Patents by Inventor Max Weaver

Max Weaver 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: 4826903
    Abstract: Composition useful for molding into articles such as food containers, beverage bottles, cured structural plastics and the like comprising molding grade linear or unsaturated polyester or polycarbonate (a) containing a mono-4-acryloxystyryl or bis-4-acyloxystyryl compound or (b) having reacted therewith or copolymerized therein a styryl residue derived from a mono-4-acryloxystyryl or bis-4-acyloxystyryl compound, having the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 represent the acyl radical and the other radicals are as defined in the specification.Preferred compositions comprise a linear polyester containing a styryl residue as an integral part of the polymer chain. The styryl residues absorb ultraviolet radiation in the range of about 250 to about 390 nm. The residues are non-extractable from the polymer and stable at the conditions at which the polymers are manufactured and processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Max A. Weaver, Samuel D. Hilbert, Wayne P. Pruett, Clarence A. Coates, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4808677
    Abstract: Disclosed are colored compositions useful for molding into articles such as food containers, beverage bottles, cured structural plastics and the like comprising condensation polymer having reacted therewith or copolymerized therein a coloring amount of the residue of a colorant compound having the formula; ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is ##STR2## carbonyl halide or an unsubstituted or substituted carbocyclic or hetrocyclic aryl radical;R.sup.2 is hydrogen or an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl or acyl radical;R.sup.3 is any of the substituents which R.sup.1 may represent; andA.sup.1 and A.sup.2 each is the residue of a fused benzene ring; whereinR.sup.4 is hydrogen, allyl or an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl radical; andR.sup.5 is hydrogen or an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl radical; provided the colorant compound bears at least one substituent that is reactive with one of the monomers from which the condensation polymer is derived.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1989
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Max A. Weaver, Clarence A. Coates, Jr., Wayne P. Pruett, Samuel D. Hilbert
  • Patent number: 4804719
    Abstract: Water-dispersible polymeric material such as polyesters and poly(ester-amides) containing water-solubilizing sulfonate groups and having reacted onto or into the polymer backbone from about 0.01 to about 40 mol % based on the total of all reactant hydroxy, carboxy or amino equivalents, of colorant comprising one or more heat stable organic compounds initially having one or more condensable groups, the polymeric material comprising the reaction residues of organic monomers and said colorant compounds containing one or more reactive groups condensable under polymerization conditions. This material is useful, for example, for printing inks or other coatings which are desireably applied from an aqueous system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1989
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Max A. Weaver, L. Jane Adams
  • Patent number: 4803241
    Abstract: A composition useful for molding into articles such as food containers, soft drink bottles, cured structural plastics and the like, comprising molding grade linear or unsaturated polyester or polycarbonate having reacted or copolymerized therein the residue of one or a mixture of styrylbenzazole reactants of the formula: ##STR1## wherein A is the residue of a benzene ring of a benzoxazole, benzothiazole or benzionidazole radical; X is --O--, --S-- or --N(R.sup.2)--; Ph is a phenylene radical; and R.sup.1 is halogen or --Y--R.sup.2 in which Y is --O-- or --N(R.sup.2)-- and each R.sup.2 is hydrogen, alkenyl or an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl radical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1989
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Max A. Weaver, Wayne P. Pruett, Samuel D. Hilbert, Robert D. Burpitt
  • Patent number: 4791188
    Abstract: Composition useful for molding into articles such as food containers, beverage bottles, cured structural plastics and the like comprising molding grade linear or unsaturaged polyester or polycarbonate having reacted therewith or copolymerized therein the residue of one or more benzodioxylmethine compounds having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is cyano, carboxy, alkenyloxycarbonyl or an unsubstituted or substituted alkoxycarbonyl, cycloalkoxycarbonyl or aryloxycarbonyl radical;R.sup.2 is one of the groups specified for R.sup.1 or an unsubstituted or substituted aryl, carbamoyl, alkanoyl, cycloalkanoyl, aroyl, alkylsulfonyl, cycloalkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl or heterocyclic aryl radical;R.sup.3 is hydrogen or an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl radical;R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1988
