Patent GB-793935-A (GB)
Title: Process for the fabrication of high-polymer products from high-polymer compounds
Inventor: HOEPFNER KONRAD
IPC: C08K5/00
Filed: 1955-02-23
Abstract: The fabrication of polymer products is facilitated by adding, before or during fabrication, organic salts formed from cationic and anionic surface-active agents, or a mixture of such agents. The salts or agents may be precipitated from aqueous solution and used directly or added in the form of aqueous solutions or dispersions, or solutions in organic solvents.  The polymer may be polystyrene, polyacrylic acid, a copolymer of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate, polyesters, polyamides, e.g. condensates of hexamethylene diamine and adipic acid, or cellulose derivatives. The cationic surface-active agents may be ammonium, sulphonium or phosphonium compounds having at least one aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aliphatic - aromatic or cycloaliphatic-aromatic radical of at least 6 carbon atoms, which may contain beteroatoms, e.g. oxygen, sulphur, or nitrogen, or heteroatom groups, e.g. trimethyl octyl ammonium chloride, trimethyl dodecyl ammonium chloride, trimethyl octadecyl ammonium methosulphate, dimethyl dioctadecyl ammonium chloride, dimethyl dodecyl benzyl ammonium chloride, dimethyl octyl cyclohexyl ammonium chloride, dimethyl cyclohexyl alkyl ammonium chloride having an alkyl radical of 10 to 22 carbon atoms, dodecyl pyridinium chloride or hexadecyl pyridinium bisulphate.  The anionic surface-active agent may be an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aliphatic-aromatic or cycloaliphatic-aromatic compound having at least one radical of 6 or more carbon atoms and at least one salt group formed from an inorganic or organic base capable of forming water soluble salts, e.g. alkyl sulphate, sulphonates or benzene sulphonates, salts of sulphonated oils and fats, salts of dialkyl or dialkylaryl disulphonimides or sulphocarbonimides, fatty acid salts, e.g. sodium caprate, resin acid salts, salts of the condensates of higher molecular weight carboxylic or sulphonic acid halides with albumins, and the salts of wax acids, naphthenic acids, octyloxyacetic acid, hexadecylmercapto-acetic acid, C-alkyl-cresoxyacetic acids, compounds containing inorganic acid groups, e.g. dodecyl sulphuric acid ester, sulphuric acid esters of the fatty alcohol mixture obtained by catalytic reduction of coconut oil, oleyl sulphuric acid ester, the sulphuric acid ester of ethylene glycol mono-octyl ether, the mono- or di-sulphuric acid ester of glycerol monostearic acid ester, decanediol monoacetate phosphoric ester, the o -butyl ether of decyl-sulphuric acid ester, the o -hexyl thioether of octylthiosulphuric acid ester, N-butyl-N-dodecyl sulphamic acid, the sulphuric acid ester of b  - hydroxy - g  - (sec. - octylcresoxy) - propane, sec. - octylphenoxyethane sulphuric acid ester, N - oleyl - N - methyl aminoethane - b  - sulphonic acid, stearoyloxy - ethane - b  - sulphonic acid, N-cetylsulphonylsulphanilic acid, the o -cyclohexyl ether of decanesulphonic acid, sec.-octylphenyl - benzyl - ether - 41 - sulphonic acid, mixed 2 - isoalkyl - cresoxy - benzoic acid - 5 - sulphonic acids having alkyl radicals of 5 to 11 carbon atoms, 1-sec.-octylphenoxy-benzene-2,5-disulphonic acid, 1-sec.-hexylphenoxy-2-(acetyl-amino) - benzene - 4 - sulphonic acid and the sulphonation products of sec.-octyl-1-cresyl-benzyl ether and cresoxyacetic acid dodecylamide.  Known plasticisers, gelatinizing agents, weighting agents and fillers, e.g. inorganic oxides, hydroxides or salts, silica, talc or kaolin may be added, and the compositions may be formed into threads, films, sheets, slabs or blocks.  Specification 793,934 is referred to.