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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 23, 1998
Garo Khanarian, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Larry F Charbonneau, Mendham, NJ (US);
Robert E Johnson, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Helmut B Witteler, Beindersheim, DE;
Russel G Lee, Princeton, NJ (US);
Robert B Sandor, South Orange, NJ (US);
Gregory V Nelson, Lebanon, NJ (US);
HNA Holdings, Inc., Warren, NJ (US);
Abstract
A sheet made of a polyester which includes monomer units of terephthaloyl moieties, ethylene glycol moieties and isosorbide moieties is described. The polyester has an inherent viscosity of at least about 0.35 dL/g when measured as a 1% (weight/volume) solution of said polyester in o-chlorophenol at a temperature of 25.degree. C. The present invention also relates to a method of making the polyester sheet described above and a method of thermoforming the sheet into articles.