Polymer curing process

Claim 1

IN PROCESSING A VULCANIZABLE RUBBERY SUBSTANCE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF NATURALLY OCCURRING CAOUTCHOUC, AND SYNTHETIC HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT HOMOPOLYMERS OF BUTADIENE AND COPOLYMERS OF BUTADIENE WITH STYRENE AND WITH ACRYLONITRILE PREPARED BY AN EMULSION PROCESS, AND LOW TEMPERATURE INTERPOLYMERS OF ISOBUTYLENE WITH A POLYOLEFIN MONOMER OF 4 TO 14 CARBON ATOMS, WHICH CONTAINS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF REACTIVE UNSATURATION AND IS CURABLE TO A MATERIAL HAVING A TENSILE STRENGTH WITHIN THE RANGE BETWEEN 500 POUNDS AND 4500 POUNDS PER SQUARE INCH, AND AN ELONGATION AT BREAK WITHIN THE RANGE BETWEEN 250% AND 1200%, WITH A CURING AGENT THAT CONTAINS A QUINONOID NUCLEUS, THE IMPROVEMENT WHICH COMPRISES COMPOUNDING INTO THE RUBBERY SUBSTANCE SAID QUINONOID CURING AGENT WITHIN THE RANGE BETWEEN 0.5 PART AND 3 PARTS PER HUNDRED PARTS OF RUBBERY SUBSTANCE IN THE ABSENCE OF SULFUR AND AN AMINE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF OCTADECYL AMINE, DIBENZYL AMINE, 2,4-DIAMINO DIPHENYL AMINE, AND A BUTYRALDEHYDE-ANILINE CONDENSATION PRODUCT, SAID AMINE BEING ADMIXED WITH THE VULCANIZATABLE RUBBERY SUBSTANCE IN A PROPORTION WITHIN THE RANGE BETWEEN 0.25 PART AND 5 PARTS PER HUNDRED PARTS OF RUBBERY SUBSTANCE WHICH PREVENTS PREMATURE CURING AND SCORCHING OF THE RUBBERY SUBSTANCE DURING PROCESSING AT TEMPERATURES IN THE RANGE OF 180* F. TO 230* F.