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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1999
Gary Eugene Spilman, Lake in the Hills, IL (US);
Michael Charles Knight, Jr., McHenry, IL (US);
Lisa Kay Kemp, Algonquin, IL (US);
Joseph Leo Nothnagel, Woodstock, IL (US);
McWhorter Technologies, Inc., Carpentersville, IL (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to an aqueous dispersion of a polyester salt and polymeric vehicles which include the aqueous dispersions of a polyester salt. The polymeric vehicle is particularly effective for providing coating binders in cured primer coatings. The primer coating compositions are useful for multilayer paint coating films which have at least two layers of paint film including the cured primer coating composition film. The use of the primer polymeric vehicles of the present invention in conjunction with one or more additional overlaying top coating film layers provide a multiple layer coatings having improved adhesion and chip resistance.