Abstract: The invention pertains to implants that facilitate tissue expansion while not substantially inhibiting normal anatomical movement. The implants may be made of different materials or made in different configurations such that such that a measured property at a first location on said implant is different than said same measured property at a second location on said implant. In one particular embodiment the implants may be a cosmetic penile implant.

Abstract: The invention pertains to implants that facilitate tissue expansion while not substantially inhibiting normal anatomical movement. The implants may be made of different materials or made in different configurations such that such that a measured property at a first location on said implant is different than said same measured property at a second location on said implant. In one particular embodiment the implants may be a cosmetic penile implant.

Abstract: The invention pertains to implants that facilitate tissue expansion while not substantially inhibiting normal anatomical movement. The implants may be made of different materials or made in different configurations such that such that a measured property at a first location on said implant is different than said same measured property at a second location on said implant. In one particular embodiment the implants may be a cosmetic penile implant.

Abstract: The invention pertains to penile implants that facilitate tissue expansion while not substantially inhibiting normal anatomical movement. The implants may be made of different materials or made in different configurations such that such that a measured property at a first location on said implant is different than said same measured property at a second location on said implant.

Abstract: A rubber composition is disclosed wherein the rubber composition contains at least (a) a rubber component; (b) a silica filler; and, (c) at least one thiuram disulfide accelerator, it being provided that diphenyl guanidine is substantially absent in the rubber composition. The compositions may also include suitable amounts of other ingredients such as carbon black, coupling agents, antiozonants, antioxidants, etc.

Abstract: A rubber composition comprising (a) a rubber component; (b) silica as a reinforcing filler; (c) a reinforcing additive comprising a mixture and/or the product of in situ reaction of (i) at least one functionalized mercaptosilane compound containing, per molecule, at least one functional group capable of bonding chemically and/or physically with the surface hydroxyl sites of the silica filler and at least one other functional group capable of bonding chemically and/or physically to the chains of the rubber component and (ii) at least one functionalized organosilane compound, other than a mercaptosilane compound, containing, per molecule, at least one functional group capable of bonding chemically and/or physically with the mercaptosilane compound and/or the hydroxyl sites of the silica filler and at least one other functional group capable of bonding chemically and/or physically to the chains of the rubber component; and (d) an effective amount of a thiuram disulfide accelerator having a molecular weight of at

Abstract: A process is disclosed for preparing an N-hydrocarbyl-bis-benzothiazolesulfenamide comprising reacting an N-hydrocarbyl-2-benzothiazolesulfenamide with a cyclic organic acid anhydride in situ in a polymeric matrix at elevated temperature.

Abstract: A new class of antiozonant compounds, namely tris(N-alkyl-p-phenylenediamino)-1,3,5-triazine compounds, are incorporated into thermosetting compositions having at least one highly unsaturated rubbery polymer and at least one other elastomer having lesser unsaturation, such as EPDM. Thermosetting compositions are most useful as tire sidewall compositions which may be preferably cured with blends of organic peroxide and sulfur donor accelerators.

Abstract: A new class of antiozonant compounds, namely tris(N-alkyl-p-phenylenediamino)-1,3,5-triazine compounds, are incorporated into thermosetting compositions having at least one highly unsaturated rubbery polymer and at least one other elastomer having lesser unsaturation, such as EPDM. Thermosetting compositions are most useful as tire sidewall compositions which may be preferably cured with blends of organic peroxide and sulfur donor accelerators.

Abstract: Tires possessing a tread composition formed by curing a blend comprised of: (A) at least one suitable rubber; (B) an effective amount of curative; (C) carbon black; and (D) a processing aid comprised of (i) C.sub.12 -C.sub.50 paraffin wax; and (ii) pentaerythritol tetrastearate, which processing aid preferably further comprises a carrier such as calcium carbonate are most easily processed and exhibit improved handling, durability and rolling resistance as well as reduced heat buildup.

Abstract: Oil resistant, ozone resistant polymer blends are prepared by blending an Acrylonitrile/Butadiene polymer with an EPDM polymer which has had grafted onto it a polymer prepared by polymerizing onto the backbone a methacrylate monomer. The preferred EPDM graft polymer is a methylmethacrylate grafted onto the EPDM backbone.

Abstract: Disclosed is a novel polybutadiene or butadiene-styrene copolymer based gum plastic having excellent impact strength and weather aging resistance and a method for its preparation. The ABS composition of the invention is a matrix of a polymer of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated monomer and a graft copolymer comprising a graftable rubber substrate which is formed from a mixture of an at least partially cross-linked pre-grafted polybutadiene or SBR spine latex, and a low-gel elastomer which has been at least partially cross-linked during the preparation of the product. Within certain ratios of cross-linked spine to low-gel spine, significant improvements in impact strength and weather aging resistance are achieved. In the method of preparation, the latex, monomers and low-gel elastomer, are converted directly to the final product by a conventional suspension polymerization process.

Abstract: Disclosed is a novel polybutadiene or butadiene-styrene copolymer based gum plastic having excellent impact strength and weather aging resistance and a method for its preparation. The ABS composition of the invention is a matrix of a polymer of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated monomer and a graft copolymer comprising a graftable rubber substrate which is formed from a mixture of a pre-crosslinked polybutadiene or SBR spine latex, and a low-gel elastomer which has been at least partially cross-linked during the preparation of the product. Within certain ratios of cross-linked spine to low-gel spine, significant improvements in impact strength and weather aging resistance are achieved. In the method of preparation, the latex, monomers and low-gel elastomer, are converted directly to the final product by a conventional suspension polymerization process.

Abstract: Elastomers and plastic polymers are protected against deterioration by certain new substituted haloacetamide antioxidants which are non-migratory and resist extraction by oils and solvents, of the type ##STR1## e.g., 4-anilino-2,2,2-trichloroacetanilide protects NBR even after sequential exposure to oil and to air at elevated temperature.

Abstract: Disclosed is a novel polybutadiene or butadiene-styrene copolymer based gum plastic having excellent impact strength and a method for its preparation. The use of small particle size (SPS) spine latex in a latex-suspension process gives unexpectedly good properties by yielding an ABS with at least about 85% of the rubber present as particles within a specified and relatively narrow size range, i.e., 0.04-0.25.mu. and having a number average particle size less than 0.14.mu.. In the method of preparation, the latex spine and monomers are converted directly to the final product by a conventional suspension process.