IP Library Granted Patent US 7,910,163
Granted Patent B2
US 7,910,163 · App. 11/573,029 · Granted Mar 22, 2011

Method for producing an adhesive strip comprising a thermally cross-linked acrylate hot-melt adhesive layer

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Patent No.
US 7,910,163
App. No.
11/573,029
Granted
Mar 22, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A process for producing an adhesive tape with single- or double-sided crosslinked pressure-sensitive acrylate hotmelt adhesive layer, wherein a crosslinker is added in the melt to a polyacrylate copolymer (“polyacrylate”) based on acrylic and/or methacrylic esters, the polyacrylate with crosslinker is conveyed to a coating unit, where it is applied to a web-form layer and following application is homogeneously crosslinked, where the crosslinker is a thermal crosslinker and some of the acrylic and/or methacrylic esters contain primary hydroxyl groups and addition takes place preferably in an extruder.

Claims (20)

1. A process for producing an adhesive tape with single- or double-sided crosslinked pressure-sensitive acrylate hotmelt adhesive layer, wherein a trimerized isocyanate crosslinker is added in the melt to a polyacrylate copolymer based on acrylic and/or methacrylic esters, the polyacrylate with crosslinker is conveyed to a coating unit, where it is applied to a web-form layer and following application is homogeneously crosslinked, wherein the crosslinker is a thermal crosslinker and some of the acrylic and/or methacrylic esters contain primary hydroxyl groups.

2. The process of claim 1 , the trimerized isocyanate crosslinker is added in an extruder.

3. The process of claim 1 , wherein said web-form layer is a backing material.

4. The process of claim 1 , wherein said web-form layer is a crosslinked adhesive.

5. The process of claim 1 , wherein said trimerized isocyanate is an aliphatic isocyanate or an isocyanate deactivated with amines.

6. The process of claim 1 wherein the temperature of the polyacrylate when the trimerized isocyanate is added is between 60° C. and 120° C.

7. The process of claim 1 , wherein the residual monomer content in the polyacrylate when the crosslinker is added is not more than 1% by weight, based on the polymer.

8. The process of claim 1 , wherein the fraction of the acrylic and/or methacrylic esters containing primary hydroxyl groups is up to 25% by weight, based on the polyacrylate.

9. The process of claim 1 , wherein the coating unit is a multiroll coating calender having two to four rolls.

10. The process of claim 8 , wherein at least one of the rolls is provided with an anti-adhesively finished roll surface.

11. The process of claim 10 , wherein the anti-adhesively finished roll surface consists of a steel-ceramic-silicone composite.

12. The process of claim 1 , wherein the polyacrylate is the product of the following mixture of reactants:

a1) 65 to 99% by weight acrylic and/or methacrylic esters of the general formula

CH 2 ═C(R I )(COOR II )

where R I =H or CH 3 and

R II =alkyl chain having 1 to 20 carbon atoms,

a2) 1% to 20% by weight acrylates and/or methacrylates whose alcohol component contains at least one primary hydroxyl group, and/or vinyl compounds which are copolymerizable with acrylates and contain at least one primary hydroxyl group, with a fraction of 1% to 20% by weight, and

a3) and, if the fractions of a1) and a2) do not add up to 100% by weight, 0% to 15% by weight olefinically unsaturated copolymerizable monomers containing functional groups,

with a fraction of 0% to 15% by weight.

13. The process of claim 6 , wherein said temperature is between 70° C. and 100° C.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Dec 17, 2015
From: TESA SE
To: TESA SE
Reel/Frame 037317/0675 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 7, 2010
From: TESA AG
To: TESA SE
Reel/Frame 025105/0146 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 29, 2008
From: ZOLLNER, STEPHAN; HANSEN, SVEN; BRANDES, KAY; SPEER, JORG
To: TESA AG
Reel/Frame 021756/0780 →