Abstract: A film-forming, water insoluble seawater erodible antifouling paint is described which is characterized by including a hydrolyzable organosilyl acrylate copolymer therein.

Abstract: A composition which has excellent fire resistance properties, never hardens or slumps, and is reusable is provided. The composition can be extruded into a caulking or sealing compound which has a high fire resistance rating of VO as measured by UL 94 Test Procedure.The fire resistant composition of the present invention comprises:(a) 45-60 wt. % of filler;(b) 12-30 wt. % ceramic fiber;(c) 0.1-0.5 wt. % reinforcing agent;(d) 18-30 wt. % tackifying agent; and(e) 2-5 wt. % oleoresinous oil.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved marine anti-fouling coating composition of a thermoplastic binder, an organic solvent, a tin anti-fouling agent, a copper anti-fouling agent, and a water-soluble leaching agent. The improvement in can stability for said coating composition comprises the leaching agent being a water-sensitive, solvent soluble non-cross-linked polymer having an acid number of below about 50 and a .chi. value of between about 0.1 and 0.3; or a water-sensitive, solvent soluble, polymer having an acid number of below about 50 and a .chi. value between about 0.3 and 0.6. The water sensitive solvent insoluble polymer may be a non-cross-linked oligomer or polymer or a cross-linked hydrogel possessing the requisite acid number and .chi. value restriction.

Abstract: Basic fire resistant material comprised of burned or calcined sintered dolomite and organic binding means having plastic properties which can be densified at low pressures, whose shaped bodies have intermediate and final strengths in a temperature range between 300.degree. and 1600.degree. C. in which, related to the fire resistant basic materials, the proportion of binding means is 3 to 8% by weight wherein 0.1 to 2% by weight are silicon-organic compounds, and the fire resistant basic materials are from 10 to 15% by weight of particles having a particle size smaller than 45 .mu.m.

Abstract: Marine anti-fouling compositions contain, in addition to the conventional resin, toxin, solvent, pigment and other additives, hollow particles, of size from 1 to 800 microns, in an amount to give a particle concentration in a dry paint film of 10 to 80% by volume. The hollow particles are preferably hollow microspheres or microballoons of glass or plastics material having an apparent bulk density of from 0.03 to 0.5 g/cc. The compositions can be applied at high film thicknesses in a single coat without crack-formation. The particles assist in maintaining a controlled slow release of toxin from the paint film, and can enhance the useful protective life thereof.

Abstract: Asphaltic materials (e.g., asphalt, bitumen, or pitch) are increased in flame-resistance and improved in other useful properties by use of a latent catalyst mixture which reacts upon heating to catalyze oxidation of the asphaltic material. The catalyst comprises halogenated organic compound which decomposes and releases halogen upon heating and an iron-containing compound adapted to react with the released halogen to form iron halide.

Abstract: Biocidal compositions and methods of inhibiting biological growth employ, as the active agent, certain monocyclic and bicyclic heterocyclic compounds, some novel perse, of general formula I ##STR1## in which X is 0,1 or 2, R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are a hydrogen atom, an alkyl radical containing up to 20 carbon atoms or an aryl radical; R.sup.3 is a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl radical containing up to 6 carbon atoms; and R.sup.7 and R.sup.8, when taken separately, are hydrogen atoms or, when taken together, are ##STR2## in which R.sup.4 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl radical containing up to 16 carbon atoms or an aryl radical.The preferred active agents generally have low solubility in sea water, are toxic to algal, barnacle or fungal growth, and are colorless. They may be used to form anti-fouling paints free from undesirable heavy metals or as anti-fungal additives in hydrocarbon fuels.

Abstract: A method of protecting submerged articles from fouling by applying a surface pellicle of a coating substance containing an anti-fouling amount of an organo metallic composition comprising a main chain consisting of a chlorinated polymer of a conjugated diene monomer such, for example, as a chlorinated polybutadiene of high 1, 2 units content, and at least one grafted chain formed at least partly of recurrent units having a pendant organotin group or tin salt function.

Abstract: There is provided an antifouling paint composition stabilized against viscosity increase and gelation during storage, which comprises a triorganotin-containing polymer and cuprous oxide as combined active ingredients, a stabilizing amount of a hindered phenol, and a solvent therefor.

