Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Reuther

Wolfgang Reuther 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: 6120562
    Abstract: Amino- and/or alkoxytriazines containing at least one C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 -alkyl group which possesses a vinylsulfonyl group or a radical capable of forming a vinylsulfonyl group and may be substituted further, are used as fixation aids when using anionic dyes on hydroxyl- or nitrogen-containing organic substrates and as crosslinkers for regenerated cellulose or materials containing cellulose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred Patsch, Reinhold Krallmann, Wolfgang Reuther, Thomas Grosser
  • Patent number: 6069161
    Abstract: Aminoisothiazoles of the formula I, whereR is hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl andX is halogen, NO.sub.2, CN or SCN, and metal complexes and acid addition salts thereofare used as microbicides for protecting industrial materials from being attacked and destroyed by microorganisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Reuther, John-Bryan Speakman, Dieter Zeller
  • Patent number: 6063286
    Abstract: Process for preparing fine-particle, water-insoluble polymers of aziridines by polymerizing aziridines, preferably ethylenimine, in the presence of crosslinkers which contain at least two functional groups, and in at least one ether, and also modified, water-insoluble polymers of aziridines which can be obtained by reacting fine-particle, water-insoluble, crosslinked polymers of aziridines, in aqueous medium, with carbon disulfide or formaldehyde and a nucleophilic agent from the group consisting of alkali metal cyanides, primary amines, secondary amines, alkali metal sulfites and alkali metal phosphites, and use of the modified and non-modified fine-particle, water-insoluble polymers for immobilizing active compounds, as absorbents for aldehydes, ketones and acids, and also for removing heavy metal ions from wastewaters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Steuerle, Wolfgang Reuther, Hubert Meixner, Michael Ehle, Thomas Greindl, Rainer Betz
  • Patent number: 6056967
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of water-soluble, amino-containing condensates and adducts having a greater drainage and retention effect in papermaking, in which from 5 to 95% by weight of the condensates or adducts are separated off as permeate from solutions of water-soluble, amino-containing condensates or adducts by ultrafiltration through membranes and the amino-containing condensates or adducts having improved efficiency are, if required, isolated from the retentate, and the high molecular weight polymer fractions contained in the retentate are used as retention aids, drainage aids and fixing compositions in papermaking, as promoters in the sizing of paper with alkyldiketenes, as flocculants for sewage sludges, as adhesion promoters in the production of laminated films, as additives for hair and skincare compositions and as compositions for immobilizing anionic active ingredients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Steuerle, Hubert Meixner, Rainer Dyllick-Brenzinger, Wolfgang Reuther, Hartmut Kanter, Albert Hettche, Jurgen Weiser, Gunter Scherr
  • Patent number: 6031064
    Abstract: Condensation products obtained by condensation of(A) a mixture consisting of(a) a triazine of the general formula I ##STR1## and (b) a mixture consisting of(b1) a triazine of the general formula II ##STR2## (b2) a substituted melamine of the general formula III ##STR3## (B) phenols withformaldehyde or formaldehyde-donating compounds are useful for producing shaped articles, especially fibers and foams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Erhard Guenther, Wolfgang Reuther
  • Patent number: 6004892
    Abstract: Melamine resin fibers are used for manufacturing fire-safety blankets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Erhard Guenther, Wolfgang Reuther
  • Patent number: 6001166
    Abstract: Aqueous alkyldiketene dispersions comprising an alkyldiketene, cationic starch having an amylopectic content of at least 95% by weight and as anionic dispersants(a) from 0.05 to 1.0% by weight of ligninsulfonic acid, condensates of naphthalenesulfonic acid and formaldehyde, sulfonated polystyrene, salts and mixtures of said polymers and (b) from 0.05 to 1.5% by weight of sulfuric monoesters of alcohols having at least 10 carbon atoms, phosphoric monoesters or diesters of alcohols having at least 10 carbon atoms, sulfuric monoesters of alkoxylated alcohols having at least 10 carbon atoms, phosphoric monoesters or diesters of alkoxylated alcohols having at least 10 carbon atoms, C.sub.12 -C.sub.30 -alkylsulfonic acids, salts and mixtures of said compoundscan be used as body size in the manufacture of paper, paperboard and cardboard and for making cellulose fibers hydrophobic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Roland Ettl, Wolfgang Reuther, Primoz Lorencak, Johann Bonn
  • Patent number: 5977293
    Abstract: A process for the continuous preparation of homopolymers of ethyleneimine by polymerization of ethyleneimine in a solvent in the presence of catalysts at temperatures of at least 80.degree. C., in homogeneous liquid phase in a tubular reactor in which the ratio of length to internal diameter is at least 5:1. There are obtained polyethyleneimines having a content of secondary nitrogen atoms of more than 40 to 60% and molecular weight distribution M.sub.w /M.sub.n of from 1.5:1 to 3:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Steuerle, Wolfgang Reuther, Wolfgang Harder
  • Patent number: 5942588
