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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010

Filed:

Aug. 21, 2007
Applicants:

Donald S. Tracey, Kingwood, TX (US);

Dirk F. Rouckhout, Linter, BE;

Walter H. Waddell, Pasadena, TX (US);

Inventors:

Donald S. Tracey, Kingwood, TX (US);

Dirk F. Rouckhout, Linter, BE;

Walter H. Waddell, Pasadena, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 5/12 (2006.01); C08K 5/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

According to the invention, a processing aid is used to improve processing in a green (uncured) rubber composition, such as in downstream in-plant processing of an innerliner compound, and maintaining, or more preferably, reducing the air permeability of the cured composition, e.g., innerliner compound. In embodiments, another of the advantages of the present invention is that the processing aid according to the invention can be used in very low levels relative to the other processing aids and oils.


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