Abstract: A filler reinforced composite comprising bitumen as a continuous phase and as reinforcement in the bitumen, fillers which have been coated with a chemically-modified bitumen prepared by reacting a bituminous material with a chromium complex.

Abstract: The flame resistance of a bituminized roof sheet consisting of a reinforced fleece, a metal foil and bitumen is improved substantially by applying a metal foil to one face. A rupture of the metal foil in the case of stress due to elongation is prevented by wrinkling it. The elongation reserve thus obtained is in the range of from 2 to 35%.

Abstract: Glass fibers, either in the form of individual filaments or bundles or glass fibers, which have been coated with a chemically-modified asphalt prepared by reacting a bituminous material with an organo silicon compound in which the organic group attached to the silicon atom contains a functional group reactive with the bitumen. The coated fibers can be used as reinforcement for bitumen or bitumen plus aggregate to securely tie the glass fiber surfaces to the bitumen.

Abstract: This invention relates to a composite bituminous sheet, particularly useful for sealing members.Said sheet consists of a main or external zone (1) formed of a cloth which is substantially non-extensible under low stress surrounding at least one central zone (2) to which it is bound, which is formed of an extensible elastic cloth having a tensile elongation at break of at least 100%, the central and external zones being coated with the same bituminous composition having a high elongation at break and a softening point at least equal to 100.degree. C. when determined according to the standard Ring and Ball test.

Abstract: A sheet of reinforced tar is produced by repetitively coating a mesh with hot tar until all of the voids in the mesh are filled. The mesh employed may include relatively heavy gauge strands interwoven with light gauge strands to reduce the size of the voids and reduce the number of coatings necessary to produce the sheet; alternatively, a layer of loosely woven material may be combined with the mesh to augment the base for the coatings of hot tar.

Abstract: A waterproofing sheet material useful for example as a free floating membrane or flashing material in roofing applications, a pond liner, or a gasketing material, composed of from about 15 wt. % to about 80 wt. % of an ingredient selected from the group consisting of:(a) homopolymers of alkadienes and substituted alkadienes(b) addition copolymers of alkadienes with unsaturated monomers(c) homopolymers of alkenes and substituted alkenes selected from the group consisting of polyethylene, chlorosulfonated polyethylene and polyisobutylene(d) resin acids and resin acid derivatives(e) highly aromatic bituminous materials, and(f) pine oiland from about 85 wt. % to about 20 wt. % of a plasticized polyvinyl butyral resin. Minor amounts of fatty acids and paraffin wax may be added to improve low temperature properties and to facilitate processing a hot melt admixture of the ingredients into a sheet.

Abstract: A method of weather-proofing surfaces, particularly concrete roofs, is described wherein first applied is an inner layer of a soft asphalt (bitumen) having a softening point of 100.degree.-140.degree. F. and including reinforcing fibers, and then an overlying layer of an asphalt-saturated-felt. In one preferred example, the overlying layer is a glass-fiber mat saturated with a hard air-blown asphalt having a softening point of at least 180.degree. F.; and in a second described example, it is paper saturated with soft (non-blown) asphalt and coated on its outer faces with the hard air-blown asphalt. The combination of the soft asphalt inner layer and the asphalt-saturated-felt outer layer has been found to produce a barrier impermeable to water travelling inwardly, but permeable to vapor travelling outwardly thereby avoiding the formation of blisters.

Abstract: A building element which inhibits the change of the interior temperature of a building beyond prescribed limits approximating room temperature. A rigid porous matrix structure is provided in thermal communication with the building interior. A store of phase change material impregnates the matrix structure. The phase change material has a melting point within the temperature limits so that the material melts when the interior temperature of the building exceeds the temperature limits. Melting of the material absorbs heat and reduces the interior temperature of the building, until the material is entirely melted. Conversely, the material freezes when the interior temperature of the building falls below the temperature limits to release heat and increase the interior temperature until the stored material is entirely frozen. The store of phase change material is sealed within the matrix structure so that the material undergoes repeated changes in phase between liquid and solid.

Abstract: Glass fibers, either in the form of individual filaments or bundles of glass fibers, which have been coated with a chemically-modified asphalt prepared by reacting a bituminous material with a chromium complex. The coated fibers can be used as reinforcement for bitumen or bitumen plus aggregate to securely tie the glass fiber surfaces to the bitumen.

