The Mearl Corporation

Louis Armanini

Wasi Ahmed

Cordell E Johnson

Carl J Rieger

An article exhibiting a multicolor effect is obtained by combining a transparent substrate, an interference pigment and an absorption colorant, the pigment and colorant preferably united in the form of a combination pigment, in which the absorption colorant is of a color which is different from the transmission color of the interference pigment or the complement thereof.

Decorative objects with multicolor effects

Decorative objects with multi-color effects

Non-bleeding, non-agglomerated, lustrous colored nacreous pigments are prepared by admixing a laking reagent with an aqueous dispersion of a metal oxide coated substrate nacreous pigment and dyestuff.

Nacreous pigments colored by adsorbed dyes

Dispersed insoluble colored pigments are coated on the surface of mica and oxide-coated mica pigments by deposition in a precipitate of a polyvalent cation and an anionic polymeric substance. The resulting combination pigments have more than one color, depending on the angle of viewing.

Colored micaceous pigments

An iron blue coated substrate nacreous pigment which yields less than ten parts per million of water-soluble cyanide due to the stability thereof to heat during drying is prepared by the admixing of the substrate, ferric ion reactant, and ferrocyanide reactant under conditions such that the ferric ion and ferrocyanide reactants are in substantially stoichiometric proportions and the pH is at constant value within the range of 2.5-4.0, and adding an aluminum-containing reactant so as to form aluminum hydroxide in addition to the iron blue on said substrate. The product shows a brighter, cleaner, and purer blue color than iron blue coated substrate products prepared by other procedures.

Iron blue nacreous pigments

Unsupported metal oxide platey nacreous pigments are derived from metal oxide coated mica by a unique dissolution process and show higher luster and coverage than the pigment from which they are derived. If the metal oxide coated mica shows a reflection interference color, the unsupported product derived from it shows higher luster and greater reflection color intensity.

Metal oxide platelets as nacreous pigments

Iron oxide coated mica nacreous pigments are improved by interposing a thin layer of titanium dioxide or aluminum oxide between the iron oxide and the mica.

Iron oxide coated mica nacreous pigments

This invention relates to a titanium dioxide coated mica platey pigment which displays high luster or reflectivity in a suitable coating on a smooth surface, and which has a high resistance to change in appearance when subjected to weatherability stress. The titanium dioxide must be in the rutile crystal structure, the calcining of the titanium dioxide coated mica product must be carried out under rather extended time-temperature conditions, and the product requires a post-treatment with chromium III hydroxide.

Exterior grade titanium dioxide coated mica

By addition of ferric ions to a ferrocyanide solution and adjustment of the pH, Iron Blue is directly precipitated and adheres to a mica or metal oxide coated mica substrate.

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Louis Armanini