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United States Patent O 3,344,064 FLUOROCARBON-MODIFIED POLYURETHANE ELASTOMERIC COMPOSITIONS James D. Brady and Joseph G. Di Pinto, Wilmington,
Del., assignors to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, Del., a corporation of Delaware No Drawing. Filed July 19, 1963, Ser. No. 296,363 6 Claims. (Cl. 25212) .This invention is directed to polyurethane elastomeric compositions. More particularly, this invention is directed to polyurethane elastomers modified with certain wax-like fluorocarbon compounds.
There is a growing need and wider application for rubber-like compositions having low coefficients of friction. Such rubber-like compositions having low coeflicients of friction find varying uses such as sleeve bearings for rotating shafts and other applications where sliding friction is encountered. Rubber-like materials, in general, are unsuitable for such applications because of their high coefiicients of friction.
Various attempts have been made to lower the coefficient of friction of rubber-like materials. One such method has been to incorporate commercially available high molecular weight polytetrafluoroethylene into the rubber-like material. The coefiicient of friction is indeed lowered by this method but not as much as desired.
The present invention is concerned with rubber-like materials known as polyurethanes. Polyurethanes are well known materials and have a wide variety of properties depending on their compositions. Polyurethanes are also easily modified by the addition of various materials.
It is, therefore, an object of this invention to provide novel modified polyurethane elastomers.
It is another object of this invention to provide novel modified polyurethane elastomers having low coefficients of friction.
It is still another object of this invention to provide novel modified polyurethane elastomer materials having lower coeflicients of friction than previously known modified polyurethane elastomers.
These and other objects will become apparent from the following description and claims.
More specifically, the present invention is directed to a nonhomogeneous mixture comprising a liquid, curable polyurethane prepolymer and from about 1% to about 90% by weight, based on the weight of the mixture, of small particles of a solid fluorocarbon compound having a molecular weight from about 500 to about 50,000, a melting point of from 90 C. to 327 C., consisting of a chain of units having the structure CF CF and containing at least 90% by weight of said CF CF units.
The present invention is also directed to the solid polyurethane-fluorocarbon mixture obtained by curing the liquid polyurethane prepolymer hereinbefore described by conventional means.
The present invention is also directed to a sleeve bearing wherein the sleeve of the bearing contacting the rtating shaft is formed from the cured solid polyurethanefiuorocarbon mixture hereinbefore described.
The liquid, curable polyurethane prepolymers which are useful in this invention are prepared by reacting together an organic diisocyanate and a high molecular weight polyol. An excess of the diisocyanate is used so that the resulting liquid product contains free isocyanate groups. These reaction products are referred to as prepolymers since they can be further polymerized.
The compositions of the present invention are formed by mixing the polyurethane prepolymer with the above defined fluorocarbon compound to form a dispersion of the latter in the former. The fluorocarbon compound can "Ice be dispersed in either liquid or solid uncured polyurethane; however, it is preferred for purposes of uniform dispersion to disperse the fluorocarbon compound in liquid polyurethane prepolymer. This mixture or dispersion is then converted to a solid by chain extending or crosslinking the polyurethane prepolymer, i.e., the process usually known as curing.
The higher molecular weight glycols used in preparing the polyurethane prepolymers in the present invention include such materials as polyalkylene ether glycols, polyalkylene ether thioether glycols, polyalkylenearylene ether glycols, polyaliphatic hydrocarbon glycols, linear polyester glycols and polyester amide glycols. These glycols usually have molecular weights in the range of 500 to 3000. Some representative examples of these glycols are polyethylene glycol, polypropylene glycol, poly(ethylenepropylene) glycol, polytetramethylene glycol, the polyester reaction product of adipic acid and ethylene glycol having terminal hydroxyl groups, the reaction product of lactones such as caprolactone with diols such as ethylene glycol or amino alcohols such as diethanolamine, the reaction product of 4,4'-dihydroxydiphenylmethane and other aliphatic glycols such as hexamethylene glycol, octylene glycol, decamethylene glycol and related compounds With ethylene or propylene oxides. Of these glycols, polytetramethylene ether glycols in the molecular weight range of 8503000 are preferred. It is often preferred to mix such polytetramethylene ether glycols in the preferred molecular weight range with up to about one mole per mole of polytetramethylene ether glycol, of a lower molecular weight glycol such as ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, 1,3-butanediol, 1,4-butanediol, 1,3-propanediol, 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-propanedio1 or 2-methyl-2-ethyl-1,3-propanediol.
Both aromatic and aliphatic diisocyanates are useful but the aromatic are generally preferred. Some examples are toluene-2,4-diisocyante, toluene-2,6-diisocyanate and mixtures of these two, 4,4'-diisocyanatodiphenylmethane, 4,4'-diisocyanatodiphenyl, naphthalene-1,5 diisocyanate, naphthalene 1,4-diisocyanate, naphthalene-2,S-diisocyanate, naphthalene-2,7-diisocyanate, 1,3-phenylenediisocyanate, 3,3 dimethyldiphenyl-4,4'-diisocyanate, 3,3'-dimethyldiphenylmethane-4,4-diisocyanate, hexamethylene diisocyanate, decamethylene diisocyanate, 3,3-dimethoxydiphenyl 4,4 diisocyanate, 3,3'-dichlorodiphenyl-4,4'- diisocyanate and similar diisocyanates which are well known to the art. The toluene diisocyanates are preferred in this invention, particularly toluene-2,4-diisocyanate or its mixtures with 2,6-diisocyanate.
