W. R. Grace Co.

W. R. Grace Co.-conn.

Morton Thiokol Inc.

Joel A Gribens

Gerald J O'Neill

Robert S Holdsworth

Charles W Simons

Shawn E Brown

Nuno M Rei

A hot melt gasket of two superimposed layers. The first layer contains a large amount of tackifier resin to ensure good adhesion to the closure surface. The second layer contains little or no tackifier resin to ensure a good seal between the closure and container. The hot melt gasket is particularly well suited for use on plastic closures, especially polyolefin closures and more especially polypropylene closures.

Method of forming hot melt gaskets

Hot melt gaskets and method of forming same

For providing biocides in concentrated, immobilized form to an end use resin composition containing a primary thermoplastic resin with which the primary resin is incompatible at high concentrations, solid biocide resin concentrates are provided which immobilize high concentrations of biocide. The solid biocide resin concentrates may contain an alloy of two thermoplastic resins, one of which is substantially identical to the primary resin and one of which enables incorporation and immobilization of high concentrations of biocide in the solid biocide resin concentrates. The solid biocide resin concentrate may contain, in whole or in part, a thermoplastic copolymer having mer units such as are present in the primary resin in addition to dissimilar mer units which enhance compatibility of the biocide with the copolymer. OBPA-containing solid resin concentrates for adding to an end use resin composition in which polyethylene is the primary resin may contain polyethylene plus a second thermoplastic resin in which OBPA is generally compatible and/or a copolymer containing both ethylene and acrylic acid mer units and/or a terpolymer containing ethylene, vinyl acetate and carbon monoxide mer units. Ethylene/acrylic copolymers and ethylene/vinyl acetate/carbon monoxide terpolymers are each useful for forming solid biocide resin concentrates that are miscible with a wide variety of thermoplastic resins.

Resin-immobilized biocides

Certain fluorinated dimethyl ethers have been found to possess the stability, the compatibility and sufficient freedom from deleterious physiological effects to be used as aerosol propellants in cosmetic, hygienic, pharmaceutical and other personal products. Bis(difluoromethyl) ether is also free of the chlorine atoms believed responsible for some destruction of ozone in the upper atmosphere. Bis(difluoromethyl) ether and carbon dioxide provides a combined gaseous and liquefied propellant system having improved aerosol pattern and emptying characteristics and eliminates the compressed gas effect usually shown by use of carbon dioxide in propellant systems.

Aerosol propellant for personal products

Certain fluorinated dimethyl ethers have been found to possess the stability, the compatibility and sufficient freedom from deleterious physiological effects to be used as aerosol propellants in cosmetic, hygenic, pharmaceutical and other personal products. These compounds, bis(difluoromethyl) ether and perfluorodimethyl ether, are also free of the chlorine atoms believed responsible for some destruction of ozone in the upper atmosphere.

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Framingham, MA, United States of America

Joel A Gribens