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Max A. Weaver, Wayne P. Pruett, Samuel D. Hilbert
  • Patent number: 4775760
    Abstract: Novel substituted isoquinoline compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is lower alkyl,R.sub.1 is lower alkylene, 1-3 lower alkyleneoxy groups or lower alkylenethio, andX is one or more substitutents selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl, carbalkoxy, carboxy and acyloxy.These novel substituted isoquinolines can be used as dyes, toners or color bodies, and in particular as toners for polyesters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1988
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Wayne P. Pruett, Samuel D. Hilbert, John G. Thompson, Max A. Weaver
  • Patent number: 4749774
    Abstract: Composition useful for molding into articles which as food containers, beverage bottles, cured structural plastics and the like comprising molding grade linear or unsaturated polyester or polycarbonate having reacted therewith or copolymerized therein the residue of one or more poly-methine compounds having the formula: ##STR1## wherein each R.sup.1 is independently selected from cyano, carboxy, alkenyloxycarbonyl, or a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxycarbonyl, cycloalkoxoycarbonyl or aryloxycarbonyl radical;each R.sup.2 is independently selected from one of the groups specified for R.sup.1 or an unsubstituted or substituted aryl, carbamoyl, alkanoyl, cycloalkanoyl, aroyl, alkylsulfonyl, cycloalkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl or aromatic, heterocyclic radical;each R.sup.3 is independently selected from hydrogen or an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl radical;A.sup.1 and A.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1988
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Max A. Weaver, Clarence A. Coates, Jr., Wayne P. Pruett, Samuel D. Hilbert
  • Patent number: 4749773
    Abstract: A composition useful for molding into articles such as food containers, soft drink bottles, cured structural plastics and the like, comprising molding grade linear or unsaturated polyester or polycarbonate having reacted or copolymerized therein a total of from 100 to about 800 ppm, of the residue of one or a mixture of methine reactants of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen or an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl or aryl radical;A.sup.1 is an unsubstituted or substituted phenylene radical;A.sup.2 is an unsubstituted or substituted 1,4-phenylene radical;R.sup.2 is hydrogen or an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl radical;R.sup.3 is cyano or ##STR2## and R.sup.4 is one of the substituents which R.sup.3 can represent or an unsubstituted or substituted carbamoyl, alkanoyl, aroyl, alkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl, aryl or aromatic heterocyclic radicals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1988
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Max A. Weaver, Wayne P. Pruett, Samuel D. Hilbert, Clarence A. Coates, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4749772
    Abstract: A composition useful for molding into articles such as food containers, soft drink bottles, cured structural plastics and the like, comprising molding or fiber grade linear or unsaturated polyester or polycarbonate having copolymerized therein a total of from 1.0 to about 5,000 ppm, of the residue of one or a mixture of methine reactants of the formula ##STR1## wherein A is an unsubstituted or substituted 2-furanyl, 2-thienyl or 3-thienyl radical;R.sup.1 is hydrogen or a unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl radical; andR.sup.2 is hydrogen or an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl or aryl radical.The methine residues are present in the polymer as an integral part of the polymer chain and absorb ultraviolet radiation in the range of about 150 to about 390 nm. The residues are non-extractable from the polymer and stable at the conditions at which the polymers are manufactured and processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1988
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Max A. Weaver, Wayne P. Pruett, Samuel D. Hilbert
  • Patent number: 4745174
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel fiber forming polyester compositions that exhibit improved whiteness by incorporating derivatives of dibenzoisoquinolinediones of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen, cycloalkyl, allyl, alkyl, aralkyl, alkoxyalkyl or cycloalkylalkylene;R.sub.1 is hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkylthio or arylthio;R.sub.2 is hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkylthio, arylthio, carbalkoxy, carbaryloxy, carbaralkyloxy, carboxy, sulfamoyl, alkylsulfamoyl, dialkylsulfamoyl, alkylarylsulfamoyl, cycloalkylsulfamoyl, arylsulfamoyl, carbamoyl, alkylcarbamoyl, dialkylcarbamoyl, alkylarylcarbamoyl, cycloalkylcarbamoyl, arylcarbamoyl, 2-pyrrolidono, acylamido or N-alkylacylamido;R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1988
