Method of processing preformed polyester resins and converting to coating materials
Abstract
Abstract A METHOD OF PROCESSING PREFORMED POLYESTER RESIN MATERIAL, SAID METHOD INCLUDING THE STEPS OF REACTING SAID RESIN MATERIAL AND SELECTIVELY EXCHANGING A PORTION OF THE ESTER GROUPS OF SAID RESIN MATERIAL FOR OTHER GROUPS, INCLUDING AMIDE AND/OR IMIDE GROUPS AND/OR REACTING SAID RESIN MATERIAL TO CAUSE EITHER CROSS-LINKING AND/OR TRANSESTERIFICATION OF SAID MATERIAL. SPECIFICALLY, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE METHOD OF THIS INVENTION, A PREFORMED THERMOPLASTIC LINEAR POLY (ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) POLYESTER RESIN MATERIAL CAN BE TRANSFORMED INTO A THERMOSETTABLE POLYESTER RESIN MATERIAL OR POLYAMIDE-ESTER, POLYIMIDEESTER OR POLYAMIDE-IMIDE-ESTER RESIN MATERIALS, WHICH MAY BY EITHER THERMOPLASTIC OR THERMOSETTABLE RESIN MATERIALS.
Inventors
- 👤 Ernest C Koerner
- 👤 Robert T Trice
- 👤 William W Wareham
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