Composite polytetrafluoroethylene article and a process for making the same
CA 1165080 A · Owner: Gore (W. L.) & Associates, Inc. · Inventors: Bowman, Jeffery B.
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A porous polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) article which is made up of a number of smaller articles with a microstructure of nodes interconnected by fibrils, these articles having been joined to one another such that their microstructure is virtually unaltered across the join. A process for producing such a PTFE article by closely abutting small-shaped PTFE segments and applying force perpendicular to the seam while heating to a temperature above the crystalline melt point of the segments.
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- Granted April 10, 1984. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended April 10, 2001.
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