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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 1980
Filed:
Jul. 25, 1977
Gary L Driscoll, Boothwyn, PA (US);
Sun Oil Company of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
Synthetic thermoplastic polymer fibers are prepared by extruding a foamed fibrillated sheet of a normally solid synthetic thermoplastic polymer, attenuating the molten foamed sheet as it is extruded and applying either a cutting and/or a shearing action to the solid attenuated sheet to cause it to break down into short fibers containing numerous fibrils. The polymer is polypropylene, polyethylene or a mixture of polystyrene and polypropylene or polyethylene in which the mixture contains more than 40 weight percent of the polyolefin. These short fibers can be blended with natural pulp. The resulting blend can be wet laid to form a coarse paper and then formed into a final paper product by application of heat and pressure. The resulting paper has certain superior properties.