Mold release composition with polybutadiene and method of coating a mold core

• US 5,601,641 A
• Filed: 12/15/1995
• Issued: 02/11/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: TSE Industries Incorporated
• Original Assignee: TSE Industries Incorporated
• Inventors: Stephens, William D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Seidleck, James J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): SERGENT, RABON A
• Application Number:
  US08/573,000
• Time in Patent Office: 424 Days
• Field of Search: 106/38.22, 106/38.24, 106/38.25, 252/182.14, 252/182.18, 252/182.24, 427/255.6, 427/337, 427/340, 427/372.2, 427/387, 427/388.4, 524/571, 524/572, 524/588, 524/836, 524/837, 524/232, 524/267, 264/51, 264/328.1, 264/239
• US Class Current: 106/38.25
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 33/64 Silicone
• CPC Class Codes: B29K 2083/00 Use of polymers having silicon, with or without sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen, or carbon only, in the main chain, as moulding material
• CPC Class Codes: C08L 2666/28 Non-macromolecular organic substances
• CPC Class Codes: C09D 183/04 Polysiloxanes

Abstract

An aqueous reaction mixture having a pH of 4.5 to 5.5 of a methyl terminated siloxane emulsified polymer, a methyl triethoxysilane, a mixture of nonyl and octyl phenol derivative surfactants, fluorinated alkyl ester surfactant and synthetic ethoxylated amine surfactants, a silanol terminated polydimethylsiloxane hydroxyl terminated polybutadiene and ethanol. The reaction mixture is coated on a mold core surface and cured with heat to form a mold release surface that can be used in excess of twelve times prior to recoating.

Claims

1. An aqueous mold release composition for use in coating core surfaces in contact with rigid or flexible urethane foams, or urethanes, silicones, natural rubber, neoprene or other synthetic elastomers, the composition comprising by weight:

0.1 to 12% a silane selected from the group consisting of methyl trimethoxysilane, ethyl-triethoxysilane, fluoro-triethoxysilane, methyl triethoxysilane, vinyl triethoxysilane, vinyl trimethoxysilane, Gamma-ureidopropyltrialkoxysilane, where the alkoxy group has one to three carbon atoms, Gamma-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane, octyltriethoxysilane, Gamma-amino propyltriethoxysilane, Gamma-isocyanatopropyltriethoxysilane, tetraethoxysilane, Gamma-methacryloxypropyl trimethoxysilane, Beta- (3, 4-epoxycyclohexyl) ethyltrimethoxy-silane, Gamma-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane, and vinyl-tris (2-methoxyethoxy) silane,

0 to 16% a methyl terminated polydimethylsiloxane emulsified polymer,

0 to 10% a non-ionic surfactant,

0to 8% a fluorinated alkyl ester surfactant,

0 to 2.5% an ethoxylated amine surfactant,

0 to 12.5% a silanol terminated polydimethylsiloxane having a weight average molecular weight of 400 to 310,000,

0.1 to 8% a lower alkyl alcohol wherein the alkyl has 1-3 carbon atoms,

0 to 2% a fungicide,

0 to 20% a metallic salt of an organic acid,

0.5 to 2% a weak acid to maintain the pH between 4.5-5.5,

0.1 to 15% hydroxyl terminated polybutadiene, and

40 to 97% water.

2. The aqueous mold release composition according to claim 1 wherein the composition comprises a mixture of less than ten percent by weight of the methyl trimethoxysilane, methyl terminated poydimethylsiloxane emulsified polymer, fluorinated alkyl ester surfactant and ethoxylated amine surfactant together with about three percent by weight of ethanol, 0.1 to 15% by weight hydroxyl terminated polybutadiene, less than 1% by weight acetic acid and the remainder water.

3. The aqueous mold release composition according to claim 1 wherein the silane is methyl triethoxysilane.

4. The aqueous mold release composition according to claim 1 wherein the methyl terminated polydimethylsiloxane emulsified polymer is a mixture of deca methyl cyclopentasiloxane, octo methyl cyclotetrasiloxane, and dodeca methyl cyclohexasiloxane.

5. An aqueous mold release composition for use in coating compression and injection molding core surfaces comprising a mixture of less than ten percent by weight of

a silane selected from the group consisting of methyl triethoxysilane, methyl trimethoxysilane, vinyl triethoxysilane and vinyl trimethoxysilane,

a methyl terminated polydimethylsiloxane emulsified polymer,

a non-ionic surfactant,

an ethoxylated amine surfactant and a fluorinated alkyl ester surfactant,

a silanol terminated polydimethylsiloxane having a weight average molecular weight from 400 to 310,000, and

a hydroxyl terminated polybutadiene, together with acetic acid in an amount sufficient to maintain the pH at 4.5 to 5.5, about 0.5 to 8% by weight ethanol and the remainder water.

6. The aqueous mold release composition according to claim 5 wherein the silane is methyl triethoxysilane.

7. The aqueous mold release composition according to claim 5 wherein the weight average molecular weight of the silanol terminated polydimethylsiloxane is about 1000.

8. The aqueous mold release composition according to claim 5 wherein the composition comprises by weight about:

9. 4% methyl triethoxysilane,

1.8% deca methyl cyclopentasiloxane,

1.6% octo methyl cyclotetrasiloxane,

0.6% dodeca methyl cyclohexasiloxane,

1.5% non-ionic fluorinated alkyl ester surfactant,

0.3 % ethoxylated amine surfactant,

0.5% nonyl or octyl phenol surfactant,

3.0% silanol terminated polydimethylsiloxane having a weight average molecular weight between 400 and 310,000,

2.6% ethanol

1.0% acetic acid,

82.7% distilled water and

the remainder hydroxyl terminated polybutadiene.

11. The method according to claim 9 wherein methyl triethoxysilane is the silane in the composition, together with acetic acid to lower the pH and ethanol as the lower alkyl alcohol.

10. A method of forming a mold release surface on a mold core comprising cleaning the core surfaces, heating both sides of the core surfaces to about 320 degrees F. and spraying the mold core with an aqueous composition containing less than thirty percent by weight of a mixture of a silane selected from the group consisting of methyl triethoxysilane, methyl trimethoxysilane, vinyl triethoxysilane, vinyl trimethoxysilane, methyl triphenoxysilane, ethyl-triethoxysilane, fluoro-triethoxysilane, Gamma-ureidopropyltrialkoxysilane, where the alkoxy group has one to three carbon atoms, Gamma-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane, octyltriethoxysilane, Gamma-amino propyltriethoxysilane, Gamma-isocyanatopropyltriethoxysilane, tetraethoxysilane, Gamma-methacryloxypropyl trimethoxysilane, Beta- (3, 4-epoxycyclohexyl) ethyltrimethoxy silane,Gamma-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane, and vinyl-tris (2-methoxyethoxy) silane, together with a methyl terminated polydimethylsiloxane emulsified polymer, a nonyl or octyl phenol surfactant, an ethoxylated amine surfactant, a fluorinated alkyl esters surfactant, about 2 to 8% by weight of a lower alkyl alcohol, having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, 0.1 to 12.5% by weight silanol terminated polydimethylsiloxane having a weight average molecular weight between 400 and 310,000, about 0.1 to 15% by weight of a hyroxyl terminated polybutadiene, an acid to lower the pH to 4.5 to 5.5 and the remainder water.