Production of fiber-reinforced materials
AssigneeBASF SE
InventorsHartmut Zeiner, Jurgen Fischer, Gerhard Heinz, Peter Neumann, Dietmar Nissen, Gerhard Schaefer
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Abstract
Fiber-reinforced materials are produced by impregnating continuous filaments with a melt of a polyarylene sulfide ketone, preferably one having a reduced viscosity .eta..sub.red of from 0.1 to 0.5 [dl.g.sup.-1 ], shaping the resulting semi-finished product to give a finished article and heating the latter for not less than 15 minutes at above the crystallite melting point of the polyarylene sulfide ketone, the latter undergoing crosslinking and its glass transition temperature Tg increasing by not less than 5.degree. C.
Claims3
A process for the production of fiber-reinforced materials comprising the following steps in sequence:
- (a) impregnating continuous filaments or fibrous structures with a low-viscosity melt of a low-molecular weight polyarylene sulfide ketone characterized by repeating units of the formula ##STR4## (b) shaping the resulting semi-finished product to give a finished article, and then
- (c) heating the finished article for a period of not less than 15 minutes at a temperature above the crystallite melting point of the polyarylene sulfide ketone to effect a crosslinking thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.