Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 15
Claim 1
Independent Claim
76 words
A water-based coating composition having reduced solvent popping, water-popping and sagging characteristics comprising a thermosetting, film-forming organic binder dispersed in an aqueous medium containing at least 60 percent by weight of water, said organic binder consisting essentially of: A. an interpolymer consisting essentially of: 1. from about 10 percent to about 40 percent of a carboxylic acid amide in units of the structure: ##STR4## wherein R' is hydrogen or lower alkyl and R is lower alkyl;
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
76 words
A water-based coating composition having reduced solvent popping, water-popping and sagging characteristics comprising a thermosetting, film-forming organic binder dispersed in an aqueous medium containing at least 60 percent by weight of water, said organic binder consisting essentially of: A. an interpolymer consisting essentially of: 1. from about 10 percent to about 40 percent of a carboxylic acid amide in units of the structure: ##STR4## wherein R' is hydrogen or lower alkyl and R is lower alkyl;
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
102 words
from about 5 to about 20 percent of units of an alpha, beta-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, and 3. units of at least one other ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing a CH 2 = C< group, wherein said interpolymer is solubilized by neutralizing at least part of the carboxylic acid groups with a base; B. from about 5 percent to about 40 percent by weight of binder solids of a non-volatile water-soluble or water-dispersible polyether polyol or polyester polyol having a molecular weight of at least 300; and C. from about 5 percent to about 40 percent by weight of binder solids of a
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
102 words
from about 5 to about 20 percent of units of an alpha, beta-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, and 3. units of at least one other ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing a CH 2 = C< group, wherein said interpolymer is solubilized by neutralizing at least part of the carboxylic acid groups with a base; B. from about 5 percent to about 40 percent by weight of binder solids of a non-volatile water-soluble or water-dispersible polyether polyol or polyester polyol having a molecular weight of at least 300; and C. from about 5 percent to about 40 percent by weight of binder solids of a
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
22 words
water soluble or water-dispersible aldehyde condensation resin. 2. The water-based coating composition of claim 1 wherein said amide is N-(butoxymethyl)acrylamide or N-(butoxymethyl)methacrylamide.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
20 words
The water-based coating composition of claim 1 wherein said alpha, beta-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid is acrylic acid or methacrylic acid.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
25 words
The water-based coating composition of claim 1 wherein the other monomer containing a CH 2 =C< group is a mixture of hardening and flexibilizing monomers.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
26 words
The water-based coating composition of claim 4 wherein the hardening monomer is styrene, vinyl toluene or an alkyl methacrylate having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
56 words
The water-based coating composition of claim 4 wherein the flexibilizing monomer is one or more alkyl or substituted alkyl esters of acrylic or methacrylic acid, wherein the alkyl or substituted alkyl groups have 1 to 13 carbon atoms in the case of acrylic esters and 5 to 16 carbon atoms in the case of methacrylic esters.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
14 words
The water-based coating composition of claim 1 wherein said base is a monomeric amine.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
12 words
The water-based coating composition of claim 1 wherein said base is dimethylethanolamine.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
16 words
The water-base coating composition of claim 1 wherein said polyether polyol is a sucrose polyether polyol.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
14 words
The water-based coating composition of claim 1 wherein said aldehyde condensation resin is hexa(methoxymethyl)melamine.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
43 words
The water-based coating composition of claim 1 wherein said aldehyde condensation resin is a methylolphenol ether having the structure: ##STR5## wherein n is a integer of from 1 to 3 and R is an unsaturated aliphatic group or a halogen-substituted unsaturated aliphatic group.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
26 words
The water-based coating composition of claim 1 wherein said aldehyde condensation resin comprises a mixture of a methylolated melamine formaldehyde resin and a methylol phenol ether.