Teroson Gmbh

Bernhard Kosters

Gunther Butschbacher

A method of coating to produce a two-layer, vibration-absorbing and anti-corrosive, abrasion-resistant coating for rigid substrates, in particular for sheet metals in the underbody region of motor vehicles, for reducing the noise caused by impacting particles, comprises an inner layer, facing the substrate, of a polymer A and a plasticizer P.sub.1, and a covering layer of a polymer B and a plasticizer P.sub.2, such that either the polymers A and B have a different chemical composition and the polymer A is essentially incompatible with the plasticizer P.sub.2 and the polymer B is essentially incompatible with the plasticizer P.sub.1, or both layers contain essentially the same concentration of one plasticizer (P.sub.1 =P.sub.2), so that there is no risk of one layer being impaired by the plasticizer from the other layer.

Two-layer coating and process for its production

A two-layer, vibration-absorbing and anti-corrosive, abrasion-resistant coating for rigid substrates, in particular for sheet metals in the underbody region of motor vehicles, for reducing the noise caused by impacting particles, comprises an inner layer, facing the substrate, of a polymer A and a plasticizer P.sub.1, and a covering layer of a polymer B and a plasticizer P.sub.2, such that either the polymers A and B have a different chemical composition and the polymer A is essentially incompatible with the plasticizer P.sub.2 and the polymer B is essentially incompatible with the plasticizer P.sub.1, or both layers contain essentially the same concentration of one plasticizer (P.sub.1 =P.sub.2), so that there is no risk of one layer being impaired by the plasticizer from the other layer.

Subject of this invention are plastisols based on selected plasticizers and on polymers of certain acrylic or methacrylic monomers, viz. mainly (i) t-butyl acrylate, a C.sub.1-4 alkyl, especially methyl, acrylate or cyclohexyl methacrylate, and optionally also (ii) one or more comonomers selected from methacrylates of aliphatic C.sub.2 to C.sub.10 alcohols, acrylates of aliphatic C.sub.1 to C.sub.10 alcohols, styrene and alpha-methyl styrene. The glass transition temperature of the polymer is above 35.degree. C., its average degree of polymerization more than 400 and its average particle size in the plastisol is 0.1 to 500 microns.

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Bernhard Kosters