Coal Industry (Patents) Limited

Lesley D Herbert

Joseph G Robinson

A blend of rubber comprising 100 parts of a rubber, from 5 to 150 parts of a carbazole/phenol/formaldehyde resin, from 1 to 5 parts of a vulcanizing agent for the rubber and from 5 to 15 parts per hundred parts of the resin of a formaldehyde donor, is made up. This is done in any usual manner. The blend is then heated, preferably under pressure, to vulcanize the rubber and cross-link the resin. A preferred method of making the resin is described. The invention also comprises reinforced rubbers made according to the process.

Reinforced rubber

Cross-linkable phenolic resols are known but do not have good water resistance. Phenolic resols can be blended with N-methylol carbazole or a derivative thereof to give a cross-linkable material useful for laminating or as a metal cement.

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Stroud, United Kingdom

Lesley D Herbert