Abstract: The use of flake glass in road pavement and repair is disclosed. In particular, we disclose improvements in the formulations of asphalt aggregate wear surfaces, substrate layers and interface layers between the substrate and wear surfaces. In one embodiment we also employ an unsaturated monomer or an unsaturated elastomer.

Abstract: Glass fibers, either in the form of individual filaments or bundles or glass fibers, which have been coated with a chemically-modified asphalt prepared by reacting a bituminous material with an organo silicon compound in which the organic group attached to the silicon atom contains a functional group reactive with the bitumen. The coated fibers can be used as reinforcement for bitumen or bitumen plus aggregate to securely tie the glass fiber surfaces to the bitumen.

Abstract: An improved flashing sheet suitable for the formation of a flashing seal at a non-flat part having a three dimentional shape is provided. The flashing sheet comprises a base sheet of knitted fabrics having a high expandability in all directions and a modified bitumen layer of a mixture of bitumen and rubbers. This flashing sheet can be easily and directly applied onto the non-flat part of a substrate without any complex procedures and also without causing water leakage problems of the flashing seal.

Abstract: Glass fibers, either in the form of individual filaments or bundles of glass fibers, which have been coated with a chemically-modified asphalt prepared by reacting a bituminous material with an organo metallic compound in the form of an orthoester or an organo metallic boron compound. The coated fibers can be used as reinforcement for bitumen or bitumen plus aggregate to securely tie the glass fiber surfaces to the bitumen.

Abstract: A waterproofing sheet material useful for example as a free floating membrane or flashing material in roofing applications, a pond liner, or a gasketing material, composed of from about 15 wt. % to about 80 wt. % of an ingredient selected from the group consisting of:(a) homopolymers of alkadienes and substituted alkadienes(b) addition copolymers of alkadienes with unsaturated monomers(c) homopolymers of alkenes and substituted alkenes selected from the group consisting of polyethylene, chlorosulfonated polyethylene and polyisobutylene(d) resin acids and resin acid derivatives(e) highly aromatic bituminous materials, and(f) pine oiland from about 85 wt. % to about 20 wt. % of a plasticized polyvinyl butyral resin. Minor amounts of fatty acids and paraffin wax may be added to improve low temperature properties and to facilitate processing a hot melt admixture of the ingredients into a sheet.

Abstract: An asphalt water-proofing material comprising a core impregnated with petroleum asphalt. The core is made of composite material including a non-woven fabric layer formed of long filaments of synthetic resin arranged in random fashion and a woven or knitted fabric layer. The non-woven fabric and woven or knitted fabric layers are connected together by needle-punching whereby the long filaments of the non-woven fabric layer are forced into the woven or knitted fabric layer to integrally connect these layers to form said core.

Abstract: This invention relates to stable, fluid magnesium-containing dispersions and the preparations thereof by the high temperature dehydration of Mg(OH).sub.2 to MgO in a dispersant-containing fluid.

Abstract: A protective coating for bituminous paving surfaces is disclosed, which coating is comprised of a coal tar emulsion, water, and sufficient acrylate emulsion to provide a desired viscosity. Sand may be added to the composition to improve surface traction of coated bituminous surface.

Abstract: A bituminous roofing and sealing web is disclosed containing a fibrous insert.

Abstract: The insulating felt comprises 23 to 39% by weight of pyrolytic resin, 35 to 54% by weight of asphalt, 4 to 7% by weight of softener, 2.5 to 8% by weight plasticizer, 2 to 4% by weight of fine grained material and 10 to 25% by weight of reinforcing material. The felt is useful for water proofing or preventing corrosion of metal and concrete objects.

Abstract: Fibrous floor coverings comprising a layer of fibrous fabric having an integral backing layer are disclosed. The backing layer comprises the blend of a certain bituminous component and a monoalkenyl arene/conjugated diene block copolymer.

Abstract: A pinhole free, asphalt coated fibrous mat is disclosed herein. This mat is made by selecting a fibrous base mat and preparing or otherwise providing a thixotropic mixture including asphalt emulsion and an additive for making the mixture thixotropic. The mixture is coated onto at least one side of the mat and the coated mat is dried, thereby driving off the water from the mixture and at the same time breaking the asphalt emulsion.