The preparation of the prepolymers of this invention involves reacting together a mixture of a diisocyanate and glycol, preferably containing from 1.5 to 2.0 moles of diisocyanate per mole of glycol, generally with heat and agitation and often in the presence of a tin catalyst such as tin Z-ethylhexanoate. The reaction product requires no further treatment and is used directly as the prepolymer of this invention.
The fluorocarbon compoundis added to the prepolymer either by dispersing the finely divided solid in the prepolymer or, preferably, by mixing a dispersion of the solid fluorocarbon compound in an inert, volatile solvent such as l,1,2-trichloro-1,2,2-trifluoroethane into the prepolymer and evaporating the solvent from the prepolymer generally with heat and reduced pressure.
The fluorocarbon compounds useful in this invention are compounds having a chain of CF CF groups and can 'be characterized by the structure X(CF CF Y. These compounds to be useful in this invention must also have melting points of from C. to 327 C. The liquid melts of these compounds are relatively free flowing, being considerably'less viscous than their corresponding solids. These fluorocarbon compounds must also have molecular Weights of from 50-0 to 50,000,. hence it will have values of from about 5 to 500. The X and Y of the structure are the end groups of the fluorocarbon chain. They may be single atoms such as hydrogen or the halogens, i.e. fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine. They may also be the groups resulting from the telomerization of tetrafluoroethylene. Tetrafiuoroethylene is known to telomerize with a variety of telogens. Representative examples of several of these telogens are disclosed in U.S. Patents 2,411,158, 2,411,159, 2,433,844, 2,540,088, 2,559,- 628, 2,559,629, 2,559,754, 2,562,547, 3,019,261, and 3,067,262. In addition to those telogens disclosed in the preceding patents, a number of useful telomers are disclosed in British Patent 583,874. The useful telomers Br(CF CF Br may be prepared as described in U.S. 3,055,953. Useful telomers may also be prepared by reaction of tetrafluoroethylene with CF Br or CF Br using a method described in U.S. 2,875,253 to form similar products. Still other useful fluorocarbons may be prepared from tetrafluoroethylene and 50 C11 as described in U.S. 2,837,580. Since within the large group of products disclosed in the above patents there are included liquids and low melting solids, it is to be understood that only those products having molecular weights of 500-50,000 and melting points of 90 327 C. are useful in this invention.
Still another source of useful fluorocarbon compounds containing CF CF groups is the degradation of commercial high molecular weight polytetrafluoroethylene as described in U.S. Patent 2,496,978. The nature of the end groups X and Y of X(CF CF ),,Y in these degraded polymers has not, as yet, been disclosed or determined.
The nature of the end groups X and Y of the fluorocarbon compound has no effect on the usefulness of these compounds in this invention. Hence, any fluorocarbon compound X(CF CF ),,Y wherein X and Y are atoms or the residue of simple molecules such as heretofore described are useful in this invention providing they meet the required melting point and molecular Weight. The preferred fluorocarbon compounds are those prepared by the telomerization of tetrafluoroethylene with an active telogen in the presence of trichlorotrifluoroethane reaction solvent as described in U.S. Patent 3,067,262. The fluorocarbon compounds described in U.S. Patent 3,067,- 262 have molecular weights in excess of about 1300. The higher molecular weight fluorocarbon compounds are preferred because these compounds are less volatile and therefore may be used in polyurethane bearings and other applications which are exposed to elevated temperatures for long periods of time. The lower molecular Weight fluorocarbon compounds are somewhat volatile at elevated temperatures although they are quite useful at ordinary temperatures.
Fluorocarbon compounds X(CF CF ),,Y which are liquid below 90 C. or have molecular weights below about 500, or both, are not useful in this invention since they either will not remain in the polyurethane, do not give the desired improvement in coeflicients of friction or have undesirable eifects on the properties of the polyurethanes. Similarly, commercial high molecular weight polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflona registered Du Pont trademark for polytetrafluoroethylene), which usually has a molecular weight over 1,000,000, is not as useful in forming polyurethane compositions having low coeflicients of friction as the hereinbefore defined fluorocarbon compounds of this invention. Commercial polytetrafluoroethylene does not melt to a liquid having a much lower viscosity than the solid. The necessity of using a fluorocarbon compound having a free flOWing melt to successfully form the novel compositions of this invention is not understood but is real. Fluorocarbon compounds which do not have essentially the structure X(CF CF ),,Y, e.g., cotelomers of hexafluoropropylene and tetrafluoroethylene or chlorotrifluoroethylene polymers, are also not useful in this invention. They either do not give the desired reductions in coefficient of friction or they are relatively soluble in the polyurethanes and affect the properties thereof.
