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AssigneeInnovative Concepts Unlimited, LLC
InventorsAndrew B. Spencer, John W. Andrews, Gary D. Tucker, II
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Paint compositions and coatings having improved overall visual appearance, richness or depth of color and aesthetic properties such as for spray-painting automobiles, boats, aircraft and home appliances. The present paint compositions are high solids content, heat-curable, transparent or translucent compositions containing embedded light-refractive colorless and/or tinted transparent glass beads preferably between about 10 to 20 microns diameter, and one or more color-enhancing agents such as pigments, dyes, aluminum flakes, mica, opaque glass beads, holographic flakes, and similar conventional light-enhancing agents. The present bead-containing refractive paint compositions may be based upon volatile organic solvents, water or may be solvent-free powder compositions, but in all cases the resinous binder material is cross-linkable at the baking temperature of the paint, or upon exposure to ultraviolet radiation, to cure as a hard, translucent, chip-resistant paint.
Process for applying a light-refractive, color-enhancing paint layer to a surface, comprising the steps of (1) spraying said surface with a paint composition comprising (a) at least one color-enhancing agent from the group consisting of dyes, pigments, metallic flakes, mica, opaque glass beads and holographic flakes, and (b) transparent or translucent glass or plastic beads having a refractive index between about 1.5 and 2.5, a maximum diameter which is up to about 20μ and is at least 10% less than the thickness of the cured paint layer, and (c) a curable resinous binder material;
Process for applying a light-refractive, color-enhancing paint layer comprising the steps of:
Process for applying a light-refractive, color-enhancing paint composition comprising the steps of:
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