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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2009
Mark D. Alpeter, Lake Jackson, TX (US);
Marc A. Mangnus, Clinge, NL;
Charles M. Cheatham, Lake Jackson, TX (US);
Marinus G. Nieuwenhuize, Hoek, NL;
Jack M. Potter, Jr., Angleton, TX (US);
Mark D. Alpeter, Lake Jackson, TX (US);
Marc A. Mangnus, Clinge, NL;
Charles M. Cheatham, Lake Jackson, TX (US);
Marinus G. Nieuwenhuize, Hoek, NL;
Jack M. Potter, Jr., Angleton, TX (US);
Dow Global Technologies LLC, Midland, MI (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for determining the standardized melt elasticity (sME) force of a thermoplastic polymer needed to stretch a strand of melted polymer at a speed about thirty three times faster than the speed of strand formation from a body of melted polymer under constant stress from an unencumbered dead weighted piston.