Abstract: Particularly high-grade blends of thermoplastic polycarbonates, graft copolymers and, optionally, further thermoplastic resins, useful as moulding materials with good low-temperature impact strength and resistance to ageing and light, which yield mouldings with superior surfaces, are obtained from graft bases which are silicone rubbers containing sulphur in addition to groups containing carbon double bonds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to thermoplastic moulding compounds based on thermoplastic polycarbonates, graft polymers and optionally thermoplastic copolymers, characterized in that the graft polymers contain at least one primary or secondary aliphatic acrylic acid ester or tert.-butyl acrylate or tert.-butyl methylacrylate incorporated by polymerization. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of these thermoplastic moulding compounds.

Abstract: Thermoplastic moulding compositions containing:A. 1-99 parts by weight of an aromatic thermoplastic polycarbonate or several aromatic thermoplastic polycarbonates andB. 1-99 parts by weight of a thermoplastic compolymer of 30-40 parts by weight of .alpha.-methylstyrene, 50-60 parts by weight of methyl methacrylate and 5-15 parts by weight of acrylonitrile.

Abstract: The present invention relates to thermoplastic moulding compositions containing (A) 20 to 80 parts by weight of a polydiorganosiloxane/polycarbonate block copolymer, (B) 70 to 5 parts by weight of a graft polymer in particle form and (C) 5 to 60 parts by weight of a rubber-free, thermoplastic vinyl polymer, the total of parts by weight of components (A)+(B)+(C) being in each case 100 parts by weight, and, if appropriate, other known additives.

Abstract: The present invention relates to thermoplastic moulding compositions consisting of polycarbonates, graft polymers and copolymers, which are characterized in that they contain special graft polymers and/or special copolymers, with the result that these moulding compositions possess a very homogeneous rubber distribution and furthermore possess very good toughness and heat stability and substantially improved heat distortion resistance.

Abstract: Thermoplastic moulding compounds containing an ABS plastics and optionally other plastics are stabilized with a benzoin derivative corresponding to the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein R represent, independently of one another, hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl or halogen; used in quantities of from 0.05 to 2%, by weight, based on the plastics.

Abstract: By adding reaction products of from 4- to 6-hydric alcohols and dicarboxylic acid anhydrides, it is possible to render originally water-insoluble polyesters dilutable with water. Stoving lacquers based on such systems give highly weather-resistant lacquer films.

Abstract: Dianhydromannitol, dianhydrosorbitol, dianhydromannitol semi-esters and dianhydrosorbitol semi-esters are outstanding raw materials for the production of aqueous stoving lacquers based on polyesters.

Abstract: This invention relates to lacquer binders which can be diluted with water, consisting of a mixture of:A. 50-94% by weight, preferably 55-80% by weight of a copolymer consisting of copolymerized units ofa. 30-65% by weight of an aromatic vinyl or isopropenyl compound having 8-14 C-atoms or of a methacrylic acid alkyl ester having 1-4 C-atoms in the alcohol component or mixtures thereof,b. 10-30% by weight of at least one acrylic acid alkyl ester having 1-8 C-atoms in the alcohol component,c. 1-20% by weight of maleic acid, fumaric acid, itaconic acid or semiesters thereof having 1-8 C-atoms in the alcohol component, or (meth)acrylic acid or mixtures of the aforesaid monomers,d. 0-20% by weight of at least one hydroxyalkyl ester of (meth)acrylic acid having 2-4 C-atoms in the alkyl group or glycidyl (meth)acrylate or mixtures of the aforesaid monomers,e. 10-30% by weight of N-methylol(meth)acrylic acid amide or N-methoxymethyl (meth)acrylic acid amide, preferably N-methoxymethyl(meth)acrylic acid amide, andf.

Abstract: Air-drying alkyd resins which are in the form of neutralized semi-esters of hexahydrophthalic acid anhydride constitute an excellent basis for coatings which undergo virtually no yellowing and which, even when aged by heat, show a high constancy of color.

Abstract: A water-dilutable lacquer binder comprising a mixture of A. 20 to 94% by weight of a copolymer consisting of copolymerized units of (a) 30 to 65% by weight of an aromatic vinyl or isopropenyl compound having 8 to 14 carbon atoms or of a methacrylic acid alkyl ester having 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the alcohol component, or any mixture thereof; (b) 10 to 30% by weight of at least one acrylic acid alkyl ester having 1 to 8 carbon atoms in the alcohol component; (c) 1 to 20% by weight of maleic acid, fumaric acid, itaconic acid or their semi-esters having 1 to 8 carbon atoms in the alcohol component, (meth)acrylic acid or any mixture of the aforesaid monomers; (d) 5 to 20% by weight of at least one hydroxyalkyl ester of (meth) acrylic acid having 2 to 4 carbon atoms in the alkyl group or glycidyl (meth)acrylate or any mixture of the aforesaid monomers; and (e) 10 to 30% by weight of N-methylol (meth)acrylic acid amide or N-methoxymethyl(meth)acrylic acid amide or any mixture thereof; B.

Abstract: A binder composition which comprises (A) from 99 to 50% by weight of copolymer consisting of copolymerized units of (a) from 5 to 90% by weight of at least one aliphatic (meth)acrylate containing from 1 to 8 carbon atoms in the alcohol moiety; (b) from 0 to 60% by weight of at least one aromatic vinyl or isopropylene compound containing from 8 to 14 carbon atoms; (c) from 1 to 40% by weight of at least one comonomer selected from (I) at least one mono (meth)acrylate of an alcohol containing from 2 to 8 carbon atoms and having from 2 to 4 hydroxyl groups; and/or (II) at least one maleic acid semi-ester corresponding to the following general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents hydrogen or methyl; and R.sub.2 represents hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, propyl, i-propyl or phenyl; and (d) from 0 to 60% by weight of at least one other olefinically unsaturated comonomer; and (B) from 1 to 50% by weight of a saturated lactam.

Abstract: Aqueous polyester and alkyd resin stoving lacquers containing .epsilon.-caprolactam as a so-called reactive diluent and small quantities of volatile organic solvents yield excellently hard coatings which are not brittle.

Abstract: A process for the production of water-dilutable binders based on air-drying short-oil alkyd resins acidified by semiester formation with dicarboxylic acid anhydrides which alkyd resins have acid numbers of from 30 to 70 and hydroxyl numbers of from 40 to 120 and a content of natural unsaturated fatty acids in an amount of from 15 to 50 % by weight and of a co-condensed natural-resin-modified phenol resol resin in an amount of from 2 to 10 % by weight, characterized in that 1. the molar composition of the alkyd resin before semiester formation corresponds to a polyalcohol/polycarboxylic acid (anhydride)/monocarboxylic acid ratio of 1 : (0.5-1) : (0.3-1), and 2. polyalcohols, polycarboxylic acids resp. their anhydrides, monocarboxylic acids and phenolic resins are co-condensed in a single process stage, followed only by semiester formation with dicarboxylic acid anhydrides.