Acrylic emulsion coatings for formed articles

A top coated article comprising a vacuum formed article substrate having therein a soft coat of an elastic, non-tacky, emulsion acrylic copolymer comprising of from about 0.7 to about 20% by weight of at least one copolymerizable silicone oligomer, from about 30 to about 85% by weight of at least one alkyl acrylate containing from 1 to about 10 carbon atoms in the alkyl group, the balance of the monomers comprising hard monomers, said hard monomers, when homopolymerized having a glass transition temperature greater than about 25.degree. C. and present in an amount sufficient to provide the non-tacky acrylic based emulsion copolymer.

A top coated article comprising a vacuum formed article having thereon a soft non-tacky coat of an emulsion copolymer of a first acrylic based emulsion copolymer and a second acrylic based emulsion copolymer, each of said first and second copolymers independently formed by emulsion polymerization of monomers comprised of from about 0.7 to about 20% by weight of at least one copolymerizable low surface energy monomer, selected from the group consisting of reactive silicones, fluorocarbons and fatty acid esters having a functionality selected from the group consisting of vinyl, acrylic and methacrylic, from about 30 to about 85% by weight of at least one alkyl acrylate containing from 1 to about 10 carbon atoms in the alkyl group, the balance of the monomers comprising hard monomers, which when homopolymerized, have a glass transition temperature greater than 25.degree. C. and provided in an amount sufficient to form a mixture of first and second acrylic based emulsion copolymers which are non-tacky, said first acrylic based emulsion copolymer having a glass transition temperature from about -50.degree. C. to about 25.degree. C., said second acrylic based emulsion copolymer having a glass transition temperature from about 25.degree. C. to about 100.degree. C.