Abstract: Polyisoprenes having a minimum of 60% of 1,2- and 3,4-vinyl structure are useful as vibration-damping materials.The polyisoprenes are used individually or as a mixture with inorganic or organic fillers, or in the form of block copolymers.

Abstract: An olefin resin-metal bonded structure having a desirable combination of high corrosion resistance and peel strength, which comprises a metal substrate and an olefin resin layer bonded together through a primer layer, said primer layer containing (A) an oxidized polyethylene having an oxygen content of 0.1 to 10% by weight, a saponification value of 2 to 200, a density of 0.90 to 1.2 and an average molecular weight of 1000 to 50000 and (B) a coating-forming base resin having a density higher by at least 0.1 than the oxidized polyethylene and containing a functional group selected from hydroxyl and carbonyl groups at a concentration of at least 1 meq/g, the mixing weight ratio of the oxidized polyethylene (A) and the base resin (B) being within the following range:(A) : (B) = from 0.2 : 99.

Abstract: Substrates, particularly plastics, are preplated with metals by pretreatment of the substrate with phosphorus sesquisulfide in an organic solvent to deposit phosphorus sesquisulfide at the surface, followed by contacting the treated surface with a metal salt or complex thereof, to form a metal-phosphorus-sulfur compound. The substrate may be treated, either before or after its surface is provided with the metal-phosphorus-sulfur compound, with a water soluble organic compound selected from the group of the so-called water soluble organic etching compounds. Preferably the organic compounds are selected from the group consisting of di and mono ethers of water soluble glycols, di and mono ethers of water soluble di-glycols, water soluble carbonates, and water soluble lactones. Treatments of the surface of the substrate with these organic compounds renders the treated surface resistant to cracking.

Abstract: An adhesion assistant or binder composition for bonding polyolefin surfaces with metal surfaces comprising an aqueous dispersion of an ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer from 0.5 to 5 parts by weight based on 100 parts of the copolymer of a cross-linking peroxide compound and from 1 to 10 parts by weight based on 100 parts of the copolymer of a low-molecular-weight 1,2-polybutadiene; as well as a process for producing composite bodies by heat and pressure utilizing the above adhesion assistant between polyolefin surfaces and metal surfaces.

Abstract: Electroless metal coatings of increased adhesion are obtained on nitrocelose base propellant films, grains, etc., by incorporating an acrylonitrile-butadiene copolymer in the nitrocellulose propellant substrate to be electrolessly coated with the metal.

Abstract: Metallized plastic films having deposited metal layers on both surfaces and being adapted for use as dielectric films, piezoelectric films or pyroelectric films are disclosed. At least a portion of the metal layer deposited on one surface of the film has a relatively increased thickness of 700 A or more and at least a portion of the metal layer deposited on the other surface has a relatively reduced thickness of 600 A or less. The increased thickness and reduced thickness portions are positioned opposite to one another. The thin layer permits rapid self recovery of localized dielectric breakdown, while the relatively thick layer provides better utility for the electric uses to which the film is put.

Abstract: The bond strength of composite articles of rubber adhered to ferrous metal substrates through an adhesive is substantially improved at ambient and elevated temperatures by depositing a loosely adhered layer of copper on said ferrous metal substrate, applying an adhesive thereover comprising an interpolymer containing about 50 to about 99% by weight of a conjugated diene, about 1-45% by weight of a heterocyclic base and 0 to about 40% by weight of at least one additional copolymerizable monomer, thereafter contacting said adhesive with the rubber to be bonded and bonding by heat and pressure.

Abstract: This invention relates to a metal-cored asbestos-rubber gasket wherein openings are formed in the gasket with the openings being defined by eyelets. The eyelets have flanges which engage the facing layers of the gasket and normal cracking of the eyelets incipient to incorporation thereof in the gasket is prevented by incorporating in the facing layer material microspheres in a sufficient amount to permit crushing thereof by the eyelet flanges under pressure.

Abstract: A hermetic topsealant for metal electrodes on components and other microelectronic circuitry is formed by polymerizing a mixture of an unsaturated silane monomer, a bifunctional silane adhesion promoter, a polymeric plasticizer and a stabilizer.The purpose of this abstract is to enable the public and the Patent Office to rapidly determine the subject matter of the technical disclosure of the application. This abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope thereof.

Abstract: The invention disclosed is directed to new curable liquid polyene-polythiol compounds containing particular polar groups, at least one unsaturated carbon-to-carbon bond disposed at a terminal position on a main or pendant chain of the molecule and at least one terminally disposed thiol group, with the sum of the unsaturated bonds and thiol groups per polyene-polythiol molecule being at least 3. Upon curing in the presence of a free radical generator such as actinic radiation, the polar polyene-polythiol compounds form solid elastomeric and rigid products which are useful in a variety of applications including coatings, adhesives, sealants and molded articles.