The liquid polyurethane prepolymers having the fluorocar-bon compound dispersed therein are cured to a solid either by chain extending or crosslinking. The reagents which cause chain extending or crosslinking are certain diamines, polyols, aminoalcohols or water. The curing agent is added to the prepolymer with good mixing and the resulting mixture is poured into molds, pans or the like and heated at about 70120 C. to complete the curing reaction. Curing times vary with the particular curing reagents used, i.e., polyamines usually require 13 hours, polyols up to 6 hours. When water is used as the curing agent, the prepolymer is exposed to moist air until curing is complete which usually requires several days. Water curing is used with thin films or coatings of the polymer compositions only. Curing of large bullcs or thicknesses of prepolymer with water can result in foams.
The amine curing agents should have pK values of at least 11.7. More basic amines react too rapidly, mixing becomes difficult and heterogeneous products often result. Useful amine curing agents are usually arylene diamines such as 3,3-dichloro-4,4'-diaminodiphenylmethane, 4,4- diaminodiphenyl disulfide, 3,3'-dichloro-4,4'-diaminodiphenyl, 4,4'-diaminodiphenylsulfone and 4,4'-diaminodiphenylmethane. Of these 3,3-dichloro-4,4-diarninodiphenylmethane is especially preferred.
The polyol curing agents include mixtures of glycols such as 1,4-butanediol, triethylene glycol, 2,2-dimethyl- 1,3-propanediol, glycerol monophenyl ether or thiodiethylene glycol with triols such as trimethylol propane, triethanolamine or tetraols such as tetrakis(2-hydroxypropyl)ethylene diamine and similar reaction products of alkylene polyamines with alkylene oxides (the Quadrols sold by Wyandotte Chemicals Corp.). The reaction products of alkyleue polyamines with alkylene oxides are illustrated in U.S. Patents 2,697,118 and 2,884,459.
Usually about 0.70 to 1.05 equivalents, and preferably 0.85 to 1.00 equivalent, of curing agent per equivalent of isocyanate group in the prepolymer are used. The equivalent weight is the molecular weight divided by the number of reactive groups and is easily determined by standard analyses for these compounds. For mixtures, averaged equivalent weights are used.
Cured polyurethane compositions containing the heretofore defined fluorocarbon compounds have surprisingly lower coefiicients of friction than the same polyurethanes containing Teflon, a commercial high molecular weight polytetrafluoroethylene. The concentration of fluorocarbon compound may vary from about 1% to about by weight based on the total weight of the final mixture of the fluorocarbon with the polyurethane prepolymer. Since the curing agents add weight to the mixture, the cured polyurethane mixtures contain a somewhat smaller percentage of the fluorocarbon compound than that of the prepolymer mixture. When the cured polyurethane contains less than 1% of the fluorocarbon compound, there is insufficient effect on the coefficient of friction for the composition to be useful. If the cured polyurethane contains more than 90% of the fluorocarbon compound, the resulting mixture has insuflicient physical strength to be useful.
The fluorocarbon compounds used in this invention should be in the form of small particles. Although a wide variety of particle sizes are useful, particle size should be less than 20 microns. Particles of from one to two microns or smaller are preferred. When the particle size is too large it can be reduced to the desired range by use of mills of various kinds.
Telomers and polymers of fiuo'rinated olefines other than tetrafluoroethylene are of course known which have the molecular weight and melting point properties of the defined fluorocarbon compounds. Typical examples are the chlorotrifluoroethylene polymers sold under the trade name Kel-F having wax-like or jelly-like consistency.
Such materials are not useful in this invention however since they tend to be soluble in the polyurethanes and act as plasticizers or softeners. The fiuorocarbon compounds used in this invention do not and are not desired to act as softeners or plasticizers in the polyurethanes.
In preparing bearings or other useful articles, the fluorocarbon compound-liquid polyurethane prepolymer dispersion is combined as hereinbefore described with a curing agent and placed in a mold for shaping the composition into the desired shape for use. The polyurethane composition completes curing while in the mold. The mold is somewhat larger than the required dimensions of the finished article to allow for the removal of the hard skin or crust which forms during curing. This skin should be removed since it does not have the desirable properties of the bulk of the solid polymer.
The cured polyurethane-fluorocarbon compositions of this invention find particular use as sleeve bearings for rotating shafts. Sleeve bearings, in general, usually have a housing or pillow block which can be securely connected or anchored to a support by bolts or other suitable connecting devices. The housing or pillow block may be of single piece or split piece construction, depending on the use for the bearing. The sleeve is inserted into the housing or pilow block in order that it will be in direct contact with the rotating shaft which passes through the housing and is supported by the housing. It should be understood, of course, that the application of the novel polyurethanefluorocarbon composition of this invention as sleeves for bearings is not limited in any manner to any particular type of bearing or bearing construction.
Bearings prepared from the cured polymers of this invention are particularly useful in applications where water lubrication is used. Such uses include pumps and pump-motor combinations where the motor is surrounded by water. Such pumps are used in wells, process lines, washing machines, hot water heating systems and the like. Such bearings are useful with water temperatures up to 180 F.
The cured polymers of this invention, particularly those containing higher amounts of the tetrafluoroethylene telomer or degradated polymer, are useful as coatings for metals, glass, wood and concrete where sliding friction is encountered such as drawer slides, sliding doors and windows and similar applications.