Abstract: This invention relates to stable, fluid magnesium-containing dispersions and the preparations thereof by the high temperature decomposition of Magnesium salts of carboxylic acids to MgO in a dispersant-containing fluid.

Abstract: A novel preformed, sheet-like, flexible material suitable for waterproofing or substructural surfaces, the sheet-like material having a laminate structure of (1) a waterproof and waterproofing pressure-sensitive adhesive membrane having a surface of predetermined width extending from edge to edge of said membrane; and (2) a support covering said entire predetermined width of said surface, said support comprising (a) a major flexible support sheet superimposed on a major portion of said surface, and (b) at least one minor support sheet, each of said at least one minor support sheets extending from one of said edges toward the major support sheet. The flexible polymeric support covering the major portion of the membrane's covered surface has its free face substantially non-adherent to the composition of the waterproofing adhesive membrane.

Abstract: Reinforced concrete is prepared by embedding within it a reinforcing element of at least one rigid plastic gridwork (which is optionally filler reinforced) of integrally molded struts.

Abstract: A self adhesion ensuring layer having a total thickness of 0.05 to 0.2 mm is carried on a PVC-foil carrier sheet having a thickness of 0.2 to 0.5 mm. The self adhesion ensuring layer comprises 70 to 100% by weight of synthetic caoutchouc, 0 to 16% by weight bitumin and 0 to 14% by weight talc. A ground layer may be interposed between the carrier sheet and self adhesion ensuring layer. The resultant system is useful for insulation of underground pipe.

Abstract: A thermoplastic material, suitable for fabrication into panels or sheets, and having high strength at elevated temperatures comprises:(a) 100 parts by weight of polyolefin elastomer;(b) more than 50, but no more than 150 parts by weight of crystalline or partially crystalline polyolefin;(c) 30 to 150 parts by weight of carbon black; and, optionally,(d) up to 50 parts by weight of bitumen;(e) up to 30 parts by weight of mineral oil;(f) up to 240 parts by weight of chalk or siliceous chalk; and(g) up to 10 parts by weight of lubricant.

Abstract: An improved multi-layer surface marking tape material for use on roadway pavements so as to provide a traffic regulating indicium thereon, and having an anti-skid and wear-resisting upper layer and a lower primer layer for connecting the material to said pavement, the new multi-layer tape material comprising further an intermediate relatively thin, pliable, essentially inextensible and tensionally resistant intermediate layer compatible with and intimately connected to both said layers for distributing and transferring over a large primer layer-roadway pavement interfacial area horizontally directed stresses tangentially applied to said anti-skid upper layer at localized upper layer-vehicle wheel treads interfacial areas.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a novel process for preparing bitumen-polymer compositions. These compositions contain block copolymers comprising diene and styrene groups.The compositions present excellent mechanical properties even at low temperatures.

Abstract: The disclosure describes built-up roofing having improved resistance to spreading of fire, fabricated from two or more layers of felt impregnated with asphalt based saturant with asphalt based coating spread on top of each felt layer; the saturant asphalt or coating asphalt or both are blends of 90 - 45% asphalt with 10 - 55% sulfur. The roofing is built-up in the conventional manner by "mopping" fluid asphalt based coating onto felt layers impregnated with asphalt based impregnant. A protective layer of inert mineral aggregate (e.g. gravel) optionally covers the top coating.

Abstract: A sound deadener sheet softenable by heat to wilt into conformity and adhesive engagement with a contoured metal surface but resistant to running and flow at higher temperatures comprising a mineral-filled bitumen containing a small amount of vulcanized vegetable oil.

Abstract: A composition especially useful as a primer coating having improved hot line adhesion and cathodic disbonding resistance comprises a solution of chlorinated rubber and aromatic petroleum pitch in a solvent.

Abstract: An asphaltic composition having low temperature flexibility and resistance to stress cracking, shearing or adhesive failure is prepared using conjugated diene-monovinyl substituted aromatic hydrocarbon copolymers prepared in absence of polar-type randomizers, e.g., tetrahydrofuran, or by incremental addition of both the monovinyl substituted aromatic hydrocarbon and initiator, e.g., organomonolithium. The composition is especially useful in cold places, e.g., as a coating for objects to be stored or kept in cold ground, above ground or under the sea.

