Phenolic-aldehyde Resin Patents (Class 156/335)
  • Publication number: 20020114968
    Abstract: The disclosed invention is a dimensionally stable laminate prepared by layering resin saturable sheets, treating the layered sheets with a polymeric resin, pressing the treated layered sheets together under high pressure and high temperature to form a laminate and then subjecting the newly manufactured laminate to high humidity (greater than 65%) at relatively low temperatures (32°-45° C.) before exposure to ambient conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2002
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Applicant: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventors: Yvette A. Tramount, Edward P. Klein
  • Patent number: 6432254
    Abstract: A method for making a consolidated wood product comprising coating wood components with a B-stageable, phenol-formaldehyde resole resin; heating the coated wood components to about 80 to 140° C. for a time sufficient to advance the resin to a B-stage; forming a mat or stack of the wood components coated with the B-stage resin; exposing the mat or stack of coated wood components to a saturated or superheated steam atmosphere in a hot press; and compressing the layup to form the consolidated wood product. The phenol-formaldehyde resole resin used in the method has a number average molecular weight of between about 200 and 600, has a F:P mole ratio of about 1.3:1 to 2.0:1, and has been modified with 0 to about 5.5 wt % of caustic based on resin solids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Resins Inc.
    Inventors: Eric P. Black, Michael E. Hittmeier, W. Hayes Ingram, R. Scott Johnson
  • Patent number: 6402869
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of gluing veneers to form LVL and plywood boards from veneers laid one over the other in several layers by curing the adhesive placed between the single layers in a heated press. The invention consists in the fact that the gluing and pressing of the outer layers of a veneer pack to form LVL and plywood boards is performed by high-temperature adhesive and the inner layers by low-temperature adhesive, so that the amount of heat to be put into the veneer pack decreases from the outside in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik J. Dieffenbacher GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Gernot von Haas
  • Publication number: 20010051247
    Abstract: A flame retardant article produced by forming a thermoplastic material around at least a portion of a core of partially cured phenolic resin is disclosed. The article has reduced flammability and improved dimensional stability when exposed to flame compared to an article consisting solely of the thermoplastic material. By positioning the thermoplastic between the core and at least all surfaces of the article which may become directly exposed to fire or heat when the article is in use, it is possible to impart the flexibility, colorability and impact resistance characteristics of thermoplastic materials to the article. At the same time, the inner core of the phenolic resin reduces the flammability and improves the dimensional stability of the article when the article is exposed to flame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Publication date: December 13, 2001
    Inventors: Phillip A. Waitkus, Theodore N. Morrison
  • Patent number: 6306241
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing lignocellulosic composites. This method is useful in reducing the thickness swell of these composites on their exposure to water. This method also is useful in reducing the hot-press times required to make lignocellulosic composites. Furthermore, there is provided a method by which wax sizing may be used without the previously expected reduction in physical properties. Also, there is provided a method by which caul plate sticking may be reduced when hydrogen peroxide is used as a furnish add-on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Inventor: Shui-Tung Chiu
  • Patent number: 6132885
    Abstract: A single package, ready-to-use (RTU) resin/wax emulsion adhesive and a method of preparing the same by heating a thermosetting resin and adjusting the pH of the wax emulsion prior to combining the resin and wax emulsion. The use of the adhesive in making bonded composites such as wood products, including oriented strand board (OSB), parallel strand lumber, wafer board and particle board composites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Resins, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian M. Peek, Barry W. Sewell, Roger Scott Johnson, Daniel DiCarlo
  • Patent number: 6132549
    Abstract: Discloses compositions of urea dissolved in aqueous, polymerizable phenolic resole resins, wood-product laminated composite products produced with such resins, with or without the urea, and methods for the production of wood-product laminated composites with such resins. The resins contain the alkaline polymerization product of (a) formaldehyde polymerized with phenol and aliphatic hydrocarbylphenol or (b) aliphatic hydrocarbylphenol dissolved in the resin containing the polymerization product of phenol and formaldehyde, wherein the hydrocarbylphenol has from 9 to 17 carbon atoms in the hydrocarbyl group and the quantity of hydrocarbylphenol is from about 0.2% to 5% based on the weight of the aqueous resole resin. Wood-product laminate composites bound with the above resole resin, after curing, exhibit unexpectedly low water absorption, good internal bond strength and reduced thickness swell properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Borden Chemical, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory F. Nieckarz, Fred E. Carlson, William D. Detlefsen
  • Patent number: 6113729
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing lignocellulosic composites. This method is useful in reducing the thickness swell of these composites on their exposure to water. This method also is useful in reducing the hot-press times required to make lignocellulosic composites. Furthermore, there is provided a method by which wax sizing may be used without the previously expected reduction in physical properties. Also, there is provided a method by which caul plate sticking may be reduced when hydrogen peroxide is used as a furnish add-on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Borden Chemical, Inc.
