Hercules Corporation

Solenis Technologies, L.p.

Lanxide Technology Company, LP

Solenis Technologies Cayman, L.p.

Clement L Brungardt

Richard J Riehle

John C Gast

Jian Jian Zhang

Jian-Jian Zhang

David H Dumas

Susan M Ehrhardt

Kyle J Bottorff

Qu-Ming Gu

Bernard J Scheve

Jonathan M McKay

Ashley Hawkins Lewis

Josette Servals Huynh-Ba

Donald Kirkbright Black

Pamela K Rush

Patrick Kovacs

Ian Vallance

Jonathan M Mckay

Ashley Lewis

Disclosed herein are hydrophobic vinylamine-containing polymers useful as papermaking performance additives for enhancing paper softness with little or no negative effect on paper dry strength properties. The hydrophobic vinylamine-containing polymers are produced by incorporating hydrophobic functional property into primary amine moiety of the vinylamine-containing polymers via reactions with reactive hydrophobes. The hydrophobically modified vinylamine-containing polymers can be further used as base polymers for polymerization with a vinyl monomer by free radical initiated polymerization. The compositions of those hydrophobic vinylamine-containing polymers have shown improved softness, reduced coefficient friction to paper products while maintained or improved dry strength properties of the paper products.

Hydrophobic vinylamine-containing polymer compositions and their use in papermaking applications

A dispersion having a cationic zeta potential for use as a base coating on a sheet of paper or paperboard as a primer for a functional barrier top coating, wherein the composition comprises an anionic pigment containing mixture comprising one or more anionic pigments in an amount of at least about 20% dry weight of the mixture, and one or more polyamine-epihalohydrin cationic wet strength resin.

Cationic wet strength resin modified pigments in water-based latex coating applications

Methods for improving one or more surface properties of a sheet of paper or paperboard, which method comprises (a) coating at least one side of the sheet of paper or paperboard with a dispersion having a cationic zeta potential formed by combining (1) a mixture containing one or more anionic pigments with (2) one or more polyamine-epihalohydrin cationic wet strength resins at a coating weight of from about 0.1 g/mto about 20 g/m; (b) drying the coated sheet of paper or paperboard; (c) applying a functional barrier top coating that resists one or more of the following: liquid water, water vapor, gas permeability, oil and grease, slip, and static or an anionic latex based pigment coating that imparts improved opacity, brightness, or printability. The invention also includes the dispersions as well as paper or paperboard coated with the dispersion.

A method of making paper or paperboard using a composition made by the hydrogenation or partial hydrogenation of an alkyl ketene dimer, alkenyl ketene dimer, or ketene multimer (collectively labeled H-AKD). Also, relates to a paper or paperboard having increased water and water vapor resistance while maintaining good recyclability and repulpability.

Method of making a paper and paperboard and the paper and paperboard thereof

Latent dispersants were made by the hydrogenation of an alkyl ketene dimer, alkenyl ketene dimer, or ketene multimer. Adding the latent dispersant to paper or paperboard increased its resistance to water and water vapor while maintaining recyclability and repulpability. Additionally, provided is a method for increasing the repulpability of a wax coated paper or paperboard. Dispersants made by the hydrolysis of the alkyl ketene dimer, alkenyl ketene dimer, and ketene multimer are also described.

Composition and use of hydrogenated alkyl ketene dimers

Methods for increasing one or more barrier properties of a sheet of paper or paperboard, which method comprises (a) preparing a dispersion having a cationic zeta potential by combining (1) a mixture containing one or more anionic pigments with (2) one or more polyamine-epihalohydrin cationic wet strength resins; (b) coating at least one side of the sheet of paper or paperboard with the dispersion at a coating weight of from about 0.1 g/mto about 20 g/m; (c) drying the coated sheet of paper or paperboard; (d) coating the dried sheet of paper or paperboard with a functional barrier top coating formulated to provide resistance to one or more of the following (1) liquid water, (2) water vapor, (3) oil, (4) grease, (5) gas permeability, (6) skid, or (7) static. Also claimed are dispersions used in the methods, which dispersions have a cationic zeta potential for use as a preliminary coating on a sheet of paper or paperboard in advance to a functional barrier top coating, which dispersions comprise: (a) a mixture containing: (i) one or more anionic pigments in an amount of at least about 20% dry weight of the anionic pigment-containing mixture, (ii) one or more neutral or cationic water soluble binders in an amount up to about 80% dry weight of the anionic pigment-containing mixture, and (b) one or more polyamine-epihalohydrin cationic wet strength resins in a weight ratio of resin:anionic pigment from about 0.03:1 to about 0.8:1.

Cationic wet strength resin modified pigments in barrier coating applications

A sizing agent for paper that is a 2-oxetanone ketene multimer which is not solid at 35&deg; C., particularly a multimer mixture in which at least 25 weight percent of the hydrocarbon substituents contain irregularities such as branched alkyl groups or linear or branched alkenyl groups. Paper surface sized with the 2-oxetanone ketene multimer sizing agent and the method of surface sizing paper are also disclosed.

Alkaline paper surface sizing agents, method of use and surface sized paper

Fine paper that is sized with a 2-oxetanone alkaline sizing agent and that does not encounter machine feed problems in high speed converting or reprographic machines, including continuous forms bond paper and adding machine paper, processes for converting the paper into envelopes, continuous forms bond paper and adding machine paper, and paper products of the processes.

2-oxetanone sizing agents and their use in paper

Nucelophilic group, such as alcohol, terminated 2-oxetanone multimers, process of making same by reacting e.g. alcohol and dicarboxylic acid chloride in the presence of triethylamine, and their use for sizing paper.

Alcohol-terminated ketene multimer sizing agents

A sizing agent for paper that is a 2-oxetanone ketene multimer which is not solid at 35.degree. C., particularly a multimer mixture in which at least 25 weight percent of the hydrocarbon substituents contain irregularities such as branched alkyl groups or linear or branched alkenyl groups. Paper surface sized with the 2-oxetanone ketene multimer sizing agent and the method of surface sizing paper are also disclosed.

Alkaline paper surface sizing agents

Process of using fine paper containing 2-oxetanone sizing agent in high

Method of surface sizing paper comprising surface sizing paper with

A sizing composition for fine paper that does not encounter machine feed problems in high-speed converting or reprographic operations is not solid at 35.degree. C. and comprises a mixture of 2-oxetanone compounds that are the reaction product of a reaction mixture comprising (a) a feedstock comprising primarily unsaturated fatty acids and (b) a feedstock comprising primarily saturated fatty acids, or acid halides thereof, provided that at least 20 mole % of the reaction mixture fatty acids comprise saturated fatty acids and at least 20 mole % of the reaction mixture fatty acids comprise unsaturated fatty acids.

2-oxetanone sizing agents comprising saturated and unsaturated tails,

A ceramic-forming prepreg tape is prepared by (a) dispersing in water a ceramic-forming powder and a fiber, (b) flocculating the dispersion by adding a cationic wet strength resin and an anionic polymer, (c) dewatering the flocculated dispersion to form a sheet, (d) wet pressing and drying the sheet, and (e) coating or impregnating the sheet with an adhesive selected from the group consisting of a polymeric ceramic precursor, and a dispersion of an organic binder and the materials used to form the sheet. The tape can be used to form laminates, which are then fired to consolidate the tapes to a ceramic.

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Oxford, PA, United States of America

Clement L Brungardt