Nippon Oil Company

Toyo Ink Manufacturing Company

Nippon Kokan Kabushiki Kaisha

Hideo Hayashi

Shozo Tsuchiya

Makoto Sasaki

Hisatake Sato

Akio Oshima

Kiyoshi Goto

Kazuyoshi Ihida

Yoshihiko Araki

Shiroh Saitoh

Takashi Kiyota

Toru Matsubara

Masaharu Makino

Atsushi Hara

Akio Ohshima

Michihiro Mohri

Shiro Saito

Akio Miyahara

Kazuyoshi Iida

Sigeru Ohtomo

The present invention is directed to a printing ink composition containing the reaction product of 5 to 100 parts by weight of a phenolic resin and about 100 parts by weight of a resin modified with an acid. The phenolic resin is prepared by condensing an appropriate 4-9 carbon alkylphenol with formalin. The modified resin is prepared by reacting 1 to 15 parts by weight of an appropriate unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or anhydride with about 100 parts by weight of the reaction product of 5 to 100 parts by weight straight-chain .alpha.-olefin with about 100 parts by weight of an appropriate pentacyclic compound, such as cyclopentadiene and/or dicyclopentadiene.

Offset printing ink composition

A hot melt composition is provided which comprises (1) a hydrogenated resin (II) having a softening point ranging from 50.degree. C. to 140.degree. C., said hydrogenated resin (II) being prepared by hydrogenating a copolymer resin (I) obtained by copolymerizing 20 to 60 wt % of a component (A) selected from the group consisting of five-member cyclic compounds each having a conjugated double bond and represented by the general formula (A) given below and Diels-Alder addition products thereof (A):

Hot melt composition containing a hydrogenated resin copolymer

According to the present invention, there is disclosed a process for producing a novel resin which comprises the step of copolymerizing a five-member cyclic compound (component A) having a conjugated double bond and represented by the general formula (A) given below: ##STR1## wherein R is an alkyl group having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms; m and n are zero or integers not less than 1 and are in the relation of m+n=6; and/or a Diels-Alder addition product thereof (A) with a co-dimer (component B) of said five-member cyclic compound and 1,3-butadiene by heating a mixture of 20 to 90 parts by weight of said component A and 80 to 10 parts by weight of said component B at a temperature of from 200.degree. C. to 350.degree. C. Also disclosed are a process for hydrogenating said novel resin to produce a novel hydrogenated resin and resin compositions containing said hydrogenated resin.

Process for producing novel hydrogenated resin from five-member cyclic

According to the present invention, there is disclosed a process for producing a novel resin which comprises the step of copolymerizing a five-member cyclic compound (component A) having a conjugated double bond and represented by the general formula (A) given below:

Novel hydrogenated resin produced from five-member cyclic compounds

An offset printing ink composition is provided which contains a vehicle resin (III) prepared by reacting 5 to 100 parts by weight of a phenolic resin (component D) with 100 parts by weight of a modified resin (II) modified with an acid, said phenolic resin (component D) being prepared by the condensation of a phenol including an alkyl substituent group having 4 to 9 carbon atoms with formalin, said modified resin (II) modified with an acid being prepared by reacting 1 to 15 parts by weight of a component C selected from the group consisting of unsaturated carboxylic acids, unsaturated carboxylic acid anhydrides and mixtures thereof with 100 parts by weight of a resin (I) obtained by copolymerizing 5 to 50 parts by weight of a component B selected from the group consisting of drying oils, fatty acids and mixtures thereof with 100 parts by weight of a five-member cyclic compound (component A) having a conjugated double bond or bonds and a Diels-Alder addition product thereof, such as cyclopentadiene or dicyclopentadiene.

Offset ink compositions are disclosed which contain as a vehicle a resin (III) obtainable by the steps of:

Offset ink compositions

According to the invention there is provided a hot melt composition comprising (A) a hydrogenated resin having a softening point ranging from 60.degree. C. to 130.degree. C., said hydrogenated resin (A) being prepared by hydrogenating a resin at a hydrogenation percentage of aromatic rings of from 10 to 90%, said resin being prepared by copolymerizing at least two components comprising (a) 100 parts by weight of cyclopentadiene or its derivative selected from the group consisting of cyclopentadiene and dicyclopentadiene and an alkyl substituent thereof and (b) 5 to 50 parts by weight of indene or its derivative selected from the group consisting of indene and an alkyl substituent thereof and (B) one or more compound selected from the group consisting of ethylene-unsaturated ester copolymers, polyester resins and waxes.

