Abstract: The invention relates to a form for the rotary machine printing, coating or imprinting of web-shaped materials and a method of producing the form wherein at a carrier having a cylindrical surface area an elastomer layer is attached which after curing at the outer circumference thereof is machined and engaged to result in a cylindrical shape. Furthermore the invention is characterized in that the elastomer layer is formed of a hot cure single-constituent or two-constituent silicone polymer.

Abstract: A process for producing a composite article from at least one polar thermoplastic, in particular an engineering thermoplastic, and from at least one foamed or unfoamed polyurethane elastomer, where a molding is firstly molded from the thermoplastic, and some or all of this is provided with an adhesion promoter based on acrylic-resin lacquer or polyurethane-resin lacquer comprising solvents, and then a coating which may be in full-surface or strip form or at least one other molding made from the polyurethane elastomer is used for overmolding, and the thermoplastic material is thus bonded to the polyurethane material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a form for the rotary printing, coating or imprinting of web-shaped materials and a method of producing the form wherein an elastomer layer is applied onto a carrier with a cylindrical surface area with the layer machined and engraved at the outer circumference to result in a cylindrical shape after curing. The form according to the invention is characterized in that the elastomer layer is formed of cold cure material. The engraving of the elastomer layer preferably is attained by laser engraving.

Abstract: Polyvinyl chloride surfaces receive a well-adhering, water and ethanol resistant coating with good plasticizer sealing effect by varnishing with an aqueous dispersion of (meth)acrylate polymers that are synthesized from 10 to 90% by weight acrylic and/or methacrylic acid alkyl or cycloalkyl esters with 1 to 10 carbon atoms in the ester group, 90 to 10% by weight acrylic and/or methacrylic acid esters with aromatic groups constituting or contained in the ester group, and small quantities of other monomers. The copolymers are preferably emulsion polymerized and may be synthesized as multiple-phase polymers according to the core-shell model.

Abstract: Varnishing plastic surfaces with a clear or pigmented aqueous dispersion of a (meth)acrylate copolymer of (a) 20 to 90% by weight of acrylic and/or methacrylic acid alkyl or cycloalkyl esters with 1 to 10 carbon atoms in the ester group; (b) 80 to 10% by weight of acrylic and/or methacrylic acid esters with aromatic groups as the ester group or containing aromatic groups in the ester group; and (c) optionally, small quantities of other monomers, results in the formation of a firmly adhering, water and alcohol resistant finish. The copolymers are preferably emulsion polymers and are synthesized as multiple-phase polymers according to the core-shell model.

Abstract: The invention relates to the stabilization of the activity and/or the reactivation of molybdoheteropoly acid catalysts in vapor-phase oxidations, such as the oxidehydrogenation of isobutyric acid or its lower esters to methacrylic acid or its lower esters, by means of an oxidizing treatment of the catalyst in which compounds of catalyst constituents are added, at temperatures ranging from 200.degree. to 400.degree. C., with an oxygen-containing gas.The inventive activation measures can be carried out either during the catalytic vapor-phase reaction, such as oxihydrogenation in particular, or intermittently to alternate therewith, and optionally also physically separated in part from each other.

Abstract: A film-forming, self-crosslinking aqueous synthetic resin dispersion with reduced liberation of formaldehyde contains an emulsion polymer composed of(A) a major portion of an ethylenically unsaturated, free radically polymerizable monomer giving a polymer or copolymer with a glass transition temperature not exceeding 120.degree. C.,(B) N-methylolacrylamide or methacrylamide,(C) optionally further ethylenically unsaturated, free radically polymerizable monomers, and(D) an ethylenically unsaturated, free radically polymerizable monomer carrying a ureido group.

Abstract: Catalysts containing molybdenum, vanadium, phosphorus, and oxygen, optionally together with one or more metal ions, as their active constituents, are preferably disposed on an inert carrier for the oxidative dehydrogenation of isobutyric acid or its lower esters to methacrylic acid or its lower esters.