Representative examples illustrating the present invention are as follows. All parts are by weight unless otherwise specified.
Example 1 An isocyanate modified glycol prepolymer was prepared by reacting one mole of polytetramethylene ether glycol having a number average molecular weight of about 1000 with about two moles of toluene-2,4-diisocyanate for four hours at about 80 C. Then about ten parts of a tetrafluoroethylenemethanol telomer of number average molecular weight of 2000, prepared according to Example 8 of US. 3,067,262, were added to 100 parts of the above prepolymer. The mixture was agitated vigorously for at least three minutes. The resulting dispersion was heated at 100 C., degassed for 10 minutes at 5 mm. Hg pressure and then 19.5 parts of molten 3,3'-dichloro-4,4'- diaminodiphenylmethane at 120 C. were added and the two liquids were intimately mixed. The prepolymer mixture contains 9.1% and the cured polymer 7.7% fluorocarbon compound. The mixture was poured into a mold to produce a hollow cylindrical bearing sleeve having dimensions of one inch long x 1.312 inch OD. x 0.980 inch ID. The casting was cured for 60 minutes at 100 C., removed from the mold and machined to give an inside diameter of one inch. A similar bearing sleeve was prepared omitting the tetrafluoroethylene telomer from the polyurethane polymer.
Friction tests were conducted on both the above polyurethane bearing sleeve and the fluorocarbon modified polyurethane bearing sleeve by rotating a cold-rolled steel shaft (finished to 12-16 micro-inch, hardness R 2025) within the bearings containing the above bearing sleeves. The bearings were tested under different loads at about 40 r.p.m. which corresponds to a surface velocity of about 10 feet per minute. The following table sets forth the coefiicients of friction recorded for each of these bearing sleeves at loads ranging from 50 to 400 psi.
TABLE I Ooefiicients of Friction Bearing Load,
p.s.i. Polyurethane with 7.7%
Polyurethane Tetrafluoroethylene Telomer (on Total Mixture) The polyurethane composition was a moderately hard elastomer having a Shore-A hardness rating of 95.
Example 2 An isocyanate modified glycol prepolymer was prepared by reacting a mixture of one mole of polytetramethylene ether glycol having a number average molecular weight of about 1000 and one mole of 1,3-butanedi0l with about four moles of a mixture of isomeric toluene diisocyanates (80% toluene-2,4-diisocyanate; 20% toluene-2,6-diisocyanate) for four hours at about 80 C. From this prepolymer four bearing sleeves were prepared as follows.
The first bearing sleeve, used as a control in this example, was prepared as follows. One hundred parts of the prepolymer were mixed at C. with 26 parts of 3,3-dichloro-4,4-diaminodiphenylmethane and the mixture was held at C. for 60 minutes. The mixture was allowed to cure in a bearing sleeve mold having the same dimensions as those in Example 1. The cured polyurethane was nearly plastic and very hard, ShoreD75.
The second bearing sleeve was formed as follows. A mixture of 79.4 parts of the "same prepolymer and 10 parts of finely divided Teflon-30 (a registered trademark of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company for high molecular weight polytetrafluoroethylene) was prepared. The prepolymer was then cured with 20.6 parts of 3,3- dichloro 4,4 diaminodiphenylmethane in the bearing sleeve mold of Example 1. The prepolymer product contained 11.2% and the cured product 9.1% of the polytetrafluoroethylene.
A third bearing sleeve was prepared as follows. A mixture of 79.4 parts of the same prepolymer and 10 parts of the tetrafluoroethylene-methanol telomer powder used in Example 1 was prepared. The prepolymer was then cured with 20.6 parts of 3,3'-dichloro-4,4-di aminodiphenylmethane in the bearing sleeve mold of Example 1. The prepolymer product contained 11.2% and the cured product 9.1% telomer.
A fourth bearing sleeve was prepared as follows. A mixture of 79.4 parts of the same prepolymer and 50 parts of a 20% dispersion of the tetrafiuoroethylene-methanol telomer in 1,l,2-trichloro-1,2,2-trifluoroethane was prepared by mixing the components with agitation. The solvent was removed at 100 C. and 5 mm. Hg pressure. The resulting dispersion was cured in the bearing sleeve mold of Example 1 with 20.6 parts of 3,3'-dichloro-4,4-diaminodiphenylmethane. The prepolymer product contained 11.2% and the cured product 9.1% telomer.
All four of the above prepared bearing sleeves were machined to one inch ID. and friction measurements were made in the same manner as Example 1. The results of the friction measurements are given below in Table II.
B Teflon-30. b Form in which telomer was added.
The above results indicate the superiority of the fluorocarbon compounds of molecular weight 50050,000 over commercial, high molecular weight polytetrafluoroethylene as an additive to polyurethane bearing materials. Note also that there is no difference observed when the telomer is added as a powder or as a dispersion in a volatile solvent.
