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Butyl Rubber
Polyisobutylene was a soft, sticky material that could not be vulcanised - it had no double bonds left for sulphur to bridge. At Standard Oil in 1937 William Sparks and Robert Thomas added a few percent of isoprene to the isobutylene, just enough double bonds to cure it, and polymerised the mix far below freezing. The result held air better than any rubber before it, and inner tubes have been made of it ever since.
**US 2,356,128**, "Mixed olefinic polymerization process and product", Thomas and Sparks, assigned to Jasco, filed 20. October 1939, granted 22. August 1944: an isoolefin with a small amount of diolefin, polymerised below 0 °C (down to about -160 °C) with aluminium chloride; it describes "a low, controlled, chemical unsaturation, capable of being cured with sulfur".
**You measure the two properties that made its name**: it barely bounces, and it barely leaks.
Débutant
1 hour plus a week of readings
Consignes
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Make a butyl pad
Make a butyl pad
Cut 80 mm pieces from a bicycle inner tube and flatten them. Stack three (six walls) and tape the edges so it is about as thick as the natural rubber sheet.
Matériaux pour cette étape :
Chambre à air1 pièce
Ruban de masquage1 rouleauOutils nécessaires :
Ciseaux2
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Drop and watch
Drop and watch
Tape a metal ruler upright beside each pad on a solid floor. Drop the steel ball from 500 mm, five times per pad, and read the top of the first bounce. Filming at eye level makes it easier.
Matériaux pour cette étape :
Plaque de caoutchouc naturel1 pièceOutils nécessaires :
Roulement à billes en acier
Règle métallique3
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Inflate the leak test
Inflate the leak test
Pump the rest of the tube just until it is round - do not stretch it. Blow up a latex balloon to about the same firmness and tie it. Mark where you will measure each with tape.
Matériaux pour cette étape :
Ballons de baudruche1 paquetOutils nécessaires :
Pompe à pied pour vélo4
4
Measure for a week
Measure for a week
Each day at the same time measure the balloon round its middle and the tube round its cross-section at the mark. Note the room temperature.
Outils nécessaires :
Mètre ruban
Thermomètre d'ambiance5
5
Bounce and leak
Bounce and leak
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History & Context
History & Context
**What the patent specifies:** isobutylene with a little conjugated diolefin, polymerised below 0 °C with aluminium chloride in an alkyl halide, then sulphur-cured. **Modern build (derived):** a commercial butyl inner tube.
Butyl became a strategic wartime rubber, then the air-holding liner inside every tubeless tyre, plus pond liners, roof membranes and engine mounts. Its limits: it is slow to vulcanise, does not bond well to other rubbers, and swells in oil and petrol.
Matériaux
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