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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7276570 | Compositions for golf equipment Golf balls comprising thermoplastic, thermoset, castable, or millable elastomer compositions are presently disclosed. These compositions comprise at least one polymer having a plurality of amide linkages and a plurality of anionic moieties attached thereto. These co... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7265195 | Compositions for golf equipment Golf balls comprising thermoplastic, thermoset, castable, or millable elastomer compositions are presently disclosed. These compositions comprise at least one polymer having a plurality of amide linkages and a plurality of cationic moieties attached thereto. These c... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7256249 | Compositions for golf equipment Golf balls comprising thermoplastic, thermoset, castable, or millable elastomer compositions are presently disclosed. The compositions comprise at least one regioselective polyisocyanate having an asymmetric structure and comprising at least a first NCO group and a ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7253245 | Compositions for golf equipment Golf balls comprising thermoplastic, thermoset, castable, or millable elastomer compositions are presently disclosed. These elastomer compositions comprise reaction products of polyisocyanates and telechelic polymers having isocyanate-reactive end-groups such as hyd... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7253242 | Compositions for golf equipment Golf balls comprising thermoplastic, thermoset, castable, or millable materials are presently disclosed. The materials have a rebound height percentage of greater than 60% and are formed from compositions comprising at least one resilient polyamine polydiene and/or ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7157545 | Compositions for golf equipment Golf balls comprising thermoplastic, thermoset, castable, or millable elastomer compositions are presently disclosed. These elastomer compositions comprise reaction products of polyisocyanates and telechelic polymers having isocyanate-reactive end-groups such as hyd... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7138475 | Compositions for golf equipment Golf balls comprising thermoplastic, thermoset, castable, or millable elastomer compositions are presently disclosed. These elastomer compositions comprise at least one amine-terminated polyamide and at least one isocyanate-containing prepolymer. These elastomer com... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7138477 | Compositions for golf equipment Golf balls comprising thermoplastic, thermoset, castable, or millable elastomer compositions are presently disclosed. These elastomer compositions comprise reaction products of polyisocyanates and telechelic polymers having isocyanate-reactive end-groups such as hyd... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7138476 | Compositions for golf equipment Golf balls comprising thermoplastic, thermoset, castable, or millable elastomer compositions are presently disclosed. These compositions comprise at least one fatty compound chosen from fatty polyamines and fatty polyamine telechelics. These elastomer compositions c... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7115703 | Compositions for golf equipment Golf balls comprising thermoplastic, thermoset, castable, or millable compositions are presently disclosed. These compositions comprise reaction products of polyacids and polyamines. The polyacid is chosen from polymerized fatty polyacids and polyacid telechelics. T... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7105628 | Compositions for golf equipment Golf balls comprising thermoplastic, thermoset, castable, or millable elastomer compositions are presently disclosed. These elastomer compositions comprise reaction products of polyisocyanates and telechelic polymers having isocyanate-reactive end-groups such as hyd... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7105623 | Compositions for golf equipment Golf balls comprising thermoplastic, thermoset, castable, or millable elastomer compositions are presently disclosed. These elastomer compositions comprise at least one poly(urethane-co-urea) prepolymer and at least one curative. These elastomer compositions can be ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7101951 | Compositions for golf equipment A golf ball comprising at least one thermoplastic, thermoset, castable, or millable material formed from a composition comprising at least one telechelic polycarbonate having a generic structure of: where R1... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7098274 | Compositions for golf equipment A golf ball comprising at least one thermoplastic, thermoset, castable, or millable material formed from a composition comprising at least one telechelic polycarbonate copolymer formed from at least one polyol telechelic and at least one carbonate-forming compound; | 08/29/2006 |