Abstract: A cable shielding tape comprising a metallic strip such as aluminum and a tightly adhering layer of an adhesive copolymer of an .alpha.-olefin such as ethylene and an .alpha.,.beta.-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid such as acrylic acid is provided with zones of reduced adhesion between the metallic strip and the copolymer layer by means of a latent adhesive such as poly(vinyl acetate) or by means of a fugitive release agent such as oleic acid disposed in prescribed areas between the adhesive copolymer layer and the metallic strip. The latent adhesive material has delayed tack properties such that its adhesion to the metallic strip can be increased by the application of heat. The fugitive release agent is of a type which will become absorbed by the adhesive copolymer such that the adhesion of the adhesive copolymer to the metallic strip can be increased by the application of heat.

Abstract: The invention relates to heat-curable, pulverulent coating agents, frequently also referred to as powder lacquers, which can be used to apply a coherent coating having excellent properties after heat-curing. The coating agent contains a specifically selected acrylic resin and a specific curing agent.

Abstract: A solar heat collector including a panel having a coating of PbO.sub.2 electrodeposited from a tartrate bath and a second coating of oxygen-deficient PbO.sub.2, such as .alpha.-PbO.sub.2 or .beta.-PbO.sub.2, heat being absorbable thereby and transferable to a liquid or gas for operating heating or cooling system.

Abstract: A novel reflective light-polarizing lamination comprising a light polarizer laminated to the matte surface of aluminum foil and useful in display cells for field-effect transition liquid crystal displays.

Abstract: This invention consists in the application of a neoprene or vinyl covering all around various industrial equipment that is made of metal, such as ladders, cranes, hoists and the like, so that if the equipment accidentally comes into contact with an electrical power, a person using the equipment will not become electrocuted.

Abstract: A butadiene-acrylonitrile copolymer rubber (NBR) composition can be strongly adhered to a metal material by compounding (A) a halogenated aromatic hydrocarbon having the general formulaR.sub.n.sub.' --(Ar)--CX.sub.m H.sub. 3-m).sub.nOr ##STR1## WHEREIN Ar is benzene nucleus residue or naphthalene nucleus residue, R is a hydrocarbon residue having 1-6 carbon atoms, hydrogen atom or halogen atom, X is halogen atom, m is 1-3, n" is 1-3, when Ar is benzene nucleus residue, n is 1-6 and n' is 0-5 (provided that n+n'.ltoreq.6) and when Ar is naphthalene nucleus residue, n is 1-8 and n' is 0-7 (provided that n+n'.ltoreq.8), and (B) at least one compound selected from the oxides, carbonates, sulfides and hydroxides of metals of groups I, II, IV, V and VIII in the Periodic Table and aluminum hydroxide, to the NBR composition, contacting the resulting rubber composition to the metal material, and vulcanizing the rubber composition to adhere the composition to the metal material.

Abstract: A vinyl chloride polymer composition consisting essentially of 60 to 40% by weight of a vinyl chloride-ethylene copolymer having an average degree of polymerization of 300 to 500 and an ethylene content of 1 to 10% by weight and 40 to 60% by weight of at least one interpolymer selected from the group consisting of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene terpolymers and acrylonitrile-methyl methacrylate-butadiene-styrene quadripolymers. This composition has a heat deformation temperature of 75.degree. to 90.degree. C and is capable of easily giving by injection molding an article having a good surface appearance, a good gloss due to its excellent moldability and excellent impact resistance.

Abstract: The adhesion of hydrocarbon block copolymers to polar substrates is enhanced by compositions containing either blends of polymers of acrylic acid esters with block copolymers or block copolymers modified by grafted polymerized acrylic acid esters.

Abstract: This invention provides a coating for ferrous metal surfaces, comprised of a blend of high density and low density polyethylene powder. The coating is completed to the desired thickness in one application of the blended powder on a hot (400.degree. to 550.degree. F) ferrous metal surface. The coating may be cured or quenched after application depending on the amount of heat available from the coated object.

Abstract: This invention relates to a metal plated polymeric article, and method for the preparation thereof. The polymeric material used to form the article comprises a polyblend of a styrene polymer blended with a grafted chloroprene rubber and an inorganic compound. The grafted chloroprene provides the styrene polymer with high impact strength and serves as a source of labile halogen for flame retardancy. The inorganic compound catalyzes the evolution of halogen providing fire retardant properties to the metal plated polymeric polyblend article.