Abstract: An economical and uniform fibrous glass mat displaying improved tear strength and a wet forming process of making such a mat is disclosed herein. The mat, which is especially suitable as a carrier material in the manufacture of asphalt shingles or other such roofing products, includes a web of base fibers comprising individual monofilament glass fibers and reinforcement fibers in the form of glass fiber bundles interspersed throughout the web in a randomly oriented pattern. The mat also includes a binder substance to assist in holding the base fibers and reinforcement fiber bundles together.

Abstract: Roof drain flashing constituting a tough flexible material bondable to any type roof membrane and capable of accommodating thermal expansion and contraction of the roof without cracking and leaking at the drain, being a layer of nonplasticized chlorinated polyethylene integrally and irreversibly joined to a layer of asphalt-saturated roofing felt. The non-plasticized chlorinated polyethylene is physically joined to the asphalt-saturated felt by pressing the two together at pressures in the 4000 PSI range just subsequent to the CPE being extruded and cooled to the 250.degree. F range, having passed through the extrusion die at considerably higher temperatures.

Abstract: A bulky asphalt-impregnated sheet comprising a base material of a bulky sheet of non-woven fabric which is uniformly and completely saturated with asphalt on the surface layers of the front and rear sides of said base material, said surface layers having of different properties from each other. A method and a system for manufacturing such bulky sheet comprises preparing the base material of non-woven fabric uniformly and completely saturated with asphalt, scraping off the asphalt from the surface of said base material and then applying a material of a different property onto the scraped surface.

Abstract: Process for forming coated pitch prills by mixing pitch prills with finely divided carbonaceous material and agitating the prills and carbonaceous material until a layer of carbonaceous material adherently bonded to the pitch prill is formed. Preferably the pitch prill is a substantially spherical particle having an average diameter between about 1 and about 5 millimeters. The finely divided carbonaceous material is preferably carbon black.

Abstract: A coated metal pipe which comprises a pipe coated with a composition comprising2 to 40 wt. parts of low molecular weight oxidized polymer of polypropylene or propylene-ethylene copolymer;5 to 40 wt. parts of a rubber component selected from a group consisting of styrene-butadiene copolymer, polyisoprene, butyl rubber, chlorosulfonic polyethylene and polyisobutylene;5 to 50 wt. parts of a tackifier and 10 to 80 wt. parts of asphalt.

Abstract: A novel self-adhesive type multi-layer laminated bituminous roofing membrane suitable for the formation of the roofing or waterproofing layer on roofs, floors and the like is provided. It comprises a base sheet of a sheet-like material, one or more bitumen layers coated on all or part of one or both faces of the base sheet, at least one layer of compound bitumen including both bitumen and rubber and/or resin laminated on all or part of the surface of said bitumen-coated layer on the base sheet and at least one release sheet laid over the whole surface of said compound bitumen layer.This roofing membrane is produced by uniting the bitumen-coated base sheet and the compound bitumen-coated release sheet, and can be applied over a substrate in a simple manner, without the step of melting or liquefying bitumen as in the conventional application process.

Abstract: A fire resistant and weathering resistant shingle or surface covering material ecologically desirable in its utilization of disposable glass is disclosed. The shingle has an asphalt coating with specified characteristics, and the asphalt coating contains from 10 to 55% by weight granular glass and preferably a combination of granular glass and non-glass granular mineral filler a major portion of which is granular glass, with each having a specified particle size distribution.A process is disclosed for producing a fire-resistant shingle or surface covering. The process includes saturating a felt base with a bitumen, admixing asphalt with granular glass and preferably with a specified combination of granular glass and non-glass granular mineral filler of specified characteristics, and then coating at least one side of the saturated felt with the filled asphalt.

Abstract: The disclosure describes asphalt saturated felt building materials, optionally having a mineral filled asphalt base coating thereon, in which the asphalt saturating the felt and/or the asphalt in any mineral filled coating is a blend of 10-55% sulfur dispersed in the asphalt. The materials are used in the conventional manner as roofing felt, roofing shingles, and in built-up roofing, to obtain improved fire resistance.

Abstract: Disclosed are: (1) A composition comprising a major amount of catalytically air-blown asphalt and minor amounts of plasticizer and solvent for the asphalt; (2) a method for curing uncured concrete comprising coating the uncured concrete with the composition set forth above, then curing both the concrete with the composition; and (3) cured concrete coated with a composition comprising a major amount of catalytically air-blown asphalt and a minor amount of plasticizer.

