it is applied, wherein the aldehyde
reactive material is well dispersed
and has a fine crystal size of approximately 5 nm to 50 nm.
3M patents water-soluble
adhesive
U.S. 8,119,732 B2
3M Innovative Properties Company has
been granted a patent for a method of applying an adhesive to a paper substrate, the
method is comprised of applying a liquid,
water-soluble adhesive composition to the
paper substrate, the liquid, water-soluble
adhesive composition is comprised of an
adhesive polymer dissolved in water and the
adhesive polymer is comprised of a polyethyloxazoline; wherein the total amount of
polyethyloxazoline polymer in the water-soluble adhesive composition is from 52%
to 70% weight based on the total weight of
water-soluble adhesive composition.
AkzoNobel Coatings patents
solventless coating
U.S. 8,114,920 B2
Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. has
been granted a patent for UV-curable aqueous emulsion comprised of a urethane reaction product of 1% to 10% by weight of a
polycarbonate polyol or polyester polyol,
1% to 10% by weight of an isocyanate compound, 0.1% to 5% by weight of a reactive
carboxylic acid, 1% to 10% by weight of a
UV-curable acrylic oligomer having 2 to 9
functional acrylate groups and 5% to 20%
by weight of a UV-curable acrylic monomer;
and 0.1% to 20% by weight of a urethane-reactive acrylate, 0.01% to 1% by weight of
a radical polymerization inhibitor and 55%
to 75% by weight of water, based on the
total weight of the UV-curable aqueous
emulsion, wherein the UV-curable acrylic
oligomer is a mixture of an oligomer having
4 or more functional acrylate groups and an
oligomer having 3 or less functional acrylate
groups, and wherein the UV-curable acrylic
monomer is selected from the group consisting of trimethylolpropane triacrylate
(TMPTA), tripropyleneglycol diacrylate
(TPGDA), 1,6-hexamethylenediol diacrylate
(HDDA), 1,4-butanediol diacrylate (1,4-
BDDA), 1,3-isobutanediol diacrylate,
isobonyl acrylate (IBOA) and a mixture
thereof.
Henkel patents room
temperature curing adhesive
U.S. 8,119,754
Henkel Corporation has obtained a patent
for room temperature cure adhesive composition comprised of at least one polyurethane
oligomer having (meth)acrylate functionality
present in an amount of from approximately
25% to 30% by weight of the total composition; a reactive monomer comprised of cy-cloalkyl(meth)acrylate present in an amount
of 10% to 50% by weight of the total composition; at least one maleimide-functional-ized compound present in an amount of
from 15% to 30% by weight of the total
composition; and a cure system comprised
of at least one free-radical initiator.
Mayan Pigments patents near
infrared reflecting hybrid
pigments
U.S. 8,123,850 B2
Mayan Pigments, Inc. has been granted a
patent for a hybrid pigment composition
comprised of a pigment or a dye reacted
with a fibrous clay, wherein the pigment
composition has higher reflectance in a near
infrared region than a visible light region of
the electromagnetic spectrum, and wherein
the pigment or dye is selected from the
group consisting of Solvent Yellow 33, Vat
Red 1, Vat Red 41, and Vat Orange 5; and
at least one additional dye or pigment.
BASF patents method of
finishing organic pigments
U.S. 8,123,851 B2
BASF has been granted a patent for a
method of finishing an organic pigment
comprised of dry-comminuting an organic
pigment in the presence of a sulfonato-func-tional condensation product of an arylsul-fonic acid and at least one aliphatic aldehyde
having 1 to 6 C atoms as crystallization
modifier; dispersing the resulting mixture of
pigment and crystallization modifier in mineral acid; and swelling the pigment in the
presence of the crystallization modifier in
mineral acid to obtain a swollen pigment.
Hamilton Sundstrand Space
Systems patents hydrophilic
coating
U.S. 8,124,113 B2
Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems Inter-
national, Inc. has received a patent for an antimicrobial hydrophilic coating slurry comprised of between approximately 13. 9 %
and 17.1% weight of a wetting agent; between 5. 4 and 6. 6 weight of an insolubilizer; between 1.0 and 1.2% weight of
a biocide agent; between 6. 8 and 8.8%
weight of an inorganic material comprising
lithium oxide, the balance being water.
DuPont patents process for
producing TiO2 with reduced
chlorides
U.S. 8,114,377 B2
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company has
been granted a patent for a process for producing titanium dioxide pigment comprised
of reacting titanium tetrahalide vapor, a ru-tile-forming agent and at least a stoichiometric amount of oxygen in a reactor to
form a gaseous suspension comprised of titanium dioxide particles; introducing silicon tetrachloride into the reactor at least
one point downstream of the point of contact of the titanium tetrahalide, the rutile
forming agent and the oxygen, and where
at least 97% of the titanium tetrahalide has
been converted to titanium dioxide; passing the gaseous suspension to a cooling
conduit; introducing scouring, material
particles, selected from the group consisting of calcined titanium dioxide and compressed titanium dioxide, and mixtures
thereof, into the cooling conduit; wherein
the scouring material particles have a diameter in the range of 0.25 mm to 12. 7
mm and forming a cooled product having a
solid and a vapor phase; separating the
vapor phase from the cooled product to
form a powder comprised of the titanium
dioxide particles, chlorine-containing material comprising 500 to 3000 ppm of one
or more oxychlorides, and the scouring material; and subjecting the powder to fluid
energy milling in a fluid energy mill and
substantially uniform heating at a temperature of approximately 200° C to 600° C,
in the presence of moisture, the substantially uniform heating in the presence of
moisture taking place in the fluid energy
mill, to reduce the content of chlorine containing materials to an oxychlorides content of less than about 60 ppm; wherein the
moisture present is in at least a stoichiometric amount with the oxychloride. CW