Abstract: Strong heat-sealable nonwoven fabrics, textiles, papers and other substrates which have been treated with a polymer latex derived predominantly from polymers of vinyl halides or vinylidene halides which have been overpolymerized with one or more of .alpha.,.beta. -olefinically unsaturated carboxylic acids, olefinically unsaturated amides or their N-alkylol and N-alkoxyalkyl derivatives, and esters of acrylic and methacrylic acids. Copolymers of vinyl halide or vinylidene halide with vinylidene monomers containing a terminal CH.sub.2 =C< group may also be overpolymerized in the same way in making the heat sealable articles.

Abstract: The bond strength of composite articles of rubber adhered to ferrous metal substrates through an adhesive is substantially improved at ambient and elevated temperatures by using as the adhesive an interpolymer comprising a conjugated diene and a heterocyclic nitrogen base and by using a rubber containing about 5-60 parts of silica filler per 100 parts by weight of rubber, said silica having a purity on an anhydrous basis of at least 95%.

Abstract: Adhesion of metals to vulcanizable elastomers is promoted by a process of incorporating into the elastomer a metal deactivator and then vulcanizing the elastomeric composition while it is in contact with the metal surface.

Abstract: The bond strength of composite articles of rubber adhered to ferrous metal substrates through an adhesive is substantially improved at ambient and elevated temperatures by using as the adhesive an interpolymer comprising a conjugated diene and a heterocyclic nitrogen base and containing about 5-180 parts of silica filler per 100 parts by weight of interpolymer. Further improvement is achieved by using a rubber containing about 0.025 to about 1.0 parts by weight of a cobalt compound, calculated as cobalt metal, per 100 parts of rubber.

Abstract: Adhesion of metals to vulcanizable elastomers is promoted by a process of incorporating into the elastomer an organo-nickel salt and then vulcanizing the elastomeric composition while it is in contact with the metal surface.

Abstract: An integrally bonded composite structure of a substrate part or layer of metal or the like, an elastic interface layer, and a thermoset plastic wall or layer molded in place against it is formed by: (1) coating the substrate, as by spraying, with a thin coating of a thermosetting soluble elastomer, such as a chloroprene rubber (Neoprene), formulated to chemically bond to the substrate surface, and also containing a coupling agent which will react with the thermoset plastic layer during curing of the latter; (2) heating the coating to dry and stabilize the same on the substrate so as to withstand transfer flow of molding composition but without completely curing the coating composition; and (3) molding the plastic layer against the coated substrate under heat and pressure as in a heated molding die while the coating is in incompletely cured state, and thereby completing the curing of the coating as the molded plastic layer is cured and producing an integral chemical bond from the molded layer through the inter

Abstract: The invention disclosed is directed to new curable liquid polyene-polythiol compounds containing particular polar groups, at least one unsaturated carbon-to-carbon bond disposed at a terminal position on a main or pendant chain of the molecule and at least one terminally disposed thiol group, with the sum of the unsaturated bonds and thiol groups per polyene-polythiol molecule being at least 3. Upon curing in the presence of a free radical generator such as actinic radiation, the polar polyene-polythiol compounds form solid elastomeric and rigid products which are useful in a variety of applications including coatings, adhesives, sealants and molded articles.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement of the adhesion of a metallic material such as copper, copper alloys and other metals coated therewith with a vulcanizable rubber composition. It is realized by previously adding orthoboric acid or a metal borate to the rubber composition in order to proceed with metal-rubber bonding reaction and vulcanization reaction in good balance, and vulcanizing an assembly of the metallic material and the boric compound containing rubber composition closely contacted therewith.

Abstract: An adhesive composition comprised of a nitrile rubber having carboxyl groups and a polyamide resin derived from polymeric fatty acids and alkylene polyamines. Such adhesive compositions are useful upon sheet members of plasticized polyvinylchloride, among other possible uses.

Abstract: Thermoplastic hydrocarbon resins are obtained by copolymerizing an isoolefin such as isobutylene with a diolefin such as piperylene in the present of a Friedel-Crafts catalyst in an inert hydrocarbon solvent.These resins have a softening point in the range from 80.degree. to 110.degree.C. and are compatible with ethylene vinyl acetate and polyethylene resins and are useful as tackifier resins or components in hot melt adhesives.

Abstract: A method of coating a body with a sealing, insulating and moisture-barrier layer in which a thermally coagulatable emulsion containing 60 to 75% filler and antiaging components, together with an ether thermal sensitizer and a rubber latex or bitumen is applied to the body and is heated thereon by infrared radiation, a heating fluid or a flame.

