CA1125110A - Method of bonding urethane formulations to rubber - Google Patents

Method of bonding urethane formulations to rubber

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CA1125110A
CA1125110A CA341,228A CA341228A CA1125110A CA 1125110 A CA1125110 A CA 1125110A CA 341228 A CA341228 A CA 341228A CA 1125110 A CA1125110 A CA 1125110A
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Edward N. Gomberg
Dana W. Somesla
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    • C08ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON
    • C08JWORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H
    • C08J7/00Chemical treatment or coating of shaped articles made of macromolecular substances
    • C08J7/04Coating
    • C08J7/042Coating with two or more layers, where at least one layer of a composition contains a polymer binder
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    • C08ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON
    • C08JWORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H
    • C08J7/00Chemical treatment or coating of shaped articles made of macromolecular substances
    • C08J7/04Coating
    • C08J7/043Improving the adhesiveness of the coatings per se, e.g. forming primers
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    • C08ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON
    • C08JWORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H
    • C08J7/00Chemical treatment or coating of shaped articles made of macromolecular substances
    • C08J7/04Coating
    • C08J7/046Forming abrasion-resistant coatings; Forming surface-hardening coatings
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    • C08ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON
    • C08JWORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H
    • C08J2321/00Characterised by the use of unspecified rubbers
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    • C08ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON
    • C08JWORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H
    • C08J2433/00Characterised by the use of homopolymers or copolymers of compounds having one or more unsaturated aliphatic radicals, each having only one carbon-to-carbon double bond, and only one being terminated by only one carboxyl radical, or of salts, anhydrides, esters, amides, imides, or nitriles thereof; Derivatives of such polymers
    • C08J2433/04Characterised by the use of homopolymers or copolymers of compounds having one or more unsaturated aliphatic radicals, each having only one carbon-to-carbon double bond, and only one being terminated by only one carboxyl radical, or of salts, anhydrides, esters, amides, imides, or nitriles thereof; Derivatives of such polymers esters
    • C08J2433/06Characterised by the use of homopolymers or copolymers of compounds having one or more unsaturated aliphatic radicals, each having only one carbon-to-carbon double bond, and only one being terminated by only one carboxyl radical, or of salts, anhydrides, esters, amides, imides, or nitriles thereof; Derivatives of such polymers esters of esters containing only carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, the oxygen atom being present only as part of the carboxyl radical
    • C08J2433/08Homopolymers or copolymers of acrylic acid esters
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    • C08ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON
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    • C08J2475/00Characterised by the use of polyureas or polyurethanes; Derivatives of such polymers
    • C08J2475/04Polyurethanes

Abstract

ABSTRACT

METHOD OF BONDING URETHANE FORMULATIONS
TO RUBBER

The invention relates to a method wherein uncured urethane formulations are bonded to a cured rubber or synthetic rubber substrate in such a manner so as to provide greater bonding strength than has been achieved previously in urethane formulation bonding to rubber or synthetic rubber.

Description

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METHOD OF BONDING URETHANE FORMULATIONS
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The present invention relates to a method of bonding uncured urethane formulations to substrates and particu-larly to rubber or synthetic rubber substrates.

The desirability of achieving maximum bonding strength between urethane formulations and cured rubber or synthetic rubber substrates has long been known in the art. The bonding of urethane formulations to cured rubber or synthetic rubber substrates has been one of the more difficult problems experienced in the rubber 10 industry and also with users of rubber products. The conventional use of adhesives, primers, bonding agents, etc., available commercially has been unable to provide a urethane-to-rubber bond that is equal in pull strength to a rubber-to-rubber bond.

15 Laboratory adhesion tests using conventional methods of applying primers or adhesives agents, such as cyanoacry-lates, allowing them to dry and then applying a urethane formulation as a liquid or a paste and allowing it to cure, normally produces a bond strength ranging from 1 20 to 30 pli (pounds per linear inch). A desirable bond strength should be at least 80 pli.

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Summar~ of the Invention We have found in the present inventian that if the uncured urethane is immediately applied to a rubber or synthetic rubber surface wetted with adhesive before the adhesive dried, the bond between the urethane, after curing, and the rubber or synthetic rubber surface is increased three to four times over the maximum bond strength achieved in prior methods where the adhesive was permitted to dry prior to application of the urethane onto the surface.

