Toray Plastics (america), Inc.

Arkwright, Inc.

Anagram International, Inc.

Steven J Sargeant

John Fitch

Nao Yokota

Paul Andrew Ansolabehere

Todd Richard Sarnstrom

Gianfranco Chicarella

Tracy Paolilli

Kang Sun

Sen Yang

Shengmei Yuan

Dean Borchardt

Miaoling Huang

Joshua D Rundus

Dave Atherton

Yasuo Nishigaki

Yasushi Takada

Jan K Moritz

David Atherton

Bonnie Adams

Yijun Ye

Masaaki Sudo

Hiroshi Furuya

Yuji Shimizu

William M Risen, Jr

Jay Cheng Song

Linlin Xing

Douglas James Bower

Robert T Ervolino

Joseph Anthony Bourgeault

William Fritz

Arron Carroll

Paul Butera

Doug Bower

Mike Collins

John Medeiros

Todd Fayne

Yang Chen

Khanh Nguyen

Nathan Jones

Niall D Behan

Hideo Yanase

Larissa M Boutin

Terufumi Takayama

Gianfranco Chicarella, Jr

Delaware Hood

Michael G Fatica

Described are stretchable and formable lighter than air balloons including a high barrier lamination. The stretchable and formable balloons stretch when overinflated instead of failing. The balloons are formed from a lamination including a polyester film with a total thickness of 4 &#x3bc;m to 12 &#x3bc;m including a biaxially oriented polyester core layer and at least one amorphous copolyester skin layer. The polyester film has an Elongation % in the transverse direction (TD) or machine direction (MD) of greater than 125%.

Stretchable and formable lighter than air balloons made from a biaxially oriented polyester film

A long life balloon formed from a lamination. The lamination includes a polyester film with a total thickness of 4 &#x3bc;m to 12 &#x3bc;m. The polyester film includes a biaxially oriented polyester core layer and at least one amorphous copolyester skin layer. The lamination also includes a sealant layer and a gas barrier layer on an opposite side of the polyester film from the sealant layer. The oxygen transmission rate of the balloon is less than 0.1 cc/100 sqin/day, a bonding strength of the gas barrier layer to the surface of the polyester film is more than 300 g/in at dry conditions, a sealing strength of the balloon is more than 3.5 kg/in, and a floating time of the balloon is more than 20 days.

Lighter than air balloon made from a biaxially oriented polyester film

A polyester film that possesses both reduced gloss and reduced haze is achieved. The film includes at least one sub layer including talc and at least one core layer. The surface layer has a lower melting point temperature than the core layer.

Low gloss and low haze laminated polyester film including talc and method for preparing same

A process for fabricating a high barrier lamination suitable for the construction of lighter than air materials including providing a thin, two layer thermoplastic film consisting of an amorphous copolyester skin and a high crystalline polyester core; plasma treating the high crystalline polyester core layer to a surface energy of about 50 to about 68 dyne; depositing a metal barrier layer to an optical density of about 2.2 to about 3.2; and extrusion coating a linear low density polyethylene sealant layer on the amorphous copolyester skin layer.

High barrier laminate and process

Described are smooth biaxially oriented films and methods of making smooth biaxially oriented films for molding processes. The films may include an outer film layer A, and an outer film layer B that includes particles. Layer A has a SRa roughness of from 1 nm to 5 nm and a SRz roughness of from 10 nm to 100 nm. Layer B has a SRa roughness of from 5 nm to 50 nm and a SRz roughness of from 10 nm to 200 nm. The SRa and SRz of layer B is larger than the SRa and SRz of layer A.

Biaxially oriented polyester film for molding process

Recycleable releasing polyethylene terephthalate film coated with a coating of polyethylene emulsion, polyurethane dispersion, or a mixture of the two, with an acrylic or polyester cobinder, which film is uniaxially oriented and thereafter coated with the coating and oriented in a direction transverse to the direction of the film's uniaxial orientation to generate a biaxially oriented film having a uniaxially oriented coating and a method of making the film.

Releasing thermoplastic film, and method of making

This invention relates to methods for making ink-jet recording media using hot-melt extrudable ink-receptive compositions. The melt-extrudable compositions comprise a blend of a melt-extrudable polyvinyl alcohol composition and poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline), a hydrolyzed copolymer of ethylene and vinyl acetate, ethylene/acrylic acid copolymers or ethylene/methacrylic acid copolymers. The invention also encompasses media made by such methods. The media can be used to form high quality, multicolored images.

