Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

Wilson S Bigham

Stefan A Babirad

Billy L George

Vincent J Laraia, Jr

Phyllis F Albert

Robert B Fletcher

An asphalt-based roofing product includes an asphalt-based substrate such as asphalt-saturated fiberglass or cellulose felt, a non-asphalt, thermoplastic, water-resistant adhesive on the surface of the asphalt-based substrate, and a plurality of roofing granules embedded in the asphalt such that the adhesive provides an interface between the asphalt and roofing granules. The adhesive is present in an amount sufficient to improve the adhesion of the roofing granules to the asphalt.

Roofing materials having a thermoplastic adhesive intergace between

A process for improving the adhesion of roofing granules to a hot asphalt surface in the manufacture of a roofing product. Onto an asphalt-based substrate having a hot asphalt surface, an amount of a non-asphalt adhesive effective for improving adhesion of roofing granules to the hot asphalt surface is applied and then roofing granules are embedded on the hot asphalt surface. The non-asphalt adhesive can be composed of or include as a component one or more of polyolefins, ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers, ethylene-ethyl acetate copolymers, ethylene-n-butylacrylate polymers, ethylene-methylacrylate polymers, styrene-containing block or graft copolymers, polyamide terpolymers, hydrocarbon rubbers, polyesters, polyurethanes, and siloxanes. The resulting roofing product includes an asphalt-based substrate with an asphalt surface having roofing granules imbedded thereon with a non-asphalt adhesive at the interface between the asphalt and roofing granules.

Method of improving adhesion between roofing granules and asphalt-based

A method for deoiling oil residues from surfaces of inorganic particles each having pigment in an outer layer thereon, comprising contacting the surfaces with a deoiling solution comprising a mixture of monocyclic terpene and aliphatic petroleum distillates in an amount and manner effective to wet substantially all the surfaces of the inorganic particles, whereby the deoiling solution removes substantially all the oil residues from the surfaces of the inorganic particles. In a preferred embodiment, there is a method for deoiling oil residues from surfaces of inorganic particles each having pigment in an outer layer thereon including introducing the inorganic particles into a structure having a wall portion which defines a receptacle having upper and lower openings, the structure including a porous support member having a pore size which permits the passage of liquid but not the inorganic particles located in the receptacle between the first opening and the second opening to define a particle holding chamber, and, then, deoiling the inorganic particles by introducing into the upper opening a deoiling solution comprising a mixture of monocyclic terpene and aliphatic petroleum distillates, and, then, rinsing the deoiled inorganic particles with water and drying the rinsed inorganic particles, in that order.

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Woodbury, MN, United States of America

Wilson S Bigham