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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:
Jul. 11, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
524555 ; 524539 ; 524559 ; 524745 ;
Abstract
The invention is directed to aqueous coating compositions which are freeze-thaw stable in the absence of conventional volatile coalescing solvents and volatile freeze-thaw (F/T) additives and which utilize a latex binder which contains an EVA thermoplastic interpolymer which is prepared by emulsion polymerization of ethylene, vinyl acetate and a monomer represented by structure (I) ##STR1## where R is hydrogen or a methyl group, X is O or NH, and n is an integer from 1 to 11 and to the latex binder which contains the EVA interpolymer.