Abstract: According to some embodiments, a system and method for dispensing a floor coating in a specified ratio of multiple components is disclosed. The system and method may set and maintain a desired ratio of the multiple components by controlling, with a controller, a drive rate of respective pumps configured for propelling the components from a reservoir to a mixer or a dispenser. The controller may be responsive to at least one of a measured actual drive rate, an environmental condition, an actual usage of each component, and an operational parameter of the system, for adjusting a drive rate of the respective pumps to compensate for discrepancies that may affect the ratio of the multiple components.

Abstract: Titanium dioxide particles are dispersed in an aqueous medium with a polymeric latex which adsorbs to the surface of the titanium dioxide to give a low-viscosity slurry or pigment grind of composite titanium dioxide-polymeric latex particles. A high glass transition polymeric latex can be used as the dispersant, and a low glass transition temperature binder latex can be added. The zeta potential of the polymeric latex can be at least about 30 millivolts more negative than the zeta potential of the titanium dioxide. The adsorbed polymeric latex provides more optimal spacing of the titanium dioxide particles in films formed from coating compositions formulated using the composite particles, and consequently greater film opacity and hiding at a given pigment volume concentration.

Abstract: Inorganic material particles are dispersed in an aqueous medium with surface charge adjusting additives to give a moderately stable slurry or pigment grind. The dispersion can be used to prepare fully formulated compositions. Products formulated using the aqueous dispersion can be prepared to give the same performance as products including inorganic material dispersed with conventional polyelectrolyte pigment dispersants, but with higher levels of inorganic material, or superior performance properties with like levels of inorganic material.

Abstract: A method for achieving the maximum film gloss of a dried film of a waterborne coating composition, or paint, is provided. The waterborne coating composition contains a predominant pigment and two emulsion polymers, the three particulate components having certain relative amounts and size relationships to one another.

Abstract: This invention relates to a non-aqueous coating composition and a method for reducing the drying time of a non-aqueous coating composition by incorporating composite polymer particles having a softer, insoluble first stage and a hard second stage without adversely affecting the viscosity and pot life of the liquid coating composition and without degrading the properties of the final dry coating, including color, flexibility, impact resistance, gasoline resistance, salt spray resistance and humidity resistance.

Abstract: Novel thickening agents, useful for thickening non-aqueous solvent-containing compositions, are provided. The thickening agents are the reaction product of a polyol containing at least two hydroxyl groups; a polyisocyanate containing at least two isocyanato groups; and an active hydrogen compound. A method of thickening non-aqueous systems by admixing with the novel thickening agents is also provided.

Abstract: Low levels of surface-active, aliphatic C.sub.16 or greater hydrocarbon-type compounds are used to reduce the rate of evaporation of water from waterborne polymer products such as latex coatings. This increases the wet-edge or open time of the freshly applied coating, improves integrity and adhesion of the dried coating, and reduces skin formation in containers and on application equipment.

Abstract: This application concerns compositions comprising a mixture of an air-drying dicyclopentenyl acrylate or methacrylate binder and a granular or particulate aggregate material, which may comprise a hydraulic cement, and is adapted to be formed by casting, extruding, or molding in any fashion into any desired shape and air-drying the resulting shaped article, thereby producing an integral, solid article of unitary mass and structure. The dicyclopentenyl (meth)acrylate may be used as an impregnant, polymerizable in situ, for already formed articles of porous nature, e.g., concrete, wood, pressed boards, and pressed powdered metal, such as iron, aluminum, steel, etc., to reduce the permeability at their surfaces and provide hard, continuous, hydrophobic, wear-resistant, and weather-resistant surfaces thereon.

Abstract: Disclosed are inks containing compounds of the formula: ##STR1## where --R.sup.1 is --H or --CH.sub.3--R.sup.2 is an aliphatic, preferably linear hydrocarbyl, radical having 11-23 carbon atoms and containing at least one olefinic double bond, or mixtures thereof, --R.sup.2 being free of terminal double bonds, and--X-- is either (a) --OR.sup.3 O-- in which R.sup.3 is an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon residue containing from 2 to 10 carbon atoms, or (b) --O(CH.sub.2 CHR.sup.4 O).sub.n -- where R.sup.4 is --H or --CH.sub.3 and n is an integer of from 2-10, or mixtures thereof.Preferably, --X-- is --OR.sup.3 O-- wherein R.sup.3 is --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 -- or ##STR2## --R.sup.1 is --CH.sub.3, and --R.sup.2 is a mixture of hydrocarbyl moieties derived from drying oils and is at least in part polyunsaturated, and more preferably, predominantly so.

Abstract: Disclosed are inks containing compounds of the formula: ##STR1## where --R.sup.1 is --H or --CH.sub.3--R.sup.2 is an aliphatic, preferably linear hydrocarbyl, radical having 11-23 carbon atoms and containing at least one olefinic double bond, or mixtures thereof, -R.sup.2 being free of terminal double bonds, and--X-- is either (a) --OR.sup.3 O-- in which R.sup.3 is an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon residue containing from 2 to 10 carbon atoms, or (b) --O(CH.sub.2 CHR.sup.4 O).sub.n -- where R.sup.4 is --H or --CH.sub.3 and n is an integer of from 2-10, or mixtures thereof.Preferably, --X-- is --OR.sup.3 O-- wherein R.sup.3 is --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 -- or ##STR2## --R.sup.1 is --CH.sub.3, and --R.sup.2 is a mixture of hydrocarbyl moieties derived from drying oils and is at least in part polyunsaturated, and more preferably, predominantly so.