Methods for producing aqueous ink-jet recording media using hot-melt extrudable compositions and media produced therefrom

A directly embossable, coated polyethyleneterephthalate film including a dry, uniaxially oriented PET film, and a coating applied to the PET film, wherein the coating and the PET film have as a composite been transversely stretched, the coating resin being capable of impregnating the PET surface on drawing, rendering the film surface susceptible to embossing under pressure and the coating having low heat sealability and a method of producing a coated, directly embossable polyethyleneterephthalate film.

Embossable thermoplastic polyester film and method for producing the film

A directly embossable, coated polyethyleneterephthalate film including a dry, uniaxially oriented PET film, and a coating applied to the PET film, wherein the coating and the PET film have as a composite been transversely stretched, the film being coated from an aqueous solution at a thickness of about 0.1 &mgr;m-about 0.4 &mgr;m with a non-crosslinked polystyrene-acrylic emulsion and non-crosslinked polyester dispersion, the Tg of the coating resin being greater than about 20&deg; C. and less than about 70&deg; C., the coating resin being capable of impregnating the PET surface on drawing, rendering the film surface susceptible to embossing under pressure and the coating having low heat sealability and a method of producing a coated, directly embossable polyethyleneterephthalate film including uniaxially stretching a polyterephthalate film to form a uniaxially oriented polyethyleneterephthalate film, drying the uniaxially oriented polyethyleneterephthalate film, coating at least one surface of the uniaxially oriented polyethyleneterephthalate film with an aqueous solution of an organic material, drying the coating to form a coated uniaxially oriented polyethyleneterephthalate film, rendering at least one surface of the coated uniaxially oriented polyethyleneterephthalate film susceptible to direct embossing by impregnation of the surface of the uniaxially oriented polyethyleneterephthalate film with at least a portion of the coating by transverse stretching the coated, uniaxially oriented polyethyleneterephtlate film.

Coated film with exceptional embossing characteristics and method for producing it

Ultra low haze, co-extruded, thermoplastic polymer film prepared by co-extrusion of a blend of polyethyleneterephthalate with organic and inorganic fillers in at least one skin layer on a virtually particle-free polyethyleneterephthalate core layer; the inorganic fillers are aluminum oxide particles and/or silicon oxide of average particle size of about 0.035 &mgr;m to about 0.3 &mgr;m, and wherein particles of the organic filler have a particle size of less than or equal to about 0.8 &mgr;m and are present in an amount less than about 0.04% by weight, based on the weight of the polyethyleneterephthalate, the skin layer being less than about 3 &mgr;m in thickness.

Easy handling ultraclear thermoplastic film

An abrasion resistant coated film including a polyester film coated with a highly crosslinkable melamine coating with a crosslinking density of greater than about 50% and less than about 100%, wherein the coating is cured after transverse stretching and heat setting the film, a melamine coating having a crosslinking density between about 50% and about 100% containing between about 0.01% by weight and about 1.0% by weight of a colloidal particle selected from the group consisting of silica, TiO , graphite and blends thereof, and a method of producing an abrasion resistant coated film including stretching a polyester film in the machine direction to form a uniaxially oriented film, applying a coating of highly crosslinkable melamine with a crosslinking density between about 50% and about 100% onto the uniaxially oriented film, heating and stretching the coated film in the transverse direction and curing the coating on the coated film.

Thermoplastic sheet with scratch resistant surface and method of making same

A biaxially oriented polyester film with a substantially non-crosslinked polymeric coating containing styrene and acrylate, wherein the coating is highly thermally stable with a primary onset temperature of greater than about 350C, having a glass transition temperature between about 0C and about 50C, having a solubility in a low molecular weight organic solvent, and having a surface energy of greater than about 35 dyne/cm and less than about 40 dyne/cm.

Inline coated polyester film with thermally stable and releasable coating

A UVA stabilized polyethylene terephthalate overlamination film having a maximum peak absorption of about 380 nm, an approximate absorptive area % of <14% and a Visible Absorbance value of less than about 20%, coated with an adhesive layer to facilitate anchorage of the polyethylene terephthalate film to a secondary print substrate.

Polyester overlamination film with enhanced UV stabilization properties

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West Warwick, RI, United States of America

Steven J Sargeant