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US 4,731,190 AGranted
Alkoxylated guerbet alcohols and esters as metal working lubricants
AssigneeAlkaril Chemicals Inc.
InventorsAnthony J. O'Lenick, Jr., Raymond E. Bilbo
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Abstract
The present invention relates to lubricating compositions useful in facilitating the working of metal. More specifically, the present invention relates to lubricating fluids useful in plastic deformation processes of metals including but not limited to rolling, forging, ironing, drawing and wrinkling.
Claims33
A process for forming a metal container including processing the metal in at least one of the operations including drawing, cupping, forging, ironing, rolling, wrinkling or canning by contacting the metal with a sufficient amount of the guerbet composition of the formula
- RCH(R')CH.sub.2 O(EO).sub.x (PO).sub.y (EO).sub.z R.sup.2
- wherein R and R' are the same or different saturated aliphatic groups;
- EO is ethylene oxide;
- PO is a propylene oxide group;
- the sum of x, y and z is a positive integer;
- and R.sup.2 is hydrogen or an acyl group --COR.sup.3 wherein R.sup.3 is an aliphatic moiety to reduce the friction in the operation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.