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US 5,508,344 AGranted
Low temperature drying of impact modified polycarbonate/polyester compositions
AssigneeBayer Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsJames P. Mason, William B. Villee, Sivaram Krishnan
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Abstract
A thermoplastic molding composition comprising a resinous blend of polycarbonate, polyester and an impact modifier and an additive amount of a siloxane compound containing a pendant oxirane group is disclosed. It was surprisingly and unexpectedly discovered that unlike the corresponding compositions which contain no siloxane compound, the inventive composition is capable of being dried at low temperatures prior to molding and still maintain high impact strength.
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A thermoplastic molding composition comprising
- (i) about 1.0 to 99.0 percent of a polycarbonate resin,
- (ii) about 1.0 to 99.0 percent of a thermoplastic polyester resin, and
- (iii) about 1.0 to 25.0 percent of an impact modifier,
- said percent, all occurrences relating to the weight of said composition, and about 0.01 to 5.0 phr of a siloxane compound conforming to ##STR6## where R.sub.1 is C.sub.1-4 alkyl or C.sub.6-14 aryl, R.sub.2 denotes (CH.sub.2).sub.m where m is an integer of 1 to 4,
- R.sub.3 is (CH.sub.2).sub.p where p is 1 to 4 and
- n is about 1 to 10,000.
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A process for the preparation of a molded article composing
- (A) compounding by extrusion a resinous blend containing (i) about 1.0 to 99.0 percent of a polycarbonate resin, (ii) about 1.0 to 99.0 percent of a thermoplastic polyester resin, and (iii) about 1.0 to 25.0 percent of an impact modifier, and about 0.01 to 5.0 phr of a siloxane compound conforming to ##STR7## where R.sub.1 is C.sub.1-4 alkyl or C.sub.6-14 aryl, R.sub.2 denotes (CH.sub.2).sub.m where m is an integer of 1 to 4,
- R.sub.3 is (CH.sub.2).sub.p where p is 1 to 4 and
- n is about 1 to 10,000 to produce pellets,
- (B) drying said pellets at a temperature not exceeding 200.degree. F. for a time not exceeding 6 hours, and
- (C) molding the pellets to produce said article.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.