| 6949679 | Polyamine transport inhibitors The present invention describes the design, synthesis and therapeutic use of a variety of novel inhibitors of polyamine transport. The main feature of this class of transport inhibitors is to incorporate a linker or side chain that prevents the uptake of polyamines ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 4789499 | Process and apparatus for saponification reactions Reaction equipment for chemical processes, e.g., saponification processes having reaction times of about 2-8 minutes. The reactants are measured, and fed sequentially into a reactor. The reactants are sequentially mixed and reacted by recycling, and at th... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4786720 | Sulfomethylated lignin amines Surface active agents are prepared from by-products of papermaking. Lignin, modified lignin, resin acid, and tall oil fatty acid are reacted with a polyamine to produce an amine condensate, and this amine condensate is reacted with a bisulfite and formald... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4671892 | Process and apparatus for saponification reactions, and the like A reactor vessel is provided for saponification processes having reaction times of about 2-5 minutes. The reactants are fed sequentially through a load cell, for weighing, and feeding into a reactor containing water. The reactants are sequentially mixed a... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4663076 | Invert emulsion drilling fluid comprising oligamide composition The present invention relates to a surfactant for use in invert emulsion drilling fluids, the invert emulsion drilling fluid produced therefrom, and a method of drilling, completing and working over a subterranean well utilizing said drilling fluid. The d... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4659513 | Disproportionation of unsaturated acids in rosin or tall oil The process relates to a method of improving the color and/or reducing the oxidized acids content of the disproportionated product obtained by heating rosin acids in rosin and tall oil with a catalyst comprising iodine, an iron compound and ammonia, an am... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4615836 | Process for preparing alkylmercaptoalkyl esters A process for preparing an alkylmercapto ester by reacting an alkyl mercaptoalkanol with an organic carboxylic acid or an organic anhydride in the presence of a titanium-containing catalyst.... | 10/07/1986 |
| 4575428 | Invert emulsion drilling fluid comprising oligamide composition The present invention relates to a surfactant for use in invert emulsion drilling fluids, the invert emulsion drilling fluid produced therefrom, and a method of drilling, completing and working over a subterranean well utilizing said drilling fluid. The d... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4568360 | Mixed organometallic compositions comprising elements from the lanthanide group and manganese or elements from the iron group, process for the preparation of said compositions, and their use as fuel additives A mixed organometallic composition suitable for use as fuel additives contains an organic acid salt of at least one metal from the lanthanide group and of at least one metal selected from the group formed by manganese and the metals of the iron group wher... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4497743 | Organosoluble salts of manganese, process of preparation of same The present invention relates to new organosoluble manganese compounds. According to the invention these compounds are complex organometallic salts of organic or organometalloidic acids in which the ratio R of the number of acid equivalents to the number of ma... | 02/05/1985 |
| 4481145 | Disproportionation of unsaturated acids Unsaturated acids in rosin or tall oil are disproportionated by heating the rosin or tall oil with a catalyst comprising iodine and an iron compound using ammonia, an ammonium salt or an amine as an additional component of the catalyst. Use of this additi... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4332737 | Acid reaction products of polymeric amines Composition useful as hydrocarbon fuel additives of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is a C9-23 hydrocarbyl group, R' is selected from H and ##STR2## and wherein at least one R' is H, R" is ##STR3## group where X is a divalent hydr... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4330339 | Lower alkanoic acid derivatives of a diethanolamine/fatty acid condensate The title compositions exhibit superior efficacy as conditioners in the flotation of coal. These compositions are prepared by condensing diethanolamine with a C10 -C24 fatty acid in a molar ratio of 1:2 and then introducing one-half ... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4201847 | Process of preparing foams with internal mold-release agents A reaction product of a fatty acid ester and an organic polyisocyanate is included in a foamable reaction mixture containing an organic polyisocyanate to provide a molded product which can be removed from a mold whose surface has not been coated with conv... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4126604 | Treatment of tall oil fatty acids A process is disclosed for treating tall oil fatty acids with a zinc catalyst and an iodine catalyst to improve the color and color stability of distilled products. The zinc catalyst is employed in an amount of from 0.01% to about 2.0% by weight of fatty ... | 11/21/1978 |
| 4115330 | Novel coating compositions Disclosure is made of radiation curable, solventless compositions useful in coatings, films and in preparing printing inks. The compositions comprise the reaction product of an equivalent excess of an acrylic type acid with a particular class of polyester... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4029708 | Linear surfactant polymers formed from substituted amines and difunctional reactants Linear surfactant polymers, useful in waterflooding processes and as emulsion breakers, can be prepared by reacting various amines, such as hexamethylene diamine, with monofunctional pendant groups, such as propylene oxide, and then further reacting the s... | 06/14/1977 |
| 3943117 | Process for improving tall oil pitch A process is disclosed for saponifying tall oil pitch. The process involves saponifying tall oil pitch in an aqueous solution having a solids content of 5% to 99% with at least 0.00026% by weight of a water-soluble cationic amine catalyst and a slight amo... | 03/09/1976 |