    Inventor: Shui-Tung Chiu
  • Patent number: 6042935
    Abstract: Disclosed is a friction element designed for frictional contact with a body and for use, in particular, in brakes or clutches. The friction element has at least one freely accessible surface formed by a carbon-fiber-reinforced porous carbon block, at least some pores of which are filled with silicon and silicon carbide. In order to provide a friction element of this kind, as well as a method of manufacturing the friction element, which gives the advantages associated with C/C--SiC materials and which can be manufactured inexpensively, thus making it suitable, from the cost point of view, for general use particularly in the automobile-construction industry, the friction element is made up of at least one core element and at least one friction block securely bonded to it, the friction block being bonded to the core element on the side remote from its friction surface and the two elements being joined to each other by a high-temperature-resistant bonding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fuer Luft-ung Raumfahrt e.V.
    Inventors: Walter Krenkel, Richard Kochendorfer
  • Patent number: 6022947
    Abstract: Light-colored phenolic-modified rosin esters, suitable for use as, for example, tackifiers in adhesive compositions, are prepared by reacting together rosin, a phenolic compound, formaldehyde or a reactive equivalent thereof, and a non-phenolic hydroxyl-containing organic compound in the presence of at least one lightening agent selected from phenol sulfide compounds, phosphorous acid, esters of phosphorous acid, and hypophosphite salts. The formaldehyde or reactive equivalent is present in an amount ranging from about 1.1 to about 3.5 equivalents of --CHO moieties per 1 equivalent of Ar--OH moiety of the phenolic compound, in order to obtain rosin esters having desirably low color, and adequately low molecular weight to effectively function as tackifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Union Camp Corporation
    Inventors: Charles R. Frihart, Kenneth E. Krajca, Brett A. Neumann
  • Patent number: 6019867
    Abstract: Mixed glycols, as exist in the waste stream from a glycol production unit, are utilized for production of a liquid resole resin in an aqueous alcoholic solvent. The solvated resole resin is employed as a binder for production of laminates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
    Inventor: Mahmood Ahmad M. Saeed
  • Patent number: 6008150
    Abstract: A process and a binder for producing fibrous webs and fibrous web moldings, preferably in molding tools, in which fibrous webs are chemically bonded with powdered binders which consist wholly or partly of powder coating material, preferably recycled powder coating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignees: Teodur N.V., Rieter Automotive Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Stan Thyssen, Walter Schmitt, Dieter Hilmes
  • Patent number: 5942058
    Abstract: The invention provides an adhesive system comprising a blend of resin and a co-adhesive conjugated triglyceride drying oil acting as a internal release agent which is mixed with fibers for bonding composite panels such as oriented strand board, particle board, plywood, MDF, hardboard, and similar panels. The resin is a fast acting bonding material which forms a mat of fibers into a self sustaining panel within a time limit during which a press may be economically utilized. The triglyceride acts slower so that, after the panel is formed, there is enough time to penetrate the fibers to a depth that results in a superior bonding. The conjugated drying oil is a release agent that provides an internal release agent that prevents the composite panel from sticking to the press that bonds it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: Archer Daniels Midland Company
    Inventors: Ronald T. Sleeter, Kenneth D. Roos
  • Patent number: 5912062
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and processes wherein recycling of waste carpets and textiles is achieved by coating the individual yarn fibers with a low viscosity adhesive that is dispersed or dissolved in a suitable solvent to affect coverage of the fine fibers, and arranging the coated fibers in layers to affect the most desirable physical properties and then cured to provide a high modulus matrix for the coated fibers in the laminate structure. The fibers may be from unshredded or shredded waste carpets, shredded waste woven or non woven fabrics, fabric bits, and knitted fabrics. When the carpet is used in an as received condition, the face yarns, which may contain one or more components yarns, are coated and the carpets are arranged in a sandwich construction wherein the backings of the two carpets are placed back-to-back, e.g., (F-B-(B-F).sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1999
