The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Aug. 24, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 18, 1997
Henry J DeGraaf, Stow, OH (US);
The Glidden Company, Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
An aqueous protective coating composition particularly useful for can coatings is based on a polymeric binder comprising epoxy crosslinked microgel particles. The microgel polymer is produced by dispersing into water a carboxyl functional, acrylic-epoxy grafted copolymer, and combined with a high molecular weight, branched, multifunctional epoxide resin, followed by coreaction and crosslinking between the carboxyl copolymer and branched epoxide to form stable aqueous dispersed microgel particles. In a preferred aspect of the invention, low molecular weight liquid diepoxide is dispersed into and crosslinked with the carboxyl functional acrylic grafted epoxy copolymer.