Abstract:
Foamed material suitable for use in connection with agricultural endeavors which is produced by agitating a mixture comprising: (1) a fibrous material, (2) water, (3) a wetting agent, (4) a thickening material, (5) an acrylic polymer emulsion, and (6) a polyepoxide. The foam is then applied onto the surface of the soil where it dries and cures to form an air and water permeable protective coating which retains its structural integrity throughout the growing season and may be broken up and turned into the soil at the beginning of the next season.
Abstract:
A water resisting and water repelling paint comprising an aqueous emulsion containing a synthetic latex of a vinyl ester homopolymer or copolymer and as an additive thereto, a product resulting from the thermal interaction of: A. 0.5 TO 15 PARTS BY WEIGHT OF ETHYL CELLULOSE, B. 0.5 TO 20 PARTS BY WEIGHT OF FATTY ACID CONTAINING 10 TO 24 CARBON ATOMS, FOR EXAMPLE, STEARINE, C. 0.25 TO 15 PARTS BY WEIGHT OF MONO-, DI- OR TRIALKYLAMINE OR ALKANOLAMINE, FOR EXAMPLE, TRIETHANOLAMINE, OR MORPHOLINE, D. 0.5 TO 150 PARTS BY WEIGHT OF AN OIL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP OF A DRYING AND SEMI-DRYING VEGETABLE OIL, AND MIXTURES, THEREOF, E. 0.5 TO 50 PARTS BY WEIGHT OF A COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP OF PHTHALIC ACID ESTER, BENZOIC ACID ESTER, PHOSPHORIC ACID ESTER, CHLORINATED DIPHENYL, SUBSTITUTED DIPHENYL AND MIXTURES THEREOF, AND/OR F. 0.5 TO 50 PARTS BY WEIGHT OF A COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP OF EPOXIDIZED TRIGLYCERIDE ESTER, EPOXIDIZED ALIPHATIC ALCOHOL ESTER OF UNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS HAVING A MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF 300 TO 5,000 AND MIXTURES THEREOF, G. 0.5 TO 50 PARTS BY WEIGHT OF A COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP OF CALCIUM STEARATE, MAGNESIUM STEARATE, ALUMINUM STEARATE AND MIXTURES THEREOF, AND/OR 043021088 H. 0.5 TO 50 PARTS BY WEIGHT OF MINERAL OIL, SPECIFIC GRAVITY OF 0.85 TO 0.95 AND BOILING POINT OF 185* TO 285* C.
Abstract:
The solubility in water of a water-soluble or unlimitedly water-swellable macromolecular carbohydrate or derivative thereof, especially of a cellulose ether, or of a polyvinyl alcohol or derivative thereof, is improved by treatment at elevated temperature with a dialdehyde polysaccharide in a proportion of 0.1-5% by weight, especially 0.3-5% by weight. Specified materials include cellulose ethers and esters, especially methyl cellulose, hydroxyethyl cellulose, carboxymethyl cellulose and mixed ethers of cellulose, starch ethers and esters, modified starches, vegetable gums, e.g. gum tragacanth and their derivatives, alginates, polyvinyl alcohol and its derivatives, especially partially etherified or esterified polyvinyl alcohols, e.g. polyvinyl acetate. Specified dialdehyde polysaccharides include dialdehyde starch, and the dialdehyde forms of cellulose, dextran and galactomannan. In general, the process is performed in a neutral medium and the mixture of the dialdehyde polysaccharide and macromolecular substance is heated to 60-130 DEG C., especially 90-110 DEG C., suitably by drying the mixture in air at these temperatures. The dialdehyde polysaccaride may be mixed with the macromolecular compound in the dry state and the mixture moistened with solvent and/or water, or an aqueous solution of the dialdehyde polysaccharide may be employed which is dropped or sprayed on the macromolecular compound. Various techniques are described, including the treatment of cellulose ethers while the latter are being converted from fibrous to particulate form. Examples are given.