The invention of the present application has many uses such as repairihg tears or worn spots in rubber-based articles subject to considerable wear. For example, the method of the present invention could be used effectively in repairing conveyor belts of a rubber or synthetic rubber material, patching tires which have been torn or ripped and even recapping of tires.

As will be appreciated by a person s~illed in the art, there is a great economic need fQr a method which will permit the user to take advantage of the higher abrasion 2Q xesistance of cured urethane and the cold-cure charac-teristics of many urethane formulations will result in sub5tantial energy and cost savings. The ability of 11251~

the user to build on a rubber or synthetic rubber substrate with a cold-curing system that has good adhesion offers a wide range of cost~saving industrial applications.

The present invention provides a method of bonding uncured urethane formulations to a cured rubber substrate compri-sing the steps of:
(a) cleaning the substrate surface;
(b) coating the cleaned substrate surface with a liquid cyanoacrylate adhesive;
(c) coating the substrate surface, wetted with the cyanoacrylate adhesive, with a liquid or paste urethane formulation while the adhesive is still wet; and (d) permitting the urethane formulation to cure.

The uncured urethane is applied in liquid or paste form until the surface is built up to the desired form or thickness. The urethane is then allowed to cure and after curing has been completed, the repaired surface 2Q can be buffed or shaped as desired and can then be used with the repaired area containin~ the urethane prcviding greater abrasion resistance than the surrounding rubber base material.

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Following the procedure outlined above, it is possible to obtain bond strengths in excess of 100 pli.

A particular use of the invention believed to have great commercial significance, is the use of the invention in recapping tires. In conventional practice in recapping tires, a tire is buffed to remove the worn tread and an adhesive is applied to the buffed area. When the adhesive is no longer wet, an uncured rubber is applied over the adhesive. The tire with the rubber thereon is then placed in a steel mold where, with the application of heat, the rubber is cured and in the process the rubber is bonded to the tire. The conventional recapping process requires the consumption of considerable energy.

In the practice of the present invention in recapping of tires, the tire is buffed and all buffed material removed from the tire. The clean tire is then wetted with a cyanoacrylate adhesive, an;d before the adhesive has dried, a coating of uncured urethane liquid or paste is immediately applied to the wetted surface. Before 2a the urethane has an opportunity to cure, the tire with the urethane liquid or paste thereon is placed into a mold and additional uncured urethane is pumped into the mold cavity so as to complete the process of building up the desired thickness of tread material on the outer 1125~10 surface of the tire. The urethane i~ then allowed to cure and with fast curing urethane formulations, the tire can be removed from the mold in about 15 minutes.
This time of mold removal can be varied depending upon the cure rate of the particular urethane formulation used, It is preferred that the exothermic reaction of the curing urethane be mild, thus enabling a greater variety of materials to be used in making the mold.

A preferred technique would be to mount the buffed and cleaned tire on a mandrel so that it can rotate in a vertical plane. While rotating, the adhesive is sprayed upon the tire and as the tire continues to rotate, the uncured liquid or paste-like urethane material is applied to the adhesive-wetted surface of the tire. The lS time element is critical so as to insure the application of the urethane to the surface while the adhesive is still wet. Preferably, the time element would be about five seconds with most urethane formulations considered for practical use. The time element can be controlled 2Q either by moving a urethane discharging nozzle closer to the point where an adhesive nozzle sprays the adhe-sive on the tire or just rotating the tire faster, These are all techniques which can be practiced by a person skilled in t~e art so long as they utilize the inventive concept of applying the initial uncured urethane to the tire while the adhesive is still wet.

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Because of the mild exothermic reaction produced by the curiny of various ;Eormulations of urethane, the tire with the initial coating of urethane can be placed in a mold which is formed of plastic material rather than metal molds as conventionally used.

Preferably, the plastic mold would hold the tire casing in a vertical position and one or more inlets to the interior of the mold would enable additional uncured urethane material to be pumped into the mold cavity until it is completely filled with uncured urethane. An air vent would be located at the top of the mold so that as the uncured urethane enters the interior of the mold, entrapped air is forced out of the air-release vent at the top of the mold. The air vent could also be used as an indicator to~tell when the mold is filled because the first indication of urethane material in the air-vent opening would be an indication t,hat the mold is filled.

