Abstract: This description is directed to a spray gun comprising a spray gun body, an air cap, a fluid spray nozzle having a fluid tip, at least one air distribution channel for atomizing air and at least one air distribution channel for fan air, wherein the fluid spray nozzle and the air cap are configured to direct an atomization airflow at an angle of about 10 to about 70 degrees into the coating composition jet, and the fluid spray nozzle and the air cap are configured to provide an atomizing air pressure to fan air pressure ratio of about 0.1 to about 10. The description is also directed to the use of the spray gun for applying water-based coating compositions, a method for producing a coating layer over a substrate with a coating composition, and a method for applying a layer of a water-based coating composition onto a substrate.

Abstract: A method for making a coating composition by mixing one or more latex polymers and an aliphatic epoxy resin system having an epoxy equivalent weight less than 1000 and being distinct from the one or more latex polymers to provide an aqueous first component, and providing a second component having reactive groups that can react with the one or more epoxy resins. A mixture of the first and second components provides a film-forming curable coating composition that may be used on substrates including cement, cement fiberboard, wood, metal, plastic, ceramic, glass and composites.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining illumination angle and viewing angle in color observation are described. The system includes an optical capturing device to acquire an image of its surroundings and a processing unit. When operated, the processing unit executes the following steps: identify a position of a light source in the image acquired by the optical capturing device; identify a position of a viewer in the image acquired by the optical capturing device; determine a first angular position of the light source with respect to the optical capturing device and a second angular position of the viewer with respect to the optical capturing device and provide the first angular position and the second angular position to define an actual viewing geometry.

Abstract: A system for displaying one or more images to select one or more matching formulas to match color and appearance of a target coating of an article includes a computing device, a display device, a host computer connected to the computing device, one or more data input devices, a first database containing repair formulas, color characteristics, and appearance characteristics, a second database containing identification information of an article or a three-dimensional model of an article or a three-dimensional mapping of a geometry of a part of an article, and a computer program product accessible to the computing device and/or the host computer and performing a computing process to retrieve at least one preliminary matching formula from the first database, select one article or a three-dimensional mapping of a geometry of one article from the second database, generate individual matching images, and display the individual matching images on the display device.

Abstract: Base coats, methods of using base coats, and methods of producing base coats are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a method of producing a base coat includes forming a CPO intermediate and a color intermediate. The CPO intermediate includes a chlorinated polyolefin at from about 5 to about 20 weight percent, based on a total weight of the CPO intermediate, as well as a CPO solvent. The color intermediate includes a color imparting additive and a color solvent that is different than the CPO solvent. The CPO intermediate and the color intermediate are combined to form the base coat, where the base coat includes from about 1 to about 3 weight percent chlorinated polyolefin and from about 5 to about 30 weight percent solids, based on a total weight of the base coat.

Abstract: An electrocoating composition is provided herein. The electrocoating composition includes an aqueous carrier. The electrocoating composition further includes a film forming binder. The film forming binder includes an epoxy-amine adduct and a blocked polyisocyanate crosslinking agent. The electrocoating composition further includes an anti-crater agent selected from the group of a polyester resin dispersion, a polyacrylate resin dispersion, and a combination thereof. The electrocoating composition further includes a supplemental anti-crater agent including a polyether modified polysiloxane.

Abstract: A system and method for automatically producing product mix and application information include a display for depicting a plurality of indicators arranged on a chart. A sensor is used for sensing one of the indicators positioned within the chart. A processor-based system retrieves from a database the mix and application information based upon the sensed indicator. The retrieved mix and application information is provided for mixing paint components.

Abstract: A method of forming a multilayer coating on a substrate is provided. The multilayer coating exhibits reduced strike-in and mottling. The method includes the steps of providing the substrate including a primer disposed thereon, applying a basecoat composition on the primer, applying a clearcoat composition on the basecoat composition, and curing the basecoat composition and the clearcoat composition to form the multilayer coating on the substrate. The basecoat composition includes a film forming resin, a pigment, and about 5% to about 75% by weight on binder of a cyclic lactone modified branched acrylic polymer having a hydroxyl monomer content of about 1% to 65% by weight, all or part of which has been reacted with a cyclic lactone, and having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of about 10,000 to about 150,000 g/mol.

