Abstract: Methods for preparing articles of manufacture comprising coated vinyl halide polymer surfaces which can be adhered to coated or uncoated vinyl halide surfaces by dielectric heat sealing are disclosed wherein said compositions contain water dispersions of acrylate polymers containing esters of acrylic and methacrylic acid, and optionally, copolymerizable unsaturated carboxylic acids in amounts of less than 10 weight percent of said polymers, and other vinylidene monomers such as unsaturated nitriles and vinyl aromatic monomers, and as essential ingredients, small amounts of ammonium salts and larger amounts of glycerine.

Abstract: Single-package coating or ink composition of pH 7 to 12 comprising a reaction product of a binder resin and a scavenging agent which reacts with anions of the initiator used to prepare the binder resin, the binder resin has a Tg of 20.degree. to 70.degree. C., is prepared in an aqueous medium devoid of emulsifiers, and is a polymer of an ethylenically unsaturated acid of 3 to 10 carbon atoms and an acrylic monomer(s) selected from alkyl acrylates and methacrylates containing 4 to 24 carbon atoms, amount of the acid being 0 to 5 parts per 100 parts of the acrylic monomer(s).