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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 1980
Filed:
Aug. 24, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
Clive P Smith, Wheathampstead, GB;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08L / ; C08L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
260 / ; 260 / ; 260 / ; 260 4218 ; 260 4227 ; 260 4249 ; 260 4875 ; 260 / ; 260 / ; 260 / ;
Abstract
A method for the production of thermoplastic polyester compositions comprising mixing a normally flammable thermoplastic polyester, preferably containing at least 80% by weight of repeating units of ethylene terephthalate, tetramethylene, terephthalate or ethylene-1:2-diphenoxyethane-4,4'-dicarboxylate units, an effective amount of fire-retardant additives and an aqueous colloidal dispersion of PTFE, subjecting the mixture to conditions under which the polyester becomes molten and removing volatile materials from the melt.