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US 4,289,831 AGranted
Polyolefin films
AssigneeImperial Chemical Industries PLC
InventorAnthony G. M. Last
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Abstract
A stiff antistatic film comprising a polyolefin substrate including a modulus improver, such as a polyterpene resin, a polymeric heat-sealable surface layer and an antistatic coating layer comprising a quaternary ammonium salt, such as choline chloride.
Claims11
A self-supporting multiple-layer film comprising:
- a substrate layer of a polymer of a mono-alpha-olefin containing from 2 to 8 carbon atoms in its molecule, a modulus improver incorporated in the substrate layer,
- wherein said modulus improver is a resin, of natural or synthetic origin, which is (I) amorphous, hard, brittle, and solid at ambient temperature, (II) has a softening range at elevated temperature, (III) has a drop softening point of at least 70.degree. C., and (IV) is sufficiently compatible with the film-forming olefin polymer to yield a composition from which may be formed a drawn, self-supporting transparent film exhibiting a modulus exceeding that of a film formed from an identical olefin polymer in the absence of the improver resin,
- a polymeric heat-sealable layer adhered to at least one surface of the substrate layer, and, on the surface of the heat-sealable layer remote from the substrate, an antistatic medium comprising a quaternary ammonium of general formula ##STR4## wherein each of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3, which may be the same or different, is a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl radical containing from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each methylene groupings within a common five- or six-membered saturated heterocyclic ring, R.sup.4 is a hydrogen atom or an acyl radical containing up to 15 carbon atoms, Z is a methylene group or a carbonyl group when R.sup.4 is a hydrogen atom, or Z is a methylene group when R.sup.4 is said acyl radical, and X is a univalent anion or an equivalent of a multivalent anion.
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