Abstract: A process for recovering solid scrap thermosetting plastic compounds such as crosslinkable polyethylene compound and the like, by immediately hot-granulating the fresh thermosetting scrap before it has time to fully cure and then reducing the granules to a fine powder. The powdered scrap compound may be reused directly or blended with virgin material, and recompounded into granules for reuse in molding or extrusion processes.

Abstract: Disclosed is a coaxial cable having greatly improved mechanical and electrical properties derived from a foamed dielectric having a dielectric constant in the range of 1.32 to 1.1, a density between 0.1 and 0.29 grams per cubic centimeter, said foamed dielectric having dispersed throughout it undecomposed particles of a nucleating agent such cable being provided by a novel method of coating a center conductor of the cable with a dielectric with an extruded cellular polyolefin base composition which has been rendered cellular by the direct injection of a blowing agent in a liquid form into the polymer during an extrusion process.

Abstract: This invention is an improved filling compound for preventing moisture penetration along the interior of high voltage electric power cables. Amorphous polypropylene, mixed with carbon where it must be semiconductive, is an extremely good filling compound because of its electrical characteristics and also because of its good flow characteristics when extruding. When the cable is to be used under conditions where it must withstand temperatures so low that the polypropylene becomes brittle, it can be blended with polyisobutylene rubber to withstand lower temperatures, but the blend must be kept within limits to prevent loss of the good flow characteristics of the amorphous polypropylene.

Abstract: This invention is an improved method for dispersing antioxidant material in cross-linkable insulation for electric cables. The antioxidant, which has a high melting point, is dissolved in a carrier, preferably the cross-linking agent, to obtain a solution of low melting point that is dispersed through the pellets of insulation when the ingredients are mixed in a blender. Improvements in the blender cycle reduce the content of fines, improve dispersion of the antioxidant and shorten the blending cycle. The preferred ingredients used are 4,4'-thiobis (6 tert-butyl-m-cresol) as the antioxidant and dicumyl peroxide as the cross-linking agent.

Abstract: An electrical conductor insulated with a cured heat resistant, radiation resistant, substantially dimensionally stable electrical insulation comprising a chlorinated polyethylene elastomer composition which has been electron cured with a dosage of at least 1 megarad. The product of the invention may be a single insulated wire or a group of twisted or cabled insulated wires enclosed in an electron cured chlorinated polyethylene elastomer composition jacket.

Abstract: Electrical apparatus having certain portions thereof insulated with solid insulating structures. The solid insulating structures include a predetermined thickness of polyethylene terephthalate film which is surrounded on each of its major outer surfaces by a layer of paper having a fibrous web formed of wholly aromatic polyamide fibers.

Abstract: The condensation product of oxalyl dihydrazide and 3,5-di-tertiary-butyl-4-hydroxy aryl carbonyl compounds is found to stabilize polyethylene against oxidative degradation. Stabilizer effectiveness is retained with the polymer in contact with copper. Stabilized polymers are effectively utilized as wire insulation.

Abstract: In the connection or terminal portions of cross-linked polyethylene cables produced by winding irradiated tapes around the connection or terminal portions of cross-linked polyethylene insulated cables and heat molding the same, the irradiated tapes comprise polyethylene and/or an ethylene copolymer as a base resin plus an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer containing more than about 15% vinylacetate (VA) in an amount which provides more than an about 2.5% VA content in the irradiated tapes.

Abstract: A semiconductive composition having controlled strippability from cross-linked ethylene polymer based insulation compositions and comprising chlorinated ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer containing about 3 to 40 percent by weight of chlorine and conductive carbon black.

Abstract: Provided hereinbelow is a process of extrusion-coating the central core, said core being used in a submarine coaxial cable, with an insulator of high pressure-processed polyethylene having a density of from 0.925 to 0.940 g/cm.sup.3 and a melt index of from 0.01 to 0.

Abstract: The condensation products of oxalyl dihydrazide and 3,5-di-tertiary-butyl-4-hydroxy aryl carbonyl compounds are found to stabilize polyethylene against oxidative degradation. Stabilizer effectiveness is retained with the polymer in contact with copper. Stabilized polymers are effectively utilized as wire insulation.

