US4533509A
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Low coefficient of friction film structure and method of forming the same
Assignee: Mobil Oil AS
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Filing: 1983-04-28
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Granted: 1985-08-06
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Expires: 2003-04-28
Abstract
Abstract The invention relates to a composite oriented structure having at least one thin surface layer containing highly subdivided inorganic material in an antiblock and coefficient of friction reducing proportion, said thin layer being formed simultaneously or sequentially on a comparatively thick base layer and thereafter oriented and the method of preparing the multilayer structure.
Inventors
- 👤 Lawrence J. Gust
- 👤 Eileen F. O'Sullivan
- 👤 Ronald C. Wood, Jr.
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-02 06:16
CPC Classifications
B; B32; B32B; B32B27/00; B32B27/06; B32B27/08; B32B27/18; B32B27/20; B32B27/32; B32B27/322; B32B2272/00; B32B2307/00; B32B2307/40; B32B2307/412; B32B2307/50; B32B2307/514; B32B2307/518; B32B2323/00; B32B2323/10
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
179 words
A method of preparing a thermoplastic film structure free of organic coefficient of friction reducing agents comprising: (a) preparing a skin resin of a finely divided, uniformly dispersed inorganic material in an optically clear thermoplastic resin, either in one step or by first preparing a concentrate of said inorganic material in said resin and diluting the concentrate with additional thermoplastic resin so that the proportion of inorganic material in the skin resin is sufficient to impart antiblock characteristics and decrease the inherent film to film coefficient of friction of an oriented film of said thermoplastic resin to about 0.4 or less; (b) forming either simultaneously or sequentially a composite of a comparatively thin surface layer of the composition of (a) on at least one surface of a comparatively thick base layer of optically clear thermoplastic free of inorganic antiblock agents, and (c) orienting the composite so that the thickness of said surface layer and the proportion of said inorganic material in said surface layer is such that the % haze of the oriented composite is about 3 or less.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
179 words
A method of preparing a thermoplastic film structure free of organic coefficient of friction reducing agents comprising: (a) preparing a skin resin of a finely divided, uniformly dispersed inorganic material in an optically clear thermoplastic resin, either in one step or by first preparing a concentrate of said inorganic material in said resin and diluting the concentrate with additional thermoplastic resin so that the proportion of inorganic material in the skin resin is sufficient to impart antiblock characteristics and decrease the inherent film to film coefficient of friction of an oriented film of said thermoplastic resin to about 0.4 or less; (b) forming either simultaneously or sequentially a composite of a comparatively thin surface layer of the composition of (a) on at least one surface of a comparatively thick base layer of optically clear thermoplastic free of inorganic antiblock agents, and (c) orienting the composite so that the thickness of said surface layer and the proportion of said inorganic material in said surface layer is such that the % haze of the oriented composite is about 3 or less.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
22 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the inorganic material has a mean particle size of from about 0.2 to about 5.0 microns.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method of claim 2 wherein the thermoplastic resin of the base layer and the surface layer are different.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
20 words
The method of claim 2 wherein the thermoplastic resin of the base layer and the surface layer are the same.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
11 words
The method of claim 4 wherein the thermoplastic resin is polypropylene.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
24 words
The method of claim 5 wherein the inorganic material is a member selected from the group consisting of an aluminum silicate; and mixtures thereof
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
34 words
The method of claim 6 wherein the surface layer of the oriented structure is in a thickness ranging from the thinnest continuous film possible to about 10% of the thickness of the overall structure.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
13 words
The method of claim 7 wherein said inorganic material in a sodium-aluminum silicate.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
20 words
The method of claim 7 wherein said inorganic material is a mixture of a sodium-aluminum silicate and an aluminum silicate
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method of claim 9 wherein said inorganic material is a mixture of dehydrated kaolinite and a sodium-aluminum silicate.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
18 words
The method of claim 7 wherein the inorganic material is a silica-alumina ceramic particulate material in spherical form.
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