High solids vinyl acetate-ethylene emulsions
AssigneeReichhold Chemicals, Inc.
InventorYakov S. Freidzon
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Abstract
A vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer emulsion having a solids content of at least 65 percent by weight is disclosed. Specifically, the copolymer emulsion comprises about 5 to 40 percent by weight ethylene, about 60 to 95 percent by weight vinyl acetate, about 0.8 to 2.0 percent by weight of a fully or partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl alcohol, and a mixture of nonionic ethoxylated alkyl phenol surfactants having a HLB of from about 16.0 to 16.5.
Claims8
A vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer emulsion having a solids content of at least about 65 percent by weight, said copolymer comprising:
- about 5 to 40 percent by weight ethylene;
- about 60 to 95 percent by weight vinyl acetate;
- about 0.8 to 2.0 percent by weight of a fully or partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl alcohol having a degree of polymerization of from about 100 to 500;
- and
- a mixture of nonionic surfactants comprising about 0.5 to 1.9 percent by weight of an ethyoxylated alkyl phenol having less than about 20 ethylene oxide units and about 0.1 to 0.5 percent by weight of an ethoxylated alkyl phenol having greater than about 50 ethylene oxide units, the mixture having a HLB of from about 16.0 to 16.5.
A vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer emulsion having a solids content of at least about 65 percent by weight, said copolymer comprising:
- about 5 to 40 percent by weight ethylene;
- about 75 to 90 percent by weight vinyl acetate;
- about 0.8 to 2.0 percent by weight of a fully or partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl alcohol having a degree of polymerization of from about 100 to 500;
- and
- a mixture of nonionic surfactants comprising about 0.5 to 1.9 percent by weight of an ethyoxylated alkyl phenol having less than about 20 ethylene oxide units and about 0.1 to 0.5 percent by weight of an ethoxylated alkyl phenol having greater than about 50 ethylene oxide units, the mixture having a HLB of from about 16.0 to 16.5;
- wherein said copolymer emulsion has a viscosity of less than about 4000 cps.
The copolymer emulsion according to claim 6 wherein the ethyoxylated alkyl phenol having less than about 20 ethylene oxide units is of the formula:
- RPhO--(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.n --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OH
- wherein R is an alkyl radical;
- Ph is phenyl;
- and n is an integer from 1 to 19.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.