Patents by Inventor Richard M. Nugent

Richard M. Nugent 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: 5639848
    Abstract: An ungelled thermoplastic resin having gas barrier properties and containing at least 7 percent by weight of amine nitrogen is derived via the reaction of a polyamine devoid of oxyalkylene moieties and containing up to about two primary amino nitrogen groups per molecule and a polyepoxide in a molar ratio of polyamine to polyepoxide of from 1.4:1 to 0.83:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Nugent, Jr., Ken W. Niederst, Jerome A. Seiner
  • Patent number: 5573819
    Abstract: Barrier materials for reducing the permeability of plastic packaging materials are provided, characterized as containing at least about seven percent by weight amine nitrogen, or a total of at least about 17 percent amine nitrogen plus hydroxyl groups. The barrier materials exhibit oxygen permeability of less than about 1.5 cc-mil/100 in.sup.2 -day-atmosphere and a carbon dioxide permeability of less than about 15 cc-mil/100 in.sup.2 -day-atmosphere at 23.degree. C. and zero percent relative humidity. The barrier material can be formed from polyepoxide and polyamine. Optionally the polyamine may comprise prereacted polymeric resin formed from a polyepoxide and a polyamine. Multilayer packaging materials and multilayer containers including the polyamine-polyepoxide barrier material are part of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Nugent, Jr., Ken W. Niederst, Jerome A. Seiner
  • Patent number: 5491204
    Abstract: Barrier materials for reducing the permeability of plastic packaging materials are provided, characterized as containing at least about seven percent by weight amine nitrogen, or a total of at least about 17 percent amine nitrogen plus hydroxyl groups. The barrier materials exhibit oxygen permeability of less than about 1.5 cc-mil/100 in.sup.2 -day-atmosphere and a carbon dioxide permeability of less than about 15 cc-mil/100 in.sup.2 -day-atmosphere at 23.degree. C. and zero percent relative humidity. The barrier material is formed from a polyepoxide, a polyamine and an alkanolamine. Optionally the polyamine may comprise prereacted polymeric resin formed from a polyepoxide and a polyamine. Multilayer packaging materials and multilayer containers including the polyamine-polyepoxide barrier material are part of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1996
    Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Nugent, Jr., Ken W. Niederst, Jerome A. Seiner
  • Patent number: 5489455
    Abstract: A container is composed of one at least one layer of a gas-permeable polymeric material such as a polyolefin, polycarbonate or a polyester and at least one layer of a polymeric gas barrier material containing at least seven percent by weight of amine nitrogen derived from the reaction product of a polyamine and a polyepoxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1996
    Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Nugent, Jr., Ken W. Niederst, Jerome A. Seiner
  • Patent number: 5438109
    Abstract: Barrier materials for reducing the permeability of plastic packaging materials are provided, characterized as containing at least about seven percent by weight amine nitrogen, or a total of at least about 17 percent amine nitrogen plus hydroxyl groups. The barrier materials exhibit oxygen permeability of less than about 1.5 cc-mil/100 in.sup.2 -day-atmosphere and a carbon dioxide permeability of less than about 15 cc-mil/100 in.sup.2 -day-atmosphere at 23.degree. C. and zero percent relative humidity. The barrier material can be formed from polyepoxide and polyamine. Optionally the polyamine may comprise prereacted polymeric resin formed from a polyepoxide and a polyamine. Multilayer packaging materials and multilayer containers including the polyamine-polyepoxide barrier material are part of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Nugent, Jr., Ken W. Niederst, Jerome A. Seiner
  • Patent number: 5300541
    Abstract: Barrier materials for reducing the permeability of plastic packaging materials are provided, characterized as containing at least about seven percent by weight amine nitrogen, or a total of at least about 17 percent amine nitrogen plus hydroxyl groups. The barrier materials exhibit oxygen permeability of less than about 1.5 cc-mil/100 in.sup.2 -day-atmosphere and a carbon dioxide permeability of less than about 15 cc-mil/100 in.sup.2 -day-atmosphere at 23.degree. C. and zero percent relative humidity. The barrier material can be formed from polyepoxide and polyamine. Optionally the polyamine may comprise prereacted polymeric resin formed from a polyepoxide and a polyamine. Multilayer packaging materials and multilayer containers including the polyamine-polyepoxide barrier material are part of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1994
    Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Nugent, Jr., Ken W. Niederst, Jerome A. Seiner
  • Patent number: 5108832
    Abstract: Disclosed is an intumescent curable composition which contains as a resinous binder a flexible polyepoxide resin. The polyepoxide is cured with an appropriate curing agent adapted for the particular resin. An additive component is present which contains a mixture of materials which provide a source of(i) zinc,(ii) boron,(iii) phosphorus, and(iv) an expansion gas upon thermal decomposition. The composition is capable of forming a carbonaceous char upon exposure to heat or flame, with the proviso that the cured, unburned composition has sufficient flexibility that is passes at least 10 continuous cycles of a cold cycle test without cracking. The cold cycle test involves the following steps: the composition is applied at a thickness of 0.5 inch (12.7 millimeters) to a 10 inch (0.0254 meter) section of a 4W13 I-beam having two thermocouples attached to the surface, allowed to cure at ambient temperature for 16 hours, force cured for 5 days at about 60.degree. C. and subjected to the cold cycle test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1992
    Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Nugent, Jr., Thomas A. Ward, Paul P. Greigger, Jerome A. Seiner
  • Patent number: 5070119
    Abstract: Disclosed is an intumescent curable composition which contains as a resinous binder a flexible polyepoxide resin. The polyepoxide is cured with an appropriate curing agent adapted for the particular resin. An additive component is present which contains a mixture of materials which provide a source of(i) zinc,(ii) boron,(iii) phosphorus, and(iv) an expansion gas upon thermal decomposition. The composition is capable of forming a carbonaceous char upon exposure to heat or flame, with the proviso that the cured, unburned composition has sufficient flexibility that it passes at least 10 continuous cycles of a cold cycle test without cracking. The cold cycle test involves the following steps; the composition is applied at a thickness of 0.5 inch (12.7 millimeters) to a 10 inch (0.254 meter) section of a 4W13 I-beam having two thermocouples attached to the surface, allowed to cure at ambient temperature for 16 hours, force cured for 5 days at about 60.degree. C. an subjected to the cold cycle test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1991
    Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Nugent, Jr., Thomas A. Ward, Paul D. Greigger, Jerome A. Seiner
  • Patent number: 5008137
    Abstract: Multilayer packaging materials and multilayer containers including a barrier material having excellent resistance to gas permeability are provided. The multilayer packaging materials and containers include at least one permeable polymeric material and at least one layer of a barrier material which is a reaction product of: (i) an ungelled amine-functional polymeric resin, which is a reaction product of a polyamine and a polyfunctional material having at least two functional groups reactive with said polyamine, the ungelled polymeric resin further containing an average of greater than two polyamine moieties per molecule within said resin; and (ii) a material selected from the group consisting of a polyepoxide, a polyoxalate or mixtures thereof, the barrier material characterized as containing at least about four percent by weight amine nitrogen and having an oxygen permeability of less than about 3 cc-mil/100 in.sup.2 -day-atmosphere and a carbon dioxide permeability of less than about 15 cc-mil/100 in.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1991
    Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Nugent, Jr., Ken W. Niederst, Jerome A. Seiner
  • Patent number: 5006381
    Abstract: Ungelled thermoplastic resins, coating compositions of such resins and multilayer containers and packaging films including a layer of an ungelled thermoplastic resin are disclosed. The ungelled thermoplastic resins are reaction products of polyepoxides with polyamines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Nugent, Jr., Ken W. Niederst, Jerome A. Seiner
  • Patent number: 4652605
    Abstract: A polymeric reaction product, a process for its preparation and a coating composition containing the reaction product as a binder are described. The polymeric reaction product is prepared by the vinyl addition polymerization of a vinyl monomer component of which at least 50 percent by weight is an active hydrogen-containing vinyl monomer in the presence of a polymeric diluent. The rate of polymerization is controlled such that the amount of unreacted vinyl monomer, on the average, does not exceed 10 percent by weight of the total weight of the reaction mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1987
    Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Wen-Hsuan Chang, Michael M. Chau, J. Alden Erikson, Robert J. Lipinski, David T. McKeough, Richard M. Nugent, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4617331
    Abstract: There is herein provided an aqueous dispersion of a resinous composition which is water-solubilized with a metal compound such as a metal salt, an example of which is zinc acetate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1986
    Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: William G. Boberski, Richard M. Nugent, Jeffrey G. Koren
  • Patent number: 4292155
    Abstract: Cationic electrodeposition employing novel chain-extended cationic resinous products is disclosed. The products are formed by chain extending polyepoxides with polymercapto compounds and reacting with amines to provide cationic groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1981
    Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph F. Bosso, Richard M. Nugent, Joseph E. Plasynski
  • Patent number: 4260720
    Abstract: Novel chain-extended cationic resinous products suitable for use in cationic electrodeposition are disclosed. The products are formed by chain extending polyepoxides with polymercapto compounds and reacting with amines to provide cationic groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1981
    Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph F. Bosso, Richard M. Nugent, Joseph E. Plasynski