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Wayne P. Pruett, Samuel D. Hilbert, John G. Thompson, Max A. Weaver
  • Patent number: 4745173
    Abstract: A composition useful for molding into articles such as food containers, soft drink bottles, cured structural plastics and the like, comprising molding or fiber grade linear or unsaturated polyester or polycarbonate having copolymerized therein a total of from 1.0 to about 20,000 ppm, of the reactant residue moieties of one or a mixture of colorants of the formula ##STR1## wherein: each R when present as a substituent, is selected from alkyl, aralkyl, cycloaliphatic, aryl, or the like; and Y is hydroxyl, alkoxy, halogen or the like completing a condensable group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1988
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Max A. Weaver, Wayne P. Pruett, Samuel D. Hilbert
  • Patent number: 4740581
    Abstract: Condensation polymers including linear polyester, unsaturated polyester, and polycarbonate types, wherein certain 3H-dibenzo-[f,ij] isoquinoline-2,7-dione colorants are copolymerized (condensed) into the polymer to impart a wide range of colors from yellow to blue thereto. These colorants are fast to ultraviolet and visible light, are thermally stable and nonsublimable at the polymer processing (includes preparation) temperatures, and are nonextractable therefrom, rendering the polymers particularly suitable for use as beverage bottles and food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic containers, as well as in producer colored fibers.The colorants have the formula ##STR1## wherein: X is --O--, --S-- or --NH--; --X--R.sub.1 --Z in combination is hydrogen or halogen; R.sub.1 is selected from alkyl, aryl, cycloalkyl or the like, and when X is --O-- or --NH--, --R.sub.1 --Z also can be hydrogen; each of R.sub.1, Rhd 2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1988
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Wayne P. Pruett, Samuel D. Hilbert, Max A. Weaver
  • Patent number: 4707537
    Abstract: Polyester compositions useful in formed articles such as beverage bottles and having condensation reacted therein at least one UV-absorbing compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein X is hydroxyl, carboxy, carbalkoxy, substituted carbalkoxy, or acyloxy; Y is cyano, carbamyl, substituted carbamyl, aryl, acyl, alkylsulfonyl, substituted alkylsulfonyl, phenylsulfonyl, or substituted phenylsulfonyl; R is selected from -alkylene-O-alkylene-, -alkylene-S-alkylene-, -alkylene-N(-SO.sub.2 alkyl)-alkylene-, straight or branched chain alkylene or such alkylene substituted with an X substituent; and R.sub.1 is hydrogen or 1-3 groups selected from alkyl, alkoxy and halogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1987
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Wayne P. Pruett, Richard H. S. Wang, Samuel D. Hilbert, Max A. Weaver
  • Patent number: 4701439
    Abstract: A yellow dye-donor element for thermal dye transfer comprises a support having thereon a yellow dye dispersed in a polymeric binder, the yellow dye having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group of from 1 to about 10 carbon atoms; a cycloalkyl group of from about 5 to about 7 carbon atoms; or represents the atoms which when taken together with Z forms a 5- or 6-membered ring;R.sup.1 is an alkylene or substituted alkylene group;X is --OJO--, --OJ--, --JO--, --OJNR.sup.3 --, --NR.sup.3 J--, --NR.sup.3 JNR.sup.3, --JNR.sup.3 -- or --NR.sup.3 JO--;J is CO or SO.sub.2 ;R.sup.3 is hydrogen; a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group of from 1 to about 10 carbon atoms; a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group of from about 6 to about 10 carbon atoms; or represents the atoms which when taken together with R.sup.2 forms a 5- or 6-membered ring;R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1987
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Max A. Weaver, William H. Moore, Kin K. Lum
  • Patent number: 4698651
    Abstract: A magenta dye-donor element for thermal dye transfer comprises a support having thereon a magenta dye dispersed in a polymeric binder, the magenta dye comprising a substituted 5-arylazoisothiazole.In a preferred embodiment, the magenta dye has the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may each independently be hydrogen, alkyl, allyl, cycloalkyl or aryl; or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be taken together to form a ring; or R.sup.1 or R.sup.2 may be part of a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring;R.sup.3 may be hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, alkylthio or halogen;J may be alkyl, aryl or NHA, where A is an acyl or sulfonyl radical; andQ may be cyano, thiocyanato, alkylthio or alkoxycarbonyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1987
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: William H. Moore, Max A. Weaver, Kin K. Lum
  • Patent number: 4661566
