Multi-layer oriented heat sealable film structure of improved machinability

US6455150B1 · kind B1 · utility

Inventors

• Karen Sheppard · Victor, US
• Jay K. Keung · Macedon, US
• Francis Tran The-Dzuy · Fairport, US
• Joseph E. Brew · Newark, US
• Benoit Ambroise · Nobressart, BE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 9, 1993
• Grant date: Sep 24, 2002
• Expiry date: Dec 9, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/31938
• WIPO field: Surface technology, coating
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A heat-sealable multilayer film comprising: (a) an upper heat-sealable layer comprising (I) an ethylene polymer, copolymer, or terpolymer and (ii) a particulate, crosslinked hydrocarbyl-substituted polysiloxane having a mean particle size of from about 0.5 &mgr;m to about 20.0 &mgr;m, as a combined slip agent and antiblocking agent; (b) an intermediate core layer comprising a propylene polymer; and (c) a lower heat-sealable layer consisting essentially of (I) an ethylene polymer, copolymer, or terpolymer, (ii) a particulate, crosslinked hydrocarbyl-substituted polysiloxane having a mean particle size of from about 0.5 &mgr;m to about 20.0 &mgr;m, as a combined slip agent and antiblocking agent; and (iii) from about 0.15 wt% to about 1.5 wt% of a liquid, hydrocarbyl-substituted polysiloxane. The upper heat-sealable sealable layer does not contain a liquid polysiloxane, but may have a coating of liquid polysiloxane transferred from the lower heat-sealable layer.