Patents by Inventor Nigel Sheilds

Nigel Sheilds 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: 5270387
    Abstract: A rubber-modified, rigid, heat- and impact resistant polymer composition comprising:(a) an interpolymer comprising monovinylidene aromatic monomer, maleimide monomer and ethylenically unsaturated nitrile monomer polymerized therein; and(b) from about 7 to about 25 weight percent of a first graft copolymer prepared by an emulsion process and comprising from about 30 to about 70 weight percent of a copolymer (A) comprising in polymerized form from about 10 to about 60 weight percent of an ethylenically unsaturated nitrile monomer and from about 40 to about 90 weight percent of a copolymerizable monovinylidene aromatic monomer, the copolymer (A) being grafted at least in part to a rubbery substrate polymer (B) which is from about 30 to about 70 percent of the graft copolymer by weight and has a rubber particle size distribution wherein the average particle size is from about 0.05 to about 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: Nigel Sheilds, Gerard B. van de Langkruis