Example 3 An isocyanate modified glycol prepolymer was prepared by reacting one mole of polytetramethylene ether glycol having a number average molecular weight of about 1000 with about 1.6 moles of toluene-2,4-diisocyanate for four hours at about 80 C. To 100 parts of this prepolymer were added 100 parts of a 20% dispersion in 1,1,2-tri chloro 1,2,2 trifiuoroethane of a tetrafluoroethylenemethylcyclohexane telomer, prepared according to the procedure of Example 1 in U.S. 3,067,262. The tetrafluoroethylene-methylcyclohexane telomer had a number average molecular weight of 3500 and a melting point of 298 C. The telomer dispersion had been pretreated by passing the telomer through a Mantin-Goulin homogenizer mill so that of the solid particles had a size of 2-5 microns and the remainder a size of 1-2 microns. The solvent was removed from the prepolymer-telomer mixture by heating, first at atmospheric pressure, then at reduced pressure with good agitation. The last traces were removed during vacuum degassing at 100 C. and mm. Hg pressure for one hour.
This mixture was cured in one of the following two ways.
Method A.Six parts of molten 3,3-dichloro-4,4'-diaminodiphenylmethane were added to the total prepolymer-telomer mixture with thorough stirring. The resulting mixture was poured into a flat pan and heated at 100 C. For three hours. The resulting product was a hard white elastomer which was quite slick when the outer crust was removed.
Method B.One part of trimethylolpropane and 3.5 parts of 1,4-butanediol were added to the total prepolymer-telomer mixture of this example. After mixing well, the liquid was poured into a flat pan and heated at 140 C. for six hours. The cured polymer was a soft elastomer that was very slick when the outer skin was removed.
When the procedure for preparing the cured polymer, either by Method A or Method B, is repeated using any of the materials listed below in place of the tetrafiuoroe-thylenemethylcyclohexane telomer, essentially equivalent results are obtained. The tetrafiuoroethylene telomers are as follows:
(1) The solid telomer of tetrafluoroethylene and dimethyl disulfide, M.P. 113-116 C., molecular weight 1100, described in Example 2 of U.S. Patent 2,443,003.
(2) The solid telomer of tetrafluoroethylene and methylene chloride, M.P. 230 C., described in Example 3 of U.S. Patent 2,562,547.
(3) The solid telomer of tetrafluoroethylene and 1,1,
o 2,2-tetrach1oroethane, M.P. 286 C., described in Example 5 of U.S. Patent 2,562,547.
(4) The solid telomer of tetrafiuoroethylene and amylbenzene, M.P. 280 C., described in Example 6 of U.S. Patent 2,562,547.
(5) The solid telomer of tetrafiuoroethylene and butane, M.P. 125 C., described in Example 10 of U.S. Patent 2,540,088.
(6) The solid telomer of tetrafluoroethylene and methylformate, M.P. 250260 C., molecular weight 700, described in Example 1 of U.S. Patent 2,411,158.
Example 4 Commercial polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon-30) was degraded according to the method described in Example 1 of U.S. Patent 2,496,978. A 7.5% by weight dispersion of the wax-like product obtained was prepared in 1,1,2- trichloro-1,2,2-trifiuoroethane in a Mantin-Gou lin homogenizer mill. At least of the particles were in the 1-2 micron size range. A mixture of 200 parts of this dispersion and parts of the prepolymer of Example 3 was prepared, the solvent was removed and the liquid degassed as described in Example 3. The prepolymer mixture was then cured as in Method A of Example 3. The prepolymer mixture contained 13.0% and the cured polymer 12.4% by weight of the degraded tetrafiuoroethylene polymer. The cured poly-urethane polymer, after removing the skin, was extremely slick, showing considerably less stick-slip against glass or paper than does a piece of polymer prepared in the same manner omitting the degraded tetrafluoroethylene polymer.
Very similar results were obtained when the cured polymers containing 7%, 3.5%, and 1% of the degraded tetrafluoroethylene polymer were used in place of the cured polymer containing 12.4% of the degraded tetrafluoroethylene polymer.
Example 5 A mixture of six parts 3,3'-dichloro- 'diaminodiphenylmethane and 16 parts of 1,1,1l-trihydroeicosafiuorodecanol-l, a telomer of tetrafiuoroethylene, having a molecular weight of 531 and a melting point of 97 C., prepared by the reaction of tetrafluoroethylene with methanol, as described in U.S. Patent 2,559,628, was mixed with 100 parts of the prepolymer of Example 3. The resulting mixture was degassed at 100 C., then heated for three hours at 100 C. The cured polymer was a clear elastomer. After cooling or flexing, the clastomer became white and quite slippery.
When a similar polymer mixture was prepared using 16 parts 1,1,9 trihydrohexadecafluorononanol-1 (M.P. 67 C., molecular weight 431, prepared in the same manner as the undecanol above), the resulting product was not slippery even if cooled or flexed.
Example 6 A mixture of 25 parts of the 20% tetrafluoroethylenemethylcyclohexane telomer dispersion used in Example 3, 2.5 parts of the prepolymer of Example 3 and 100 parts of benzene was heated to drive off the 1,1, 2-trichlor0- 1,2,2-trifluoroethane. The resulting benzene dispersion was then used to prepare thin coatings on aluminum, steel, glass, wood and concrete by dipping, spraying or painting the benzene dispersion onto the surfaces. The polyurethane polymer coating was allowed to cure by exposure to moist air for several days. The coated materials were slippery. These coatings contained 67% telomer-33% polyurethane polymer.
