The insulation of electrical cables which are utilized in environments likely to cause extraction of stabilizer systems is achieved through the use of compositions in which a disubstituted alkylhydroxyphenyl alkanoyl hydrazine is used as extraction resistant stabilizer for ethylene-propylene copolymer coating materials. Equivalent nomenclature for the preferred stabilizer is disubstituted di-t-butyl hydroxy hydro cinnamoyl (DTBHC) hydrazine. The DTBHC hydrazine is substantially the only stabilizer used in the stabilized compositions.
Frank Scardiglia - Woodcliff Lake NJ Kornel Dezso Kiss - Yonkers NY
Assignee:
Dart Industries Inc. - Los Angeles CA
International Classification:
C08K 510 C08K 513 C08L 2312 C08F25502
US Classification:
260876R
Abstract:
A hindered phenolic antioxidant stablizer for polyolefins is rendered extraction resistant by complexing it with an agent containing complexing groups derived from N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone or a N-dialkyl substituted amino alkyl ester of an. alpha. ,. beta. -unsaturated carboxylic acid.
A polyolefin composition having excellent stability against degradation caused by exposure to heat and oxygen in the presence of copper, which composition is stabilized with a synergistic stabilizer system containing at least one phenolic antioxidant and calcium stearate.
Propylene-based, normally solid polymer compositions are stabilized against oxidative degradation especially when exposed to both a metal such as copper and a soft hydrocarbon medium such as petrolatum. Highly synergistic levels of stability are achieved by combining in said polymer compositions three different stabilizer additives (a), (b) and (c) as follows: A. between about 0. 4 and about 1. 6% by weight of the tetraester of pentaerythritol with 3(3',5'-ditertiary butyl, 4'-hydroxy phenyl) propionic acid, B. between about 0. 1 and about 0. 4% by weight of N,N'" diacetyl N',N" adipoyl dihydrazide, and C. between about 0. 15 and about 0. 8% by weight of a linear polyester of 3,3' thiodipropionic acid with a glycol of the general formula HO--R--OH wherein R is a cycloalkylene or branched alkylene radical in which the carbon atom bonded to each --OH group is a primary carbon, Provided that the weight of (a) is substantially greater than that of either (b) or (c) and the weight of (c) is not less than about equal to that of (b). Preferably the weight of (c)> the weight of (b) and the weight of (a)> weight of (b)+(c).