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Multi-ply weatherable plasticizer-free sheet

Assignee: Huels Troisdorf AG
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Filing: 1987-09-30
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Granted: 1990-04-17
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Expires: 2007-09-30
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Abstract

Abstract The invention describes a weatherable, plasticizer-free, uncrosslinked, and deep-drawable sheet, especially for the internal outfitting and external outfitting of automotive vehicles, as well as a process for its production, containing 65-25% by weight of a partially crystalline ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer and 35-75% by weight of a homo- and/or copolymer of propylene, 0-10% by weight of fillers, as well as stabilizers and lubricants, the extruded or calendered sheet exhibiting a tensile strength at break in the longitudinal direction of at least 20 N/mm 2 . An advantageous further development of the invention comprises a composite sheet of EPDM/PP sheet with a crosslinked polyolefin foam layer.

Inventors

  • 👤 Hans-Ulrich Breitscheidel
  • 👤 Rudolf Kautz
  • 👤 Werner Kuhnel
  • 👤 Manfred Simm
  • 👤 Paul Spielau
  • 👤 Richard Weiss

Bibliographic Details

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CPC Classifications
B; B32; B32B; B32B27/00; B32B27/32; B32B27/06; B32B27/065; B32B27/08; B32B27/16; B32B27/18; B32B27/20; B32B5/00; B32B5/18; B32B7/00; B32B7/04; B32B7/12; B60; B60R; B60R13/00; B60R13/02; C; C08; C08L; C08L23/00; C08L23/02; C08L23/10; C08L23/14; C08L23/16; C09; C09J; C09J7/00; C09J7/20; C09J7/22; C09J7/24; C09J7/241; C09J7/243; B32B2266/00; B32B2266/02; B32B2266/0214; B32B2266/025; B32B2307/00; B32B2307/70; B32B2307/712; B32B2310/00; B32B2310/14; B32B2323/00; B32B2323/16; B32B2605/00; B32B2605/003; C08L23/12; C09J2203/00; C09J2203/306; Y; Y10; Y10T; Y10T428/00; Y10T428/14; Y10T428/1452; Y10T428/1457; Y10T428/24; Y10T428/24942; Y10T428/2495; Y10T428/24959; Y10T428/249921; Y10T428/249953; Y10T428/249955; Y10T428/249958; Y10T428/28; Y10T428/2839; Y10T428/2852; Y10T428/2878; Y10T428/2891; Y10T428/31504; Y10T428/31855; Y10T428/31909; Y10T428/31913; Y10T428/31917; Y10T428/31924; Y10T428/31928; Y10T428/31931

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim 285 words
A multi-ply, weatherable, plasticizer-free and deep-drawable sheet for the internal and external outfitting of automotive vehicles, comprising: a first layer comprised of an ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer and a homopolymer and/or copolymer of propylene, produced by extrusion or calendering with a sheet thickness of 0.2 to 3 mm bonded to a second layer comprised of a crosslinked polyolefin resin-containing foam; said first layer containing 65-25% by weight of a partially crystalline ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer comprising 65-82% by weight of ethylene; 18-35% by weight of propylene, and 3-8% by weight of a diene tercomponent, with a melt index MFI (230/5) of 0.5-2.0 g/10 min., a tensile strength of at least 10 N/mm 2 , and DSC maximum temperature of at least 40° C.; 3- 75% by weight of at least one propylene polymer selected from the group consisting of homopolymer and a copolymer of propylene, with a melt index MFI (230/2.16) of 0.2-2 g/10 min.; 0-10% by weight of fillers, comprising at least one of chalk, kaolin, talc, carbon black, silica and silicic anhydride; as well as, per 100 parts of said polymers: 0.1-1.0 parts by weight of stabilizers comprising at least one of sterically hindered phenolic antioxidants, phenolic phosphites and thioesters of aliphatic carboxylic acids; 0.1-2 parts by weight of a lubricant comprising at least one of metallic salts of carboxylic acids, montanic acid esters and hydrogenated hydrocarbon resins; 0-5 parts by weight of colorants; and 0-4 parts by weight of an extender oil; said second layer containing, in 100 parts by weight of the polyolefin-containing resin, at least 15% by weight of a polar, copolymerized monomer; said first layer and said second layer being adhesively bonded directly to each other by thermal pressure bonding or flame laminating.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 285 words
A multi-ply, weatherable, plasticizer-free and deep-drawable sheet for the internal and external outfitting of automotive vehicles, comprising: a first layer comprised of an ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer and a homopolymer and/or copolymer of propylene, produced by extrusion or calendering with a sheet thickness of 0.2 to 3 mm bonded to a second layer comprised of a crosslinked polyolefin resin-containing foam; said first layer containing 65-25% by weight of a partially crystalline ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer comprising 65-82% by weight of ethylene; 18-35% by weight of propylene, and 3-8% by weight of a diene tercomponent, with a melt index MFI (230/5) of 0.5-2.0 g/10 min., a tensile strength of at least 10 N/mm 2 , and DSC maximum temperature of at least 40° C.; 3- 75% by weight of at least one propylene polymer selected from the group consisting of homopolymer and a copolymer of propylene, with a melt index MFI (230/2.16) of 0.2-2 g/10 min.; 0-10% by weight of fillers, comprising at least one of chalk, kaolin, talc, carbon black, silica and silicic anhydride; as well as, per 100 parts of said polymers: 0.1-1.0 parts by weight of stabilizers comprising at least one of sterically hindered phenolic antioxidants, phenolic phosphites and thioesters of aliphatic carboxylic acids; 0.1-2 parts by weight of a lubricant comprising at least one of metallic salts of carboxylic acids, montanic acid esters and hydrogenated hydrocarbon resins; 0-5 parts by weight of colorants; and 0-4 parts by weight of an extender oil; said second layer containing, in 100 parts by weight of the polyolefin-containing resin, at least 15% by weight of a polar, copolymerized monomer; said first layer and said second layer being adhesively bonded directly to each other by thermal pressure bonding or flame laminating.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 25 words
A sheet according to claim 1, wherein said first layer contains an ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer having a tensile strength of at least 15 N/mm 2 .
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 24 words
A sheet according to claim 1, wherein said first layer comprises an ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer having a DSC maximum temperature of at least 43° C.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 24 words
A sheet according to claim 1, wherein said first layer contains an ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer with an ethylene content of at least 70% by weight.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 29 words
A sheet according to claim 1, wherein said first layer contains a propylene homopolymer and/or propylene copolymer having a melt index MFI (230/2.16) of smaller than 1 g/10 min.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 22 words
A sheet according to claim 1, wherein said first layer contains a propylene copolymer with an ethylene content of 5-20% by weight.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 22 words
A sheet according to claim 1, wherein said fillers have a maximum particle size determined by passage through a 30 μm sieve.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim 34 words
A sheet according to claim 1, wherein a separating force between the first layer and the second layer amounts to at least 8 N/5cm and is higher than the intrinsic strength of the foam.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim 28 words
A sheet according to claim 1, wherein said polar copolymerized monomer is butyl acrylate in an amount of at least 15% by weight based on the polyolefin-containing resin.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim 28 words
A sheet according to claim 1, wherein the polar copolymerized monomer is vinyl acetate in an amount of at least 20% by weight based on the polyolefin-containing resin.

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