Resinous compositions

Claim 1

A MIXTURE HEAT-CONVERTIBLE OT FORM INFUSIBLE, INSOLUBLE RESINOUS PRODUCTS WHICH COMPRISES (A) A POLYEPOXIDE HAVING AN EPOXY EQUIVALENCY OF AT LEAST ONE, (B) AN HYDROXYPHENYLATED-PHENYLETHERATED POLYMER (1) BEING FORMED BY THE LINKAGE OF A PHENOL BEING FREE FROM RADICALS OTHER THAN HYDROXYL RADICALS AND HAVING LESS THAN 13 NUCLEAR CARBON ATOMS AND AT LEAST ONE OF THE ORTHO AND PARA POSITION CARBON ATOMS IN THE NUCLEUS THEREOF UNSUBSTITUTED INTO AND THROUGHOUT THE CHAIN OF AN ETHYLENICALLY UNSATURATED POLYMERIC MATERIAL AT THE SITES OF THE DOUBLE BONDS OF SAID UNSATURATED POLYMERIC MATERIAL, ABOUT 50% OF SAID LINKAGES BEING THROUGH ETHEREAL OXYGEN ATOMS PROVIDED BY THE HYDROXYL GROUPS OF SAID PHENOL AND ABOUT 50% OF SAID LINKAGES BEING THROUGH CARBON-TO-CARBON SATURATED BONDS BETWEEN SAID POLYMER CHAIN AND THE NUCLEUS OF SAID PHENOL AT SAID ORTHO AND PARA-POSITIONS AND (2) BEING CHARACTERIZED BY SOLUBILITY IN AROMATIC HYDROCARBON SOLVENTS, A TOTAL PHENOL CONTENT BY ADDITION LINKAGE OF AT LEAST ABOUT 10% BY WEIGHT, AN AVERAGE OF AT LEAST 2.5 PHENOLIC HYDROXYL GROUPS PER MOLECULE OF SAID HYDROXYPHENYLATED-PHENYLETHERATED POLYMER AND A DURRAN SOFTENING POINT OF AT LEAST 50* C., AND SAID ETHYLENICALLY UNSATURATED POLYMERIC MATERIAL (A) BEING SELECTED FROM GROUP CONSISTING OF HOMOPOLYMERS OF DIENE MONOMERS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF BUTADIENE, ISOPRENE, CHLOROPRENE, PIPERYLINE AND 2,3-DIMETHYL BUTADIENE, COPOLYMERS OF SAID DIENE MONOMERS WITH EACH OTHER, AND COPOLYMERS OF SAID DIENE MONOMERS WITH VINYL MONOMERIC COMPOUNDS HAVING A SINGLE VINYL RADICAL THEREIN, AND (B) HAVING AT LEAST AN AVERAGE OF OLEFINIC DOUBLE BONDS PER MOLECULE DETERMINED BY THE FORMULA Y=10/20X-1, WHERE Y EQUALS THE NUMBER OF DOUBLE BONDS AND X EQUALS THE NUMBER OF PHENOLIC HYDROXYL GROUPS PER MOLECULE OF SAID PHENOL TO BE ADDITION LINKED THERETO, AND (C) A HYDROXYPHENYLATED COMPOUND (1) BEING FORMED BY THE LINKAGE OF AT LEAST ABOUT 15% BY WEIGHT OF A PHENOL BEING FREE FROM RADICALS OTHER THAN HYDROXYL RADICALS AND HAVING LESS THAN 1O NUCLEAR CARBON ATOMS AND AT LEAST ONE OF THE ORTHO AND PARAPOSITION CARBON ATOMS IN THE NUCLEUS THEREOF UNSUBSTITUTED INTO AND THROUGHOUT THE CHAIN OF AN UNSATURATED COMPOUND HAVING AT LEAST TWO DOUBLE BONDS THEREIN PER MOLECULE AT THE SITES OF SAID DOUBLE BONDS OF SAID UNSATURATED MATERIAL, A PORTION OF SAID LINKAGES BEING THROUGH ETHEREAL OXYGEN ATOMS PROVIDED BY THE HYDROXYL GROUPS OF SAID PHENOL AND A PORTION OF SAID LINKAGES BEING THROUGH CARBON-TO-CARBON SATURATED BONDS BETWEEN THE CHAIN OF SAID UNSATURATED MATERIAL AND THE NUCLEUS OF SAID PHENOL AT SAID ORTHO AND PARAPOSITIONS, AND (2) BEING CHARACTERIZED BY A PHENOL CONTENT OF AT LEAST 10% BY WEIGHT OF SAID CARBON-TO-CARBON LINKAGE ADDITION AND AN AVERAGE OF AT LEAST ABOUT 2 PHENOLIC HYDROXYLS PER MOLECULE, SAID PHENOL ADDITIONS BEING EXPRESSED IN EQUIVALENTS OF PHENOL AT UNIT WEIGHT 94, AND SAID UNSATURATED COMPOUND BEING SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF (A) THE UNSATURATED ALIPHATIC ACIDS HAVING FROM ABOUT 12 TO 22 CARBON ATOMS PER MOLECULE (B) NATURAL OILS WHICH ARE GLYCEROL ESTERS OF THE ACIDS CONTEMPLATED BY (A) (A); (C) SYNTHETIC ESTERS OF THE ACIDS CONTEMPLATED BY (A) WITH MONOHYDRIC AND POLYHYDRIC ALCOHOLS; (D) PHENOLIC ESTERS OF THE ACIDS CONTEMPLATED BY (A); (E) UNSATURATED ALIPHATIC ALCOHOLS CONTAINING FROM ABOUT 12 TO 22 CARBON ATOMS PER MOLECULE; AND (F) ESTER OF THE UNSATURATED ALCOHOLS CONTEMPLATED BY (E) OF CARBOXYLIC ACIDS.