James Calvin Mercer

US Patent:

20020129004, Sep 12, 2002

Filed:

Nov 9, 2001

Appl. No.:

10/039482

Inventors:

Jimmy Bassett - Fall Branch TN, US
William Burgess - Jonesborough TN, US
James Dickerson - Kingsport TN, US
Michael Donelson - Gray TN, US
Dennis Golob - Kingsport TN, US
Samuel Gott - Kingsport TN, US
William Jackson - Rock Hill SC, US
Steven Lyons - Kernersville NC, US
Stacey Marsh - Church Hill TN, US
Rick Miller - Kingsport TN, US
David Fischer - Kingsport TN, US
Henry Gonzalez - Blountville TN, US
James Mercer - Kingsport TN, US
Bobby Quillen - Kingsport TN, US
Srihari Dantuluri - Kingsport TN, US
Mark Stewart - Kingsport TN, US

International Classification:

G06F007/00

US Classification:

707/001000

Abstract:

The present invention relates to software enabled wizards that receive input from a user and use the input to generate a customized response. Embodiments of the present invention include design wizards, selection wizards and troubleshooting wizards advantageous for use in commerce, particularly within the chemical industry.

US Patent:

20050124779, Jun 9, 2005

Filed:

Nov 19, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/992909

Inventors:

Marcus Shelby - Kingsport TN, US
Douglas McWilliams - Kingsport TN, US
James Mercer - Kingsport TN, US
Mark Tincher - Kingsport TN, US

International Classification:

C08G063/06

US Classification:

528206000

Abstract:

Disclosed are oriented, shaped articles such as, for example, film, fibers, bottles, and tubes, with excellent strength, toughness, clarity, chemical resistance, and UV resistance. The articles can be prepared from cycloaliphatic polyesters and from compositions comprising cycloaliphatic polyesters and cycloaliphatic polyester elastomers. The articles may be oriented by stretching in at least one direction and have a modulus which results in a soft feel. Also disclosed are polyester compositions comprising cycloaliphatic polyesters and polyester elastomers.

US Patent:

20070071930, Mar 29, 2007

Filed:

Nov 30, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/606461

Inventors:

Marcus Shelby - Kingsport TN, US
Douglas McWilliams - Kingsport TN, US
James Mercer - Kingsport TN, US
Mark Tincher - Kingsport TN, US

International Classification:

B65D 1/02
C08F 20/00

US Classification:

428036920, 525437000

Abstract:

Disclosed are oriented, shaped articles such as, for example, film, fibers, bottles, and tubes, with excellent strength, toughness, clarity, chemical resistance, and UV resistance. The articles can be prepared from cycloaliphatic polyesters and from compositions comprising cycloaliphatic polyesters and cycloaliphatic polyester elastomers. The articles may be oriented by stretching in at least one direction and have a modulus which results in a soft feel. Also disclosed are polyester compositions comprising cycloaliphatic polyesters and polyester elastomers.

US Patent:

56543476, Aug 5, 1997

Filed:

Jun 23, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/494197

Inventors:

Kishan C. Khemani - Johnson City TN
James W. Mercer - Kingsport TN
Richard L. McConnell - Kingsport TN

Assignee:

Eastman Chemical Company - Kingsport TN

International Classification:

C08L 6702

US Classification:

521138

Abstract:

Disclosed is a concentrate useful as an additive in a polyester composition comprising a polyolefin and a polyfunctional carboxylic acid or polyol branching agent. Also disclosed is a method of preparing a polyester composition having increased melt viscosity and melt strength, and improved impact strength which comprises the steps of A) melt compounding a polyolefin and a polyfunctional carboxylic acid or polyol branching agent, B) dry blending the melt compounded mixture formed in A) with a polyester, and C) molding or extruding the dry blended mixture formed into B) to form an article.

US Patent:

55233821, Jun 4, 1996

Filed:

Mar 17, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/406227

Inventors:

Randy S. Beavers - Kingsport TN
Karen L. Carman - Morristown TN
Michael L. Cassell - Kingsport TN
Joseph F. Knight - Kingsport TN
James W. Mercer - Kingsport TN

Assignee:

Eastman Chemical Company - Kingsport TN

International Classification:

C08G 6312

US Classification:

528296

Abstract:

Disclosed are polyester particles adapted to be extrusion blow molded into articles having improved rheological qualities and a process for producing such particles, said particles comprising a polyester having repeat units from about 40 to 100 mol % terephthalic acid, about 80-98 mol % ethylene glycol, about 0. 5-10 mol % 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol, about 3-10 mol % diethylene glycol, and about 0. 05-1. 0 mol % of a polyfunctional branching agent, the molecular weight gradient from core to surface of said particles satisfying the following parameters: (A) number average less than 5500, (B) weight average less than 35,000, and (C) Z average less than 110,000.

US Patent:

54846323, Jan 16, 1996

Filed:

Oct 7, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/133550

Inventors:

James W. Mercer - Kingsport TN
Emily T. Bell - Jonesborough TN
Wayne K. Shih - Kingsport TN

Assignee:

Eastman Chemical Company - Kingsport TN

International Classification:

B32B 2736
B32B 2706
C08G 63183
C08G 63199

US Classification:

428 357

Abstract:

Monolayer and multilayer non-oriented polyester films comprising of at least one layer of an amorphous heat-sealing polyester wherein the heat-sealing polyester consisting essentially of terephthalic acid, ethylene glycol, and about 7-15 mol % cyclohexanedimethanol. The heat-sealing polyester has a heat of fusion greater than 0. 5 cal/g and is sufficiently crystallizable to allow the drying of mixtures of the heat-sealing polyesters with other crystallizable polyesters without sticking. Multilayered films also contain a layer of an amorphous crystallizable polyethylene terephthalate.

US Patent:

58012060, Sep 1, 1998

Filed:

Sep 9, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/926359

Inventors:

Kishan C. Khemani - Johnson City TN
James W. Mercer - Kingsport TN
Richard L. McConnell - Kingsport TN

International Classification:

C08L 6702

US Classification:

521 81

Abstract:

Disclosed is a concentrate useful as an additive in a polyester composition comprising a polyolefin and a polyfunctional carboxylic acid or polyol branching agent. Also disclosed is a method of preparing a polyester composition having increased melt viscosity and melt strength, and improved impact strength which comprises the steps of A) melt compounding a polyolefin and a polyfunctional carboxylic acid or polyol branching agent, B) dry blending the melt compounded mixture formed in A) with a polyester, and C) molding or extruding the dry blended mixture formed into B) to form an article.

US Patent:

61003204, Aug 8, 2000

Filed:

Mar 24, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/275611

Inventors:

Daniel Christopher Cobb - Kingsport TN
James Wilson Mercer - Kingsport TN

Assignee:

Eastman Chemical Company - Kingsport TN

International Classification:

C08K 5098

US Classification:

524399

Abstract:

In a process for producing a profile by profile extrusion of a thermoplastic resin, a melt of the thermoplastic resin is extruded through a die to form the profile. The process is improved by utilizing a thermoplastic resin having a composition of from about 99. 95 to about 98. 0 weight percent amorphous or semicrystalline polyester and from about 0. 05 to about 2. 0 weight percent of a zinc salt of an organic acid. The improvement of the process is either by increasing speed or decreasing temperature of a profile extrusion process already operating at a maximum speed and/or temperature with experiencing melt fracture. When melt fracture is present in the profile extrusion process, a method for reducing melt fracture in a profile is accomplished by combining from about 99. 95 to about 98. 0 weight percent amorphous or semicrystalline polyester and from about 0.