Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 ser – Synthetic resins – Mixing of two or more solid polymers; mixing of solid...
Patent
1998-08-25
2000-04-11
Michl, Paul R.
Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 ser
Synthetic resins
Mixing of two or more solid polymers; mixing of solid...
525104, C08L 2712
Patent
active
060489405
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
DESCRIPTION
Shaped articles and coverings made from natural and synthetic rubber are widely used in industry. A disadvantage of these materials is their relatively low resistance to aggressive chemicals, in particular at elevated temperatures. There has, therefore, been no lack of attempts to coat rubber with the much more highly resistant fluoropolymers. These attempts failed, however, because the conventional bonding and vulcanization processes do not permit a sufficiently strong bond to the fluoropolymer.
There has also been no lack of attempts to employ fluorinated thermoplastics for this purpose, in particular copolymers of tetrafluoroethylene with such amounts of comonomers that the product is processable from the melt. However, even these copolymers, which in their properties come close to elastomers, do not adhere to rubbers.
Surprisingly, it has now been found that excellent adhesion between rubbers and fluoropolymers can be produced when a formulation comprising a rubber and from 10 to 70% by weight of a thermoplastic fluoropolymer having more than about 35% by weight of units of tetrafluoroethylene and also units of hexafluoropropene and of vinylidene fluoride having a melting point <250.degree. C. is employed as primer layer.
Further aspects and particular embodiments of the invention are explained in greater detail in the claims.
The invention therefore relates to a composition essentially consisting of a rubber and of the thermoplastic fluoropolymer as described.
The terpolymers of tetrafluoroethylene, hexafluoropropene and vinylidene fluoride have thermoplastic properties if they contain more than about 35% by weight of tetrafluoroethylene. Such terpolymers are known, for example, from U.S. Pat. No. 4,335,238 and DE-A 26 35 402 (AU-A 76/16635). Suitable terpolymers comprise from about 40 to about 60% by weight of tetrafluoroethylene, from about 10 to about 40% by weight of hexafluoropropene and from about 10 to about 40% by weight of vinylidene fluoride.
EP-A-0 428 158 relates to a vulcanizable polymer composition made from a crosslinkable hydrocarbon elastomer, a polymer based on vinylidene fluoride and a crosslinking agent. After vulcanization, this can be used to produce a packaging material of increased chemical and heat resistance. A copolymer made from vinylidene fluoride, tetrafluoroethylene and hexafluoropropene, inter alia, is included in the vinylidene-fluoride-based copolymers mentioned.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,942,906 relates to a rubber hose with an outer and an inner rubber layer, the inner layer being composed in its turn of two layers. The layer situated on the inside is formed from a first polymer mixture made from acrylic rubber and from a fluorine-containing resin, and the outer layer is formed from a second polymer mixture which differs from the first polymer mixture and comprises an epichlorohydrin rubber. The fluorine-containing resins listed are homopolymers and tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoroethylene copolymers, and also ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymers, but no terpolymers.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,041,207 describes a heat-resistant rubber laminate which essentially consists of a rubber layer made from a heat-resistant rubber mixture and a heat-resistant outer layer made essentially from ethylene-fluoropropylene elastomer.
The novel composition thus bonds on the one hand to rubber and on the other hand to (a layer of) the fluoropolymer as described. This fluoropolymer bonds in turn to layers of other fluoropolymers. In this way, layered products of many varied types, comprising layers of rubber and of fluoropolymers and thus combining the properties of these two classes of materials, can be produced.
The fluoropolymers can be mixtures of copolymers of identical type. It is advantageous to use uniform fluoropolymers.
In one aspect, the invention relates to a layered product which includes a layer of the fluoropolymer and a rubber. A layered product of this type can, for example, be built up as follows: and the fluoropolymer.
The layer a) can adjoin a layer of a fluoropolymer,
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Bladel Hermann
Dadalas Michael
Grossmann Gerd
Dyneon GmbH
Lilly James V.
Michl Paul R.
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