Vulcanization process

Claim 1

PROCESS WHICH COMPRISES VULCANIZING A MIXTURE COMPRISING A FILLER AND AT LEAST ONE ELASTOMERIC DIENE POLYMER SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF HOMOPOLYMERS OF BUTADINE, CHLOROPRENE AND ISOPRENE, COPOLYMERS OF BUTADIENE WITH STYRENE, COPOLYMERS OF BUTADIENE WITH ACRYLONITRILE AND MIXTURES THEREOF BY A VULCANIZING AGENT COMHYDE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF (A) PRODUCTS HYDE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF (A) PRODUCTS DERIVED FROM PHENOLS CONTAINING AT THE AROMATIC NUCLEI AT LEAST TWO PORTIONS REACTIVE WITH ALDEHYDES, SAID PRODUCTS CONTAINING AT LEAST ONE OF THE RADICALS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF FREE ALKYLOL GROUPS, ETHERIFIED ALKYLOL GROUPS ARE ESTERFIED ALKYLOL GROUPS IN THE MOLECULE AND (B) PHENOL ALDEHYDE RESINS CONTAINING FREE ALKYLOL GROUPS AND HALOMETHYL GROUPS, ALL OF THE SAID PHENOL ALDEHYDE RESINS (A) AND (B) CONTAINING GROUPS SELECTED FROM THE CLASS CONSISTING OF PHENOLIC HYDROXY AND ESTERIFIED PHENOLIC HYDROXY GROUPS, AND 0.2 TO 5 PERCENT BY WEIGHT OF THE ELASTOMER OF AN ACID ACITIVATOR SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF (1) AN ORGANIC POLYBASIC ACID, (2) AN ANHYDRIDE THEREOF, (3) A COMPLEX ACID OF ZINC HALIDE WITH ANY ONE OF THE ACIDS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTINNG OF MONOBASIC ORGANIC ACIDS HAVING UP TO 12 CARBON ATOMS AND ORGANIC POLYBASIC ACIDS, (4) A COMPLEX ACID OF BORON RIFLUORIDE WITH ANY ONE OF THE ORGANIC ACIDS DEFINED SUB (3), (5) A COMPLEX ACID OF ZINC HALIDE WITH AN ALOCHOL, (6) A COMPLEX ACID OF BROMO TRIFLUOROIDE WITH AN ALCOHOL, (7) A COMPLEX ACID OF BORON TRIFLUORIDE WITH WATER AND (8) A MIXTURE OF AT LEAST TWO OF SUCH COMPOUNDS, THE ALCOHOLS RECITED SUB (5) AND (6) HAVING UP TO 12 CARBON ATOMS AND UP TO 2 HYDROXY GROUPS, THE SAID HYDROXY GROUPS BEING BOUND EXECLUSIVELY TO ALIPHATIC CARBON ATOMS AND THE SAID ALCOHOLS BEING FREE FROM ALIPHATIC UNSATURATION OTHER THAN AN OLEFINIC BOND.