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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gary P Craun, Berea, OH (US);
Beth A Smith, Broadview Heights, OH (US);
Neal S Williams, Bracknell, GB;
Assignee:
The Glidden Company, Cleveland, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08K / ; C08L / ; C08L / ; C08L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
523403 ; 523409 ; 523412 ;
Abstract
An aqueous protective coating composition particularly useful for can coatings based on a polymeric binder comprises diepoxide crosslinked microgel particles. The microgel polymer is produced by dispersing into water a carboxyl functional acrylic-epoxy copolymer and combined with a carboxyl functional latex polymer along with a low molecular weight diepoxide, followed by coreaction and crosslinking between the carboxyl polymers and the diepoxide to form stable aqueous dispersed microgel particles. In a preferred aspect of the invention, the carboxyl latex polymer is a swollen latex polymer.