SURFACE COATING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20100330372A1
• Filed: 05/16/2008
• Published: 12/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Diversey Incorporated (Sealed Air)
• Original Assignee: JohnsonDiversey, Inc
• Inventors: Liu, Jia, Cypcar, Christopher C., Kron, Ryan E., Ludtke, Nathan E.
• Application Number:
  US12/600,441
• Publication Number:
  US 20100330372A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 428/413
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 7/06 permitting easy separation
• CPC Class Codes: C09D 4/00 Coating compositions, e.g. paints, varnishes or lacquers, based on organic non-macromolecular compounds having at least one polymerisable carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bond ; Coating compositions, based on monomers of macromolecular compounds of groups C09D183/00 - C09D183/16
• CPC Class Codes: C09D 5/20 for coatings strippable as coherent films, e.g. temporary coatings strippable as coherent films
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24942 including components having same physical characteristic in differing degree
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31511 Of epoxy ether
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/3154 Of fluorinated addition polymer from unsaturated monomers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31551 Of polyamidoester [polyurethane, polyisocyanate, polycarbamate, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31565 Next to polyester [polyethylene terephthalate, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31786 Of polyester [e.g., alkyd, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31797 Next to addition polymer from unsaturated monomers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31859 Next to an aldehyde or ketone condensation product
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31931 Polyene monomer-containing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31935 Ester, halide or nitrile of addition polymer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31938 Polymer of monoethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon

Abstract

The present invention provides coating systems for surfaces and methods for coating and repairing surfaces.

Claims

1-63. -63. (canceled)

64. A coating system comprising:

a peelable layer composition comprising a peelable layer film former, wherein the peelable layer composition forms a peelable layer having a tensile strength that is greater than an adhesive strength, the peelable layer composition comprising at least one of polyacrylate polymers, polyacrylic polymers, epoxy polymers, polystyrene polymers, polyacrylate-styrene copolymer, polyesters, fluoropolymers, polyvinyl chloride, polyvinyl chloride co-vinyl acetate, vinyl acetate polymers, vinyl acetate ethylene copolymers, vinyl acetate acrylate copolymers, polyvinylbutyral, styrene-butadiene copolymers, acrylonitrile-butadiene copolymers, and combinations thereof; and

a maintenance layer composition comprising a maintenance layer film former.

65. The coating system of claim 64, wherein the peelable layer composition or the maintenance layer composition is a liquid.

66. The coating system of claim 64, wherein the peelable layer composition comprises vinyl acetate ethylene copolymers.

67. The coating system of claim 66, wherein the maintenance layer comprises polystyrene acrylates.

68. The coating system of claim 64, wherein the peelable layer composition comprises vinyl acetate acrylate copolymer, and the vinyl acetate acrylate copolymer is vinyl acetate-butyl acrylate-methyl methacrylate.

69. The coating system of claim 64, wherein the peelable layer composition or the maintenance layer composition further comprises at least one additive selected from the group consisting of plasticizers, neutralizers, wetting agents, defoamers, coalescing agents, preservatives, dyes, pigments, fragrances, nanoparticles, optical components and embedded particles.

70. The coating system of claim 64, further comprising a base layer composition comprising a base layer film former.

71. The coating system of claim 64, further comprising a transition layer composition comprising a transition layer film former.

72. A coating system comprising:

a peelable layer composition comprising a peelable layer film fowler, wherein a peelable layer has a tensile strength that is greater than an adhesive strength; and

a maintenance layer composition comprising a maintenance layer film former, the maintenance layer composition comprising at least one of UV-cured polymers, polyacrylates, polystyrene acrylates, polyurethanes, polyureas, and combinations thereof.

73. The coating system of claim 72, wherein the peelable layer composition or the maintenance layer composition is a liquid.

74. The coating system of claim 72, wherein the maintenance layer composition comprises a polyacrylate, and the polyacrylate is a polystyrene acrylate.

75. The coating system of claim 72, further comprising a base layer composition comprising a base layer film former.

76. The coating system of claim 72, further comprising a transition layer composition comprising a transition layer film former.

