Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture – Methods – Surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
Reexamination Certificate
1999-07-20
2001-04-10
Dawson, Robert (Department: 1712)
Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
Methods
Surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
C405S259500, C523S457000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06214159
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND PRIOR ART
It is well known that cold-curing epoxide resins cure relatively slowly at temperatures below room temperature. Aside from highly reactive amine curing agents, the attempt has already been made to increase the reactivity of the system by appropriately high amounts of catalysts, for example, by the use of compounds, such as phenols, mercaptans and the like, which are, however, poisonous. The reactive diluents, usually used to reduce the high viscosity of the liquid epoxide resins, generally have little influence on the curing rate. On the other hand, however, they frequently lead to a cured resin with inferior mechanical properties, particularly, when they are used in amounts of 25% and more.
OBJECT OF THE INVENTION
From U.S. Pat. No. 5,021,537, it is known that the curing of epoxide resins can be accelerated with certain reactive diluents, particularly with acetoacetates themselves, even in small amounts. It is an object of the present invention to improve these known epoxide compositions, especially in the sense of increasing the curing rate, improving the flow behavior and the curing throughout, especially also at low temperatures below 0° C. Further objectives arise out of the advantages put forward. This objective is accomplished by curable epoxide compositions containing a) polyepoxide, b) polyamine, c) polyacetoacetate, d) a metal compound, mainly compounds of a metal cation and optionally further constituents, such as fillers, diluents, curing catalysts, rheological aids, wetting agents, dyes and pigments and the like.
The polyepoxides can be saturated, unsaturated, aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic and optionally substituted by substituents, which do not have an interfering effect on the curing reaction, such as chlorine, bromine, alkyl or aryl. In particular, polyglycidyl ethers of multihydric alcohols and phenols, such as those of alkylene glycols, such as ethylene glycol and glycerin, but particularly polyglycidyl ethers of multihydric phenols, namely bisphenol A, bisphenol F and/or novolak are preferred. The epoxide equivalent weights of such compounds preferably range from about 150 to 2,000 and preferably from about 170 to 400. Suitable polyepoxide compounds are described, for example, in Lee, Neville, Handbook of Epoxy Resins 1967.
As curing agents, particularly aliphatic, cycloaliphatic and/or aromatic amines and polyamines, such as alkylenediamines like ethylenediamine, propylenediamine, hexamethylenediamine have proven their value. The highly reactive Mannich bases, especially the nontoxic condensation products without residual contents of phenols, obtained by the condensation of polyamines, such polyalkylenepolyamines, with aldehydes, such as formaldehyde, and monohydric or multihydric phenols, are preferred. As polyacetoacetate compound, preferably compounds with 2 to 5 acetoacetate groups, especially bisacetoacetates of dihydric aliphatic alcohols, such as ethylene glycol, or also triacetoacetates, for example, of trihydric aliphatic alcohols, such as glycerin, and tetraacetoacetates of multihydric alcohols are used. Triacetoacetates of trimethylol alkanes, such as trimethylolpropane or trimethylolethane, are preferred.
As metal compounds, polyvalent, preferably divalent cations, or chelate-forming cations come into consideration. Suitable cations originate basically from the first six main groups as well as from their subgroup of the periodic system (according to Meyer and Mendeleev) as well as from the 7
th
and 8
th
subgroups, such as magnesium, calcium zinc, cadmium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, tin, lead, mercury, vanadium, cerium, aluminum, iron, chromium and titanium. Especially preferred are those, which are relevant ecologically and economically, such as magnesium, calcium zinc, aluminum and iron. The metal compound usually is present in the form of its organic or inorganic salts or oxides, especially in, for example, a finely particulate form, which readily releases the metal ions. Calcium oxide and magnesium oxide particularly have proven to be suitable.
Useful fillers, when contained, are, for example, quartz, silicates, aluminosilicates, corundum, ceramic, glass, carbonates, such as chalk, kaolin, organic or inorganic fibers or the like. The inventive epoxide compositions can furthermore contain conventional constituents, such as inert organic solvents, like alcohols, esters, especially glycol ether or glycol ester and the like, curing catalysts, such as triethylamine, rheology aids, wetting agents, etc.
Per 100 parts by weight of epoxide and acetoacetate, polyamine may be contained in an amount of the order of 20 to 80 parts by weight and preferably of 25 to 50 parts by weight. The amount of amines should be sufficient with respect to the epoxide itself so that 0.8 to 3 amine hydrogens are available per epoxide group. Some consumption of the amine by the acetoacetate is not excluded. An excess of amine, for example, above the amine hydrogens required stoichiometrically for curing the epoxide and above that required so that there is one amino group per acetoacetate group, is preferred. The polyacetoacetates generally are contained in an amount of up to 35% by weight, based on the total amount of epoxide and polyacetoacetate, higher amounts not being excluded. Amounts between 2 and 25% by weight of polyacetate, relative to the total weight of epoxide and polyacetoacetate, are preferred. A portion of the polyacetoacetate can be replaced by subordinate amounts of other reactive diluents, such as C
10
to C
18
glycidyl ethers, t-butyl phenyl glycidyl ethers and the like. The concentration of the cationic metal can be defined, for example, stoichiometrically. For example, 0.20 moles of metal compound or more may be contained per acetoacetate equivalent, 0.25 to 1 mole of metal compound per acetoacetate group being preferred. However, higher or lower amounts, such as 0.1 mole, are not excluded.
The inventive polyepoxide compositions can be manufactured as two-component systems, in which epoxide resin and curing agent are separated from one another. The one component usually contains the polyepoxide and the polyacetoacetate compound, while the other component contains the curing agent, optionally a curing catalyst and the metal compound. The filler, as well as the other two constituents, may be contained in the one or the other component and optionally also in both components.
For epoxide resins, the inventive compositions have an atypically low viscosity, clearly accelerated initial curing, good curing and thorough curing properties, good flow behavior and a high reaction rate, particularly also at low temperatures, such as −5° C. or lower, very good adhesion and little shrinkage. The reactivity toward mineral borehole walls is noteworthy; evidently, it is a reaction caused by metal compounds, such as calcium ions, which can, under certain circumstances, partially replace the presence of the cations in the inventive compositions. The inventive compositions are very suitable for use in construction generally, for example, for fastenings, anchorages, crack repairs, gluing and the like.
The inventive epoxide compositions have proven their value particularly for fastening anchoring means in boreholes, as well as in natural and artificial rocks. Compared to comparable epoxide compositions, they reach 85% of their final strength soon.
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Armin Pfeil
Sascha Dierker
Aylward D.
Brown & Wood LLP
Dawson Robert
Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
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