Similar coatings were prepared from benzene dispersions containing (as active ingredients) 75% telomer and 25% polyurethane polymer, 83.3% telomer and 16.7% polyurethane polymer and 91% telomer and 9% polyurethane polymer. The coatings prepared on aluminum, steel, glass, wood and concrete from these compositions were all slippery. It was found that slipperiness of the coatings increased with the increased concentration of the tetrafiuoroethylene telomer or degraded polymer in the polyurethane composition. Adhesion to the surfaces became poorer however as the concentration of the tetrafluoroethylene telomer or degraded polymer increased and at concentrations above 91% adhesion was no better than the adhesion of the telomer alone.
Example 7 Another method for determining the efliciency of bear- As many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention may be made without departing from the spirit and scope thereof, it is to be understood that this invention is not limited to the specific embodiments thereof except as defined in the appended claims.
The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. A composition consisting essentially of a curable liquid polyurethane prepolymer having dispersed therein ing materials is to determine the PV limit of the mate- 10 f bo t 1% to about 90% by weight, based on the 2 at Yanohs Speeds of fotahoh Shaft in the g- Weight of the composition, of small particles of a solid PV 1s the product of pressure 1n pounds per square fluorocarbon compound containing at least 90% by 1nch(p.s.1.) and velocity 1n feet per minute (f.p.m.).The Weight of a chain of units having the structure limit is defined as the point where failure occurs. In CF CF aid olid fluorocarbon compound having Table III below, Polyurethane elastomer containing a molecular weight from about 500 to about 50,000 and by Weight tetrafluoroethylene-rnethanol telomer is coma melting oi t of from 90 C, to 327 C. pared the Polyurethanefilastomehalone as Well as 2. A solid composition consisting essentially of cured Commerclal nylon and glstered trademark polyurethane having dispersed therein from 1% to 90% for acetal resins obtainable from E. I. duPont deNemours b i ht, b d on the weight of the composition, of and p y), h of which are pf y used t0 8 small particles of a solid fluorocarbon compound containlarge extent as hearing sleeve materials. The polyurei at l t 90% by weight of a hai of units having thane elastomer and the telomer are the same as described the Structure CF CF id lid fluorocarbon o in Example 2. The PV llmit for the telomer containing Pound having a molecular weight f about 500 to elastomer was defined as the point Where surface melting about 50 000 and a melting point of from of the elastomer occurred. It was found however that the presence of surface melting did not materially affect A sleve bearing formed from the Cured composi the bearing or its operation. PV values as high as tion describfid in claim ZOOOO without senous dgficiencles although 4. A solid composition consisting essentially of a cured surface melting did occur. Wear factors were also deter- Polyurethane having dispersed therein from 1% to mined. It Was found that the telomer-contalmng elasto- 907 b Wei ht based on the Wei ht of the com Osit. mers had better break-in Wear properties, i.e., they tenda g g h 9 ed to Wear less when first put into service, than the polyof a SOhd fluorocarbon cqmpolind avmg a t? 8126 urethane elastomers themselves. Long term Wear propof from about to two at erties of the telomer-containing polyurethanes were apleast 90% by welght a h of umts havmg the proximately the same as the polyurethanes themselves. Structure 2 2-, 531d Sohd fluorocarbon compound TABLE III Bearing Material Velocity, Pressure, "PV" Limit, Friction f.p.m. p.s.t. t.p.m. p.s.1. Ooetficlent Polyurethane 120 400 0. 8
400 10 4,000 0.8 Polyurethane+l0% Telomer 10 500 5,000 7 400 22 8,800 0.4 Nylon 10 600 y 000 8 400 7.5 3,000 0.7 Acetal [Du Pont's Delrin] 10 400 4, 000
The above examples demonstrate that wide ranges of 55 having a 111016011131 Weight from about 500 to 0 an concentrations of specific fluorocarbon compounds containing 90% by weight of -CF CF chain units and having a molecular weight of 500-50,000 and a melting point between 90 C.-327 C. can be used to modify polyurethanes. The above examples also demonstrate that a wide variety of fluorocarbon compounds have properties within the defined structure, molecular weight, and melting point range find use in modifying and improving the physical characteristics of polyurethanes. The
a melting point of from 90 C. to 327 C.
5. A sleeve bearing formed from the cured composition described in claim 4.
6. The composition of claim 1 wherein the solid fluorocarbon compound is a tdtirafluoroethylene-methanol telomer.
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS above examples also demonstrate h polyurethanes 2 777 7 1 1957 w ich 260-853 modified by these fluorocarbon comp n are p 2:858:298 53 Burt 260859 ingly superior to those of the 2,976,257 3/1961 Dawe et al. 260-858 It is to be understood that the pr mg examples are 3 067 262 12/1962 Brady 106-3822 representative and that said examples may be varied 3102862 9/1963 Green et 52 5. within the scope of the total specification, as understood 3148234 9/1964 Boyer 5 by one skilled in the art, to produce essentially the same 3293203 12/1966 260 859 result. It should also be understood that the defined novel polyurethane-fluorocarbon compositions are not limited to any particular use, but can be used wherever their novel properties find application.
MURRAY TILLMAN, Primary Examiner.
