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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2003
Sharad Mathur, Macon, GA (US);
Richard R. Berube, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Engelhard Corporation, Iselin, NJ (US);
Abstract
In a process for preparing a white pigment mixture suitable for coating paper wherein a cationically bulked kaolin clay pigment is dispersed in water in the presence of an anionic dispersant and mixed with a calcium carbonate pigment, the improvement which comprises using an epichlorohydrin amine complex to bulk said kaolin, and employing as the dispersant the combination of at least 0.2% based on the dry weight of said cationically bulked kaolin of a condensed naphthalene sulfonate complex having a molecular weight of 2000 to 10,000 and a sodium polyacrylate salt having a molecular weight of 2000 to 5000, said dispersant being free from lignosulfonate.