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Acrylic based emulsion polymers

Assignee: Avery Dennison Corp
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Filing: 1987-12-11
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Granted: 1990-05-15
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Expires: 2007-12-11
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Abstract

Abstract A removable pressure sensitive adhesive composition comprises an acrylic-based emulsion polymer having a gel content of from about 70 to about 90% comprises about 90 to 99.5 parts alkyl acrylate monomers, up to about 2 parts polar monomers and up to about one part of a multifunctional acrylate monomer.

Inventors

  • 👤 Margaret Bernard
  • 👤 Stansliv Berman

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
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Last Synchronized 2026-10-23 19:03
CPC Classifications
C; C08; C08F; C08F220/00; C08F220/02; C08F220/10; C08F220/12; C09; C09J; C09J133/00; C09J133/04; C09J133/06; C09J133/08; C09J7/00; C09J7/30; C09J7/38; C09J7/381; C09J7/385; C09J2301/00; C09J2301/30; C09J2301/302; Y; Y10; Y10T; Y10T428/00; Y10T428/28; Y10T428/2852; Y10T428/2878; Y10T428/2891

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim 79 words
An emulsion polymer having a gel content of from about 70% to about 90%, said emulsion polymer comprising: a. from about 90 to about 99.5 parts of at least one alkyl acrylate monomer having from one to about twelve carbon atoms in the alkyl chain; b. a positive amount of up to about 2 parts of at least one polar monomer; and c. a positive amount of up to about 1 part of at least one multifunctional acrylate monomer.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 79 words
An emulsion polymer having a gel content of from about 70% to about 90%, said emulsion polymer comprising: a. from about 90 to about 99.5 parts of at least one alkyl acrylate monomer having from one to about twelve carbon atoms in the alkyl chain; b. a positive amount of up to about 2 parts of at least one polar monomer; and c. a positive amount of up to about 1 part of at least one multifunctional acrylate monomer.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 19 words
An emulsion polymer as claimed in claim 1 having a gel content of from about 75% to about 83%.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 15 words
An emulsion polymer as claimed in claim 1 comprising about 98 parts alkyl acrylate monomers.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 30 words
An emulsion polymer as claimed in claim 1 wherein at least most of the alkyl acrylate monomers comprise from about 4 to about 8 carbon atoms in the alkyl chain.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 16 words
An emulsion polymer as claimed in claim 1 comprising about 2 parts of a polar monomer.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 19 words
An emulsion polymer as claimed in claim 1 comprising from about 0.1 to about 0.3 parts multifunctional acrylate monomer.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 19 words
An emulsion polymer as claimed in claim 1 comprising a swell ratio of from about 15 to about 25.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim 19 words
An emulsion polymer as claimed in claim 7 comprising a swell ratio of from about 18 to about 23.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim 21 words
An emulsion polymer as claimed in claim 1 comprising a glass-transition temperature of from about -30° C. to about -60 C.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim 21 words
An emulsion polymer as claimed in claim 9 comprising a glass-transition temperature of from about -50° C. to about -55° C.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim 35 words
An emulsion polymer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the multifunctional acrylate monomer is selected from the group consisting of polyethylene glycol diacrylate, hexane diol diacrylate, ethoxylated trimethylpropane triacrylate, pentaerythritol triacylate and polypropylene glycol diacrylate.

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