Patent ID: 6958154

Claim:
A fluid composition suitable for in situ forming and adhering a touch-dry, non-tacky covering element onto a surface, comprising: (a) an effective amount of a tacky component such that the formed covering element adheres to the surface, wherein the tacky component comprises a pressure sensitive adhesive comprising a (meth)acrylate polymer, further wherein the (meth)acrylate polymer is a copolymer of monomers comprising about 40 to about 100 weight percent of an alkyl (meth)acrylate and 0 to about 60 weight percent of a free radically copolymerizable monomer; (b) a film-forming, non-tacky component, wherein said film-forming; non-tacky component comprises at least one low surface energy, surface seeking moiety, wherein said film-forming, non-tacky component is incompatible with the tacky component, and wherein the film-forming, non-tacky component is present in an effective amount such that upon application it undergoes phase separation from the tacky component such that an outer surface of the in situ formed covering element is non-tacky when the covering element is touch dry; and (c) a sufficient amount of at least one volatile solvent such that the fluid composition has a coatable viscosity allowing the fluid composition to be coated onto said surface.