J. C. BLEUTGE, Assistant Examiner.
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JO dil par haath rakho tau/ faqat itna hee kahta hai/ Woh Isa Chowk ho ya Das Manzil ka koi mandir/ Lohari Gate ho ya Goth Qasim ki koi basti/ Woh Babul Ilm ho ya Masjid-i-Siddiq-i-Akbar ho/ Hussainabad ho ya woh meri Farooq Nagri ho/ Jahan bhi golian chalti hain meray dil pe lagti hain/ Har ek woh ghar jahan maatam bapa hai mera apna hai. — Ishrat Afreen
(I place my hand on my heart/ and all it says is/ whether it be Isa Chowk or some temple of Das Manzil/ be it Lohari Gate or a neighbourhood of Goth Qasim/ be it Babul Ilm or the Siddiq-i-Akbar mosque/ be it Hussainabad or my Farooq Nagri/ where bullets fly they strike my heart/ every home in mourning is my very own.)
These verses draw a startling picture of Karachi torn by sectarian/communal violence. The picture is of a fragmented city. The verses also poignantly capture the poet's pain and sense of shared grief with the victims irrespective of their caste or creed. This theme — horror and empathy — has recently found resonance in the numerous conferences held under the banner of the 'I am Karachi' peace campaign. This is the need of the hour in a city that lost over 1,100 of its citizens to violence in 2014. Continue reading
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We are to blame
By Zubeida Mustafa
LAST Tuesday's carnage by the Taliban in Peshawar has left the nation in grief and shock. Such was the enormity of the crime — more than 130 young lives snuffed out brutally — that the emotions it stirred have yet to subside.
The post-Peshawar reactions are intense. But will this be a watershed event? Many think not. Public attention has already started to wander. The discourse is changing. The lifting of the moratorium on the death penalty that has led to a spree of hangings has invited Continue reading
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The role of language in education and its impact on society
By Zubeida Mustafa
Language which is a basic capacity with which man has been endowed is something that distinguishes the human being from all living species. It is a multi-dimensional issue that has an impact on every sector of life and human relationships. Here I am reminded of a seemingly small slip of language that could have led to a chain of events that in turn could have preempted the formation of this alliance between Irtiqa Institute of Social Sciences and the Hamza Alavi Foundation, the sponsors of today's talk.
It was way back in the late nineties when Prof Hamza Alavi was preparing to return home to Karachi after his retirement from Manchester University that a colleague of mine at Dawn, Ghayurul Islam, who was also a founding member of Irtiqa, requested me to introduce Irtiqa to Professor Alavi. Since I had met Hamza Bhai and was in touch with him I could always write to him, Ghayur Sahib suggested. I agreed and sent Hamza Alavi an email mentioning this group of intellectuals who were keen to meet him on his return to Karachi and to have a working relationship with him. That was all fine except that I made a faux pas. I jumbled up the alphabets when describing this venerable group – a different Continue reading
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Justice in jobs
By Zubeida Mustafa
WHEN human rights are in the news, the focus is invariably on civil and political rights such as life, liberty and democracy. Their violation causes explosive reactions. Rights that are not of a political nature are not so visible though their continued denial has a profound and insidious impact on the lives of a far greater number of people. They are like slow death that kills society itself.
These are the rights that have a role to play in sustaining human life with dignity which is no less than the right to life itself. Yet strangely enough, these seemingly mundane issues such as jobs, education and housing do not receive the same attention in public forums globally. Mercifully, realisation is now dawning in some quarters that there is a solution to the problems caused by the absence of social justice.
If awareness were to be created about these issues, enough pressure could be generated to force the powers that be to take positive measures. With this goal before it, Poster for Tomorrow was formed in 2009 in Paris by a group of artists led by Hervé Matine. Continue reading
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Worth of a life
By Zubeida Mustafa
HOW much is a human life worth in Pakistan? Not more than peanuts, given the impunity with which people are being killed in this benighted country of ours. The state's failure — or lack of will — to protect the life of its citizens is at the root of this tragedy.
In this context, I am reminded of two women — one dead, the other on death row. One was a dear friend. The other is a stranger whose community has been my benefactor. I owe my education to Christian missionaries who gave me knowledge and taught me, by example, to respect and be tolerant of all faiths.
Perween Rahman and Asiya Bibi have nothing in common except that they are symbols of our quest for justice and sanctity of life in a society that thrives on hate and violence. Continue reading
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People's power
By ZubeidaMustafa
THE buzzword these days is 'empowerment' and there is a lot of talk about empowering the people. The most vocal are political leaders who use the term randomly as a strategy to empower themselves politically.
True empowerment, however, envisages equipping people with tools they can use to achieve a decent life for themselves and their families which can be got through education, employment, healthcare, a roof above their heads and the sense of dignity they acquire when they do not have to be permanently dependent on others to sustain themselves. An example of how people are empowered pertains to the Ali Hasan Mangi Memorial Trust which was set up by Mr Mangi's granddaughter Naween to draw out the innate capacity of the 3,500-strong community of Khairo Dero to uplift itself.