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Abraham M. Kotliar, Stephen Michielsen
  • Patent number: 5907333
    Abstract: This invention relates to an ink jet print head having ink passage ways formed in a radiation cured resin layer which is attached to a substrate. The passageways are connected in fluid flow communication to an ink discharging outlet provided by an orifice plate. In order to form the passage ways in the resin layer, a resin composition is exposed to a radiation source in a predetermined pattern to cure certain regions of resin layer while other regions which provide the passage ways remain uncured. The uncured regions are removed from the resin layer leaving the desired passage ways. The resin composition to be used for forming the radiation curable layers is a resin composition comprising: a first multifunctional epoxy compound; a second multifunctional compound; a photoinitiator; and a non-photoreactive solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Girish Shivaji Patil, Paul Timothy Spivey, Gary Raymond Williams
  • Patent number: 5902442
    Abstract: Subjecting lignocellulosic components coated with an aqueous alkaline phenolic resole resin solution to carbon dioxide inhibits overpenetration of resin and improves bond strength when the coated components are heated to cure the resin by application of steam and pressure in the preparation of structural panels. Also, contact with carbon dioxide of high moisture resin coated lignocellulosic components accelerates the speed of cure and improves bond strength of panels cured under heat and pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Borden Chemical, Inc.
    Inventors: Earl K. Phillips, William D. Detlefsen, Lewis D. Creel
  • Patent number: 5847029
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of composition board, particleboard, fiberboard, waferboard and oriented strandboard as well as new and useful products thereof are provided for by the separation of one portion of the solid constituents of the composition board and the separate blending of that portion with adhesive before combining and mixing that portion with the remaining solid constituents of the composition board product. The method and product is particularly adapted to the use of fines as the one portion of the solid component of composition board and utilizing the precoated fines as an adhesive carrier in the final step of mixing or blending of the fines with the remaining composition board components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Inventor: Craig C. Campbell
  • Patent number: 5763559
    Abstract: A guanidine-modified phenol-formaldehyde resole resin by reacting formaldehyde and phenol at a formaldehyde to phenol mole ratio above about 1.5:1 in the presence of an effective amount of an alkaline catalyst and in the presence of a catalytic amount of a guanidine salt. The resin is suitable for use in adhesives for high moisture content substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Resins, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Peter Black
  • Patent number: 5717053
    Abstract: There is provided a co-condensation product obtainable by subjecting a p-alkylphenol to reaction with formaldehyde in the presence of an alkali catalyst to prepare a resol type condensate, and subjecting the resulting resol type condensate to reaction with a m-substituted phenol such as resorcin in the presence of an acid catalyst, wherein the content of the m-substituted phenol is not higher than 4% by weight, and the content of a component having a molecular weight not higher than 1,000 excluding both the p-alkylphenol and the m-substituted phenolis at least 25% by weight based on the total weight of the co-condensation product. This co-condensation product is low in fuming and in hygroscopic properties, exhibits excellent adhesiveness in vulcanizing adhesion between rubber and a reinforcing material, and further provides a vulcanized rubber article of high hardness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Naoki Inui, Hideo Nagasaki, Manji Sasaki, Kazuaki Yamamoto, Hironobu Iyama
  • Patent number: 5714030
    Abstract: A plastisol type adhesive composition used to bond a filer paper and end caps of an filter element of a fuel filter for filtering a mixture fuel of gasoline and methanol. The adhesive composition comprises a polymer (vinyl chloride polymer and/or copolymer) in an amount of 100 parts by weight, a filler in an amount ranging from 50 to 250 parts by weight, a plasticizer in an amount ranging from 50 to 250 parts by weight, and phenolic resin as an adhesiveness providing agent, in an amount ranging from 0.5 to 20 parts by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: Tsuchiya Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Iwao Kitamura, Susumu Matsumoto, Norihisa Miyajima, Takayuki Ichihara, Seiichiro Hashimoto, Junko Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 5700587
