Sinterable, finely divided vinyl chloride molding composition and a process for its manufacture and use

US4323661A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hoechst GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Helmut Kraus · Cologne, DE
• Jurgen Weinlich · Eppstein, DE
• Otto Plewan · Neuötting, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 14, 1981
• Grant date: Apr 6, 1982
• Expiry date: May 14, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E60/10
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The sinterable polyvinyl chloride molding composition described is composed of 99.8 to 97% by weight, relative to the molding composition, of a suspension graft copolymer which is, in turn, composed of 99.7 to 85% by weight of polymerized vinyl chloride units, 0.9 to 10.5% by weight of polymerized ethylene units and 0.09 to 10.5% by weight of polymerized vinyl acetate units, with the proviso that the total of the polymerized ethylene and vinyl acetate units is 0.3 to 15% by weight, relative to the graft copolymer, and also 0.01 to 0.5% by weight, relative to the molding composition, of at least one free alkylarylsulfonic acid having 3 to 16 C atoms in the alkyl chain or at least one alkylsulfonic acid having 8 to 16 C atoms, and also 0.005 to 0.5% by weight, relative to the molding composition, of at least one water-soluble wetting agent which is free from metal ions and contains 12 to about 80 C atoms and a quaternary N atom which forms a salt with a carboxylic or sulfonic acid group. The molding composition gives sintered moldings, particularly separator plates for electrical cells, which have advantageous properties.