Compositions useful in the preparation of destaticized molded articles, process of preparing same and molded articles prepared therefrom

Claim 1

A PRODUCT ADAPTED FOR MOLDING DESTATICIZED ARTICLES CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF A FINELY DIVIDED RESINOUS SYNTHETIC ORGANIC THERMOPLASTIC MOLDING POLYMER AND SOLID PARTICLES OF A NON-RESINOUS SORPTIVE CARRIER, SORPTIVELY COATED WITH AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITION, SAID COATED CARRIER PARTICLES BEING DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT SAID POLYMER, SAID SORPTIVE CARRIER MATERIAL CONSTITUTING BETWEEN ABOUT 3% AND 37% BY WEIGHT OF THE POLYMER, AND SAID COATING CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF DESTATICIZING MATERIAL AND GEL, THE AMOUNT OF DESTATICIZING MATERIAL BEING BETWEEN ABOUT 0.5% AND 40% BY WEIGHT OF THE POLYMER, AND THE AMOUNT OF GEL BEING BETWEEN ABOUT 1% AND 10% BY WEIGHT OF THE DESTATICIZING MATERIAL, SAID DESTATICIZING MATERIAL BEING CHARACTERIZED BY: A LOW VAPOR PRESSURE AT TEMPERATURES UP TO THE TEMPERATURE AT WHICH SAID POLYMER IS TO BE MOLDED, STABILITY AT THE MOLDING TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE AT WHICH SAID POLYMER IS TO BE MOLDED, BEING A LIQUID AT MOLDING CONDITIONS FOR SAID POLYMER, INSOLUBILITY IN THE POLYMER AND IN THE NON-RESINOUS SORPTIVE CARRIER, FREEDOM FROM SOLVENT PROPERTIES FOR THE POLYMER AND NON-RESINOUS SORPTIVE CARRIER, AND AN ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY OF LESS THAN 10**11 OHM-CM., SAID NON-RESINOUS SORPTIVE MATERIAL BEING CHARACTERIZED BY: A LARGE SPECIFIC SURFACE, AN ABILITY TO RETAIN A SUBSTANTIAL QUANTITY OF LIQUID DESTATICIZING MATERIAL AS A SORPTIVELY HELD COATING WHEN SUBJECTED TO THE ELEVATED PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE INCIDENT TO MOLDING SAID POLYMER, STABILITY UNDER SAID MOLDING CONDITIONS, AN ABILITY TO BE WETTED READILY BY THE ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL AND A CHEMICAL INERTNESS TOWARD AND AN INSOLUBILITY IN THE DESTATICIZING AGENT, GEL AND POLYMER AND SAID GEL BEING AN ELASTIC GEL AT THE TIME OF INCORPORATION INTO SAID COMPOSITION AND BEING FURTHER CHARACTERIZED BY A CHEMICAL INERTNESS TOWARD AND AN NON-SOLVENT ACTION ON SAID SORPTIVE NON-RESINOUS CARRIER.