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a resorcinol-glutaraldehyde reaction product as an accelerator for thermosetting phenolic resin and to a method of making the accelerator. Further, the invention relates to a resin blend comprising phenol-formaldehyde and the accelerator and a process for making cellulosic board, oriented strandboard and plywood wherein the binder for the cellulosic board, oriented strandboard and plywood in its uncured form comprises the resin blend of the invention. In another embodiment the accelerator for thermosetting resin comprises resorcinol and glutaraldehyde.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Borden Chemical, Inc.
    Inventors: David Wen-I Shiau, William David Detlefsen, Earl Kay Phillips
  • Patent number: 5674338
    Abstract: The invention comprises a method for joining pieces of unseasoned or undr wood, by finger jointing or other joining technique. The wood may have a moisture content above the fibre saturation point of the wood, and as high as 50% to 100% or higher moisture content. An adhesive having a sufficiently high molecular weight or viscosity to avoid adhesive degradation or migration due to moisture in the wood during forming and curing of the joint, or which will cure to achieve such a sufficiently high molecular weight or viscosity during forming and curing of the joint is employed. Optionally a cure promotor or chemical which increases the rate of cure of the adhesive may be used. Preferred adhesives are formaldehyde based adhesives. Preferred cure promotor or chemicals are ammonia or amine compounds, organic acids including low molecular weight carboxylic acids, and Lewis or Bronsted class acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: Her Majesty The Queen In Right Of New Zealand/Secretary of Forestry
    Inventors: Jeffery R. Parker, Jeremy B. M. Taylor, David V. Plackett, Terence D. Lomax
  • Patent number: 5654099
    Abstract: A method for improving the adhesion of alkylated chlorosulfonated polyethylene (ACSM) and chlorosulfonated polyethylene (CSM) rubber compounds to a resorcinol-formaldehyde latex (RFL) treated polyester reinforcing element using lower than conventional heat set temperatures comprising dipping the element into a RFL dip comprising chlorosulfonated polyethylene; drying the element; heat setting the element at a temperature in the range from about 300.degree. F. to about 425.degree. F. under tension; incorporating the element into the rubber compounds; and curing the element and the rubber compounds. Further, adding an amine functional polyacrylate to the RFL dip prevents failure of the adhesion of the cord at start up temperatures of about -40.degree. F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: Dayco Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel A. Pelton
  • Patent number: 5650478
    Abstract: A liquid binding agent comprised of a phenolic resin, thinning agents and a curing agent, characterized in that the phenolic resin is produced by condensation catalyzed under alkaline conditions of a phenol and formaldehyde in a molar ratio of phenolic compound to formaldehyde in the range of 1:0.05 to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: Bakelite AG
    Inventors: Achim Hansen, Michael Konig, Stephan Schroter, Josef Suren
  • Patent number: 5641819
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of composition board, particleboard, fiberboard, waferboard and oriented strandboard as well as new and useful products thereof are provided for by the separation of one portion of the solid constituents of the composition board and the separate blending of that portion with adhesive before combining and mixing that portion with the remaining solid constituents of the composition board product. The method and product is particularly adapted to the use of fines as the one portion of the solid component of composition board and utilizing the precoated fines as an adhesive carrier in the final step of mixing or blending of the fines with the remaining composition board components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1997
    Inventor: Craig C. Campbell
  • Patent number: 5626705
