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Glass fiber reinforced thermoplastics
Assignee: PPG Industries Inc
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Filing: 1982-06-21
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Granted: 1984-07-03
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Expires: 2002-06-21
Abstract
Abstract Treated glass fiber strands with improved processing characteristics such as payout and reduced fuzz and fly in forms such as continuous glass fiber strands, chopped glass fiber strands or mats of continuous glass fiber strands, chopped glass fiber strands or mixtures thereof are useful in reinforcing thermoplastic polymers. The treated glass fiber strands have on the glass fibers comprising the glass fiber strand an aqueous treating composition or a dried residue thereof. The aqueous treating composition has a vinyl-containing coupling agent in an amount of at least 0.05 weight percent of the aqueous composition, an epoxidized thermoplastic polymer or copolymer having about 1 to about 12 parts of epoxy to about 100 parts of the copolymer, an organo-reactable silane coupling agent in an unhydrolyzed and/or partially hydrolyzed condition or an interaction product of the epoxidized polymer or copolymer and organo-reactable silane coupling agent, and a glass fiber lubricant. Alternatively, the aqueous sizing composition may also have a crosslinkable film forming polymer. The treated glass fiber strand has an amount of the treating composition of at least about 0.3 weight percent of the treated strand.
Inventors
- 👤 Balbhadra Das
- 👤 Carl A. Melle
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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2026-11-06 06:02
CPC Classifications
C; C08; C08J; C08J5/00; C08J5/04; C08J5/06; C08J5/08; C03; C03C; C03C25/00; C03C25/10; C03C25/24; C03C25/26; Y; Y10; Y10T; Y10T428/00; Y10T428/29; Y10T428/2913; Y10T428/2933; Y10T428/2962; Y10T428/2964; Y10T428/31504; Y10T428/31551; Y10T428/31609; Y10T428/31612; Y10T428/31652; Y10T428/31663; Y10T442/00; Y10T442/20; Y10T442/2926; Y10T442/2934; Y10T442/2992; Y10T442/30; Y10T442/3049
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 14
Claim 1
Independent Claim
165 words
Glass fibers having present thereon an aqueous treating composition wherein the glass fibers are gathered into a plurality of glass fibers, wherein the aqueous treating composition comprises: at least about 0.3 weight percent of the treated glass fiber strand where the composition has in weight percent of the aqueous composition, a. about 0.05 to about 3 weight percent of a vinyl-containing coupling agent; b. an epoxidized polar thermoplastic copolymer having about 2 to about 12 parts of the epoxidized monomer per 100 parts of copolymer and has a glass transition temperature from about -10° C. to about 70° C., c. an unhydrolyzed or partially hydrolyzed organo-reactable silane coupling agent present in the amount of about 0.01 to about 1.2 weight percent, d. a lubricant in the range of about 0.1 to 3 weight percent of the aqueous sizing composition, e. an amount of water sufficient to make the percent solids of the aqueous composition in the range from about 1 to about 40 weight percent.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
165 words
Glass fibers having present thereon an aqueous treating composition wherein the glass fibers are gathered into a plurality of glass fibers, wherein the aqueous treating composition comprises: at least about 0.3 weight percent of the treated glass fiber strand where the composition has in weight percent of the aqueous composition, a. about 0.05 to about 3 weight percent of a vinyl-containing coupling agent; b. an epoxidized polar thermoplastic copolymer having about 2 to about 12 parts of the epoxidized monomer per 100 parts of copolymer and has a glass transition temperature from about -10° C. to about 70° C., c. an unhydrolyzed or partially hydrolyzed organo-reactable silane coupling agent present in the amount of about 0.01 to about 1.2 weight percent, d. a lubricant in the range of about 0.1 to 3 weight percent of the aqueous sizing composition, e. an amount of water sufficient to make the percent solids of the aqueous composition in the range from about 1 to about 40 weight percent.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
81 words
Treated glass fibers of claim 1, wherein the epoxidized polar thermoplastic copolymer and unhydrolyzed or partially hydrolyzed organo-reactable silane coupling agent are present as an interaction product formed by contacting the epoxidized copolymer and the unhydrolyzed or partially hydrolyzed organo-reactable silane coupling agent where the silane is present in an amount of 0.1 to about 1.2 weight percent of the aqueous mixture used to form the interaction product where the mixture has at least 20 weight percent of the epoxidized copolymer.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
19 words
Treated glass fibers of claims 1 or 2, wherein the aqueous treating composition has a crosslinkable film forming polymer.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
30 words
Treated glass fiber of claims 1 or 2, wherein the vinyl-containing coupling agent is selected from the group consisting of vinyl triethoxy silane, vinyl tris(2-methoxyethoxy) silane, and gamma methylacryloxypropyltrimethoxy silane.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
95 words
Treated glass fibers of claims 1 or 2, wherein the epoxidized polar thermoplastic copolymer is selected from epoxidized polyvinyl acetate homopolymers and copolymers, epoxidized polyacrylates homopolymers and copolymers, epoxidized polyesters homopolymers and copolymers, epoxidized polyurethanes homopolymers and copolymers, and epoxidized polyolefins homopolymers and copolymers wherein the other comonomer in a copolymer is different from the first comonomer and selected from vinyl acetate, alkylenes, acrylates, polyester repeating units, polyurethane repeating units, all of which are thermoplastic and have an amount of epoxidized monomer of about 1 to about 12 parts per 100 parts of the copolymer.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
31 words
Treated glass fiber of claim 3, wherein the crosslinkable film former is an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer present in a minor amount compared to the amount of the epoxidized thermoplastic copolymer.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
17 words
A glass fiber strand mat made with the treated glass fiber strands of claims 1 or 2.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
13 words
Reinforced thermoplastic polymer, reinforced with the glass fibers of claims 1 or 2.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
10 words
Reinforced thermoplastic polymer reinforced with the mat of claim 7.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
19 words
Reinforced thermoplastic polymer of claim 8, wherein the thermoplastic polymer is poly(butylene terephthalate) or poly(ethylene terephthalate) or mixtures thereof.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
16 words
Reinforced thermoplastic polymer of claim 10, wherein the thermoplastic polymer is poly(butylene terephthalate) or poly(ethylene terephthalate).
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
29 words
Treated glass fiber of claim 5, wherein the organo reactable silane coupling agent is selected from an amino containing silane coupling agent or an epoxy containing silane coupling agent.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
29 words
Treated glass fiber of claim 5, wherein the epoxidized polyvinyl acetate copolymer has about 2 to about 12 parts of glycidyl acrylate to about 100 parts of the copolymer.
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