77. A coating system comprising:

a peelable layer composition comprising a peelable layer film former having a T_g from about −

10°

C. to about 50°

C.; and

a maintenance layer composition comprising a maintenance layer film former having a T_g from about 20°

C. to about 100°

C.

78. The coating system of claim 77, wherein the peelable layer composition or the maintenance layer composition is a liquid.

79. The coating system of claim 77, wherein the peelable layer film former comprises an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer or a vinyl acetate acrylate copolymer.

80. The coating system of claim 79, wherein the vinyl acetate acrylate copolymer is vinyl acetate-butyl acrylate-methyl methacrylate.

81. The coating system of claim 77, wherein the maintenance layer film former comprises a polyacrylate.

82. The coating system of claim 81, wherein the polyacrylate is a polystyrene acrylate.

83. The coating system of claim 77, wherein the peelable layer composition or the maintenance layer composition further comprises at least one additive selected from the group consisting of plasticizers, neutralizers, wetting agents, defoamers, coalescing agents, preservatives, dyes, pigments, fragrances, nanoparticles, optical components and embedded particles.

84. The coating system of claim 77, further comprising a base layer composition comprising a base layer film former.

85. The coating system of claim 84, wherein the base layer film former has a T_g from about −

10°

C. to about 100°

C.

86. The coating system of claim 84, wherein the base layer composition further comprises at least one additive selected from the group consisting of plasticizers, neutralizers, wetting agents, defoamers, coalescing agents, preservatives, dyes, pigments, fragrances, nanoparticles, optical components and embedded particles.

87. The coating system of claim 77, further comprising a transition layer composition comprising a transition layer film former.

88. The coating system of claim 87, wherein the transition layer film former has a T_g from about 20°

C. to about 100°

C.

89. The coating system of claim 87, wherein the transition layer composition further comprises at least one additive selected from the group consisting of plasticizers, neutralizers, wetting agents, defoamers, coalescing agents, preservatives, dyes, pigments, fragrances, nanoparticles, optical components and embedded particles.

90. The coating system of claim 77, further comprising a removal tool.

91. A method of coating a surface comprising:

applying a peelable layer composition comprising a peelable layer film former having a T_g of from about −

10°

C. to about 50°

C. to a surface to form a peelable layer; and

applying a maintenance layer composition comprising a maintenance layer film former having a T_g of from about 20°

C. to about 100°

C. to form a maintenance layer.

92. The method of claim 91, wherein the peelable layer composition or the maintenance layer composition is a liquid.

93. The method of claim 91, wherein the surface is a floor.

94. A method of coating a surface comprising:

applying a peelable layer composition comprising a peelable layer film former, wherein the peelable layer composition forms a peelable layer having a tensile strength that is greater than an adhesive strength, the peelable layer composition comprising at least one of polyacrylate polymers, polyacrylic polymers, epoxy polymers, polystyrene polymers, polyacrylate-styrene copolymer, polyesters, fluoropolymers, polyvinyl chloride, polyvinyl chloride co-vinyl acetate, vinyl acetate polymers, vinyl acetate ethylene copolymers, vinyl acetate acrylate copolymers, polyvinylbutyral, styrene-butadiene copolymers, acrylonitrile-butadiene copolymers, and combinations thereof; and

applying a maintenance layer composition comprising a maintenance layer film former.

95. The method of claim 94, wherein the peelable layer composition or the maintenance layer composition is a liquid.

96. The method of claim 94, wherein the surface is a floor.

97. A method of coating a surface comprising:

applying a peelable layer composition comprising a peelable layer film former; and

applying a maintenance layer composition comprising a maintenance layer film former, the maintenance layer film former comprising at least one of UV-cured polymers, polyacrylates, polystyrene acrylates, polyurethanes, polyureas, and combinations thereof.

98. The method of claim 97, wherein the peelable layer composition or the maintenance layer composition is a liquid.

99. The method of claim 97, wherein the surface is a floor.