Patent ID: 8344084

Claim:
An aqueous composition comprising: a copolymeric dispersing agent having a copolymer; an antifoaming agent; a surfactant; and water, wherein the copolymer of the copolymeric dispersing agent consists of two monomer components wherein component a 1 ) is an olefinie unsaturated monocarhoxylic acid comonomer or an ester or a salt thereof or an olefinic unsaturated sulfuric acid compound or a salt thereof, and component a 2 ) is a comonomer of the formula (I) wherein R 1 is and wherein in R 2 is H or an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, R 3 is a non-substituted or substituted aryl group, and R 4 is H or an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon group having from 5 to 8 carbon atoms, a substituted aryl group having from 6 to 14 carbon atoms or a compound selected from the group wherein R 5 and R 7 are independently an alkyl, aryl, aralkyl or alkaryl group and R 6 is an alkylidene, arylidene, aralkylidene or alkaryiidene group and p is 0, 1, 2 or 3, m and n are independently 2, 3, 4 or 5, x and y are independently an integer from 1 to 350, and z is 0 to 200.