Abstract: As an impact modifier copolymer to be blended with a vinyl chloride resin, a multilayer copolymer comprising a hard core polymer containing a relatively small quantity of a conjugated diene, a rubbery inner layer polymer containing a relatively large quantity of a conjugated diene, and an outer layer polymer comprising, for example, a copolymer of styrene and methyl methacrylate which is compatible with a vinyl chloride resin is used, whereby a vinyl chloride resin composition well balanced between impact strength and anti-stress-whitening property can be obtained.

Abstract: A resin composition for use in uncoated exterior materials markedly excellent in appearance and having high impact resistance and weather resistance wherein 10-70% by weight of a graft copolymer (I) having a high rubber content, 90-30% by weight of a rigid thermoplastic resin (II) comprising 10-90% by weight of at least one aromatic vinyl monomer and 90-10% by weight of at least one ethylenic unsaturated monomer having the following general formula:CH.sub.2 =CRXwherein R represents hydrogen or CH.sub.3 group and X represents CN or COOR.sub.1 group (R.sub.

Abstract: Thermoplastic compositions comprising, in intimate admixture, polyethylene terephthalate and a rubber-modified graft copolymer of a vinyl aromatic compound and an .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated cyclic anhydride. These compositions display desirable thermal properties, particularly elevated heat deflection temperatures.

Abstract: Rubber-modified terpolymers of a monoalkenyl aromatic monomer, an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid anhydride and an alkyl methacrylate are found to possess an unexpectedly high heat distortion temperature over a certain range of composition.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for preparing improved monoalkenyl aromatic polyblends having a dispersed rubber phase as rubber particles having a bimodal particle size distribution and compositions thereof.

Abstract: A multiply grafted copolymer is obtained by graft-polymerizing onto non-elastic trunk polymer particles (a) a monomer mixture (b) comprising an elasticity-imparting monomer selected from conjugated dienes and acrylates, a polyalkylene oxide monomer comprising 4 to 500 alkylene oxide groups together with a terminal double bond and an optional ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and an ethylenically unsaturated monomer (c) in order. An antistatic resin composition comprising this multiply grafted copolymer alone or a mixture of this copolymer and a thermoplastic resin compatible therewith can utilize the rubbery polymer component (b) more effectively than an antistatic resin composition comprising a graft copolymer obtained by graft-polymerizing an ethylenically unsaturated monomer (c) onto a trunk polymer comprising a mere copolymer of a monomer mixture (b), and thus can provide an improved antistatic effect.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing terpolymer polyblends having high gloss and ductility in formed articles, wherein, rubber particles in an aqueous latex are reacted with an alkenyl aromatic, alkenyl nitrile and alkyl acrylate monomer formulation such that said rubber particles become grafted with at least a portion of said monomers while said monomers form a matrix terpolymer phase of said monomers followed by separating said matrix phase terpolymer and said grafted rubber particles from said latex as a terpolymer polyblend. The invention also relates to a composition of said process.

Abstract: What is disclosed are a method for making a transparent impact-resistant polymer comprising a rubbery phase of grafted polybutadiene and a hard copolymer phase, which polymer is adaptable to use as a molding material, which method comprises:(1) in a first polymerization stage, dissolving a solid polybutadiene rubber in a monomer mixture comprising (a) methyl methacrylate, (b) styrene, and (c) at least one of methyl acrylate or ethyl acrylate to give a solution containing from 3 to 10 percent by weight of said rubber, and then polymerizing the solution using an initiator promoting graft copolymerization and in the presence ab initio of a chain transfer agent until an amount of said monomer mixture which is one to two times the weight of said polybutadiene rubber introduced is converted, said monomers (a), (b), and (c) being present in said monomer mixture in a ratio by weight of (73.+-.5): (22.+-.2); (5.+-.

Abstract: Terpolymers of a monoalkenyl aromatic monomer, an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid anhydride and an alkyl methacrylate are found to possess an unexpectedly high heat distortion temperature over a certain range of composition.

Abstract: ABS-moulding compositions of (a) 5 to 70% by weight of one or more graft products and (b) 95 to 30% by weight of one or more thermoplastic resins with a content of 0.05 to 1% by weight (based on total moulding composition) of a perfluoroalkane acid or a derivative thereof to improve notched impact strength.

Abstract: A hot-melt compound comprising 30 to 70% by weight of a modified ethylene..alpha.-olefin copolymer rubber having a melt index of at most 500 and prepared by grafting an unsaturated carboxylic acid or derivative thereof to an ethylene..alpha.-olefin copolymer rubber or a partial ester of said modified copolymer rubber and 70 to 30% by weight of a tackifier.

Abstract: A high molecular resin composition having superior impact strength and processability and comprising a polymeric matrix containing polyphenylene ether and a minor proportion of a low-molecular-weight olefin oligomer dispersed therein.

