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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1999
Friedrich Schock, Schorndorf, DE;
Karl Schock, Schorndorf, DE;
Gunter Hieber, Schorndorf, DE;
Daniel Knospe, Schorndorf, DE;
Horst Schlier, Schorndorf, DE;
Schock & Co. GmbH, Schorndorf, DE;
Abstract
In order to achieve, in the case of a plastics moulding, in particular a moulded part such as e.g. a kitchen sink, a washbasin or a work-top or similar, comprising a polymer phase formed from a curable reaction mass and,: embedded therein, a particulate filling material which contains a resin material filled with an inorganic filler, in addition to a good resistance to water whitening a high resistance to crack formation in the hot-cold cycle, it is proposed that the polymer phase contains up to 5 wt %, referred to the plastics moulding, of inorganic additive particles, that the particulate filling material is swellable in the curable reaction mass, that the filled resin material comprises a content of inorganic filler in the range from 50 to 80 wt % with an average particle size of approx. 5 to approx. 100 &mgr;m, and that the filling material has a particle size in the range from 60 to 8000 &mgr;m and is contained in the plastics moulding in a proportion of approx. 30 to approx. 75 wt %.