    Abstract: Aqueous alkyldiketene dispersions which contain a C.sub.14 -C.sub.22 -alkyldiketene and from 1 to 10% by weight of a polymeric protective colloid contain, as the protective colloid(a) copolymers of(1) N-vinylpyrrolidone and(2) at least one quaternized N-vinylimidazole or a substituted quaternized N-vinylimidazoleas polymerized units in a molar ratio of from 80:20 to 5:95 and have a K value of at least 20 (according to H. Fikentscher in 0.5 M aqueous sodium chloride solution at a polymer concentration of 0.1% by weight and at 25.degree. C.) or(b) condensates which are obtainable by(1) partial amidation of polyethyleneimines with monocarboxylic acids and, if required(2) condensation of the partially amidated polyethyleneimines with at least bifunctional crosslinking agents which have a halohydrin, glycidyl, aziridine or isocyanate unit or a halogen atom as a functional groupto give crosslinked, amidated polyethyleneimines which have a viscosity of at least 100 mPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Roland Ettl, Primoz Lorencak, Gunter Scherr, Wolfgang Reuther, Gunther Glas
  • Patent number: 5939515
    Abstract: Condensation of products obtained by condensation of a mixture comprising(A) from 90 to 99.9 mol % of a mixture consisting essentially of(a) from 30 to 100 mol % of melamine and(b) from 0 to 70 mol % of a substituted melamine of the formula I ##STR1## where X, X' and X" are as defined in the specification, or mixtures of melamines I, and(c) from 1 to 70 mol %, based on (a)+(b), of a substituted triazine of the formula II ##STR2## where R", Z' and Z" are as defined in the specification, or mixtures of triazines II, and(B) from 0.1 to 10 mol %, based on (A) (a), (A) (b) and (B), of phenols which are unsubstituted or are substituted by radicals selected from the group consisting of C.sub.1 -C.sub.9 -alkyl and hydroxyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkanes substituted by two or three phenol groups, di(hydroxyphenyl)sulfones or mixtures of these phenols,withformaldehyde or formaldehyde-supplying compounds in a molar ratio of melamine, substituted melamine I and triazine II to formaldehyde within the range from 1:1.15 to 1:4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Erhard Guenther, Wolfgang Reuther
  • Patent number: 5851300
    Abstract: In a cationic modification process for starch, starch is reacted with polymers that contain amino and/or ammonium groups in an aqueous medium at temperatures from 115.degree. C. to 180.degree. C. under an increased pressure and in the absence of oxidizers, polymerization initiators and alkali. The reaction is conducted so that maximum 10% by weight starch has its molar weight reduced. Also disclosed is the use of the thus obtained reaction products as dry strength agents for paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Friedrich Linhart, Andreas Stange, Rudolf Schuhmacher, Heinrich Hartmann, Walter Denzinger, Manfred Niessner, Claudia Nilz, Wolfgang Reuther, Hubert Meixner
  • Patent number: 5837013
    Abstract: A process for preparing colored melamine-formaldehyde condensation products by:(A) dispersing a mixture consisting essentially of(a) a substituted melamine of the formula I ##STR1## where X.sup.1, X.sup.2 and X.sup.3 are each as disclosed hereinafter, and (b) if desired, formaldehyde or formaldehyde-donating compounds in a molar ratio of formaldehyde to melamines I within the range from 40:1 to 0,(c) a pigment or dye, and mixing(d) if desired, phenol, unsubstituted or substituted.by intensive stirring until there are no longer any pigment agglomerates .gtoreq.1 .mu.m,and then(B) admixing the mixture prepared in (A) with melamine and if desired with further phenol, substituted melamine I and formaldehyde or formaldehyde-donating compounds, and condensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Erhard Guenther, Wolfgang Reuther
  • Patent number: 5744001
    Abstract: Aqueous pigment slurries which contain up to 80% by weight of a finely divided pigment in dispersed form and from 0.1 to 5% by weight of dispersants which are obtainable by reacting(a) polyalkylenepolyamines, polyamidoamines, polyamidoamines grafted with ethyleneimine, polyetheramines and mixtures of the stated compounds and(b) monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids, salts, esters, amides or nitriles of monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids, chlorocarboxylic acids and/or glycidyl compounds and, if required,(c) bifunctional or polyfunctional crosslinking agents which have a halohydrin, glycidyl, aziridine or isocyanate unit or a halogen atom as a functional group,to give water-soluble condensates which, in 20% strength by weight aqueous solution at 20.degree. C., have a viscosity of at least 100 mPa.s are prepared by milling or dispersing pigments in the presence of the dispersants and water and are used as additives to paper stock in the production of filler-containing paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Friedrich Linhart, Dietmar Moench, Guenter Scherr, Wolfgang Reuther, Primoz Lorencak
  • Patent number: 5702517
    Abstract: Oxo oils may be used as additives for plastics, in particular for a chloride-containing plastic, preferably PVC, as part of liquid stabilizer compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hubert Meixner, Wolfgang Reuther, Volker Konigstein
  • Patent number: 5672721
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of low-solvent alkyl diketenes of the general formula: ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 denotes C.sub.10 -C.sub.30 alkyl or C.sub.10 -C.sub.30 alkenyl andR.sup.2 denotes hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl, by causing carboxylic chlorides of the formula II ##STR2## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 have the aforementioned meanings, to react with tertiary amines of the formula III ##STR3## in which R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 denote C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl or C.sub.3 -C.sub.12 cycloalkyl andR.sup.3 and R.sup.4 together denote a C.sub.2 -C.sub.11 alkylene dichain optionally interrupted by oxygen or nitrogen,in a substantially water-immiscible, inert solvent, wherein distillation is carried out at temperatures ranging from 80.degree. to 130.degree. C. and pressures ranging from 10 to 500 mbar and subsequently with the addition of water or steam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Roland Ettl, Wolfgang Kasel, Matthias Fankhanel, Wolfgang Reuther
