Powder paint with epoxy and amide copolymer and mixture of dicarboxylic acids and polyanhydrides

In a thermosettable powder paint which exclusive of pigments, catalysts, antistatic agents, plasticizers, and flow control agents, the same being conventional non-reactive additives to the thermosettable powder paint, consists essentially of a coreactive particulate mixture of

• 1. a qualitatively difunctional copolymer of about 5 to about 20 weight percent of a glycidyl ester of a monoethylenically unsaturated acid and about 95 to about 80 weight percent of monoethylenically unsaturated monomers and having a glass transition temperature in the range of about 40.degree.C. to about 90.degree.C. and a molecular weight (M.sub.n) in the range of about 1500 to about 15,000, and
• 2. a C.sub.4 - C.sub.20 saturated, straight chain, aliphatic dicarboxylic acid,
• the improvement wherein
• A. said copolymer is qualitatively difunctional and said other monoethylenically unsaturated monomers consist essentially of an alpha-beta olefinically unsaturated amide in an amount comprising about 2 to about 10 weight percent of said copolymer and monofunctional monomers selected from the group consisting of esters of a C.sub.1 - C.sub.8 monohydric alcohol and acrylic acid esters of a C.sub.1 - C.sub.8 monohydric alcohol and methacrylic acid and C.sub.8 - C.sub.12 monovinyl hydrocarbons, and
• B. there is substituted for a portion of said dicarboxylic acid a polyanhydride having molecular weight in the range of about 1000 to about 5000 and the resultant mixture of said dicarboxylic acid and said polyanhydride is proportional and quantified such that said dicarboxylic acid is present in an amount that provides about 0.1 to about 0.6 carboxyl groups per epoxy group on said copolymer and said polyanhydride is present in an amount that provides about 0.2 to about 1.1 anhydride groups per epoxy group on said polymer.