Biodegradable latex web material

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1990-04-24

1993-03-09

Scherbel, David A.

Plant husbandry

Mulching

47 56, A01G 3100

Patent

active

051917343

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein is a biodegradable latex web material which is suitable as a replacement for plastic in a wide variety of uses due to its good overall strength and its ratio of wet strength to dry strength. The material includes a web of cellulose fibers which, prior to treatment with a saturant, has a breaking length in the dry state ranging from about 0.80 to about 6.20 km. Optionally, the web can contain synthetic fibers to improve the tear strength of the material. In order to obtain tensile strengths which are comparable to plastics, the fibrous web is saturated with a latex composition which may be natural, synthetic or a combination of natural and synthetic polymers. In addition to latex, other additives may be incorporated into the saturant for special end use properties. The latexes used will have glass transition temperatures (Tg) of between about -50.degree. C. and about 20.degree. C. If mixing natural and synthetic polymers together, the ratio of synthetic to natural polymers should be about 2:1 to about 4:1 by weight. The saturant compositions are applied to the base web at an add on from about 16 to about 80 dry parts saturant per 100 parts fiber by weight to form a latex web composite. The composite once formed should have an average strength of at least about 50 kg/cm.sup.2 and a ratio of wet strength to dry strength ranging from about 0.2 to about 0.6.

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