The main tools that have been identified by the trust for empowerment are education, literacy, healthcare, microcredit for income generation and building homes and getting water supply and sanitation on a self-help basis. The fact is that until the basic needs of a people are met and a sense of security provided to them, they cannot strive for higher goals. AHMMT works, as its vision statement says, with the aim of building a "model village that can be replicated". Continue reading
Scottish referendum
By Zubeida Mustafa
LAST week Scotland decided its destiny. It came to the brink of independence and then pulled back. In the closing days of campaigning it was estimated that several thousands of the 4.2 million voters were undecided till the last. When the ballots were cast on Sept 18 over 55pc voted to stay in the union.
The 45pc who voted for change were overruled by the majority and conceded defeat. Alex Salmond, the first minister of Scotland whose Scottish National Party spearheaded the movement for an independent Scotland, announced his decision to step down.
Negotiations will follow in the coming months as more devolution of power is on the cards as has been promised by the Westminster parties in a last-ditch attempt to lure the Scots back from an irrevocable breach. Continue reading
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Our own Berridales?
By Zubeida Mustafa
DEMOCRACY is a misunderstood term that has been overused in the discourse surrounding the ongoing political drama in Islamabad.
There have been repeated references to democracy and human rights by the dharna leaders and legislators in parliament, which have only increased myths about these political concepts. No one speaks about the empowerment of the people which should be the aim of democracy — to enable citizens to help themselves and win their rights. This idea appears alien to Pakistan. People's empowerment is possible without actually bringing about a revolution.
Thousands of miles away from home, I find business to be as usual in Glasgow, a city at present in the grip of Scotland's independence referendum debate. For me this was an opportunity to observe the Scottish way of life. Last Saturday, courtesy Irene, to whom I had been introduced earlier, I spent some time at the 'Open Day' of the Berridale Allotments and Gardens which is a project that can be emulated by us with due indigenisation to empower urban women. Continue reading
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The veil face-off
By Zubeida Mustafa
TO veil or not to veil, that is the question. And that continues to be asked in Europe where France, Belgium, Spain and Italy have imposed a ban on the niqab in public places. The niqab shrouds the entire face and leaves small slits for the eyes. The ban does not apply to the more ubiquitous hijab, a head scarf that leaves the face fully exposed. No country has so far restricted the hijab.
The latest to pronounce a verdict on this controversial item of the female apparel is the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg where a French woman SAS (identity not disclosed) of Pakistani origin filed a case against the French law forbidding the use of the full-face veil in public places. SAS claimed that the law violated her "freedom of religion and expression". Continue reading
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CHAMPION SUPERNOVA; Oasis boys help Hatton celebrate.
THEY'VE traded a few punches with each other but the Gallagher brothers boxed clever as pal Ricky Hatton showed he's king of the ring.
Oasis pair Liam and Noel celebrated in the ring with Manchester fighter Hatton, 30, after he retained his IBO light-welterweight title in Las Vegas.
They weren't the only British stars ringside to see Hatton dispatch Paulie Malignaggi - footballer David Beckham and actor Jason Statham were also in the star-studded crowd at the MGN Grand Garden Arena. Even Rocky star Sylvester Stallone turned up for the big fight.
It's rumoured Hatton, who is expected to get a big money fight as a welterweight against Oscar De La Hoya or Manny Pacquiao, is heading off on a road trip to Mexico with the Gallagher boys before getting back to training.
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Brantley named Times-Journal's player of yearPublished 2:46pm Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Selma High School's Davian Brantley hadn't played football in high school until 2013 and he really only chose to play this season so that he could stay in shape for baseball season.
The Selma Saints are happy he did.
Brantley, a senior, scored touchdowns in every way imaginable this year — including a punt return, kickoff return, field goal block return and several interception returns for touchdowns— while helping the Saints complete one of the best seasons in school history.
"I was in shape from playing baseball throughout the season," Brantley said. "I came out during the summer and worked and played 7-on-7. That's how it all started. I got back into the groove of playing football."
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In the first game of the year against Southside, he ran a punt back for a touchdown and ran an interception back for a score before the Selma offense ever took the field.
His impact continued throughout the season, as he scored seemingly every time he touched the football.
"Score," Brantley said when asked what he thought when he got his hands on the football. "That's all I think about is scoring."
Brantley said his teammates and a little luck can be attributed to his success this year.
"I was just in the right place at the right time, like on the field goal block return, right place at the right time," Brantley said. "The interceptions, same thing. Really, on the kickoff and punt, I have to thank my teammates for blocking. If it wasn't for them blocking, I probably wouldn't have touched the end zone."
Selma head coach Leroy Miles said Brantley is very coachable and very focused.
"He's a difference maker in a program," Miles said. "He's made a difference in this program in this year. He is very responsible for us being 7-3 and he's a defensive player."
With the numbers he put up on kickoff returns and punt returns and interceptions for touchdowns, he made a big impact on this program's success."
Miles said he's always looking for more football players, but after Brantley's success he's asking everyone who doesn't play why they aren't on the field.
"Every day I walk the hall and I'm looking for a Davian Brantley," Miles said.
Brantley was proud to be a part of a team that had the success the Saints had this year.
"We made history my senior year — our senior year. After 19 years, almost 20 years, to come out and have a 7-4 record, that's a great accomplishment," Brantley said.
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