Abstract: The insulation of electrical cables which are utilized in environments likely to cause extraction of stabilizer systems is achieved through the use of compositions in which a disubstituted alkylhydroxyphenyl alkanoyl hydrazine is used as extraction resistant stabilizer for ethylene-propylene copolymer coating materials. Equivalent nomenclature for the preferred stabilizer is disubstituted di-t-butyl hydroxy hydro cinnamoyl (DTBHC) hydrazine. The DTBHC hydrazine is substantially the only stabilizer used in the stabilized compositions.

Abstract: A multipair telephone cable especially designed to carry interoffice traffic consists of copper conductors insulated with expanded plastic with or without a solid plastic skin. The copper gauge size, insulation expansion factor and dielectric diameter are uniquely designed to consume a minimum of cable cross-section area while permitting use of the cable to provide voice frequency circuits in a manner comparable to normal; 24-gauge cable as well as to provide carrier frequency circuits operating in the range of from about 100 kHz to 8.0 MHz comparably to normal 22-gauge cable. The cable includes pairs twisted according to a constant twist frequency spacing concept.

Abstract: A method of compounding thermoplastic polymeric material and fillers, including additives and agents, and unique compounded products. The compounding method comprises mixing the thermoplastic polymeric material in particulate form with particulate filler, and in progressive sequence melting the surface portion of the thermoplastic particles, blending the filler with said molten surface portion of the thermoplastic particles and removing the resultant blended melt and filler from the surface of the thermoplastic particles. The mixing and melting, and the blending and removing, are continued until the filler is substantially assimilated into the polymeric material and the thermoplastic particles become substantially diminished by melting and blending, or the method can be carried further if desired. The compounded product thus prepared is characterized by a distinctive stratified consistency.

Abstract: A hermetic lead wire for use in conducting electricity to a motor in a hermetically sealed system such as a refrigeration system is formed with an electrically wound, laminated flexible foil tape surrounding an internal stranded conductor. The laminated tape is formed with an inner nonwoven fibrous layer of polyester fibers for interlocking with the conductor when melted by a hot stripping tool. An outer impervious foil layer of polyester on said laminated tape provides a dielectric shield for the wire. Preferably, the laminated tape is helically wound about the conductor and is covered with an outer flexible braided sheath of polyester filaments.

Abstract: Insulated wire or cable having primary insulation between copper conductor and moisture barrier filler and wherein the primary insulation comprises ethylene polymer having a density of about 0.928 to 0.955,Copper deactivating amounts of at least one organic compound which is an alkyl hydroxy phenyl alkanoyl hydrazide, and/or a substituted amido triazole, andAntioxidant effective quantities of at least one organic compound having a molecular weight of .gtoreq. 550 and which contains .gtoreq. four hindered phenolic groups per molecule thereof.

Abstract: A power cable having a plastic electrical insulation which is partially or wholly composed of a plastic compound. The plastic compound containing an inorganic or organic electrolyte which ionizes when dissolved in water, the power cable prevents the deterioration of insulation called "water tree" which has been a fatal drawback of the plastic insulation layers of the conventional plastic insulated cables such as cross-linked polyethylene cables, etc.

Abstract: An electrically insulated conductor adapted to be used at high temperatures in power plants, refineries and chemical process plants for connecting instruments has at least one pair of electrical conductors insulated with an irradiation cured ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer, ethylene-chlorotrifluoroethylene copolymer or polyvinyl chloride polymer and a drain wire enclosed in a metallic shield and an irradiation cured halosulfonated polyethylene, polychloroprene or chlorinated polyethylene jacket.

Abstract: Insulated electric power cables comprising a cured insulating material applied over a conductor and a layer of plastic compound comprising 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin and 5-70 parts by weight of calcium oxide as a moisture-absorbing agent, overlying the insulating material and, optionally, lying between the conductor and the insulating material. The presence of calcium oxide serves to absorb steam before it penetrates into the insulating material through the layer of plastic compound being cured by steam, whereby the cured insulating material is free of microvoids and possess good insulation characteristics.

Abstract: An improved and economical fire retarding system for polymeric compositions comprising the combination of a halogen-containing hydrocarbon and an oxide of iron; a method of rendering polymeric compositions resistant to flame; and the flame resistant polymeric compositions and products comprising the same.

