Thermoplastic molding compositions on the basis of polyoxymethylenes
AssigneeHoechst Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsGunter Sextro, Karlheinz Burg, Rudolf Kern, Heinz Schmidt, Ernst Wolters
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Abstract
The invention provides thermoplastic molding compositions having improved properties. The compositions are composed of a mixture of from 99.999 to 99.9 wt.% of a linear polyoxymethylene and from 0.001 to 0.1 wt.% of a branched or cross-linked copolymer of trioxan with a multifunctionally reacting compound and optionally a monofunctionally reacting compound, or with a monofunctionally reacting compound and a branched or cross-linked polyether, or of a subsequently branched or cross-linked linear polyoxymethylene having functional groups in lateral or chain position.
Claims2
A thermoplastic molding composition consisting essentially of a mixture of from 99.999 to 90 percent by weight of a linear polyoxymethylene and from 0.001 to 10 percent by weight of a branched or cross-linked copolymer of trioxane with monofunctionally reacting compound copolymerizable with trioxane through its functional group, and a preformed copolymer of a monofunctionally reacting cyclic ether having from 3 to 5 ring members and a bifunctionally reacting cyclic ether having two ether ring groups of 3 to 5 members.
In a process of preparing a thermoplastic molding composition based on a linear polyoxymethylene containing a nucleating agent by mixing and homogenizing the components the improvement comprising nucleating said linear polyoxymethylene with a copolymer of
- A. from 99.99 to 50% by weight of trioxane
- B. from 0.01 to 30% by weight of a copolymer of
- 1. a mono-functionally reacting cyclic ether of the formula ##STR9## wherein R and R' are the same or different, each representing a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic alkyl radical having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, which radical may contain from 1 to 3 halogen atoms, or a phenyl radical, and x is zero, 1 or 2, and
- 2. a bifunctionally reacting cyclic ether selected from the group consisting of
- a. a diglycidyl ether of an .alpha.,.omega.-diol having from 2 to 8 carbon atoms,
- b. a diglycidyl ether of a bisphenol,
- c. an aliphatic or cyclo-aliphatic hydrocarbon doubly substituted by an oxacyclobutyl radical and having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and
- d. 2,9-dioxa-dispiro[3.2.3.2.]duodecane, and
- C. from 1 to 20% by weight of a mono-functionally reacting compound selected from the group consisting of
- 1. a cyclic ether having from 3 to 5 ring members
- 2. a cyclic acetal differing from trioxane and having from 5 to 11 ring members,
- 3. a homopolymer of a cyclic formal of an aliphatic or cyclo-aliphatic .alpha.,.omega.-diol having from 2 to 8 carbon atoms, and
- 4. a linear condensate of an aliphatic or cyclo-aliphatic .alpha.,.omega.-diol having from 2 to 8 carbon atoms with formaldehyde.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.