Advanced Elastomer Systems, L.p.

Exxonmobil Chemical Patents Inc.

Marvin C Hill

Sunny Jacob

Jim Johnson

Michael Brendan Rodgers

Yuan-Ju Chen

John Patrick Soisson

Shawn W Mowry

Luke P Stephens

Purushottam Das Agrawal

Molly W Upton

An exercising assembly for fitness training and rehabilitation includes a first base, which is positionable on a substantially horizontal surface. An engagement module is selectively engageable to the first base so that the engagement module is positioned proximate to a first end of the first base. A plurality of attachment elements is engaged to the first base, the engagement module, and to a plurality of tensioners. The attachment elements are selectively mutually couplable. A plurality of first interface elements is selectively engageable to the engagement module. Respective attachment elements of the plurality of attachment elements are engaged to each of the first interface elements. Respective tensioners thus are extendable between a respective first interface element and one or more of the first base and the engagement module. The respective tensioners provide resistance to the user moving the first interface elements.

Exercising assembly

To obtain an elastomeric composite crumb having a majority of the particle size distribution greater than 0.33 cm, the crumb is obtained by a process whereby the elastomeric composite comprises less than about 0.5 phr of a salt of a Cto Ccarboxylic acid, or 10 to 20 phr of a tackifying resin or a combination of both an absence of carboxylic acid and the presence of the tackifying resin. The use of one or both methods permits control of crumb particle size distribution in emulsion or solution processes for producing elastomeric nanocomposites. The elastomeric composite is also disclosed.

Filled elastomeric composite and process to control composite crumb size

An article for sealing the contents of a container, the article comprising a member adapted for sealing the container, where the member includes a thermoplastic vulcanizate including a dynamically cured butyl rubber, a thermoplastic polyurethane having a glass transition temperature of less than about 60&#xb0; C., and a synthetic oil.

Thermoplastic vulcanizates and sealing devices made therewith

A polymeric laminate comprising (A) a substrate, and (B) a slip layer covering at least a portion of said substrate, where the slip layer consists essentially of (i) a polyethylene blend, where said blend includes (a) from about 3 to about 97 percent by weight, based upon the total weight of said blend, of a first polyethylene resin having a weight average molecular weight from 110,000 to about 140,000 and a polydispersity of less than about 12, (b) from about 3 to about 97 percent by weight, based upon the total weight of said blend, of a second polyethylene resin having a weight average molecular weight from 50,000 up to 109,999 and a polydispersity of less than about 12, and (c) from about 0 to about 40 percent by weight, based upon the total weight of said blend, of a third polyethylene resin having a weight average molecular weight from about 20,000 up to 49,999 and polydispersity of less than about 12, with the proviso that said blend includes at least 60 percent, based upon the total weight of said blend, of said first polyethylene and said second polyethylene combined, (ii) from about 2.5 to about 15 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of said polyethylene blend, of a propylene polymer or copolymer having propylene units deriving from propylene monomer, and (iii) from about 4.5 to about 20 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of said polyethylene blend, of a dynamically vulcanized rubber.

Slip-coat compositions and polymeric laminates

Thermoplastic vulcanizates having improved coring properties, comprising a blend of thermoplastic polypropylene resin, vulcanized butyl rubber, a SEPS block copolymer and a polybutene oil plasticizer.

Thermoplastic elastomers with improved coring properties

A combination of a low flexural modulus and low crystallinity polyolefin and a functionalized polyolefin were found to result in an olefin composition with excellent adhesion to metals and polar polymers (e.g. polyesters, polyamides, etc) especially fibers therefrom. When these two polyolefins were added to a thermoplastic vulcanizate (e.g. used to partially or fully replace the semicrystalline polyolefin of a thermoplastic vulcanizate), the thermoplastic vulcanizate was found to have the necessary adhesion to form fiber reinforced thermoplastic vulcanizate.

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Hudson, OH, United States of America

Marvin C Hill