Abstract: A method for curing mineral filled, ethylene-containing polymeric compositions with heat and without applying high pressures, which produces relatively dense and substantially non-porous cured polymeric products. The method comprises the addition of an organic titanate to a curable, mineral filled polymeric composition, and heat curing the composition at approximately ambient atmospheric pressures.

Abstract: A curable composition comprising an ethylene-containing polymer, a curing agent, and a mineral filler treated with tetramethyltetravinylcyclotetrasiloxane, is compounded and fabricated to the desired shape, such as an insulation layer over a conductor. The fabricated product is then passed through a non-aqueous heat transfer medium maintained at about atmospheric pressure and at a temperature sufficient to effect curing in situ of the ethylene-containing polymer. The resulting cured composition is characterized as relatively dense (substantially non-porous) especially suitable for use as insulation for wire and cable.

Abstract: Insulated wire or cable having primary insulation between copper conductor and moisture barrier filler and wherein the primary insulation comprises:Ethylene polymer having a density of about 0.928 to 0.955,Copper deactivating amounts of at least one organic compound which is an oxalyl dihydrazide, andAntioxidant effective quantities of at least one organic compound having a molecular weight of .gtoreq.550 and which contains 2 or 3 hindered phenolic groups per molecule thereof.

Abstract: In combination in an electric cable, at least one conductor, an essentially smokeless insulating jacket enclosing said conductor, the jacket consisting essentially of a chlorosulfonated polyethylene having uniformly dispersed therethrough an amount of magnesium oxide at least sufficient to suppress substantial cable jacket smoking when the cable is subjected to pyrolysis.

Abstract: A corrugated plastic article comprising at least two corrugated plastic films each of polyethylene terephthalate held in contact with each other and capable of substantially maintaining its shape under extreme use conditions.Such corrugated plastic article when heated for 5 minutes at 150.degree.C. has a percent (%) fallout (i.e., the original peak-to-peak height of the corrugations minus the retained peak-to-peak height thereof after heating divided by the original peak-to-peak height) of less than 35%.In an electrical cable having a conductor core, this corrugated plastic article provides an improved protective member for the core, having good dielectric strength and mechanical strength, electrical stability, low moisture sensitivity and other properties, wherein the corrugations, strength and shape-retention capabilities of the article provide improved cushioning, insulation and other protection for the core.

Abstract: A method of compounding thermoplastic polymeric material and fillers, including additives and agents, and unique compounded products. The compounding method comprises mixing the thermoplastic polymeric material in particulate form with particulate filler, and in progressive sequence melting the surface portion of the thermoplastic particles, blending the filler with said molten surface portion of the thermoplastic particles and removing the resultant blended melt and filler from the surface of the thermoplastic particles. The mixing and melting, and the blending and removing, are continued until the filler is substantially assimilated into the polymeric material and the thermoplastic particles become substantially diminished by melting and blending, or the method can be carried further if desired. The compounded product thus prepared is characterized by a distinctive stratified consistency.

Abstract: A multi-layer insulation for deep-cooled cables utilizing insulating foils having a dielectric loss factor less than 5.times.10.sup..sup.-5 in which a layer of a spun bonded paper of high density polyethylene fibers is placed between each two layers of insulating foil thereby providing sufficient elasticity even when the cable is cooled to a very low temperature to equalize expansion differences occurring in the cable.

Abstract: Extruded dielectric power cables installed underground have their life shortened by the formation of electrochemical trees in the insulation. Tree formation can be prevented if the insulation is initially dry and the cable construction is such that moisture cannot gain access to the insulation under operating conditions encountered during installation and underground use. This invention eliminates initial moisture and has a construction that greatly retards ingress of moisture to the insulation during installation when the cable is in service and prevents longitudinal movement of water along the cable due to accidental damage to the cable or electrical failure.

Abstract: A curable composition, especially adaptable for use as insulation for wire and cable, comprising an ethylene-containing polymeric member, a curing agent, and a silicone fluid having a viscosity not greater than about 100 centistokes at 25.degree.C. A filler such as carbon black or a mineral filler may be incorporated into the system.