Abstract: A vinyl chloride resin composition comprises:(1) 100 parts of vinyl chloride polymer; and(2) 0.1 to 30 parts of a polymer processing aid comprising:(A) 40 to 90 parts of a copolymer comprising80 to 100% of an alkyl methacrylate, and0 to 20% of a monomer copolymerizable therewith; and(B) 60 to 10 parts of a copolymer comprising20 to 79% of an alkyl methacrylate,20 to 79% of an aromatic vinyl monomer,1 to 49% of diolefin, and0 to 20% of a monomer copolymerizable therewith,the copolymers (A) and (B) having been wet-blended to provide 100 parts of the polymer processing aid, all quantities expressed in parts and percentages being by weight.

Abstract: Graft-copolymers for improving impact strength comprising a relatively large quantity of an elastomeric trunk polymer, such as acrylonitrile/styrene/butadiene resins and methyl methacrylate/styrene/butadiene resins, have some undesirable powder characteristics, for example, poor fluidity and an easily blocking property.However, by blending a graft-copolymer of this type with a graft-copolymer comprising a relatively small quantity of an elastomeric trunk polymer in slurry form or dry state, it is possible to obtain a graft-copolymer blend with improved powder characteristics without significantly lowering the effect of improving the impact strength of the former graft-copolymer.The graft-copolymer blend thus obtained, when blended with a hard resin such as polyvinyl chloride, provides a resin composition with high impact strength.

Abstract: High impact strength gum plastics are prepared by blending a styrene acrylonitrile resin with a styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene block copolymer which has grafted on to it an acrylonitrile resin; preferably styrene acrylonitrile.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for preparing terpolymer polyblends having low gloss in extruded profiles wherein rubber particles contained in an aqueous latex are grafted with alkenyl aromatic, alkenyl nitrile and conjugated diolefin monomers to form a grafted rubber phase dispersed in a matrix phase of said monomers, at least a portion of said rubber particles becoming associated with said terpolymers as a gel fraction in said polyblend reducing the gloss of formed polyblend articles. The invention also relates to a composition prepared by said process.

Abstract: Thermoplastic moulding compositions of(A) 20 to 99 parts by weight of a vinyl chloride homopolymer or copolymer containing at least 80% by weight of vinyl chloride and having K-values of from 50 to 80,(B) 80 to 1 part by weight of a graft polymer produced by the solution polymerization in an organic solvent of(a) styrene and/or methyl methacrylate or(b) styrene and acrylonitrile and, optionally, methyl methacrylatein the presence of an EPDM rubber.

Abstract: A polymeric composition having improved zinc chloride resistance comprising nylon 612, plasticizer and an olefin polymer having sites which adhere to the nylon 612 resin.

Abstract: Polymers containing imide units and a process of imidizing acrylic polymers to any desired degree of imidization without the use of added water or solvent.

Abstract: Impact resistant compositions comprise a blend of a styrene polymer having a number average molecular weight from about 200,000 to 600,000, and a rubber-modified styrene polymer prepared by mass polymerization of a solution of a rubber in styrene monomer.

Abstract: Grafted elastomers produced by a multiple grafting technique are blended with a resinous polymer to yield compositions which have low odor, low taste-transfer, and improved optical properties.

Abstract: There are provided compositions comprising a polyphenylene ether and a synergistic combination comprising an elastomeric block copolymer of a vinyl aromatic compound and a conjugated diene and a polyolefin resin, optionally containing a styrene homopolymer or random copolymer resin. The addition of the combination of elastomeric block copolymer resin and polyolefin resin to polyphenylene ethers or mixtures of polyphenylene ethers and such polystyrenes provides unexpected improvements in toughness in parts molded from the composition, in comparison with compositions containing either the block copolymer or the polyolefin resin alone.

Abstract: There are provided compositions comprising a polyphenylene ether and a synergistic combination comprising an elastomeric block copolymer of a vinyl aromatic compound and a conjugated diene and a polyolefin resin, optionally containing a styrene homopolymer or random copolymer resin. The addition of the combination of elastomeric block copolymer resin and polyolefin resin to polyphenylene ethers or mixtures of polyphenylene ethers and such polystyrenes provides unexpected improvements in toughness in parts molded from the composition, in comparison with compositions containing either the block copolymer or the polyolefin resin alone.

Abstract: High impact polystyrene compositions having improved melt flow properties along with good heat resistance is obtained by incorporating about 0.5 to 10 percent by weight of an oxidized polyethylene material having a molecular weight of from about 500 to about 5,000 and an acid number of between about 5 and about 50.

Abstract: Rubber-modified terpolymers of from 50 to 83% of a monoalkenyl aromatic monomer, from 15 to 30% of an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid anhydride, from 2 to 20% of an unsaturated nitrile are described which are useful as molding compositions.

Abstract: A synergistic blend of impact strength modifiers for polyglutarimides, and a process for impact modification of polyglutarimides is disclosed.

Abstract: There is provided metal plated, non-burning molded thermoplastic articles comprised of (A) a substrate consisting of a molded non-burning thermoplastic blend of (1) an admixture of (a) a grafted rubbery copolymer and (b) a resinous copolymer and (2) a vinyl chloride homopolymer of copolymer thereof and (B) a metal coating deposited on and bonded to the substrate (A).

