Flame-retardant polysiloxane elastomers

US4405425A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Wacker Chemie AG · DE

Inventors

• August Schiller · Neuötting, DE
• Dietrich Wolfer · Unterhaching, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 29, 1980
• Grant date: Sep 20, 1983
• Expiry date: Dec 29, 2000

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C08K3/04
• WIPO field: Macromolecular chemistry, polymers
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Flame-retardant elastomers are prepared by adding a metal hydroxide and/or a hydrate of a metal oxide and graphite to an organopolysiloxane composition which is capable of being crosslinked to form an elastomer.