Glass fiber mat with improved binder
AssigneeGAF Corporation
InventorsAlfredo A. Bondoc, Philip A. Cautilli
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Abstract
A glass fiber mat having excellent tensile strength and flexibility is provided herein. The mat includes a plurality of glass fibers and a binder therefor which is characterized by comprising about 25% to 90% by weight of a urea-formaldehyde resin and about 10% to 75% by weight of a styrene-butadiene latex copolymer containing about 0.1% to 5% by weight of an acrylamide type monomer.
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A glass fiber mat having excellent tensile strength and flexibility properties consisting essentially of a plurality of glass fibers and a binder to hold said fibers together, characterized in that said binder comprises about 25% to 90% by weight of urea-formaldehyde resin and about 10% to 75% by weight of a styrene-butadiene latex compolymer containing about 0.1% to 5% by weight of acrylamide, methacrylamide, N-methylolacrylamide, or N-methylolmethacrylamide, or mixtures thereof.
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