Powder paint with epoxy and hydroxy copolymer and dicarboxylic acids

A thermosettable powder paint which comprises a coreactive mixture of:

• 1. A qualitatively difunctional copolymer 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 1,500 to about 15,000, said copolymer being formed from a monomer mixture consisting essentially of
• (a) between about 5 and about 20 weight percent of a glycidyl ester of a monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid;
• (b) between about 2 and about 10 weight percent of difunctional monomers selected from the group consisting of C.sub.5 -C.sub.7 hydroxyalkyl acrylates and C.sub.5 -C.sub.7 hydroxyalkyl methacrylates;
• (c) between about 70 and about 93 weight percent of monoethylenically unsaturated monomers consisting essentially of 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
• (d) up to 30 weight percent of modifying monomers selected from the group consisting of vinyl chloride, acrylonitrile, methacrylonitrile and vinyl acetate;
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• 2. C.sub.4 -C.sub.20 saturated, straight chain, aliphatic dicarboxylic acid in an amount of about 0.8 to about 1.1 carboxyl groups for each functional group on said copolymer.

A thermosettable powder paint which exclusive of pigments, catalysts, antistatic agents, plastizers, flow control agents and other nonreactive additives, consists essentially of a coreactable particulate mixture of:

• 1. A qualitatively difunctional copolymer having a glass transition temperature in the range of about 50.degree. C. to about 80.degree. C. and a molecular weight (M.sub.n) in the range of about 2,500 to about 6,000, said copolymer being formed from a monomer mixture consisting essentially of
• (a) between about 8 and about 15 weight percent of a glycidyl ester of a monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid;
• (b) between about 2 and about 10 weight percent of difunctional monomers selected from the group consisting of C.sub.5 -C.sub.7 hydroxyalkyl acrylates and C.sub.5 -C.sub.7 hydroxyalkyl methacrylates;
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• (c) between about 75 and about 90 weight percent of monoethylenically unsaturated monomers consisting essentially of monofunctional monomers selected from the group consisting of (i) esters of a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 monohydric alcohol and acrylic acid (ii) esters of a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 monohydric alcohol and methacrylic acid, and
• (iii) C.sub.8 -C.sub.12 monovinyl hydrocarbons, the total of said monofunctional monomers (i) and (ii) comprising at least 50 weight percent of the monofunctional monoethylenically unsaturated monomers of said monomer mixture;
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• 2. C.sub.5 -C.sub.13 saturated, straight chain, aliphatic dicarboxylic acids in an amount of about 0.8 to about 1.1 carboxylic groups for each functional group on said copolymer.