Hot melt composition

An alcoholic varnish comprising an alcoholic solution of a hydroxyl group-containing copolymer resin of cyclopentadiene, dicyclopentadiene or an alkyl-substituted derivative thereof and a compound, such as allyl alcohol, having at least one double bond and at least one hydroxyl group in the molecule. In one embodiment, this invention relates to an alcoholic varnish comprising an alcoholic solution of said hydroxyl group-containing resin and at least one known alcohol soluble resin such as maleinated rosin or alkyd resin.

Alcoholic varnishes

Hot melt type traffic paint compositions contain as binders partially ring-hydrogenated resins derived by hydrogenating from 20 to 70% of the aromatic rings of an aromatic hydrocarbon resin obtainable by polymerization in the presence of a Friedel-Crafts catalyst of fractions prepared so as to have a conjugated diolefin content of not more than 1.0 wt % and in a ratio of not more than 3.0% with respect to the total amount of polymerizable ingredients and a total content of indene and its alkyl derivatives of not more than 4.0 wt % and in a ratio of not more than 12.0% with respect to the total amount of polymerizable ingredients, said fractions obtained by distillation of cracked oil fractions which have boiling points in the range from 140.degree. to 220.degree. C. and are prepared by cracking of petroleum. These traffic paint compositions provide a favorable antiweathering property, heat resistance and flow characteristics.

Hot melt type traffic paint compositions

A varnish composition for offset printing inks, said composition comprising

Novel varnish composition for offset printing inks

A process for producing a curable resin is provided which comprises the steps of polymerizing a five-member cyclic compound (A) having an unsaturated conjugated double bond and represented by the general formula (A) given below; ##STR1## (wherein R is an organic residue having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms; m and n are integers and are in the relation of m+n=6) or Diels-Alder addition product thereof (A) with at least one phenolic compound (B) selected from the group consisting of monohydric and polyhydric phenols and alkyl substituents thereof to obtain a resin (I) having at least one phenolic hydroxyl group and an average molecular weight of from 300 to 2000; hydrogenating said resin (I) to convert the aromatic ring of the phenolic compound unit into the cyclohexane structure thereby to obtain a resin (II); and esterifying said resin (II) with an .alpha., .beta.-unsaturated carboxylic acid (C). A curable coating composition is also provided which comprises as vehicle the above curable resin.

Process for producing novel curable resin capable of being cured by the

A process for preparing a curable coating resin comprising the steps of hydrogenating selectively the double bonds of a resin produced from a five-membered cyclic compound such as dicyclopentadiene and an unsaturated hydroxyl group-containing compound such as allyl alcohol and then esterifying the thus hydrogenated hydroxyl group-containing resin with acrylic and/or methacrylic acid thereby to obtain a curable coating resin; and a curable coating resin obtained by said process.

Process for producing curable coating resins

A paper size obtained by the steps of treating with an acid a hydrocarbon distillate boiling within the range of 20.degree.-80.degree. C. and containing at least one C.sub.5 acyclic conjugated diolefin in an amount of 10 to 35 wt. % of the distillate, the distillate being derived from a fraction obtained as a by-product at the time of cracking petroleum, reacting said hydrocarbon distillate with an .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated carboxylic acid in a specified weight ratio and then saponifying the thus obtained acid-modified hydrocarbon distillate with an alkali thereby to obtain the paper size.

Paper sizes

A composite resinous composition is provided, which essentially comprises an aromatic hydrocarbon resin and an epoxy resin. The aromatic resin has its source from petroleum fractions produced during the thermal cracking of naphtha, kerosene or gas oil. Such fractions boiling in the range of 140.degree.-280.degree. C. are polymerized with a relatively large amount of phenols, the resulting polymer being highly compatible with commercially available epoxy resins.

Composite resinous composition

A resin for printing inks, prepared by the reaction of (A) a conjugated double bond-containing five-membered cyclic compound such as dicyclopentadiene, (B) a phenolic compound such as phenol, (C) an unsaturated carboxylic acid such as maleic anhydride and (D) a resol-type phenol resin obtained from phenol or an alkyl-substituted phenol and formaldehyde. In one embodiment, this invention relates to a process for the preparation of said resin for printing inks.

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Yokohama, Japan

Hideo Hayashi