Thermoplastic resin composition containing wood flour

Claim 2

A thermoplastic resin composition consisting essentially of (A) 5 to 90 parts by weight of a vinyl chloride polymer, (B) 90 to 5 parts by weight of an ABS resin and (C) 70 to 40 parts by weight of wood flour, the total amount of the components (A), (B) and (C) being 100 parts by weight.

Claim 3

The composition of claim 1, wherein the amount of said vinyl chloride polymer is 70 to 15 parts by weight and the amount of said ABS resin is 70 to 10 parts by weight.

Claim 4

The composition of claim 1, wherein said vinyl chloride polymer is vinyl chloride homopolymer.

Claim 5

The composition of claim 1, wherein said vinyl chloride polymer is a copolymer of not less than 75% by weight of vinyl chloride and a monomer copolymerizable with vinyl chloride.

Claim 6

The composition of claim 1, wherein said ABS resin comprises (B-1) 100 to 50% by weight of a copolymer comprising (1) 25 to 80% by weight of an aromatic vinyl compound, (2) 8 to 35% by weight of an unsaturated nitrile compound, (3) 0 to 60% by weight of a methacrylic acid ester or acrylic acid ester and (4) 0 to 10% by weight of other monomers copolymerizable with said aromatic vinyl compound, said unsaturated nitrile compound, said methacrylic acid ester or said acrylic acid ester; and (B-2) 0 to 50% by weight of graft copolymer prepared by graft-polymerizing at least one of said monomers (1), (2), (3) and (4) onto polybutadiene or a butadiene copolymer of not less than 50% by weight of butadiene and a monomer copolymerizable with butadiene.

Claim 7

The composition of claim 1, wherein said ABS resin contains α-methylstyrene.

Claim 8

The composition of claim 1, wherein said ABS resin contains 20 to 55% by weight of α-methylstyrene.

Claim 9

The composition of claim 5, wherein said polybutadiene or said butadiene copolymer used in the preparation of said (B-2) component is used in combination with other elastomers.

Claim 10

The composition of claim 5, wherein said polybutadiene or said butadiene copolymer used in the preparation of said (B-2) component is replaced with other elastomers.

Claim 11

The composition of claim 8, wherein said elastomer is a member selected from the group consisting of acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber, ethylene-propylenediene terpolymer, ethylene-vinylacetate copolymer, chlorinated polyethylene and acrylic rubber.

Claim 12

The composition of claim 9, wherein said elastomer is a member selected from the group consisting of acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber, ethylene-propylenediene terpolymer, ethylene-vinylacetate copolymer, chlorinated polyethylene and acrylic rubber.

Claim 13

The thermoplastic resin composition of claim 1, wherein said wood flour has at least 80% by weight of particles having a particle size of 20 to 200 meshes.