Abstract: Surface-coating compositions that have improved resistance to attack by fungi and other microorganisms contain 0.1% to 3% by weight of a biocidal compound having the structural formula ##STR1## wherein each R represents an alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkaryl, or alicyclic group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms; X represents hydrogen, chlorine, bromine, nitro, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; M represents an environmentally-acceptable metal having a valence of 2, 3, or 4; m is 1 or 2; and n is the valence of the metal M.

Abstract: A contact lens solution is provided for wetting, soaking and lubricating of hard contact lenses, particularly those carrying an ionic charge. The solution contains an ionic polymer of cationic or anionic charge that interacts with an oppositely charged surface of a contact lens forming an interfacial polyelectrolyte complex. This polyelectrolyte complex provides increased, long lasting lens wettability leading to a cushioning and lubricating effect with the eyelid and the cornea.

Abstract: Proposed herein are antifouling coating compositions containing bis-trialkylstannyl derivatives of chlorinated polycyclic dicarboxylic acids, of the general formula ##STR1## wherein R is a lower alkyl, R'=H,CH.sub.3, n=0,1, which are obtained by a condensation reaction of anhydrides of the respective dicarboxylic acids with hexaalkyldistannoxanes R.sub.3 SnOSnR.sub.3, wherein R is a lower alkyl, in the medium of an organic solvent.

Abstract: A method for inhibiting benzene formation in rosin-based antifouling paints which involves adding trialkyl tin oxide or hydroxide to the paints.

Abstract: Conventional Copper based antifouling paints are improved by adding from 01 to 20.0 weight percent based on the weight of the Cuprous ion source of an additive compound which(A) will give a positive acid test to litmus paper in distilled water;(B) is at least slightly soluble in sea water; and(C) does not react quickly with cuprous ions in sea water to produce precipitates.

Abstract: A polyisobutylene based acoustically transparent, camouflage antifouling nt for coating rubber substrates without adversely affecting the chemical stability and sound absorbing characteristics of such substrates. The composition essentially comprises, by weight, non-volatile ingredients including from about 2% to about 23% polyisobutylene polymer of molecular weight from about 81,000 to 99,000; from about 23% to about 29% rosin; from about 45% to about 57% tributyltin flouride and from about 9% to about 11% pigment.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat-reflective enamel comprising a weather resistant vehicle, a pigment, an extender, and a solvent, and containing additionally the product of thermal interaction between titanium dioxide or metatitanic acid, a nickel compound, antimony trioxide, and ammonium dichromate or an alkali metal dichromate, taken in the following amounts, in parts by weight:titanium dioxide or metatitanic acid based on titanium dioxide: 100nickel compound thermally decomposed to yield nickel oxide, based on nickel oxide: 3 to 32antimony trioxide: 15 to 35ammonium dichromate or an alkali metal dichromate, based on chromium oxide: 2 to 5with the constituents of the heat-reflective enamel having the following proportions expressed in parts by weight:vehicle: 100pigment: 30 to 80extender: 1 to 60solvent: 90 to 840product of thermal interaction between titanium dioxide or metatitanic acid, a nickel compound thermally decomposed to yield nickel oxide, antimony trioxide, and ammonium dichromate or an alkali metal dichromat

Abstract: This invention provides a novel antifouling paint which has excellent storage stability for a long period of time and which affords a coated film having antifouling properties for a long period of time. The paint comprises two components, Component A and Component B, said Component A and said Component B being in separate packages which are mixed before application, wherein Component A contains organotin polymer as antifouling ingredient, and wherein Component B comprises vehicle resin and copper antifoulant.

Abstract: A polymer composition which includes, as a smoke suppressing additive, a complex of a Friedel-Crafts halide compound with an organic compound selected from the group which includes quaternary ammonium compounds, quaternary phosphonium compounds, tertiary sulfonium compounds, organic orthosilicates and the partially hydrolyzed derivatives of organic orthosilicates, or a combination of these.

Abstract: Organo metallic polymer compositions useful as constituents of anti-fouling paints for marine structures, comprising a main chain consisting of a chlorinated conjugated diene polymer such, for example, as a chlorinated polybutadiene of high 1, 2 units content, and at least one grafted chain formed at least partly of recurrent units having a pendant organotin group or tin salt function.