  • Patent number: 5641855
    Abstract: There are described water-soluble condensation products of amino-containing compounds and crosslinkers, obtainable by reacting(a) polyalkylenepolyamines, polyamidoamines, ethylene-imine-grafted polyamidoamines, polyetheramines and mixtures thereof, with(b) monethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids, salts, esters, amides or nitriles of monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids, chlorocarboxylic acids and/or glycidyl compounds such as glycidic acid, glycidamide or glycidyl esters, and(c) at least bifunctional crosslinkers having a halo-hydrin, glycidyl, aziridine or isocyanate unit or a halogen atom as functional group,to form water-soluble condensation products having a viscosity of at least 100 mPas in a 20% strength by weight aqueous solution at 20.degree. C., processes for preparing the water-soluble condensation products by reacting the abovementioned compounds of groups (a), (b) and (c), and the use of the condensation products as drainage, flocculation and retention aids in papermaking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1997
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Guenter Scherr, Wolfgang Reuther, Dietmar Moench, Friedrich Linhart, Juergen Weiser
  • Patent number: 5637704
    Abstract: A process for the preparation hydroxyoxaalkylmelamines of the general formula I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 denotes a residue of the general formula II ##STR2## in which the radicals R' can be the same or different and stand for hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl and n denotes 2 or 3 and the radicals R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 stand for one of the radicals R.sup.1 or hydrogen, by the reaction of melamine with a compound of the general formula III ##STR3## in which R' and n have the meanings stated above, at a temperature of from 120.degree. to 250.degree. C. and in the presence of an acid catalyst, in which the acid catalyst is used in a concentration of from 0.01 to 0.15 mol and preferably from 0.02 to 0.12 mol and more preferably from 0.03 to 0.1 mol, based on 1 mol of melamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1997
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Erhard Guenther, Wolfgang Reuther, Gunter Scherr, Manfred Dimmler
  • Patent number: 5536370
    Abstract: Condensates of polyalkylenepolyamines which are obtainable by(a) partial amidation of polyalkylenepolyamines and(b) condensation of the partially amidated polyalkylenepolyamines with bifunctional or polyfunctional crosslinking agentsto give crosslinked polyalkylenepolyamines which, in 20% strength aqueous solution at 20.degree. C., have a viscosity of at least 100 mPa.s, processes for the preparation of the condensates of polyalkylenepolyamines by partial amidation of polyalkylenepolyamines with carboxylic acids, carboxylic esters, carboxylic anhydrides or carbonyl halides and crosslinking of the partially amidated polyalkylenepolyamines with bifunctional or polyfunctional crosslinking agents, from 0.001 to 10 parts by weight of a crosslinking agent being used per part by weight of the partially amidated polyalkylenepolyamines, and the use of the resulting condensates as drainage aids, flocculants, retention aids and fixing agents in papermaking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1996
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Guenter Scherr, Wolfgang Reuther, Primoz Lorencak, Dietmar Moench, Friedrich Linhart, Juergen Weiser
  • Patent number: 5530031
    Abstract: Water-insoluble condensation products, obtained by the condensation of a mixture containing as essential components(A) from 80 to 99.9 mol %, based on the sum of (A), (B) and (C), of a mixture consisting essentially of(a) from 30 to 99 mol % of melamine and(b) from 1 to 70 mol % of a substituted melamine of the formula I ##STR1## where X, X' and X" are each selected from the group consisting of --NH.sub.2, --NHR and --NRR', and X, X' and X" are not all --NH.sub.2 at one and the same time, and R and R' are each selected from the group consisting of hydroxy-C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alkyl, hydroxy-C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 -alkyl-(oxa-C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 -alkyl).sub.n, where n is from 1 to 5, and amino-C.sub.2 -C.sub.12 -alkyl, or mixtures of melamines I,(B) from 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Erhard Guenther, Wolfgang Reuther, Uwe Kirchgassner
  • Patent number: 5484938
    Abstract: The preparation of 1-hydroxyimidazoles of the formula I ##STR1## where the R radicals can be identical or different and are each halogen or an organic radical, it also being possible for vicinal radicals to be connected to form an aromatic or nonaromatic ring of from 3 to 12 carbon atoms, and n is from 0 to 3, entails reacting an imidazole of the formula II ##STR2## where Q is preferably hydrogen or, especially where R is not halogen, an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal cation, with an organic peroxide.The 1-hydroxyimidazole and its halogen substituted derivatives of the formula I and the acid addition salts thereof are valuable intermediates for organic syntheses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulf Baus, Wolfgang Reuther