Abstract: A composition having improved adhesion to polar solid materials which comprises(A) 99 to 70 parts by weight of a modified crystalline polyolefin having grafted thereto a monomer selected from the group consisting of unsaturated carboxylic acids and their anhydrides, esters, amides imides and metal salts, said crystalline polyolefin having a degree of crystallinity measured by an X-ray analysis, of at least 25% and containing the grafting monomer in an amount of 0.0001 to 3% by weight based on the total amount of the crystalline polyolefin and the grafting monomer; and(B) 1 to 30 parts by weight of a hydrocarbon elastomer.

Abstract: Polyblends are disclosed which comprise an ABS polymer blended with a rubber-modified polymer of a monoalkenyl aromatic monomer and an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid anhydride.

Abstract: High impact strength rubber modified styrene and styrene-acrylonitrile (SAN) thermoplastics are prepared by incorporating into the styrene or SAN copolymer a conjugated diene butyl rubber elastomer. Conventional processes are effective to provide products having suitable impact strength and related properties.

Abstract: The invention relates to an improved process for the mass polymerization of solutions comprising monoalkenyl aromatic monomers and optionally monoalkenyl nitrile monomers having a diene rubber dissolved therein wherein the improvement comprises dissolving a minor amount of an aliphatic mono-olefinic compound in said solution and mass polymerizing said solution, said olefinic compound forming free radicals with said monoalkenyl aromatic monomer that are more active than said monoalkenyl aromatic free radicals in grafting said rubber provided a higher grafted rubber phase.

Abstract: Chlorinated polyvinyl chloride resin (CPVC) is blended with a block copolymer of styrene and a diene (SD) or of styrene-diene-styrene (SDS), which block copolymer is referred to as a "pro-modifier" because, by itself, it performs a dual function of processing aid and impact modifier in CPVC. For tailoring specific desirable impact properties and physical characteristics into a CPVC resin composition, it may be desirable to use a conventional impact modifier in combination with the block copolymer. When the block copolymer is so used, such use being referred to as that of a "co-modifier", the block copolymer and conventional impact modifier provide a CPVC composition with unexpectedly enhanced impact strength. The block copolymer consists essentially of a vinyl aromatic compound and a conjugated idene, such as styrene-diene (SD) diblock copolymer, or a styrene-diene-styrene (SDS) polyblock copolymer having a linear or radial block structure, or mixtures of linear and radial block copolymers.

Abstract: ABS moulding compositions containing 0.1 to 10% by weight of at least one ester of an aliphatic saturated C.sub.10 to C.sub.22 -monocarboxylic acid and an aliphatic or aromatic hydroxy compound having 1 to 6 hydroxyl groups as a processing auxiliary.

Abstract: Processes for making polymeric compositions which have methacrylic and/or acrylic chains grafted onto a copolymerized vinyl diene substrate. The compositions, which are novel, are particularly useful as impact modifiers for polyvinyl chlorides.

Abstract: A multi-stage sequentially produced polymer structure composition, comprising: an innermost layer (A), and successively seed polymerized thereupon an elastic polymer layer (B), an outermost layer (C) and at least one intermediate layer (D), said layer (A) which has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of at least 10.degree. C. and which constitutes 5-35% by weight of the total polymer composition being the polymerized product of a monomer mixture comprising 51-100 parts by weight of styrene or a styrene derivative, 0-49 parts by weight of a monomer having a copolymerizable double bond, 0-10 parts by weight of a polyfunctional monomer, and 0-5 parts by weight of a graft crosslinking agent; said layer (B) which has a glass transition temperature of 0.degree. C.

Abstract: Graft copolymers of resin-forming monomers on monoolefin-type rubber spines, particularly ethylene-propylene-non-conjugated diene rubber spines, are made in solution with the aid of a free radical polymerization initiator. The graft copolymers have high impact strength.

Abstract: A vinylidene chloride copolymer film having excellent bubble stability in an inflation-stretching process and excellent cold resistance is prepared by inflation-stretching a tubular amorphous substance obtained by melt-extruding and quenching a composition comprising vinylidene chloride copolymer, a miscible type elastomer (A component) and a particle dispersion type elastomer (B component) in a range surrounded by the lines (a), (b), (c) and (d) ##EQU1## WHEREIN A WEIGHT PERCENT OF THE B component to total elastomers is plotted on X axis (abscissa) and a weight percent of total content of the A component and the B component to total components is plotted on Y axis (ordinate).

Abstract: Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resin is compounded with a conventional impact modifier referred to herein as a "co-modifier", and a block copolymer "ultra-modifier" which together provide a composition of unexpectedly enhanced impact strength. Irrespective of the characteristic particle size distribution of the co-modifier, which may be normal, bimodal or neither, the combination of ultra-modifier and co-modifier produces a broad distribution of small and large modifier particles. Better impact strength than with either small particles alone, or large particles alone is thus obtained.

Abstract: Blends of a copolymer of methyl methacrylate and styrene with an acrylonitrile-styrene copolymer have improved optical, mechanical and gas barrier properties as well as improved processability.