# US 11,441,000 B2 · Plastic modifying compositions and enhanced carbonate compositions

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- Number: US 11,441,000 B2
- Document ID: US11441000B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/745,846
- Filed: 2020-01-17
- Published: 2020-10-15
- Granted: 2022-09-13
- Earliest claimed: 2019-04-11
- Assignees: ITI Technologies, Inc.
- Applicants: ITI Technologies, Inc.
- Inventors: David H. Creasey; Samuel Horace McCall, IV
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11441000B2

## CPC

- C08J 3/2053: {the additives only being premixed with a liquid phase}
- C08K 3/013: Fillers, pigments or reinforcing additives
- C08L 23/06: Polyethylene
- C08L 23/12: Polypropene
- C08L 25/06: Polystyrene
- C08K 3/26: Carbonates; Bicarbonates
- C08K 2003/265: {Calcium, strontium or barium carbonate}
- C08K 2003/3045: {Sulfates}
- C08L 2201/54: Aqueous solutions or dispersions
- Y02P 20/582: Recycling of unreacted starting or intermediate materials
- C08J: WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H (working, e.g. shaping, of plastics B29)
- C08K: Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients (paints, inks, varnishes, dyes, polishes, adhesives C09)
- C08L: COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS (compositions based on polymerisable monomers C08F, C08G; artificial filaments or fibres D01F; textile treating compositions D06)
- Y02P: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS

## Abstract

The present invention provides certain aqueous plastic modifying compositions for use in the preparation of plastic forming mixtures used in the preparation and processing of polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene plastic products. The aqueous plastic modifying compositions provide certain plastic processing advantages and distinct final plastic product characteristics. The present invention further provides carbonate enhancing composition useful for preparing enhanced carbonate compositions, also of the present invention.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A plastic forming mixture comprising:
at least one plastic substrate;
at least one calcium carbonate fill material; and
an aqueous composition wherein the aqueous composition comprises:
a solubility enhancing composition in solution comprising an anionic component consisting essentially of sulfate ions, alone or in combination with bisulfate ions, having a concentration from about 8.00 moles per liter to about 13.00 moles per liter of the solubility enhancing composition volume; a cationic component consisting essentially of ammonium ions having a concentration from about 1.45 moles per liter to about 2.01 moles per liter of the solubility enhancing composition volume; and hydrogen ions in a concentration from about 17.38 mols per liter to about 21.68 moles per liter of the solubility enhancing composition volume;
a sodium hydroxide solution having as concentration of about 5 percent to about 7.5 percent volume/volume of the total aqueous phase volume of the aqueous composition;
a sulfate selected from the group consisting of copper sulfate, silver sulfate and combinations thereof, said sulfate having a concentration from about 20 percent to about 26 percent mass/volume of the total aqueous phase volume of the aqueous composition;
at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of non-ionic surfactant, anionic surfactant, and combinations thereof having a concentration from 0.05 percent to about 0.15 percent volume/volume of the aqueous composition; and
the addition of at least one acid or at least one base to adjust the pH of the aqueous composition to a pH from about 2.5 to about 3.5 at least one time during the preparation of the aqueous composition.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The plastic forming mixture of claim 1, wherein the at least one plastic substrate selected from the group consisting of polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene, and combinations thereof.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The plastic forming mixture of claim 1, wherein the fill material concentration is at least 2.5 percent volume/volume of the plastic forming mixture.