Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kazuyoshi Imamura

Tetsuhiro Kusunose

Tatsuo Ishikawa

Norio Akimoto

Koichi Yasui

Noboru Fukuma

Shozo Awaya

Akeomi Saito

Coating of the surface of a pencil barrel with a coat film having a sufficient thickness and smoothness can be well achieved by using a hot-melt polyester as a coating material. The formation of the desired coat film on the pencil barrel can be attained even by only a single coating operation. The coat film of hot-melt polyester formed on the surface of the pencil barrel has an excellent affinity for and an improved adhesion to not only a pencil barrel but also to a lacquer if any lacquer is additionally coated on the polyester-coated pencil barrel. Any organic solvent need not be used, and the coating operation can be completed in an extremely short time. Therefore, the method of the present invention is very advantageous from the viewpoints of prevention of environmental pollution and enhancement of productivity.

Method of coating a pencil

A polyester comprising acid monomer units of terephthalic acid, succinic acid, glutaric acid and isophthalic acid and/or an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 6 to 20 carbon atoms and glycol monomer units of a C.sub.2-10 alkylene glycol in specific proportions has been found to be extremely useful as hot-melt materials such as a hot-melt adhesive, a hot-melt coating material, a hot-melt sealing material and a hot-melt filling material. The present hot-melt polyester has excellent melting characteristics, that is, it can be rapidly molten from a solid state with a high sensitivity to heating to give a molten polyester having a stably low viscosity that does not almost undergo change according to variation of temperature and having an excellent fluidity. Further, the present hot-melt polyester has a good affinity for objects (e.g. adherend) to which the polyester is applied and exhibits excellent bonding or adhesive performance. Moreover, the present hot-melt polyester has improved suppleness and flexibility. The mechanical strength, stretchability and flexibility of the hot-melt adhesive can be much improved while maintaining the melt viscosity thereof at a low level. Thus, there is provided a hot-melt polyester having a well-balanced combination of physical properties that is very important to hot-melt materials.

Hot-melt polyester

Thermoplastic synthetic polymer fibers having powder of metal attached to the surface of the fibers are subjected to a treatment for increasing the oxidation number of said metal from zero to a plus value, that is, oxidation in a broad sense. The resulting conductive synthetic fibers support a layer of a compound of the metal, i.e. an oxidized product of the metal in a broad sense, firmly and undetchably thereon, and have as low an electric resistivity as 10.sup.5 .OMEGA./cm or less. The conductive fibers can be blended to ordinary synthetic fibers to improve their antistatic property, or can be substituted for expensive metal fibers. The thermoplastic synthetic polymer fibers are sheath-core fibers wherein the sheath has a lower melting point than the core.

Conductive synthetic fibers

The present invention is to provide a method of producing an adsorbent composed of micro-fibrils, comprising the steps of mixing two synthetic polymers in a mixing ratio of 20/80 - 80/20, both of said polymers being incompatible with each other when they are intimately mixed, subjecting the mixture in molten state to an extrusion molding to shape the article in the form of threads, ropes or films where at least one of the polymers assumes the forms of micro-fibrils, and thereafter treating the shaped article with a solvent which is incapable of dissolving or decomposing one polymer but capable of dissolving or decomposing the other constituent polymer. The polymer adsorbent obtained by the above method is characterized by superior adsorbing activity and high treating efficiency and can be used for a wide range of purpose of adsorption.

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Nobeoka, Japan

Kazuyoshi Imamura