Abstract: Clearcoat compositions and methods for forming a clearcoat compositions are provided. In one example, a clearcoat composition includes a binder portion A that includes a polyaspartic ester resin. An activator portion B includes a polyol-modified isocyanate that is a reaction product of a polyisocyanate component and a polyol component. The polyol component includes polycaprolactone polyol.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a coating composition for producing coatings sag-free at high coating thicknesses, being quick dry and having good appearance. This disclosure is further directed to a coating composition comprising a crosslinking activator comprising: a) one or more alkylated melamines that are essentially unreactive to a polyisocyanate, and b) a polyurea sag control agent formed by reacting an amine and an isocyanate in the presence of the alkylated melamines. The coating composition can be used to form coating layers having a sag-free wet coating thickness in a range of from 10 to 36 mil (about 0.25 to 0.91 mm). The coating composition can be particularly suitable for vehicle coatings.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a coating composition including a polyisocyanate chain extended NH functional pre-polymer, a method for coating of a metallic or plastic substrate as well as the use of the polyisocyanate chain extended NH functional pre-polymer for improving the adhesion of a coating composition on a metallic or plastic substrate and/or for improving the adhesion between two adjacent layers of multiple layers and the use of the coating composition in a one-component coating composition or two-component coating composition.

Abstract: A non-aqueous solvent composition comprising 0 to 10 wt. % of N-alkyl pyrrolidone, 0 to 5 wt. % of dimethyl sulfoxide, 10 to 50 wt. % of ?-butyrolactone, 10 to 50 wt. % of at least one monoalcohol, 10 to 60 wt. % of at least one organic solvent inert towards isocyanate groups, other than ?-butyrolactone, other than N-alkyl pyrrolidone, and consisting of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and, optionally, nitrogen, and 0 to 10 wt. % of at least one additive. The non-aqueous solvent composition can be used as barrier liquid within a coating installation of an industrial mass production coating line for the application of water-borne two-component polyurethane coatings.

Abstract: This invention relates to a crosslinking component for binder resins which is especially suitable to be used together with epoxy-group containing binders and/or (poly)isocyanates such as blocked (poly)isocyanates and which comprises at least two blocked isocyanate groups per molecule of the crosslinking component whereby at least one of the at least two blocked isocyanate groups is a group according to structural unit (I), wherein the ratio of structural units of formula (II), if present, to structural units of formula (I) is 0.40 or below. The cross-linking component may also be self-cross-linkable. The present invention further relates to a coating composition, e.g. a one-component coating composition comprising the crosslinking component and a method of its manufacture.

Abstract: An enhanced incentive management interface is provided wherein a mobile device executes computer-readable program code and is configured to cause the at least one processing device to receive notification information from an incentive management system, wherein the notification information indicates a user's eligibility to acquire an incentive, display the notification information on the at least one display device, receive, from the incentive management system, user-eligible incentives, display a selectable interactive element on the at least one display device, and in response to the user selecting the interactive element, display, on the at least one display device, an acquired incentive, wherein the acquired incentive is one of the user-eligible incentives.

Abstract: This invention relates to coating compositions curable by radical polymerization by means of high energy radiation and by at least one additional chemical curing reaction, comprising: A) at least one compound capable of free-radical polymerization having at least one olefinically unsaturated group, B) at least one photoinitiator and C) at least one organic phosphine derivative, preferably at least one triaryl phosphine, most preferred triphenyl phosphine.

Abstract: This invention relates to a coating composition, a method for coating of a metallic substrate as well as the use of the coating in a two-component coating composition.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the application of anti-corrosion coatings for a ferrous substrate. The first coating applied to the ferrous substrate is an electrocoat composition comprising electrically conductive pigments. A dried a cured coating layer of the first electrocoat composition provides the basis for a second electrocoat composition.

Abstract: An adhesive binder composition for adhering a paper sheet to a gypsum article with a gypsum layer having at least one paper sheet on a major surface thereof. The adhesive binder composition includes a polymeric adhesive and at least one surfactant. The adhesive binder composition resides at a boundary between the gypsum layer and the paper sheet.

Abstract: A graft copolymer is provided herein. The graft copolymer includes a polymeric backbone. The polymeric backbone includes a cyclic amine-containing moiety. The graft copolymer further includes a first side chain bound to the polymeric backbone, wherein the first side chain includes an acid-containing moiety. The graft copolymer further includes a second side chain bound to the polymeric backbone, wherein the second side chain includes an alkoxylated moiety. Another graft copolymer is provided herein. The graft copolymer includes a polymeric backbone. The polymeric backbone includes a quaternary ammonium moiety formed from a reaction of an amine-containing moiety and an alkylation agent. The graft copolymer further includes a first side chain bound to the polymeric backbone, wherein the first side chain includes an acid-containing moiety. The graft copolymer further includes a second side chain bound to the polymeric backbone, wherein the second side chain includes an alkoxylated moiety.

Abstract: System and methods for matching color and appearance of a target coating are provided herein. The system includes an electronic imaging device configured to receive a target image data of the target coating. The target image data includes target coating features. The system further includes one or more feature extraction algorithms that extracts the target image features from the target image data. The system further includes a machine-learning model that identifies a calculated match sample image from a plurality of sample images utilizing the target image features. The machine-learning model includes pre-specified matching criteria representing the plurality of sample images for identifying the calculated match sample image from the plurality of sample images.