Abstract: A high quality water proofing material of easier applicability than those employed previously comprises a non woven fabric of isostatic polypropylene fibres treated with a mixture of bitumen and sulphur.

Abstract: Coating compositions, useful for marking trafficable surfaces such as roads, are disclosed and claimed which comprise a polymer-monomer mixture and a catalyst system. The relative amounts of the components are chosen so as to provide compositions which have, surprisingly, a desirable balance of stability and fast cure.

Abstract: Disclosed is a pitch impregnant composition comprising coal tar pitch, oxidized, or unoxidized petroleum pitch with stearic acid, and particulated metallic pigments including copper, aluminum, steel, silver, iron, tin, nickel and zinc metals and copper-zinc alloys. The process comprises forcing the molten impregnant composition into the surface of the porous article preferably by imposing pressure on the impregnant composition while the article to be treated is immersed therein. Articles so treated exhibit a metallic surface appearance.

Abstract: Compositions are provided which employ a fibrous, cellular, absorbent organic material in place of asbestos fiber as a reinforcing and thickening additive; a wide variety of compositions including cements, sealants and paints can be made; a particularly preferred fibrous material is a foamed urea-formaldehyde crushed to a fibrous mass.

Abstract: A noise reducing material especially suitable for attaching to internal combustion engine casing parts and comprising (a) a layer of a metal such as lead combining a high density with a low shear modulus, bonded to (b) a layer of a pliant thermoplastics matrix reinforced with fibrous material. Layer (b) is preferably asbestos fiber-reinforced bitumen and the laminate preferably comprises a layer of lead between two layers of the reinforced thermoplastics material.

Abstract: A novel combined application process of thermal insulation and built-up roofing or waterproofing is provided. In this application process, a foamed thermo-plastic thermal insulating material is bonded with a membrane having a tacky compound layer on one surface thereof so that the tacky compound layer is in close contact with the foamed thermoplastic material, without causing any damage due to heating, and a built-up roofing or waterproofing is formed on the other surface of the membrane according to the conventional application process.

Abstract: A novel self-adhesive type multi-layer laminated bituminous roofing membrane suitable for the formation of the roofing or waterproofing layer on roofs, floors and the like is provided. It comprises a base sheet of a sheet-like material, one or more bitumen layers coated on all or part of one or both faces of the base sheet, at least one layer of compound bitumen including both bitumen and rubber and/or resin laminated on all or part of the surface of said bitumen-coated layer on the base sheet and at least one release sheet laid over the whole surface of said compound bitumen layer.This roofing membrane is produced by uniting the bitumen-coated base sheet and the compound bitumen-coated release sheet, and can be applied over a substrate in a simple manner, without the step of melting or liquefying bitumen as in the conventional application process.

Abstract: An asphalt roofing which comprises a base material of a bulky non-woven fabric made of filaments of synthetic fibres intertwined with each other and an asphalt with which said base material is uniformly and completely saturated and which also covers both sides of said base material. The non-woven fabric has a substantial thickness, such as 4-5mm, and is produced by the well-known needle-punching process. This base material is saturated with and covered by the single kind of asphalt. A method of making same comprises feeding said non-woven fabric along a vertical path into a bath of molten asphalt, thereby permitting the air contained within the fabric to successively escape vertically through the fabric itself into the atmosphere while permitting the fabric to be uniformly and completely saturated with said molten asphalt, and then withdrawing said fabric from the molten asphalt into the atmosphere and drying the same.

Abstract: article provided with a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer composition, which composition is characterized by improved flow resistance at high temperatures (e.g. at 90.degree. C), and which comprises 50-97 parts by weight of a bituminous component dispersed in an extender oil, 3 to 50 parts by weight of at least one thermoplastic polymer, which is preferably a block polymer having the general structure:A--B--(B-A)nwhere A is a monoalkenyl arene block, B is a conjugated diene block, and n is an integer from 1-15, and 5 to 50% by weight (based on the combined weight of the bituminous component and the thermoplastic polymer) of a carbon black having an oil absorptivity of above 80 milliliters per 100 grams. Such articles usually possesses good low temperature flexibility, tack and adhesive strength.