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4,083,817
Anderson
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Inventor:
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References Cited
US PATENT DOCUMENTS
3,361,841
1/1968
4,017,461
4/1977
[22] Filed
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Jun 15 1977
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ABSTRACT
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step resin, called a resole. This reaction can be summa 15 10 carbons, and wherein R and R includes hydrogen, or
CH2OH
+ HCHO
OH
OH cnzon
cnzon
crnon
OH
CH2
NCH2 __@/
on,
gamma-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane
N-beta-(aminoethyl)-gamma-aminopropyltrimethox
ysilane
beta-(3,4-epoxycyclohexyl)ethyltrimethoxysilane
gamma-g1ycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane
gamma-aminopropyltriphenoxysilane
gamma-aminopropyltribenzoxysilane
gamma-aminopropyltrifurfuroxysilane
gamma-aminopropyltri(o-chlorophenoxy)silane
gamma-aminopropyltri(tetrahydrofurfuroxy)silane
gamma-aminopropyltri(p-chlorophenoxy)silane, and
methyl[Z-(gamma-triethoxysilypropyl-amino)ethyl
amino]3-propionate in methanol
modi?ed amino-organosilane
Ureido-silane
mercaptoethyltriethoxysilane
chloropropyltrimethoxysilane
vinyltrichlorosilane
vinyltriethoxysilane
vinyltrimethoxysilane
gamma-methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane
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gamma-methacryloxypropyltri(2-methoxyethoxy)
silane
vinyltriacetoxysilane
gamma-aminopropyltriethoxysilane
The list of commercially available and recognized
composite article adhesion promoters is lengthening as
indicated in Table I.
commercially available resoles for the purpose of illus
The binder is then admixed with the acid catalyst
trating the invention, and for the purpose of setting
sand mix, and at the point where the binder is uniformly
forth what presently is regarded as the best mode.
distributed in the sand mix, the resulting mixture is
It is also contemplated, that the liquid resin which
subjected to a bench life determination. Simultaneously
results from less than completion of the coupling reac
tion is useful as a binder for producing foundry sand 20 tensile test specimen biscuits (1 inch cross section) are
shapes. The examples that follow will also illustrate this
prepared. The bench life is determined by the use of a
contemplated use.
Dietert sand rammer. The bench life is arbitrarily deter
In the following examples all parts are expressed in
mined as the time at which the number of rams required
parts by weight, all temperatures are expressed in de
to reach the preset volume is double the number of rams
gree centigrade, and all percents are expressed in per 25 initially required to reach that volume. The tensile
cent by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the
strengths are run after overnight storage at the stated
material then being referred to.
relative humidities set forth in the table. The tensile
strength number as set forth in Table I represents an
EXAMPLE 1
This example is intended to illustrate the reaction of a 30 average of 24 determinations, in each instance.
The results of these tests, as indicated in Table I,
furan-formaldehyde resin with a commercially avail
show
that even though this particular Dunlop
able phenolic no-bake resole. The furan resin was pre
Macander resin does not readily cure in the presence of
pared by reaction of furan and formaldehyde in a 4:1
acid, usable tensile strengths were obtained in each of
molar ratio in the presence of oxalic acid heated at 100
C. for 2 hours. This mode of preparation is in accor 35 the various runs which were in accordance with the
present invention, at both ambient and high relative
dance with the procedure outlined in the above men
with this invention, but that test l-2, test I3, and test
14 are in accordance with this invention.
TABLE I
Self-Set 130 Furan-Formaldehyde Resin 1
Test No.
Resole/Resin
Weight Ratio
3-1
3-2
3-3
O/100
25/75
50/50
Bench Life
(Min)
0
182
182
0
120
76
124
38
22
274
218
24
(without silane)
3-4
11.5 percent binder on sand.
EXAMPLE 4
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Chem-Set 700-P/Resin
Ratio of 700-P/
Furan Resin
Bench Life (Min)
TABLE II
20/80
50
30/70
40
150
260
330
375
305
80
205
255
290
220
Tensile Strength at
56-68% R.H. (psi)
Tensile Stren
at
83% R.H. si)
40/60
31
50/50
33
70/30
3O
furan is maintained;
(b) admixing said binder with an acid catalyzed solid
material, said binder being used in amounts be
tween 0.5 and 4 percent by weight;
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EXAMPLE 5
ambient temperature.
TABLE III
Ashland 480 Binder/Resin
Tensile Strength at
42-64% R.H. (psi)
Tensile Strength at
86% RH. (psi)
90/10
20/ 80
30/70
40/60
50/50
70/30
60
33
23
12
15
14
95
195
215
310
325
260
30
100
175
245
260
250
35
45
on,
steps:
admixing said furan-formaldehyde resin with a phe
nol resole resin in an amount sufficient to provide
from 5 percent to 50 percent resole based on the
50
resole mixture.
cal structure:
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produced by the acid condensation of furan-for
maldehyde under conditions in which an excess of
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on,
10
R
CH,
>
,
35
45
50
55
65