Abstract: Described herein is a pigment paste for use in an aqueous paint comprising a film-forming latex polymer, a pigment and a dispersant copolymer. Also described is the dispersant copolymer which serves the function of dispersing the pigment in the preparation of the paste and maintaining the dispersion in the paste and paint made therefrom. The dispersant copolymer is such that its complex salt formed with Zn++ and ammonia is water-soluble at a pH of 9.6. The dispersant is a copolymer of an .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated monovinylidene carboxylic acid and at least one other ethylenically unsaturated monomer. The dispersant is particularly adapted to preparing paste for difficult-to-formulate paints such as paints with reactive pigments and paints requiring high levels of dispersant.

Abstract: This application concerns compositions comprising a mixture of air-drying dicyclopentenyl acrylate or methacrylate binder and a granular or particulate aggregate material, which may comprise a hydraulic cement, and is adapted to be formed by casting, extruding, or molding in any fashion into any desired shape and air-drying and resulting shaped article, thereby producing an integral, solid article of unitary mass and structure. The dicyclopentenyl (meth)acrylate may be used as an impregnant, polymerizable in situ, for already formed articles of porous nature, e.g., concrete, wood, pressed boards, and powdered pressed metal, such as aluminum, iron, steel, etc., to reduce the permeability at their surfaces and provides hard, continuous, hydrophobic, wear-resistant, and weather-resistant surfaces thereon.

Abstract: This invention is concerned with autoxidizable coating compositions which contain(a) a member selected from the group consisting of an organic polyisocyanate, a urethane oil, and a uralkyd;(b) at least one non-volatile reactive liquid monomer selected from the group consisting of dicyclopentenyl acrylate and dicyclopentenyl methacrylate; and(c) an effective amount of a polyvalent metal-containing complex or salt that catalyzes the curing of (a) and (b).Use of the non-volatile reactive liquid component enables the production of coating compositions having high application solids content and yet having suitable viscosity for efficient handling. The coatings obtained from the compositions of the present invention combine the typical desirable properties including durability, weather-resistance, etc.

Abstract: This invention is concerned with certain vinyl resin coating compositions in which the vinyl resin binder or film-forming component is normally dissolved in an organic solvent which is volatilized after application of the composition to the surface of substrates to be finished. The vinyl resin component is generally of high molecular weight and it is normally difficult to obtain a reasonable viscosity in the coating composition without excessive dilution with organic solvent and the necessity to apply a plurality of coats to obtain the desired protective thickness. The present invention has been found to alleviate or reduce this difficulty in the particular solution coating compositions with which it is concerned, namely thermoplastic vinyl or acrylic polymer solutions, polyvinyl acetals, and chlorinated polyisoprene containing about 64-65% chlorine.

Abstract: The present invention is concerned with film-forming polymer dispersions, especially in aqueous systems, such as aqueous solutions of polymers of monoethylenically unsaturated monomers as well as latices or dispersions in an aqueous medium of water-insoluble particles of polymers, such as those obtained by emulsion polymerization. It involves the addition to such aqueous polymer systems in order to improve hardness, blocking-resistance and film-formation at room temperature or below, of a non-volatile, reactive monomer comprising dicyclopentenyl acrylacte or methacrylate to serve as an air-curing coalescent.

Abstract: This invention is concerned with coating and/or impregnating compositions comprising(a) A copolymer of 5 to 50% by weight of dicyclopentenyl acrylate or methacrylate with 50 to 95% by weight of at least one other monoethylenically unsaturated comonomer.(b) An essentially non-volatile reactive comonomer consisting of dicyclopentenyl acrylate or methacrylate or a mixture thereof, or comprising a mixture of at least 50% by weight of one or both of these monomers with up to 50% by weight of at least one other reactive monomer, such as a (C.sub.10 -C.sub.20)alkyl acrylate or methacrylate, a (C.sub.10 -C.sub.20)alkenyl acrylate or methacrylate, a di(C.sub.4 -C.sub.20)-alkyl fumarate, maleate, or itaconate, or a polyethylenically unsaturated monomer, such as a polyol polymethacrylate, e.g. glycol dimethacrylate, or the analogous diacrylate, or mixtures of two or more such monomers.

Abstract: This invention is concerned with coating compositions comprising an unsaturated polyol/polycarboxylic acid alkyd or polyester condensate resin (including drying oil-modified alkyd), the polycarboxylic acid or anhydride precursor(s) of which alkyd may be aromatic, aliphatic, or both. In one preferred embodiment Type A, the polyacid is predominantly or exclusively aliphatic and in another Type B, it is predominantly or exclusively aromatic in character. The alkyd or polyester is carried (dissolved) predominantly or exclusively in a substantially non-volatile reactive liquid consisting essentially of a) dicyclopentenyl acrylate or methacrylate or mixtures thereof or of b) a mixture of such (meth)acrylate with one or more alkyl or alkenyl esters of acrylic or methacrylic acid in which the alkyl and/or alkenyl group contains 10 to 20 carbon atoms. The compositions also contain a polyvalent metal-containing drier or siccative; optionally a volatile agent for inhibiting the action of the drier, i.e.

Abstract: An improved glossy, aqueous emulsion paint comprised of a mixture of a film-forming latex polymer and dispersed pigment is prepared by incorporating therein, as pigment dispersant, a water-soluble salt of a low molecular weight copolymer of hydroxyalkyl ester of acrylic or methacrylic acid and acrylic or methacrylic acid.