Abstract: Methods for providing temporary protective coatings on mechanic objects by applying thereto an aqueous emulsion of a lipophilic poly(meth)acrylate polymer predominately including esters of alcohols having at least four carbon atoms and then removing said temporary coatings when desired with an organic solvent which, with the polymer dissolved therein, is conveniently disposed of by combustion.

Abstract: The inventive vehicle, or binder, for water based gloss paints contains, dispersed in a aqueous phase, particles of a multiphase emulsion polymer made up of(a) core material having a glass transition temperature exceeding 40.degree. C. and(b) a shell material having a glass transition temperature of less than 70.degree. C. and at least 20 K. below that of the core material.The particles have an average diameter of less than 200 nm. The composition of the shell material includes an emulsion polymer with at least 4 percent by weight of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid and more than 80 percent by weight of one or more monomers from the group consisting of styrene and alkyl esters of acrylic and/or methacrylic acid. Paint coats produced with this vehicle are distinguished by a high blocking point.

Abstract: Catalysts having an improved long-term activity behavior in the oxydehydrogenation of, for example, isobutyric acid to methacrylic acid, are prepared from heteropolyacids of molybdenum or from their metal salt derivatives by the concurrent use of a water soluble organic compound which is of low volatility or is practically non-volatile, such as a polymer, followed by calcination of the preparation at 200.degree. C. to 400.degree. C. in the presence of oxygen.

Abstract: Method for regenerating catalysts containing molybdenum, phosphorus, and vanadium in oxidic association and useful for the oxydehydrogenation of isobutyric acid or its lower esters to form methacrylic acid or its lower esters, by oxidizing the spent catalyst with an oxygen containing gas at temperatures from 200.degree. C. to 400.degree. C., suitably intermittently and in alternation with oxydehydrogenation.

Abstract: Method for making alpha, beta-unsaturated carboxylic acid anhydrides by carbonylation of esters of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid in the presence of a catalyst system containing at least one noble metal from group VIII of the periodic table, for example rhodium, the reaction being carried out at 70.degree. C. to 350.degree. C. and at pressures from 1 to 500 bar in the presence of a halogen or of a halogen compound, and in particular of iodine or an iodine compound, as a promoter.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of (meth)acrylamidomethylphosphonic acid diesters of formula I:H.sub.2 C.dbd.C(R.sub.1)--CO--N(R.sub.2)--CH.sub.2 --P(O)(OR.sub.3)(OR.sub.4) (I)is disclosed. In the above formula, R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom or methyl group. R.sub.2 is a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group (which can be substituted) or a C.sub.3 -C.sub.4 alkenyl group. R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are each independently a phenyl group, or an alkyl group (which can be substituted) having 1-4 C atoms. Or R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 together form an alkylene group which forms a 5- or 7-membered ring with the oxygen atoms and the phosphorus atoms.The process is based on reacting a N-methylol derivative of (meth)acrylamide with a phosphorous acid triester, in which a N-methylol ether of a (meth)acrylamide is used. The reaction can be advantageously catalyzed by Lewis acids.

Abstract: A process for the production of diesters of oxalic acid by oxidative carbonylation of alcohols with carbon monoxide and oxygen as oxidizer at pressures of 1 to 700 atmospheres and in a temperature range between 20.degree. and 250.degree. C. in a reaction phase containing the alcohol and, as catalyst, palladium and at least one metal halide in catalytically effective amounts, whereby a catalyst system is used which consists of palladium, at least one metal halide, and an activated carbon which has been pretreated before use by heating to 200.degree.-1,500.degree. C. in a gas atmosphere G, differing from air.The gas atmosphere G, differing from air, consists, preferably, of at least one of the gases (a) nitrogen; (b) nitrogen compounds, except those with nitrogen-oxygen bonds; or (c) carbon monoxide; and may optionally contain an accompanying gas.