Abstract: A linear saturated crystalline polyester of an acid moiety and a moiety of a dihydric alcohol, at least 40% of the acid moiety being a terephthalic acid moiety, said polyester containing moieties of 1,4-butanediol and 1,6-hexanediol, the ratio of the 1,4-butanediol moieties to 1,6-hexanediol moieties being 10:90 to 90:10; the use of such polyesters as a fusion coating mass, particularly in securing textile substances to a substrate.

Abstract: An improvement in a process for coating a substrate by a powder coating process wherein a polyester powder is applied to said substrate which improvement comprises using as the polyester powder a partially crystalline powder of a polyester condensation product of an acid component comprising an acid or ester of at least terephthalic acid and a diol component at least 50 molar percent of which is 1,4-butanediol; a polyester coating powder which is a partially crystalline polyester of an acid component at least part of which is an acid or ester of terephthalic acid and a diol component at least 50 molar percent of which is 1,4-butanediol, said powder having a glass transition temperature between -20.degree. and +50.degree. C., measured as the attenuation maximum in accordance with Deutsche Industrie Norm 53,445 a reduced n.sub.red viscosity of at least 0.

Abstract: An improvement in a process for coating a substrate by a powder coating process wherein a polyester powder is applied to said substrate which improvement comprises using as the polyester powder a partially crystalline powder of a polyester condensation product of an acid component comprising an acid or ester of at least terephthalic acid and a diol component at least 50 molar percent of which is 1,4-butanediol; a polyester coating powder which is a partially crystalline polyester of an acid component at least part of which is an acid or ester of terephthalic acid and a diol component at least 50 molar percent of which is 1,4-butanediol, said powder having a glass transition temperature between -20.degree. and +50.degree. C., measured as the attenuation maximum in accordance with Deutsche Industrie Norm 53,445 a reduced n.sub.red viscosity of at least 0.