Mitsubishi Rayon Company, Limited

Sirou Mihara

Tokuo Shinomiya

Syoji Imao

Michisuke Edamatsu

Yoshihiro Osajima

A process is disclosed whereby porous flakes usable for making paper-like sheets are produced by melting a 10 to 75 parts by weight of thermoplastic polymer, dispersing 25 to 90 parts by weight of finely divided inorganic particles in a solvent capable of dissolving the polymer in an amount of 80 to 95% based on a total weight of the polymer, the inorganic particles and the solvent, at room temperature or lower to prepare a slurry. At a temperature at which the polymer can be dissolved in the solvent, the polymer melt is mixed with the slurry which has been preliminarily heated to a temperature pertinent for realizing the above-mentioned dissolving temperature when the heated slurry is mixed with the polymer melt, to prepare a uniform dispersion of the inorganic particles in the polymer solution in the solvent and then, the dispersion is spurted from a closed tank through an orifice, into a zone having a temperature and pressure lower than that of the dispersion, whereby the spurted dispersion is converted to composite porous flakes by rapidly evaporating the solvent.

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Sirou Mihara