Patents by Inventor Thomas Cuthbert

Thomas Cuthbert 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: 10808111
    Abstract: The present invention provides an in-reactor solution that avoids costly blending and the use of metallocene elastomers. The inventive Ziegler-Natta polypropylene composition also includes additional components that may improve properties relative to a metallocene catalyzed elastomers. The invention is a clear impact polypropylene composition that is made in-reactor with Ziegler-Natta catalyst, and is suitable for a wide range of processes. Unlike other clear impact copolymers, it does not rely on high-shear processes or compounding with elastomers. The invention uses conventional polypropylene reactor technology to produce these compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Braskem America, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Simon Dias, Craig Charles Meverden, Edward E. Catalina, Thomas Cuthbert, Rita Majewski, Debra R. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20160040000
    Abstract: The present invention provides an in-reactor solution that avoids costly blending and the use of metallocene elastomers. The inventive Ziegler-Natta polypropylene composition also includes additional components that may improve properties relative to a metallocene catalyzed elastomers. The invention is a clear impact polypropylene composition that is made in-reactor with Ziegler-Natta catalyst, and is suitable for a wide range of processes. Unlike other clear impact copolymers, it does not rely on high-shear processes or compounding with elastomers. The invention uses conventional polypropylene reactor technology to produce these compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Simon Dias, Craig Charles Meverden, Edward E. Catalina, Thomas Cuthbert, Rita Majewski, Debra R. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20050054792
    Abstract: A method of making a solid procatalyst composition for use in a Ziegler-Natta olefin polymerization catalyst composition, said method comprising: contacting a solid precursor composition comprising magnesium, titanium, and alkoxide moieties with a titanium halide compound and an internal electron donor in any order, in a suitable reaction medium to prepare a solid procatalyst composition, separating the solid procatalyst from the reaction medium, further exchanging residual alkoxide functionality of the solid procatalyst composition for chloride functionality by contacting the same two or more times with benzoyl chloride halogenating agent under metathesis conditions for a period of time sufficient to prepare a solid procatalyst composition having a decreased alkoxide content compared to the alkoxide content of the solid procatalyst composition before said exchange, and recovering the solid procatalyst composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Publication date: March 10, 2005
    Inventors: Peter Kilty, Thomas Cuthbert