Claims
- 1. An adhesive composition, comprising:
- a) an ethylene copolymer comprising ethylene and an ethylenically unsaturated polar monomer having a polar moiety of the formula O--(CO)C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl of --(CO)--OC.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl;
- b) from 2 to 35 weight percent, based on the total weight of a) plus b) plus c), of c) is present, of a metallocene polyethlene graft-modified with an acid grafting agent, the acid grafting agent being an unsaturated carboxylic acid or its derivative, and the level of grafting being such that the total amount of grafting agent in the total composition a) plus b) plus c) is from 0.01 to 3 weight percent; and
- c) optionally up to 30 weight percent of a hydrocarbon elastomer.
- 2. The composition of claim 1, wherein component a) is selected from an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer or is selected from an ethylene alkyl acrylate or methacrylate ester and component b) is an acid grafted metallocene polyethlene, the metallocene polyethylene selected from the group consisting of (i) those having a melt flow ratio of less than 6.53 and an Mw/Mn ratio of greater than the melt flow ratio lest 4.63, and (ii) those having a melt flow ratio of equal or greater than 5.63 and an Mw/Mn ratio of equal or less than the melt flow ratio less 4.63, with the proviso that Mw/Mn cannot be less than 1, and wherein component b) is present in an amount of from 2 to 35 weight percent, based on the total weight of a) plus b) plus c).
- 3. The composition of claim 1, wherein component b) is selected from a grafted metallocene linear low density polyethylene copolymer of ethylene and a C3-C8 alpha-olefin comonomer.
- 4. The composition of claim 1 wherein b) is less than 30 weight percent of the total composition, and the amount of grafting agent is from 0.05 to 0.25 weight percent of the total composition a) plus b) plus c).
- 5. The composition of claim 2 wherein the metallocene polyethylene has a melt flow ratio of less than 6.53 and an Mw/Mn ratio of greater than the melt flow ratio less 4.63.
- 6. The composition of claim 3 wherein b) is less than 20 weight percent of the total composition, and the amount of grafting is from 0.02 to 0.5 weight percent of the total composition a) plus b) plus c).
Parent Case Info
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/072,734, filed Jan. 27, 1998.
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