Koninklijke Emballage Industrie Van Leer B.v.

Wolff & Kaaber

Smiths Industries Public Limited Company

John Arthur Gent

Hans-Ole Larsen

Sven Barfoed

David E Cross

Per L Wolff

Sheet material for making a water closet disposable article, such as a bag for body waste products, is unaffected by contact with water of neutral pH, but is degraded on contact with an alkali added to the pan of the water closet. The material may have a central layer of polyvinyl alcohol, an inner layer made up of at least two coatings of a blend of polyvinylidene chloride acrylonitrile copolymer with carboxylated acrylic copolymer, and an outer layer of at least two coatings of carboxylated acrylic acid. A similar sheet can be used to back an absorbent layer of a sanitary article, such as a diaper. In use, an alkaline substance containing triethanolamine and a surfactant, such as sodium dioctyl sulphosuccinate, is added in liquid form to the water closet pan prior to dropping in the bag or other article, so as to raise the pH of the water to about 10.

Medico-surgical and sanitary articles and materials

Improved polyfuran foams are prepared by polymerizing or copolymerizing furfuryl alcohol, alone or in combination with prepolymers or precopolymers of furfuryl alcohol, as liquid feed material in the presence of a liquid acidic compound, the liquid feed material containing at least 20% of free furfuryl alcohol and wherein at least 50% of the hydroxyl groups in the mixture are present as free furfuryl alcohol. The liquid acidic compound or mixture of acidic compounds having a pKa value in water of from 1 to 4 or having a pka value in water of less than 1 and being uniformly distributed in mono alcohols that do not polymerize in the presence of said acidic compound or mixture of acidic compounds. The polyfuran foam having non-flammability characteristics as determined by the muffle furance test.

Process of preparing polyfuran foams

Method of preparing foamed solid aminoformaldehyde furfurylalcohol products by polymerizing a liquid furfurylalcohol containing aminoformaldehyde resin composition in the presence of an acid, characterized in using as a starting material a resin compositioncontaining 15-90% by weight of total free and bound furfurylalcohol and having an urea:formaldehyde molar ratio of 1:1 to 1:5 and at least 10 parts by weight of a boron compound per 100 parts by weight of said resin, the boron compound being present in an amount sufficient so that the foam product will pass the muffle furnace test at 500.degree. C., and has no second exotherm at 200.degree. C. The boron compound can be selected from the group consisting of boric acid, boron oxide, borax, boric acid esters, boron tribromide, boron trichloride, boron nitride, boron phosphate, boron trifluoride etherate, boron trifluoride methanol, boron trifloride monoethylamine, complexes of boric acid with polyhydroxyl compounds, and mixtures thereof.

Non-burning, class 1 rating, foams and a method of producing same

A synthetic foam and a process for its preparation is disclosed comprising (a) a polymerized mass of at least 50 parts by weight of furfuryl alcohol, at least one part by weight of at least one amino compound selected from the group consisting of urea, thiourea and melamine, and up to 49 parts by weight formaldehyde, and (b) an equal or less amount of filler.

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John Arthur Gent