Abstract: A method of surface treating elastomer surfaces comprises applying thereto a 4-substituted-1,2,4-triazoline-3,5-dione preferably in solution. The treatment improves adhesion using normal elastomer adhesives, improves resistance to peeling with flexible paints and reduces the surface tack of the elastomer. The method is advantageous over prior art chlorination and halogen donor techniques particularly in that the triazoline diones are relatively non-corrosive and non-toxic.

Abstract: A coated metal pipe which comprises a pipe coated with a composition comprising 5-30 wt parts of ethylene-vinylacetate copolymer having a vinylacetate content of 15-40 wt% and a melt index of 1-1,000 g/10 min; 2-20 wt parts of low molecular weight oxidized polymer of polypropylene or propylene-ethylene copolymer; 5-40 wt parts of styrene butadiene copolymer; 5-50 wt parts of a tackifier and 10-80 wt parts of asphalt.

Abstract: A vinyl chloride polymer composition consisting essentially of 60 to 40 % by weight of a vinyl chloride-propylene copolymer and 40 to 60 % by weight of at least one interpolymer selected from the group consisting of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene terpolymers and acrylonitrile-methyl methacrylate-butadiene-styrene quadripolymers. This composition has a heat deformation temperature of 75.degree. to 90.degree.C and is capable of easily giving by injection molding an article having a good surface appearance, a good gloss due to its excellent moldability and excellent impact resistance.

Abstract: A structural hot melt adhesive of butadiene grafted ethylene-vinyl acetate. The butadiene graft is 1 to 12 percent by weight, preferably 4 to 8 percent by weight. The ethylene/vinyl acetate ratio is about 91/9 to 72/28, preferably about 83/17. Preferably grafting is done at room temperature using radiation. Peel adhesion on various fabric and metal substrates improved over ungrafted control samples from 100 to as much as 1500 percent.

Abstract: Resinous graft copolymers useful in adhesive formulations are prepared by polymerization of an alkoxystyrene with an olefinically unsaturated nitrile in a solution or dispersion of a rubber. The polymeric compositions can be applied to surfaces as a hot melt adhesive or solvent cement. Laminates formed with the resinous graft copolymers exhibit substantial lap shear strength.

Abstract: Adhesion of thermoplastic elastomers, such as unvulcanized styrene-butadiene rubber, to a solid substrate is obtained by using a primer containing a tackifier component, such as hydrogenated rosin or a coumarone-indene resin, and an amino-functional trihydrolyzable silane, partial condensates and hydrochloride salts thereof in which the amino-functionality is in the form of a primary or secondary amine.

Abstract: An organic polymer article has a surface coating of a metal phosphate. The coating has a thickness in the range of 0.01 to 5 microns; preferably, the metal phosphate comprises a mixture of iron and titanium orthophosphate, although the metal may be chosen from the elements of a periodic table having an atomic number of 12, 14, 20 to 32, 39 to 50, 56 to 80, 90 or 92. A continuous coating of the metal phosphate is obtained by applying to the organic polymer article a solution of a compound of the metal wherein the solution contains an organic component. The solution is converted to the coating of the metal phosphate by drying.

Abstract: A process for making photoresists which comprises preparing a photopolymerizable layer of an addition polymer, an initiator system, and a polymerizable inhibitor, using a preformed macromolecular binding agent which is a copolymer of a first monomeric material containing one or more non-acidic vinyl-type compounds and a second monomeric material containing one or more alpha,beta-unsaturated carboxyl-containing monomers, wherein the ratio of the first monomer to the unsaturated carboxylic-containing monomer is sufficient to render the binding agent soluble in a dilute alkaline solution; thereafter exposing a portion of the photopolymerizable layer to actinic light; and washing said layer with a dilute aqueous alkaline solution to dissolve the unexposed portion of the photopolymerizable layer. Preferably, the photopolymerizable layer is supported on a metallic substrate prior to said washing step.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in the process for the production of a copper coating on a shaped plastic support in which copper is vapor-deposited in a high vacuum on the surface of the plastic support, the improvement comprising coating said surface, prior to the vapor-decomposition of copper, with a layer of a conducting substance in a quantity such that the surface resistance is in the range of about 1 to less than 10.sup.12 ohm.

Abstract: A metal foil-plastic laminate comprising an upper layer of a member selected from the group consisting of a polyethylene-vinyl acetate and ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer containing no more than 8 wt. % of vinyl acetate and a lower layer of an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer containing 10-45 wt. % of vinyl acetate, thermally pressed on at least one surface of a metal foil, said lower layer being in contact with the metal foil and method for preparing the same.

