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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
May. 30, 2007
Louis L. Grube, Bound Brook, NJ (US);
Michael D. Desouto, Somerset, MA (US);
Anthony Ruffine, Lebanon, NJ (US);
Louis L. Grube, Bound Brook, NJ (US);
Michael D. DeSouto, Somerset, MA (US);
Anthony Ruffine, Lebanon, NJ (US);
Building Materials Investment Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A building material product and a method of making building material products, having increased resistance to granule rub off and staining. The building material product comprises a substrate having embedded granules and an acrylic latex coating positioned on the granules, where the polymer of the acrylic latex coating has the repeating structural unit [CH—C(R)(R)], where Ris hydrogen or C-Calkyl; Ris hydrogen, cyano or —COOR; and R is a linear or branched hydrocarbon containing 1-22 carbon atoms, with the proviso that Rand Rare both not hydrogen. The method includes applying this acrylic latex water based composition to a granule embedded substrate.