Recovery of mixed plastic materials
OwnerGuy Emeryinventor
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Abstract
A process for recovering mixed plastic material including polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride wherein the material is ground, ballistically sorted and recovered while employing a regenerating master mix including rongalite and chlorinated polyethylene.
Claims8
In a method for recovering mixed plastic materials from refuse selected from the group consisting at least of polyvinyl chloride and polyethylene, comprising grinding the mixture of plastic materials into small particles, extruding the ground mixture and granulating or molding the extruded material, the improvement comprising ballistically sorting the ground mixture in order to adjust the composition of the mixture and adding to 100 parts of said ground mixture a regenerating master mix comprising:
- ______________________________________ rongalite 0.1 to 5 parts [-chlorinated polyethylene 0 to 20 parts] polyvinyl chloride stab- ilizer 0.1 to 5 parts lubricant 0 to 5 parts expanding agent 0 to 4 parts shock resistant ABS or MABS 0 to 12 parts ground polyvinyl chloride or polyethylene 0 to 30 parts filler 0 to 800 parts plasticizer or gelling agent 0 to 70 parts ______________________________________
- and an amount of chlorinated polyethylene sufficient to bind the polyethylene to the polyvinyl chloride comprising up to 20 parts per 100 parts of the ground mixture, wherein the rongalite prevents the hot glueing effect due to the presence of milk or similar products in said refuse.
A process for processing a mixture of plastic materials comprising polyethylene containing traces of milk and polyvinylchloride which comprises grinding said mixture;
- ballistically sorting the ground mixture in order to adjust the composition of the mixture adding to the ground mixture a master mix comprising 0.1 to 5 parts of rongalite per 100 parts of the ground mixture, an amount of chlorinated polyethylene sufficient to bind the polyethylene to the polyvinyl chloride comprising up to 20 parts per 100 parts of the ground mixture, 0.1 to 5 parts of a stabilizer for polyvinyl chloride and 0 to 5 parts of a lubricant;
- extruding the combined mix;
- and molding the extruded product, wherein the rongalite prevents caramelization of the milk during processing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.