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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 16, 1989
Masanori Motooka, Iwakuni, JP;
Hotishi Mantoku, Iwakuni, JP;
Kazuo Yagi, Ohtake, JP;
Hiroyuki Takeda, Ohno, JP;
Kazuyuki Takimoto, Mikawa, JP;
Mitsui Petrochemical Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Stretched articles of ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene are prepared by melt-kneading a mixture of ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene with an aliphatic compound (b.sub.1) of at least 8 carbon atoms having a melting point of at least 10.degree. C. and a boiling point of at least 130.degree. C. in a screw extruder while maintaining the mixture at a temperature from the melting point of the mixture to 300.degree. C. The molten mixture is melt-extruded through a die at a temperature from the melting point of the mixture to 300.degree. C. and the resulting unstretched extrudate is cooled to solidify it. The unstretched solidified extrudate is then subjected to a stretching treatment at a temperature of the melting point of the aliphatic compound (b.sub.1) to a point 20.degree. C. above the melting point of the mixture at a particular stretch ratio.