weight ranging from 300 to 1200.

Abstract: Homogeneous, flexible block copolyetheramides having a melting/softening point of at least 170.degree. C., a glass transition temperature, measured at ZHE, of at most -5.degree. C.

Abstract: Homogeneous, high melting, flexible copolyamides, adopted as molding compositions and for textile applications, are conveniently prepared by (a) prepolymerizing either (i) mixture of adipic acid and hexamethylenediamine, or admixture thereof with at least one other short-chain dicarboxylic acid, or (ii) mixture of (1) a salt of adipic acid, or salt of admixture of adipic acid with at least one other short-chain dicarboxylic acid, and hexamethylenediamine, together with (2) free hexamethylenediamine, said prepolymerization (a) being carried out in the presence of a catalytically effective amount of a strong inorganic oxyacid, or strong organic oxyacid other than a carboxylic acid, or alkali or alkaline earth metal thereof, said resulting prepolymer having amino end groups, and thence (b) polycondensing said prepolymer with a fatty acid dimer.

Abstract: Novel block copolyetheramides which are homogeneous and flexible at low temperatures and have melting or softening points of at least 170.degree. C., glass transition temperatures of at most -5.degree. C. and viscosities in the molten state of at least 500 poises, are facilely prepared by copolymerizing (I) admixture of a lactam having from 4 to 12 carbon atoms with a solution of a salt of a fatty acid dimer and a polyoxyalkylenediamine in a solvent medium comprising (i) a mixture of water and an aliphatic alcohol having less than 5 carbon atoms, (ii) a water/alcohol/lactam mixture, (iii) a lactam in molten state or (iv) a water/lactam mixture wherein the lactam is water soluble, the stoichiometry of said salt being adjusted such that the pH thereof is within .+-.0.05 pH units of its equivalence point and (II) a minor amount of a strong inorganic oxyacid or a strong organic oxyacid other than a carboxylic acid.

Abstract: Polymer compositions comprising a mixture of vinyl chloride polymer and polyetherurethane with tertiary amine and/or ammonium groups. The compositions can be converted into shaped articles, e.g. tubes, cannulae, catheters and the like useful in the medical field.

Abstract: Polymer compositions and processes consisting of mixture of vinyl chloride polymer and polyether urethane with tertiary amine and/or ammonium groups and heparin. The compositions can be converted into shaped articles, e.g. tubes, cannulae, catheters and the like useful in the medical field.

Abstract: Flexible, homogeneous and transparent copolyamides comprise the polycondensation products of adipic acid, fatty acid dimer and hexamethylenediamine, the molar ratio of weight adipic acid to weight of total acid in each ranging from about 0.5 to 0.99, and that point obtained by plotting, along the abscissa, such molar fraction of adipic acid versus, along the ordinate, any individual copolyamide melting point, falling within that area A B C D outlined on the attached Figure of Drawing. The subject copolyamides are prepared either by polycondensing a homogenized prepolymer thereof, or by directly copolycondensing a homogeneous, inert solvent solution of monomers. The homogeneous and transparent copolyamides exhibit improved flexibility and high tenacity coupled with good resistance to hydrolysis and good heat resistance, with the copolyamides being useful for providing shaped articles such as moldings, films or filaments of marked uniformity via injection molding, extrusion or spinning.

Abstract: Polymer compositions of a mixture of vinyl chloride polymer and polyurethane with tertiary amine and/or ammonium groups and heparin.

Abstract: Polymer compositions comprising a mixture of vinyl chloride polymer and polyetherurethane with tertiary amine and/or ammonium groups. The compositions can be converted into shaped articles, e.g. tubes, cannulae, catheters and the like useful in the medical field.

Abstract: A process for preparing polymers compositions of a mixture of vinyl chloride polymer and polyurethane with tertiary amine and/or ammonium groups.

Abstract: Provided are heat-stable polyphase polyamido compositions having improved mechanical properties which comprise (i) from 50 to 99% by weight of a nylon polyamide resin matrix and (ii) from 1 to 50% by weight of a particulate disperse phase comprising a polyamide incompatible with the polyamide resin matrix, and methods for the preparation thereof. Shaped articles comprising said compositions exhibit improved physical properties, particularly with regard to impact strength.

Abstract: Flexible, homogeneous and transparent copolyamides comprise the polycondensation products of adipic acid, fatty acid dimer and hexamethylenediamine, the molar ratio of weight adipic acid to weight of total acid in each ranging from about 0.5 to 0.99, and that point obtained by plotting, along the abscissa, such molar fraction of adipic acid versus, along the ordinate, any individual copolyamide melting point, falling within that area A B C D outlined on the attached FIGURE of Drawing. The subject copolyamides are prepared either by polycondensing a homogenized prepolymer thereof, or by directly copolycondensing a homogeneous, inert solvent solution of monomers. The homogeneous and transparent copolyamides exhibit improved flexibility and high tenacity coupled with good resistance to hydrolysis and good heat resistance, with the copolyamides being useful for providing shaped articles such as moldings, films or filaments of marked uniformity via injection molding, extrusion or spinning.

Abstract: Heat-stable polyphase polyamido compositions having improved mechanical properties are comprised of (i) from 55 to 99% by weight of a nylon polyamide resin matrix, said polyamide resin having a number-average molecular weight of at least 5,000, and (ii) from 1 to 45% by weight of a particulate disperse phase, said particulates having a particle size ranging from 0.01 to 10.mu., and said disperse phase comprising a polyesteramide having a content in amide groups of less than 40% of the amide groups comprising said polyamide matrix resin and a glass transition temperature of less than 5.degree. C.

Abstract: Random or regularly recurring block polyesteramides having glass transition temperatures at least as low as -30.degree. C. are prepared from (i) essentially difunctional monomers comprising at least one carboxylic acid function, or ester/amide-forming derivative thereof, at least 1 mol % of which comprising dicarboxylic acids or such derivatives thereof and having from 20 to 60 carbon atoms, with the amount of monofunctional carboxylic acids comprising said carboxyl monomers being less than about 1% by weight and the amount of carboxylic acids having in excess of two functional groups being less than about 5% by weight, and (ii) a member selected from the group consisting of dihydroxyl and diamino comonomers therefor, or aminoalcohol comonomers, or mixtures of diamino and aminoalcohol comonomers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a two-constituent textile filament.It consists of a polyhexamethyleneadipamide and a copolyamide containing amide groups, which is produced from caprolactam and from at least one difunctional amide-forming reactant having a saturated long chain.It can be used in the textile field and particularly in the knitted garment trade.

Abstract: Copolyamides are polycondensed from a polymerization recipe including caprolactam, dimeric fatty acid and hexamethylenediamine, said dimeric fatty acid having an iodine number of less than 30, containing less than about 0.5% by weight of its monobasic fatty acid precursor, and not more than 5% of such acid having a basicity of greater than 2, and said dimeric fatty acid and the hexamethylenediamine being present in the recipe as a solvent solution of an essentially stoichiometrically balanced salt. The resultant copolyamides are essentially linear, flexible, display improved chemical and mechanical properties, and have high molecular weights and high melting points, and are easily shaped into a variety of useful articles, e.g., by molding or spinning.

Abstract: Polyurethanes are rendered resistant to heat and oxidation by addition, as stabiliser, of a hydroxylic spiro-bis-indane of the formula: ##SPC1##In which each of the R.sub.1 radicals which may be identical or different; represents a methyl or ethyl radical, and each of Z.sub.1, Z.sub.2, Z.sub.3, Z.sub.4, Z.sub.5 and Z.sub.6, which may be identical or different, represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group an alkyl radical, an alkoxy radical or a halogen atom.