...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4446259 | Coating composition of a blend of a glycidyl acrylic polymer and a reactive polysiloxane A coating composition having a liquid carrier and a binder of a blend of a. an acrylic polymer containing glycidyl groups and b. a crosslinkable polysiloxane having attached to the silicone atoms of its backbone alkyl groups, phenyl groups and hydroxyl groups; opti... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4371664 | Vinyl resin composition containing silyl groups A composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a vinyl resin, and 0.01 to 10 parts by weight of a curing catalyst. The vinyl resin has a backbone chain composed substantially of a vinyl polymer, includes in each molecule at least one silyl group of which... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4367313 | Coating composition and method What are disclosed are a "one pot" moisture-curable two-component coating composition comprising a first component having at least one isocyanate group and at least one hydrolyzable alkoxysilane group therein and a second component having at least one oxa... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4346026 | Non-aging epoxy compatible size This invention comprises an aqueous size composition comprising polyvinylacetate and 3-chloropropyl trimethoxysilane. Additionally, the size will comprise a film former and a neutralizer.... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4314043 | Fluorine-containing elastomers Fluorine-containing elastomers comprise the grafted copolymer havig rubber-like elasticity and having chemical linkages at the reactive sites of fluorine-containing polymeric segments and organopolysiloxane segments.... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4310640 | Curable composition A composition comprising (a) an organic compound having at least one hydrolyzable silyl group and (b) an organic amine and/or an alkali metal hydroxide. The composition is curable upon exposure to moisture, and has superior properties, such as hardness, t... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4278574 | Polysiloxane-modified paint binders and process for producing the binders Paint binders having an intrinsic viscosity of from 8-15 ml/g which are water soluble upon neutralization with bases comprising the condensation reaction product of (A) 50-85% by weight of a polyester resin modified with 5-40% by weight of a polysiloxane ... | 07/14/1981 |
| 4277525 | Liquid compositions for forming silica coating films Liquid compositions suitable for providing silica-based coating films on to various substrate surfaces are prepared by the reaction of an alkoxy-containing silane, a lower carboxylic acid and an alcohol in the presence of a reaction accelerator which is a... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4265801 | Polymeric blends containing a monoorganic polysiloxane resin The invention relates to novel melt processable polymer compositions which comprise a blend of non-silicone polymer and a monoorganic polysiloxane resin. Such compositions are useful inter alia as flameproof and moisture resistant coating compositions and... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4255299 | Polymer containing perfluoroalkyl group, process for preparing the same and coating composition A polymer containing perfluoroalkyl group in its side chain which is an addition reaction product of a polymer having the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein R is phenyl group or alkoxyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, R1 i... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4245060 | Functional group containing cyclic diolefin butyl rubbers Isobutylene-based elastomers containing 3-15 mol percent enchained cyclic diolefin such as cyclopentadiene, and other comonomers such as isoprene, piperylene and butadiene to allow for chemical modification with anhydride, carboxy, hydroxy, etc. to produc... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4220512 | Morphology stabilization of heterogeneous polymer blends A heterogeneous blend of elastomers having a stabilized morphology, as well as the method of making the same, comprises at least two radiation cross-linkable elastomers which form a heterogeneous blend. The radiation cross-linkable elastomer components ar... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4195141 | Aqueous solution of mixtures of silicon-organic compounds An aqueous solution of a mixture of silicon-organic compounds comprising: A. A silane of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein a is 1 or 2, b is 0, 1 or 2, and a +b is equal to or less than 3, p is 0 or 1, and R represents an alkylene moiety of 1 to 8 car... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4138387 | Poly(olefinic monomer) filled-poly(organosiloxane) compositions Polyolefin filled-organopolysiloxane compositions which are stable dispersions comprised of a continuous phase of essentially ungrafted organopolysiloxane and a discontinuous phase of finely divided solid particles of a homopolymer or copolymer prepared f... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4107118 | Size composition A glass size composition comprising an epoxy resin emulsion, a polyvinylpyrrolidone and a polyethylene glycol ester mono oleate is particularly suitable for use in epoxy resin filament winding.... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4082896 | Abrasion resistant coatings Abrasion resistant polymeric coatings in which the polymer comprise the polymerized product of at least 15% by weight of an epoxy-terminated silane have improved film forming properties without significant loss of abrasion resistance if the epoxy-terminat... | 04/04/1978 |
| 4049634 | In-air curable resin compositions A resin composition curable in air comprising (A) an unsaturated oligomer having a number average molecular weight of 500 to 4,000 and containing at least two acryloyl and/or methacryloyl groups at the ends of the molecule and at least one ethylenic inter... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4044070 | Powder paint blends of an epoxy and hydroxy-functional copolymer and a carboxy-terminated copolymer Powder coating compositions are disclosed which comprise a blend of coreactable, thermosettable copolymers one of which has at least two different functional groups while the other is qualitatively monofunctional and quantitatively polyfunctional. Ordinar... | 08/23/1977 |
| 4032487 | Aqueous acrylate-epoxy silane crosslinker adhesive dispersion composition An adhesive composition which comprises, for each 100 parts by weight thereof, an aqueous dispersion having pH of about 8 to 12 of the following components dispersed in 25 to 75 parts of water: A. from 25 to 75 parts by weight of water insoluble linear polymer... | 06/28/1977 |
| 4026962 | Dispersion-polymerization process using block copolymers There is disclosed a process of dispersion-polymerizing vinyl monomers promoted by free-radical catalysts. This process comprises dispersing under stirring in water a block copolymer of the A-B type wherein A represents a lipophilic block and B a hydrophi... | 05/31/1977 |
| 3988523 | Glass fiber reinforced elastomers Glass fibers coated with a blend of a resorcinol-aldehyde resin, an elastomer and a combination of organo silicon compounds formed of (1) an amino-substituted organo silane and/or its hydrolysis product and an organo silicon compound containing at least o... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3959102 | Method for preparing a crosslinked graft copolymer of silicone and polyvinylpyrrolidone for use as a contact lens, and a contact lens produced thereby An improved flexible contact lens is provided having hydrophilic and lipophobic properties which allow extended duration of wear by eliminating or greatly reducing the risk of rupture of the natural tear film produced by the cornea. These properties are a... | 05/25/1976 |