Abstract: A process for microencapsulating water-immiscible chemicals is disclosed which comprises mixing a colloidal solution of gelatin Type A and gum acacia with an emulsion or slurry of the water-immiscible chemical, both of which are prepared and mixed at a temperature above about 50.degree. C., and allowing the mixture to cool so that the droplets or particles of water-immiscible chemical are encapsulated with a macromolecular membrane of a complex coacervate of gelatin and gum acacia. Anti-fouling marine paints capable of sustained release of anti-fouling agent are prepared by adding microcapsules of anti-fouling agents to a marine paint vehicle.

Abstract: A high strength, non-toxic, antifouling, marine coating composition is provided which comprises agar, a water soluble polyol plasticizer such as dipropylene glycol, a strengthening agent as, for example, potassium borate, and water.

Abstract: Method for controlling fouling to structures caused by aquatic fouling organisms such as barnacles, slime, sea moss, algae, etc. which comprises applying to said structures sesquiterpene alcohols such as farnesol, nerolidol, and dehydronerolidol, and the organic carboxylic acid esters thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for preventing the adhesion of marine animals and plants to the bottom of ships comprising applying thereto an antifouling coating composition containing vehicle materials and, as an antifouling agent, an organotin compound having the formula [I], ##STR1## (wherein R.sub.1 is an alkyl group having from one to eight carbon atoms and an aryl group having from six to eight carbon atoms, R.sub.2 is an alkylene group having from one to four carbon atoms, and each of X.sub.1, X.sub.2, X.sub.3 and X.sub.4 is a component chosen from the group of hydrogen, bromine, chlorine, iodine and methyl radical, provided that at least one of X.sub.1, X.sub.2, X.sub.3 and X.sub.4 is bromine, chlorine or iodine).

Abstract: A process for preparing an organic phosphorous compound of the general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.A represents ##STR2## where X.sup.1 is a halogen atom, Y is --CH.sub.2 -- or --CH.sub.2 --C.sub.2 --, andR.sub.1 is H or CH.sub.3 when Y is --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --, or H, CH.sub.3 or C.sub.2 H.sub.5 when Y is --CH.sub.2 --,R.sub.B represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a halogenated alkyl group having from 2 to 4 carbon atoms,R.sub.C represents ##STR3## where X.sup.2 is a halogen atom, Z is --CH.sub.2 --or --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --, andR.sub.2 is H or CH.sub.3 when Z is --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --, or H, CH.sub.3 or C.sub.2 H.sub.5 when Z is --CH.sub.2 --, andR.sub.D represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a halogenated alkyl group having from 2 to 4 carbon atoms,the process including the steps of reacting a cyclic halogenophosphite with a cyclic phosphorous acid and acetone in a molar ratio of 1:1:1, reacting the resulting product with a molecular halogen X.sub.2.sup.

Abstract: The tendency of dispersions containing trialkyltin fluorides in organic liquids to agglomerate is avoided by using as the dispersion medium specified organic liquids in combination with from 0.5 to 10%, based on the weight of the dispersion, of specified inorganic compounds. The choice of both organic liquid and inorganic compounds is critical to achieving long-term stability of the resultant dispersion.

Abstract: Processes for preventing marine fouling which employ either p-Dithiino(2,3-b)pyrazine-2,3-dicarbonitrile, 1,3-Dithiolo(4,5-b)pyrazin-2-ylidene-propanedinitrile or mixtures thereof.

Abstract: Reaction products are prepared from metal oxides and salts and phosphorus compounds containing trivalent phosphorus. The reaction products are useful as flame retardants and smoke suppressants.

Abstract: Disclosed are the usage, preparation, and evaluation of marine antifouling quaternary halide salts containing a cation portion which includes a trialkyltin ether moiety linked to a carbon atom at least two carbon atoms removed from the quaternized nitrogen atom. Taught as providing exceptional marine fouling inhibition are the quaternary salts of benzyl bromide and tertiary amines containing a tributylstannyl ether moiety at least two carbon atoms removed from the amino nitrogen atom with illustrated specific examples including the quaternary salts of benzyl bromide and 2-dimethylamino-2-methyl-1-propyl tributylstannyl ether, benzyl bromide and 1-dimethylamino-2-propyl tributylstannyl ether, benzyl bromide and 2-[N-pyrrolidinyl]ethyl tributylstannyl ether, and benzyl bromide and 2-diisopropylaminoethyl tributylstannyl ether.