Abstract: An improved process for the preparation of methacrylamides from primary amines, methacrylic esters, and base catalysts such as alkoxides and amides. Some products are obtained in the form useful as comonomers in the preparation of elastomers.

Abstract: The dissolution of certain low molecular weight vinyl resins in radiation curable compositions of one or more polyfunctional polymerizable reactive solvent and, optionally, one or more monofunctional reactive solvent yields compositions having better adhesion to metals than is obtained with the same composition without the vinyl resins and with better stain and abrasion resistance than could be obtained with the vinyl resins alone. The low molecular weight vinyl polymer is preferably a vinyl acetate polymer having an inherent viscosity below about 0.25 and a glass transition temperature from about 25.degree.C. to about 55.degree.C.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONEver-increasing restrictions on the amounts and types of volatiles permitted to escape into the atmosphere from coating and ink compositions have prompted considerable efforts to develop liquid compositions having a minimal amount of volatile components.

Abstract: A process is described for the preparation of substantially linear, amorphous random copolymers of mono-olefins or mono-olefins and unconjugated dienes with unsaturated nitrogen derivatives selected from N-vinylimidazoles and N-vinylimidazolines and compounds derived from them by substitution, for the hydrogen atoms fixed to the carbons in the heterocycle, of hydrocarbon or aminohydrocarbon radicals.At least two mono-olefins containing 2 to 20 carbon atoms, and possibly an unconjugated diene, are placed in contact, in an inert liquid medium at a temperature of between -80.degree. and +150.degree.C, with at least one of these nitrogen derivatives in the form of a complex with a Lewis acid, in the presence of a co-ordination catalyst system.The resulting copolymers can be vulcanized, and among other properties have excellent adherence to metal surfaces.

Abstract: A copolymer of 2,4-dimethyl-4-vinyl-1-cyclohexene and at least one member of the group consisting of 2,6- and 3,6-dimethyl-1,3,6-octatrienes, which copolymer is suitable for use as a tackifier, said copolymer consisting essentially of (A) structural units derived from 2,4-dimethyl-4-vinyl-1-cyclohexene and (B) structural units derived from at least one member selected from the group consisting of 2,6- and 3,6-dimethyl-1,3,6-octatriene in proportions of 100 moles of (A) to 1 to 400 moles of (B) and characterized by containing not more than seven unsaturated double bonds per 100 carbon atoms contained in its molecule and having a softening point of 85.degree.-160.degree.C. and an average molecular weight of 450-1850 is disclosed.

Abstract: A process is described for the preparation of substantially linear, amorphous random copolymers of mono-olefins or mono-olefins and unconjugated dienes with N-unsaturated lactams.At least two mono-olefins containing 2 to 20 carbon atoms, and possibly an unconjugated diene, are placed in contact, in an inert liquid medium at a temperature of between -80.degree. and +150.degree.C, with at least one such N-unsaturated lactam in the form of a complex with a Lewis acid, in the presence of a co-ordination catalyst system, until a copolymer forms.The resulting copolymers can be vulcanized, and among other properties have improved adherence to metal surfaces.

Abstract: The mechanical properties of laminate sheathed cables are improved by using as the shielding layer a laminate tape prepared by coating a metallic foil with an ethylene-glycidyl-methacrylate-vinyl acetate terpolymer

Abstract: A terpolymer, consisting essentially of (a) a first component of ethylene, (b) a second component selected from an (1) unsaturated glycidyl ester of the following formula (I) and (2) an unsaturated glycidyl ether of the following formula (II), and (c) a third component selected from an alkyl acrylate, an alkyl methacrylate and vinyl acetate, is coated on one or both surfaces of a metal foil to make a laminate tape. ##EQU1## wherein R represents a hydrocarbon residue containing an ethylenically unsaturated bond.The laminate tape is used for preparing a laminate sheathed cable. The terpolymer resin may contain an antioxidant.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of reducing crevice corrosion in titanium structures having gasketed joints, by the use of rubber gaskets characterized by the substantial absence of calcium. Also disclosed is a method of electrolysis in a titanium vessel having gasketed titanium joints with rubber gaskets substantially free of calcium in the joints and crevices.

Abstract: The hull of a marine vessel is protected from fouling by marine growths by a foil of anti-fouling metal such as copper or a copper alloy adhesively bonded throughout its area to the hull below the water line. The foil is conveniently applied to the hull by pressure sensitive or heat sensitive adhesive.