    Abstract: Compositions comprising polyester or polycarbonate having reacted therein a total of from about 1.0 to about 5,000 parts by weight per million parts by weight of polyester of at least one UV absorbing compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is alkyl or the like, X is carbonyl or sulfonyl, R.sup.1 is hydrogen or a substituent, and Y and Z are hydrogen or substituents such as cyano or alkoxycarbonyl, with the provision that at least one of R, R.sup.1, Y, and Z is, or forms part of, or contains one or more reactive groups capable of undergoing a condensation reaction under polyester forming conditions, such that the UV absorbing compound is reacted into the polymer. The compound has a maximum light absorbance within the range of from about 320 nm to about 380 nm, which is nonextractable from the polyester and stable under the polyester processing conditions, for imparting UV screening properties to the polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1987
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Wayne P. Pruett, Richard H. S. Wang, Samuel D. Hilbert, Max A. Weaver
  • Patent number: 4650861
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel azo dyes containing a 4-nitropyrazole azo moiety which may be substituted, for example, with an alkyl group which itself may be substituted, and an aniline coupler which may be substituted. The dyes produce bright red shades on hydrophobic textile fiber including polyesters, polyamides, and cellulose esters and show unexpected improvements in one or more of such properties as fastness to light, wash, ozone, gas such as oxides of nitrogen, perspiration, crock and sublimation, dyeability at desirable low energy levels to deep shades, build, pH stability, bloom resistance, leveling, migration, dye bath exhaustion, dye transfer, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1987
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Max A. Weaver, Gary T. Clark, Bill A. Eller
  • Patent number: 4617373
    Abstract: Molding or fiber grade condensation polymer having copolymerized therein a total of from 1.0 to about 5,000 ppm of at least one methine moiety having one or more methine units defined as "the group >C.dbd.C< conjoined with a conjugated aromatic system," said moiety absorbing in the range of from about 350 nm to about 650 nm, and being nonextractable from said polymer and stable under the polymer processing conditions. The moieties preferably have molecular weights of from about 200 to about 600 although lower and higher molecular weights are also operable and are derived from reactants (monomers) having one or more groups such as hydroxyl, carboxyl, carboxylic ester, acid halide, amino and the like which condense during condensation or polycondensation to enter the moiety into the polymer chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1986
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Wayne P. Pruett, Richard H. S. Wang, Samuel D. Hilbert, Max A. Weaver
  • Patent number: 4617374
    Abstract: Polyester compositions useful in formed articles such as beverage bottles and having condensation reacted therein at least one UV-absorbing compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein: R is hydrogen, alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl, cycloalkyl, substituted cycloalkyl, or alkenyl;R.sup.1 is hydrogen, or alkyl, aryl, or cycloalkyl, all of which may be substituted;R.sup.2 is hydrogen, or alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl, all of which may be substituted;R.sup.3 is hydrogen or 1-3 substituents; andP is cyano or a group such as carbamoyl, aryl, alkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl, alkanoyl or aroyl, all of which groups may be substituted;whereby the polyester composition has maximum light radiation absorbance within the range of from about 320 nm to about 380 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1986
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Wayne P. Pruett, Richard H. S. Wang, Samuel D. Hilbert, Max A. Weaver
  • Patent number: 4579938
    Abstract: Thiophen-2-ylazopyrazole dyes useful for dyeing polyesters, cellulose acetate esters, and polyamides in fast yellow shades have the general formula ##STR1## wherein: X is a substituent such as alkyl, allyloxy, alkoxy, aryl, aryloxy, amino, alkylamino, arylamino, cyclohexyloxy, thienyl, cycloalkylamino, or the like; Y is hydrogen, alkyl, or aryl; Z is alkyl, aryl, alkylsulfonyl, 2-benzothiazolyl, cyano or COX; R and R.sub.1 are alkyl or aryl; R.sub.2 is hydrogen, or a substituent such as alkyl, aryl, acyl, benzothiazolyl, pyridyl, sulfolanyl, thiocarbamyl, carbamyl, alkoxycarbonyl, aroyl, or the like; wherein the hydrocarbon moieties of the above radicals may be substituted with up to three of --OH, alkoxy, hydroxyalkoxy, carbamyl, or the like; and wherein the dye molecule contains at least one SO.sub.3 M, OSO.sub.3 M, or SSO.sub.3 M water-solubilizing group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1986
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Max A. Weaver