    Abstract: A rapid curing adhesive for wood finger jointing and laminating and a method of its use are disclosed. The adhesive consists of two parts that are used as a honeymoon system. One part is used on one side of the joint being formed and the other part on the other side. When the parts are joined under pressure a very rapid reaction occurs resulting in a durable weather resistant joint. Wood finger joints bonded with the adhesive can be handled for further processing within as little time as 15 seconds. The first part of the adhesive is a conventional resorcinol-formaldehyde or phenol-resorcinol formaldehyde resin containing a hardener such as an alkylene group donor. The second part is a similar resin lacking any hardener but containing a modifier which is a heterocyclic oxygen and nitrogen containing compound. Morpholine has proved to serve well as the modifier. The hardener in the first part is used in a sufficient amount to effect a thermosetting cure for the resin used in both parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1997
    Assignee: Weyerhaeuser Company
    Inventors: Jack G. Winterowd, Harvey H. Cox, Roland E. Kreibich, Stanley L. Floyd, Hans Gross
  • Patent number: 5620553
    Abstract: A liquid composition which on exposure to actinic radiation polymerizes to form a heat-curable solid film adhesive, said composition comprising (A) a heat-curable phenol-aldehyde resol resin, (B) a photopolymerizable polyurethane or polyester having, on average, more than one polymerizable acrylic group per molecule, or a mixture of said polyurethane and said polyester, (C) a photopolymerization initiator for (B) and (D) a polyvinylacetal. The heat-curable solid film adhesive is used for bonding friction materials, such as brake linings, to metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Margaret R. Haddon, Terence J. Smith, Stuart Mansfield
  • Patent number: 5556906
    Abstract: Adhesive compositions comprising an aqueous based adhesive and one or more hydrophilic hydrocarbon surfactant(s) or fluorochemical surfactants and methods for bonding porous materials are described which are particularly suitable for bonding high density and/or high moisture content woods. Methods for bonding timber veneer and improving bond cure rates are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1996
    Assignees: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Chemplex Australia Limited
    Inventors: Peter J. Collins, Yoshikazu Yazaki
  • Patent number: 5462627
    Abstract: Bonding of polystyrene foam details together to produce lost foam molds suitable for casting metallic details is accomplished by coating one of the two mating surfaces of the parts with a phenol-formaldehyde adhesive. The two parts are joined together and the mated assembly is placed in a microwave oven. Exposure of the assembly to microwave energy for a pre-selected period of time effects the bonding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1995
    Assignee: Hughes Aircraft Company
    Inventors: Susan L. Oldham, Jordan L. Rosengard
  • Patent number: 5434216
    Abstract: Water resistant emulsions for woodworking adhesives may be prepared using an emulsion polymer, the polymer being prepared in the presence of 1 to 2.5% by weight of 88% hydrolyzed polyvinyl alcohol and 1 to 4% by weight of 95-99.5% (or above) hydrolyzed polyvinyl alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Assignee: National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Mudge, Pravin K. Kukkala, John Walker
  • Patent number: 5425832
    Abstract: Tightly integrated composite products are obtained by treating a fluoropolymer member on its surface with atmospheric pressure glow discharge plasma in a helium gas atmosphere containing 97% by volume or more of helium gas, and joining another member of rubber compositions, resins, metals, ceramics, or semiconductors to the surface treated fluoropolymer member. By using a fluoropolymer sheet as the fluoropolymer member and a metal or synthetic resin layer as the other member, there are obtained weather-resistant composite sheets in which the layer is firmly bonded to the fluoropolymer sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1995
    Assignees: Bridgestone Corporation, Satiko Okazaki, Masuhiro Kogoma
    Inventors: Yukihiro Kusano, Masato Yoshikawa, Itsuo Tanuma, Yukio Fukuura, Kazuo Naito, Yasuhiro Morimura, Satiko Okazaki, Masuhiro Kogoma
  • Patent number: 5417888
    Abstract: A method for producing a relatively low viscosity tannin extract from bark and/or wood and suitable for use in formaldehyde-condensation adhesives comprises providing tannin extract obtained from bark and/or wood, separating from the tannin extract the high molecular weight material, subjecting the high molecular weight material to treatment with one or more sulphite compounds to reduce the molecular weight and recombining the sulphited material with the tannin extract. The tannin extract may be recovered by subjecting bark and/or wood to a first stage hot aqueous tannin extraction process, thereby obtaining a first stage tannin extract, subjecting the extracted bark and/or wood to a second stage hot aqueous extraction process at a higher pH than the first stage, thereby obtaining a second stage tannin extract, and optionally recombining the first and second stage tannin extracts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1995
    Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
    Inventors: Peter J. Collins, Yoshikazu Yazaki
  • Patent number: 5385754
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for modifying lignocellulosic materials by a chemical treatment comprising treating the material sequentially or simultaneously with phthalic anhydride and a thermosetting resin at elevated temperature, and finally heat lignocellulosic material so produced can be formed into shapes or molds having excellent dimensional stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1995
    Assignee: BP Chemicals Limited
    Inventors: Harold A. Earl, Richard J. Salisbury
  • Patent number: 5378544
    Abstract: A composite wood product made from discrete wood particles secured together by a cured bisphenol A formaldehyde resin cured from an A-stage bisphenol A formaldehyde resin having an A-stage bisphenol A to formaldehyde mole ratio of 1 to between 2.5 and 4 and between 3 and 11% of caustic measured as sodium hydroxide based on the weight of resin solids. Preferably the resin will include 2 to 10% urea based on the resin solids. The cured bisphenol A formaldehyde resin secures the wood particles together to form a composite wood product having light colored glue lines that substantially corresponds in color with the wood so that the glue lines tend to be unnoticeable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Assignee: Trus Joist MacMillan, a Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Marek J. Gnatowski, Robert L. Pike, Douglas E. Rogerson
  • Patent number: 5364703
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to improving the peel strength of copper foil laminated to polyetherimide substrates which optionally are reinforced. The improvement in process comprises coating one side of the copper foil with an adhesive composition, placing the coated side of the copper foil in contact with pre-formed polyetherimide substrate, and heat-pressing the resulting build-up to form a cured laminate of improved peel strength. The adhesive composition utilized comprises a blend of a polyvinyl butyral resin; one or more resole resins, and an organic solvent. Heat-pressing conditions comprise a temperature ranging from about 450.degree. to 550.degree. F. and pressing conditions ranging from about 100 to 700 psi. Within this temperature/pressure range, the adhesive-coated copper foil mated with the pre-formed polyetherimide substrate yields desired peel strengths without inducing excessive flow of the polyetherimide substrate, i.e. maintaining a pre-desired thickness .+-.7.5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James E. Tracy, John T. Bartholomew
  • Patent number: 5258088
    Abstract: A golf grip assembly process which includes coating a sleeve with a layer of soluble phenol-acetaldehyde resin over the inner surface thereof, and spraying a solvent over the layer of soluble phenol-acetaldehyde resin with before the insertion of a rod for the grip. The soluble phenol-acetaldehyde resin is dissolved by the solvent into a glue to fixedly secure the rod inside the sleeve, after the insertion of the rod into the sleeve and after the setting of the glue, so that the rod and the sleeve are incorporated into a unitary golf grip assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Inventor: Yun-Lin Wu
  • Patent number: 5162156
    Abstract: An adhesion promoting composition for enhancing adhesion between an elastomeric substrate and a metal surface which, when applied at least in substantial contact with the metal surface, produces an elastomer-metal adhesive bond that withstands high temperature fluid and corrosive material environments and that can be applied without extensive pretreatment of the metal surface. The adhesion promoting composition comprises a phenolic resin derived from a first phenolic component, a second phenolic component, and a formaldehyde source, wherein the first phenolic component is a monohydroxy aromatic compound, a dihydroxy aromatic compound or a combination thereof, and the second phenolic component is a trihydroxy aromatic compound. A two-part adhesive composition containing a primer component and an overcoat component is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1992
    Assignee: Lord Corporation
    Inventors: Ernest B. Troughton, Jr., Helmut W. Kucera
