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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2006
Emmett Dudley Crawford, Kingsport, TN (US);
Thomas Joseph Pecorini, Kingsport, TN (US);
Douglas Stephens Mcwilliams, Kingsport, TN (US);
David Scott Porter, Blountville, TN (US);
Gary Wayne Connell, Church Hill, TN (US);
Emmett Dudley Crawford, Kingsport, TN (US);
Thomas Joseph Pecorini, Kingsport, TN (US);
Douglas Stephens McWilliams, Kingsport, TN (US);
David Scott Porter, Blountville, TN (US);
Gary Wayne Connell, Church Hill, TN (US);
Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN (US);
Abstract
Described as one aspect of the invention are polyesters containing (a) a dicarboxylic acid component having from 70 to 100 mole % of terephthalic acid residues and up to 30 mole % of aromatic dicarboxylic acid residues or aliphatic dicarboxylic acid residues; and (b) a glycol component having from 11 to 25 mole % of 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-1,3-cyclobutanediol residues, and 75 to 89 mole % of 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol residues; wherein the total mole % of the dicarboxylic acid component is 100 mole %, and the total mole % of the glycol component is 100 mole %. The polyesters may be manufactured into articles.