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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1999
Helmut W. Kucera, West Springfield, PA (US);
Rebecca S. Cowles, Wattsburg, PA (US);
Lord Corporation, Cary, NC (US);
Abstract
A primer or coating composition that includes (A) an aqueous dispersion of a phenolic resin that includes water and a reaction product of a phenolic resin precursor, a modifying agent and, optionally, a multi-hydroxy phenolic compound wherein the modifying agent includes at least one functional moiety that enables the modifying agent to react with the phenolic resin precursor and at least one ionic moiety, and (B) a flexibilizer. According to one embodiment the modifying agent is an aromatic compound. According to another embodiment the ionic moiety of the modifying agent is sulfate, sulfonate, sulfinate, sulfenate or oxysulfonate and the dispersed phenolic resin reaction product has a carbon/sulfur atom ratio of 20:1 to 200:1.