  • Patent number: 5130072
    Abstract: In the process for the production of a molded body having a pressed core of solid inert particles which are coated with a thermoset phenolic resin, phenolic compounds on a basis of bisphenol, in particular a bis(hydroxyphenyl)alkane, and at least one compound which produces formaldehyde, and also a catalyst and optionally further additives customarily employed in the preparation of phenolic resins are mixed together with the inert particles. The mixture of particles obtained, preferably after precompressing and preforming, is pressed to form the molded body. During pressing under the action of heat formaldehyde is set free and the phenolic resin is completely cross-linked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1992
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin H. A. Hemels, Geert W. Schuren, Louis G. M. Driessen
  • Patent number: 5106697
    Abstract: A phenol-formaldehyde resole resin solution useful in adhesives for preparing wood laminates from a plurality of wood veneers, prepared by reacting at least an equal molar amount of formaldehyde with phenol in the presence of sodium hydroxide and a water-soluble potassium salt selected from the group consisting of potassium choloride, potassium sulfate and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1992
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Resins, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles A. Whittemore
  • Patent number: 5087314
    Abstract: An electrically conductive epoxy-based adhesive. The epoxy is selected from the amine curing modified epoxy family consisting of a resin that is a combination of polyglycidylaminophenyl resin and polygylcidylether of phenylformaldehyde novalac resin family, and a catalyst that is a combination of one member from the aliphatic amide family plus one member from the aliphatic polyamine family. In one embodiment includes 17 parts by weight of the resin and 10 parts by weight of the catalyst. 73 parts by weight of a mixture of properly shaped silver flake particles are added. The resulting adhesive is curable at room temperature to provide a high-temperature, high-strength, electrically conductive adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1992
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: James A. Sandborn, Bobby J. Boan
  • Patent number: 5074946
    Abstract: It has now been found that when there is a partial or complete replacement of the sodium hydroxide that is used to make a sodium phenolate resole resin by a molar equivalent of potassium hydroxide, a far faster curing resin is obtained. Such potassium-modified phenolic resins exhibit significant improvement in cure speed without loss of flowability. To the contrary, these resins act as though they were lower molecular weight condensation products. Reduced application rates are possible. The combination of faster cure and lower application rates has allowed such resins to be used as effective adhesives for plywood, for example, with veneer and interior plies having a higher moisture content than was previously possible. Generally, resins according to the invention may contain from about 1% to about 14%, and preferably from about 1% to about 7% by weight, of potassium hydroxide, or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1991
    Assignee: Borden, Inc.
    Inventor: Nick K. Daisy
  • Patent number: 5071688
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a medium density overlay plywood panel used as an exterior trim product for a residential building having a relatively high number of plies to total board thickness, and exposed edges with void free sanded surfaces having a predetermined pattern coarseness, and in which said overlay and edge surfaces are covered with an acrylic paint, whereby the trim product is characterized with the appearance of a solid wood product and the painted surfaces as highly weather resistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Assignees: Harry O. Hoffman, Kathleen A. Hoffman
    Inventor: Harry O. Hoffman
  • Patent number: 5057591
    Abstract: The invention is a solution of highly advanced phenolic resin with improved inherent foamability that is made from the reaction of phenol, aldehyde, water and alkali the improved foamability being brought about by the incorporation of up to 1.0% by weight, anhydrous basis, lime (calcium hydroxide) into the early stages of the reaction mix. In another embodiment, the invention is a plywood glue composition comprising a solution of lime-containing highly advanced phenolic resin, dried animal blood and preferably an aldehyde glue viscosity-lowering agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Borden, Inc.
