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Coating composition

US4137208A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 4, 1977
Grant dateJan 30, 1979
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Expiry dateMay 4, 1997

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC09D7/42
  • WIPO fieldBasic materials chemistry
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Pigmented coating compositions having improved opacity and film strength comprise an aqueous latex of film-forming resin binder, a non-solvent for the resin binder of sufficiently low volatility to produce, upon first removing water from a film of the coating composition and secondly removing said non-solvent, a continuous non-porous microcellular film having minute discrete substantially closed voids, non-film-forming granules of a polymer which is not dissolved by the non-solvent, and pigment and/or extender, which may be present in the latex or the non-solvent or the polymer granules. The polymer granules may be spheroidal beads or aggregates. The non-solvent and the polymer granules alleged to act synergistically to improve the opacity of the paint.

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