Abstract: A biocidal composition suitable for use in marine anti-fouling coatings is a water-insoluble mineral having an internal pore structure, containing, within the pores a biocidal compound effective against marine growth. Preferred minerals are zeolites, particularly synthetic faujasites, and porous silicas; preferred biocidal compounds are organo-tin compounds.The compounds may be incorporated into anti-fouling paints e.g. epoxy, epoxy-coal tar and chlorinated rubber paints or wax coatings.

Abstract: A composition for inhibiting an adhesion of shellfish and algae comprises a resin, a medium and a N-arylmaleimide having the formula ##STR1## wherein X represents hydrogen or halogen atom; Y.sub.1 represents hydrogen, or halogen atom or alkyl, lower alkoxy, nitro, hydroxyl, alkoxycarbonyl, carboxyl, phenyl, phenylamino, alkenyl, thiocyano, sulfone, acetylamino, or sulfamoyl group; Y.sub.2 represents hydrogen or halogen atom or alkyl, lower alkoxy, nitro or hydroxyl group and Y.sub.3 represents hydrogen or halogen atom or dialkylamino group.The inhibiting composition is coated on a fishing net, a ship bottom or other apparatus in water.

Abstract: Ferromagnetic toner which is useful in magnetic printing processes and devices for printing a variety of substrates, including textiles, such as fabric and yarn, film, paper, metal and wood, which toner comprises a ferromagnetic component, a dye and/or chemical treating agent and a readily fusible water-soluble or -solubilizable, preferably thermoplastic, resin which substantially encapsulates the ferromagnetic component and the dye and/or treating agent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to phosphorus-containing compositions which are polymeric esters having flame retardant properties and also a process for the production thereof, as well as the combinations of such phosphorus compositions with otherwise combustible base materials exemplified by various organic polymers, for example polyamides or polyesters.The phosphorus compositions of the present invention are polymeric esters having as moieties thereof, (A) an aliphatic alcoholic moiety of an alcoholic reactant of 5 to 20 carbon atoms, and from 2 to 10 or preferably 2 to 6 hydroxyl functional groups, with the proviso that there is no hydrogen atom on the carbon atoms which are beta to the hydroxyl oxygen, (B) a moiety of a phosphorus-containing acid halide, ester or amide reactant of 0 to 20 carbon atoms, and having from 1 to 4 functional groups selected from the group consisting of halogen, ester (--OR) and amide (--NR.sub.

Abstract: A water soluble rodent repellent composition which can be coated onto a material, e.g., a cable, which is laid into the ground. Ground moisture dissolves the composition, forming in the earth surrounding the cable a rodent repellent barrier thus preventing contact of the rodent with the cable or material. Any rodent repellent in a water soluble or water dispersible composition can be used. Specifically mentioned in the disclosure as now preferred effective rodent repellents are N,N-dialkyl sulfenyl dithiocarbamates, e.g., the N,N-dimethylsulfenyl dithiocarbamates, N,N-dimethyl-S-methylsulfenyl dithiocarbamate and N,N-dimethyl-S-tert-butylsulfenyl dithiocarbamate. The repellent is combined with dimethylsulfoxide and polyvinylalcohol or it is combined with one of dimethylsulfoxide and dimethylformamide, and with a hydroxyalkyl cellulose, e.g., hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose.

Abstract: A fire retardant laminate construction comprising a plastic backing film adhesively secured to an insulation batting material. The adhesive material comprises an intumescent coating, containing one or more fire retardant additives, which will foam and char at high temperatures to form a solid multicellular, fire retardant insulating layer which prevents wicking of the plastic material into the insulation batting.

Abstract: Norbornane-2 and norbornene-2-carboxylic acid compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein Y is a single or double bond, R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are each hydrogen or alkyl groups having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms are used as microorganism inhibitors in aqueous suspensions or emulsions.

Abstract: The preparation of 3',5'-dihalo-4'-hydroxyacetophenones and their use as fungicides are described.