In-can and dry coating antimicrobial
AssigneeOlin Corporation
InventorsPaul S. Kappock, Craig Waldron
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Abstract
Disclosed are pyrithione-containing coating compositions exhibiting a combination of in-can preservation against microbial attack plus antimicrobial efficacy of the dry film resulting from the use of the coating composition on a substrate. Also disclosed is a process for imparting in-can and dry film antimicrobial efficacy to an aqueous coating composition.
Claims8
An aqueous coating composition comprising:
- (a) water,
- (b) a base medium,
- (c) a zinc compound selected from the group consisting of zinc oxides, zinc hydroxide, zinc salts, and combinations thereof, and
- (d) a pyrithione salt other than zinc pyrithione, alone or in combination with zinc pyrithione, wherein said pyrithione salt is selected from the group consisting of sodium pyrithione, tertiary butyl amine pyrithione, aluminum pyrithione, calcium pyrithione, potassium pyrithione, magnesium pyrithione, barium pyrithione, and combinations thereof,
- wherein said zinc compound is present in said composition in an amount of between 0.001% and 10% based upon the weight of the composition, and wherein said pyrithione salt is present in said composition in a molar ratio of said pyrithione salt to said zinc compound of between about 1:10 and about 10:1.
A method for imparting antimicrobial effectiveness to an aqueous coating composition which comprises the steps of:
- (a) contacting said composition with sodium pyrithione, in an amount of said sodium pyrithione of between 0.1% and 2% by weight based upon the weight of the coating composition, and
- (b) contacting said composition with zinc oxide, in an amount of between 1% and 10% by weight, based upon the weight of the coating composition, and reacting at least a portion of said zinc oxide with at least a portion of said sodium pyrithione, thereby converting sodium pyrithione to zinc pyrithione.
A process for coating a substrate with a coating composition to provide a coating exhibiting antimicrobial effectiveness on the substrate which comprises the steps of:
- (a) incorporating into the coating composition between about 0.01% and about 0.5% by weight, based upon the weight of the coating composition, of a soluble pyrithione salt having a solubility at 20 degrees Centigrade of at least 4,000 ppm in said coating composition,
- (b) incorporating a metal ion-containing compound into said coating composition in an amount of between 0.001% and 10% by weight, based upon the weight of the coating composition, to cause at least a portion of said metal ion-containing compound to transchelate with at least a portion of said soluble pyrithione salt, thereby forming a metal pyrithione-containing coating composition, said metal pyrithione having a solubility in said coating composition of less than 100 ppm,
- (c) contacting a substrate with said metal pyrithione-containing coating composition in order to form a metal pyrithione-containing coating on said substrate, and
- (d) drying said metal pyrithione-containing coating on said substrate to form a dry film on said substrate, said dry film containing a leach-resistant, antimicrobially effective amount of said metal pyrithione.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.