Hercules Corporation

Herbert H Espy

Stearns T Putnam

Sunil P Dasgupta

William W Maslanka

Albert S Matlack

Paper and paperboard can be effectively repulped by a composition of nonchlorinated oxidizing agent (persulfates) and a buffer (carbonates) yielding a pH of 7-12. The repulping composition of the present invention is particularly useful in repulping paper containing wet strength resins.

Repulping wet strength paper and paperboard with persulfate and a

A water-soluble drainage-aid composition which is the reaction product of a bifunctional crosslinking agent which may be an epihalohydrin selected from the group consisting of epichlorohydrin or epibromohydrin, a 1,3-dihalo-2-propanol in which 'halo' is chloro- or bromo-, or a glycidyl ester of an alkanesulfonic or arenesulfonic acid, and an oligoamide reaction product of a polyalkylene polyamine with a carboxylic acid selected from the group consisting of dicarboxylic acids containing between 5 and 10 carbons and their acyl halides, amides, and esters of alcohols having up to 6 carbon atoms, and tricarboxylic acids containing between 6 and 10 carbon atoms and their acyl halides, amides, and esters of alcohols having up to 6 carbon atoms, with a mole ratio of polyamine to dicarboxylic acid or its functional derivative between 1.5/1 and 2/1 or a mole ratio of polyamine to tricarboxylic acid or its functional derivative of 3/1, the oligoamide reaction product being an amine-terminated oligo(aminoamide) having an average composition of at least two amide groups and at least four amine groups per molecule, the bifunctional crosslinking agent being used a level of between 1.5 and 2.5 moles per mole of oligoamide; a method for making the water-soluble drainage-aid composition, and a method for using the water-soluble drainage-aid composition as a dewatering aid in paper manufacture.

Oligoamide-epichlorohydrin resins as drainage aids

A process for reducing the concentration of epichlorohydrin by-products in the manufacture of polyamide-epichlorohydrin resins, comprising reacting polyaminopolyamide prepolymer in aqueous solution with epichlorohydrin and an immiscible solvent for the epichlorohydrin, continuing the reaction of the prepolymer with the epichlorohydrin to produce the desired viscosity of the aqueous phase, stabilizing the resin product by diluting or acidifying the aqueous phase, separating the solvent from the aqueous resin, and treating the solvent phase with caustic to convert epichlorohydrin by-products to epichlorohydrin for recycling.

Polyamide-epichlorohydrin wet-strength resins with reduced content of

A creping aid comprising the reaction product of a polyamide of a dibasic acid or of the ester of an aliphatic dibasic acid and methyl bis(3-aminopropylamine) with epichlorohydrin in a mole ratio of the polyamide to the epichlorohydrin between about 1:0.1 and about 1:0.33, and a composition comprising an aqueous solution of the creping aid.

Synthesis of creping aids based on polyamides containing methyl

A method for imparting wet strength to paper with improved water absorbency, that comprises adding to an aqueous suspension of cellulosic paper stock a neutral or alkaline-curing thermosetting wet-strength resin, a water-soluble polymer containing carboxyl groups or carboxylate ions as their alkali metal or ammonium salts, and a substantially non-thermosetting tertiary-amino polyamide-epichlorohydrin resin.

Absorbance and permanent wet-strength in tissue and toweling paper

A process for making paper to enhance the softness of the paper produced without reducing its dry strength comprises adding to the pulp slurry as a binder resin a cellulosic polymer that exhibits a cloud point in aqueous solution, and allowing the dissolved polymer to coalesce into fine colloidal particles at a temperature above the cloud point either before or after it is added to the slurry.

Enhancement of tissue paper softness with minimal effect on strength

A method of preparing a mixture composed principally of dicyclopentadiene which is caused to remain liquid at low temperatures by the presence of other cyclopentadiene oligomers.

Conversion of solid dicyclopentadiene to a liquid monomer for use in

Disclosed is absorbent material composed of a consolidated blend of spurted polyolefin pulp, treated with an anionic or nonionic wetting agent substance having a molecular weight less than about 8000, and wood fluff pulp. The absorbent material exhibits a desirable combination of strength, rate of absorbency and total absorbency.

Absorbent material

Disclosed are novel retention aid resins for paper fillers, said resins being derived by reaction of a nitrogen compound (such as ammonia) and a base resin which is the reaction product of an amino polymer and an epoxide difunctional toward amines. A specific example of such a base resin is a cationic water-soluble polyaminopoly-ureylene -- epihalohydrin resin.

Cationic water soluble polymeric reaction product of

Disclosed are novel retention aid resins for paper fillers, said resins being derived by reaction of a nitrogen compound (such as ammonia) and a base resin which is the reaction product of an amino polymer and an epoxide difunctional toward amines. A specific example of such a base resin is a cationic water-soluble poly(diallylamine)-epihalohydrin resin.

Disclosed are novel retention aid resins for paper fillers, said resins being derived by reaction of a nitrogen compound (such as ammonia) and a base resin which is the reaction product of an amino polymer and an epoxide difunctional toward amines. A specific example of such a base resin is a cationic, water-soluble aminopolyamide-epichlorohydrin resin.

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Wilmington, DE, United States of America

Herbert H Espy