In conventional recapping, mold time varies with the size of the tire being capped, As tire size and tread thickness increase~ demold time increases. The reverse is true for urethane~capped tires, The larger the urethane mass, the faster it will react. Thus, small and large tires will take approximately the same demold ~1251~

time.

Because urethane has significantly better abrasion resistance than rubber, it would be possible to recap a tire casing with a thinner layer of urethane and still obtain the same length of service as would be obtained from a recapped tire having a much thicker layer of rubber material. It is estimated that with the practice of the invention as described and applied to automotive tires recapped with urethane material, lQ it would be possible to obtain from 80,000 to 100,000 miles of service compared with from 25,000 to 40,000 miles for rubber tires.

Formulations of the urethane materials which could be used in the practice of this invention can be readily produced by persons skilled in the art from known chemistry techniques in the production of urethanes.
A specific reference to the compositions and availahle sources of commercial supply of urethanes which can be used in the practice of this invention will be found 2Q in Chapter Seventeen of the publication RUBBER
TECHN~LQGY~ edited by Maurice Morton and published b~ Von Nostrand Reinhold Company. To the urethane -mater~al, anhydrous- fillers can be added, as is known in the art, to introduce properties of hardness, 511~

abrasion resistance, tear strength and pigmentation.
~uch anhydrous fillers include~ for example~ a variety of talcs, hydrated aluminum oxides, calcium carbonate, diatomaceous earth, silica smoke, carbon black, fiber-glass, titanium oxide, zinc oxide, bentonite and suchother fillers which are commonly used in urethane technology, The fillers are used in proportions to produce the characteristics of the properties desired in the urethane material.

10 The preferred cyanoacrylate adhesive, in the practice of the present invention, would be a composition contain-ing alkyl esters of cyanoacrylic acid as disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 2,794,788. Such adhesives can be of different viscosities. We have found that a medium 15 viscosity of from 100 to 120 CP Brookfield at 78 F is preferable to prevent excessive penetration of the adhesive into the rubber substrate and to provide adequate "working time" to apply the polyurethane coating while the adhesive is still wet.

20 For additiunal information regarding cyanoacrylate adhesives, attention is directed to the article entitled "CYANOACRYLATE ADHESIVES" pages 569 to 580 from the second edition of "HANDBOOK OF ADHESIVES" published by yon Nostrand Reinhold ,Company.

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In the foregoir.g description and in the claims ! the use o~ the terms "rubber" and "synthetic rubber" are not intended to co~er silicone rubber.

Claims (7)

1. A method of bonding uncured urethane formulations to a cured rubber substrate comprising the steps of:
(a) cleaning the substrate surface;
(b) coating the cleaned substrate surface with a liquid cyanoacrylate adhesive;
(c) coating the substrate surface, wetted with the cyanoacrylate adhesive, with a liquid or paste urethane formulation while the adhesive is still wet; and (d) permitting the urethane formulation to cure.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the urethane formula-tion is applied to the substrate surface wetted with the cyanoacrylate adhesive in an initial coating and additional amounts of urethane are applied before the initial coating of urethane has cured until the desired volume of urethane is present.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein said volume of urethane is molded into final form.
4. The method of claim 2, wherein said volume of urethane is buffed into final form.
5. A method of claim 1, wherein said adhesive is a cyanoacrylate.
6. A method of recapping a rubber tire with a urethane formulation, comprising the steps of:
(a) buffing down the tire casing surface to remove old tread and cleaning said surface of extraneous materials;
(b) coating the buffed tire casing surface with a liquid cyanoacrylate adhesive to wet said surface with adhesive;
(c) applying an initial liquid or paste coating of an uncured urethane formulation onto said surface while said surface is still wet with the cyanoacrylate adhesive;
(d) placing said tire in a mold having an inter-ior configuration of the desired shape of the recapped portion of the tire;
(e) injecting additional liquid or paste urethane formulation into said mold before the initial urethane has cured and filling the interior cavity of the mold;
(f) removing the recapped tire from the mold as soon as the urethane formulation has set; and (g) allowing said urethane formulation to cure.
7. A method of claim 6, wherein said adhesive is a cyanoacrylate.
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