The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Michael J Maximovich

Gary Lee Burroway

Bill B Gross

Robert T Prudence

Copolymers of at least one hydrophobic enhancing monomer (e.g. styrene); at least one monomer selected from the group of acrylates, vinyl ethers, and conjugated dienes; and at least one hydrophillic enhancing organic acid (e.g. acrylic acid) are incorporated into water reducible coating compositions typified by the following formulation:

Water reducible coating compositions

A water reducible resin composition, a water reducible admixture of such resin with solvents and plasticizers, a water reduced form of such mixture suitable for a coating, and a coating prepared from such water reduced mixture. Said resin is required to be prepared from a balance of hydrophobic enhancing and hydrophilic enhancing monomers. Generally such hydrophobic enhancing monomers are required to be a balance of monomers promoting hard and soft segments of the resin.

Resin composition

A block polymer of an alkyl vinyl aromatic compound, conjugated diolefins and an alkyl-vinylpyridine with the central poly(diolefin) segment being branched by copolymerization with divinyl benzene to give a composition having improved 100 percent modulus, usually from 400 to 1400 pounds per square inch.

Block polymer

Method of preparing a coating composition

Copolymers of at least two acrylate monomers such as isobutyl methacrylate and 2-ethylhexyl methacrylate, an organic acid or acid anhydride, and N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone are incorporated into water reducible coating compositions typified by the following general formulation:

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