    Inventors: William D. Detlefsen, Lewis D. Creel, Lee R. Johnson
  • Patent number: 5047275
    Abstract: A pre-cure resistant powder resin binder for waferboard/oriented strandboard manufacture is manufactured from spray drying a liquid resin composition containing a low advanced phenol-formaldehyde resin and a water soluble oxo compound of boron. The spray dryability of the low molecular weight phenol-formaldehyde resin is enhanced by the addition of the oxo boron compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1991
    Assignee: Borden, Inc.
    Inventor: Shui-Tung Chiu
  • Patent number: 5028286
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of making a dimensionally stable composite board product made from a mixture of particles of a cellulose material and binder and a composite board so produced by such method. Dimensional stability is in reference to the resistance to thickness swelling when the board is subjected to high humidity or moisture conditions. The method and composite board displaying the attribute of improved dimensional stability involves subjecting the particles of cellulosic material to a pressurized steam treatment and then making the composite board under heat and pressure. When compared to conventional composite board that has not been subjected to the pretreatment, the difference in thickness swelling is significant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1991
    Inventor: Wu-Hsiung E. Hsu
  • Patent number: 4994222
    Abstract: A vulcanized rubber-synthetic resin composite structure is produced by injecting a molten synthetic resin into a mold in which a vulcanized rubber molding has been disposed. For improvement the surface of the vulcanized rubber molding which comes into contact with the synthetic resin is chrominated, and on the chlorinated surface a curable adhesive layer composed mainly of resol-type phenolic resin and aldehyde-modified polyvinyl alcohol is formed. Alternatively a curable adhesive layer composed mainly of chlorosulfonated polyethylene is formed the surface of the vulcanized rubber molding which comes into contact with the synthetic resin, to which the molten synthetic resin is injected while keeping the vulcanized rubber molding heated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Iizumi, Kazuya Takano
  • Patent number: 4977231
    Abstract: Carbamate curing agents for phenol-aldehyde resins provide a delayed curing period for product assembly. Thereafter, the resin cures quickly even at low temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Corporation
    Inventors: Ted M. McVay, Gene F. Baxter
  • Patent number: 4961795
    Abstract: A composition and a process for bonding lignocellulosic material under heat and pressure is disclosed. According to the process, a curing agent is combined with a binder which is an alkaline phenol-formaldehyde resin. In one aspect the combination is by injection into a line carrying the binder to application apparatus, followed by in-line mixing of the curing agent and binder and application of the mixture to the lignocellulosic material. The lignocellulosic material is then compressed and the binder cured. The curing agent may be an ester, a lactone or an organic carbonate. The effect of the curing agent may be moderated with an aliphatic mono or polyhydric alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1990
    Assignee: Borden, Inc.
    Inventors: William D. Detlefsen, Earl K. Phillips, Richard V. Norton
  • Patent number: 4954581
    Abstract: The invention relates to a resin for the production of cellulose based products, such as particle boards. The resin is a condensation product of formaldehyde, urea and phenol and optionally melamine with a molar ratio of 1.4-0.8 moles of urea, 0.006-0.04 moles of phenol and 0-0.04 moles of melamine per mole formaldehyde. The invention also relates to a method of producing such a resin. According to the method a separately prepared cross-linking agent containing a co-condensate of phenol, formaldehyde and urea or containing a co-condensate of phenol and formaldehyde together with urea, is added to a pre-condensate of formaldehyde, urea and optionally melamine, whereafter the mixture is condensed. As an alternative the cross-linking agent can be added to a finished condensate of formaldehyde, urea and optionally melamine.The invention also relates to a method of manufacturing glued cellulose based products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1990
    Assignee: Dynobel A/S
    Inventors: Leif A. Flodman, Per E. G. Gabrielsson
  • Patent number: 4944821
    Abstract: Nylon cords having a yarn strength of not less than 12 g/d are subjected to a stretch heating treatment under specified conditions before the dipping and then dipped in a dipping solution having a particular composition, whereby the strength and adhesion force of the resulting dipped cords are considerably improved for use in large size tires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohisa Nishikawa, Kazuo Oshima