US 7,452,195 B2
Apparatus for preparation of aqueous emulsion from curable silicone composition and suspension of cured silicone particles
Kazuhiko Ando, Chiba Prefecture (Japan); Keiji Yoshida, Chiba Prefecture (Japan); Toyohiko Yamadera, Chiba Prefecture (Japan); Yoshitsugu Morita, Chiba Prefecture (Japan); and Mitsuo Hamada, Chiba Prefecture (Japan)
Assigned to Dow Corning Toray Silicone Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Mar. 01, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/680,934.
Application 11/680934 is a division of application No. 10/475451, filed on Apr. 02, 2004, granted, now 7,202,301.
Claims priority of application No. 2001-129453 (JP), filed on Apr. 26, 2001; and application No. PCT/JP02/04297 (WO), filed on Apr. 26, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2007/0155893 A1, Jul. 05, 2007
Int. Cl. B29B 9/06 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 425—5  [425/6] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for preparation of an aqueous emulsion from a curable silicone composition, said apparatus comprising:
a continuous mixer for mixing (A) an organopolysiloxane having at least two silicon-bonded hydroxyl groups in one molecule, (B) an organohydrogensiloxane having at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms in one molecule, and (C) a curing catalyst;
a distribution device, which is connected to said continuous mixer from below; and comprises an outlet die having orifices for discharging the liquid mixture of components (A), (B) and (C) from said continuous mixer in the form of threads or tapes flowing down through said orifices, and a slit for discharging (D) an aqueous solution of a surface-active agent; and
an emulsifier connected from below to said outlet die of said distribution device.