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Sun Chemical Corporation

Bruce H Marshall

Henry E Blenner

Ralph Francis Arcurio

Alexander Lahr

Mike Schmidt

Described herein are opaque water-based inks that include water and an opacity-providing polymer component. In one aspect, the opacity providing polymer component is a hollow sphere polymer material. The opacity-providing polymer material may replace all or part of white opacifying pigment material, such as titanium dioxide. Also described herein is a method of opacifying a printing ink by adding hollow sphere resin particles and a colorant to a printing ink that comprises water as a volatile component.

Opaque water-based inks

The present invention is directed to a water-based printing ink or coating composition comprising an acrylic resin emulsion and an epoxy ester resin dispersion. The present invention also provides a process for preparing the printing ink or coating composition comprising forming an emulsion of an acrylic resin having the general formula I by copolymerizing monomers in water, forming an epoxy ester resin dispersion by adding the epoxy ester resin to a solvent and combining the acrylic resin emulsion and the epoxy resin ester dispersion to provide the composition. Finally the present invention provides a process for preparing an article with a coating or an ink printed thereon which comprises applying the ink or coating composition to a surface of an article and drying the composition. The compositions exhibit a high degree of alkali resistance, acid resistance and/or water softener resistance.

Water-based coatings

An electrical socket has a body with a pair of spaced-apart channels for receiving the prongs of a male electrical plug. A pair of electrical contacts are mounted in said body respectively adjacent to said channels and in communication therewith. A pair of legs are pivotally mounted on the body and are movable between locking and unlocking positions. Each leg carries a finger which enters the aperture of the prong on the associated electrical plug when the legs are in the locking position thereof.

Electrical socket

The plug cap has a body with a pair of spaced-apart channels for receiving the prongs of a male electrical plug. A pair of legs are pivotally mounted on the body and are movable between locking and unlocking positions. Each leg carries a finger which enters the aperture of the prong on the associated electrical plug when the legs are in the locking positions thereof.

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Chicago, IL, United States of America

Bruce H Marshall