Patent GB-1148851-A (GB)
Title: Coatings on metal surfaces
Inventor: KOLB GUNTER
IPC: C08F20/52
Filed: 1967-05-02
Abstract: 1,148,851. Coating compositions based on copolymer emulsions. FARBENFABRIKEN BAYER A.G. 2 May, 1967 [14 June, 1966], No. 20237/67. Heading C3P. [Also in Division B2] A coating composition comprises an aqueous copolymer emulsion obtained by copolymerizing (a) 0À1 to 50% by wt. based on the total monomer, of at least one monomer of Formula (I) CH 2  = C(R 1 ) CO. NH. CH 2  NH. COOR 2  wherein R 1  and R 2  represent alkyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl or aryl and R 1  may in addition represent hydrogen, (b) at least 25% by wt. based on the total monomer, or at least one monomer with an elasticizing action which is a conjugated aliphatic diolefin having 4 to 6 carbon atoms (e.g. butadiene and methyl- or chloro-derivatives thereof) (35 to 45% by wt.), an ester of acrylic acid with an alcohol containing 1 to 18 carbon atoms (45 to 60% by wt) or an ester of methacrylic acid with an alcohol containing 4 to 18 carbon atoms (45 to 80% by wt.) and (c) 0 to 70% by wt., based on the total monomer, or at least one additional monomer capable of copolymerizing with monomers (a) and (b). R 1  and R 2  may represent alkyl having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, cycloalkyl having 5 to 7 carbon atoms, phenylalkyl having 1 to 3 carbon atoms in the alkyl moiety, phenyl or naphthyl. The copolymer may comprise 1 to 20% of units derived from the monomer of Formula I. Additional radicalcopolymerizable monomers containing double bonds (c) or mixtures thereof, may optionally also be used e.g. esters of methacrylic acid with alcohols having 1 to 3 carbon atoms; vinyl esters such as vinyl acetate, propionate or benzoate; vinyl ethers such as vinyl-n-butyl ether, unsaturated hydrocarbons such as ethylene and propylene; unsaturated halohydrocarbons such as vinyl chloride or 1, 1-dichloroethane; aromatic vinyl compounds such as styrene, α-methyl styrene, vinyl toluene; α-#- unsaturated carboxylic acids such as acrylic and methacrylic acid and their derivatives such as acrylamide and methacrylamide, acrylonitrile, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, 2-hydroxypropyl acrylate, 2-amino ethyl methacrylate hydrochloride and 2-dimethylamino methacrylate; and 2-vinyl pyridine. The copolymer is prepared in suspension or in emulsion using conventional catalysts which form free radicals (e.g. a potassium persulphate-sodium pyrosulphite or cumene hydroperoxide-sodium formaldehyde sulphoxylate combination), e.g. in aqueous emulsion at a pH below 7, at temperatures not above 70‹ C. In examples copolymers are prepared of (a) butyl arcylate, acrylonitrile, methyl methacrylate, methacrylamidomethyl carbamic acid ethyl ester and methacrylic acid, (b) butyl acrylate, styrene, methacrylic acid and methacrylamidomethylene carbamic acid methyl ester, (c) ethyl acrylate, butyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate, methacrylamide, methacrylic acid and acrylamidomethylene carbamic acid phenyl ester, and (d) methacrylamidomethylene carbamic acid isopropyl ester, methacrylamide, styrene and butadiene. Emulsions of these latter copolymers are formulated into coating compositions by the addition of (i) naphthalene-sulphonic acid-formaldehyde condensation product, dibutyl phthalate, talc, strontium chromate, titanium dioxide, mica, iron oxide black, sodium aluminium silicate and sodium benzoate, or (ii) the same components as in (i) except that the titanium and iron oxides are replaced by zinc sulphide and barium sulphate.