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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 1983
Filed:
Oct. 02, 1979
Robert L Elliott, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Lawrence J Engel, Green Brook, NJ (US);
J Brooke Gardiner, Mountainside, NJ (US);
Exxon Research & Engineering Co., Florham Park, NJ (US);
Abstract
A lubricating oil composition comprising a major amount of lubricating oil and a viscosity index improving amount of an oil-soluble polymer composition comprising an ethylene copolymer, preferably an oxidatively and mechanically degraded ethylene copolymer, having an ethylene content of 26-79 weight percent (35-85 mole percent), a C.sub.3 to C.sub.18 higher alpha-olefin and from about 1-25 weight percent of an alkyl norbornene having from about 8 to 28 carbons, preferably ethyl norbornene and preferably at least a pour point depressing amount of a lubricating oil pour point depressant, e.g. an alkyl fumarate vinyl acetate copolymer, whereby superior low temperature viscometrics is provided to said lubricating oil composition.