Polyglycidyl ethers of hydroxyphenylated-phenyletherated polymers

Claim 1

A COMPOUND CONTAINING AT LEAST TWO GLYCIDYL ETHER RADICALS ATTACHED TO A HYDROXYPHENYLATED-PHENYLETHERATED POLYMER THROUGH THE PHENOLIC HYDROXYL GROUPS OF SAID POLYMER, SAID GLYCIDYL RADICALS CONSISTING OF THE RESIDUE OF A HALOHYDRIN SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF EPICHLOROHYDRIN, EPIBROMOHYDRIN, GLYCEROL DICHLOROHYDRIN AND GLYCEROL DIBROMOHYDRIN AFTER THE REMOVAL OF AT LEAST ONE HALOGEN ATOM THEREFROM, SAID HYDROXYPHENYLATEDPHENYLETHERATED 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 ETHERAL 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 THE GROUP CONSISTING OF HOMOPOLYMERS OCF 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