WATERBOIUtE coanllGCOMPOSIIIOIlIIU.S. Patent 6,008,273. Dec. 28, 1999U. Leibelt and P. Boehler, assignorsto The Dexter Corp., Windsor Locks,Conn.

A waterborne coating compositionfor application to a metal can sub­strate comprising a blend of 50 to90%, by weight, of an epoxy resin;10 to 50% of a water-dispersibleacrylic resin; a fugitive base in anamount sufficient to neutralize 20to 200% of a stoichiometricamount of the carboxylic acidgroups; a sufficient amount of acarrier comprising water and vol­atile organic compounds, suchthat the waterborne coating com­position contains 10 to 60% of thecomposition, and such that the

composition contains 450 gramsor less of volatile organic com­pounds per kilogram of nonvola­tile material; and 5 to 30% of asolid filler.

RHEOLOGY COInIIOL AGElII' FOR111&11 SOLIDS coanllGSU.S. Patent 6,008,278. Dec. 28, 1999K.G. Banerjee et al., assignors to TheLubrizol Corp., Wickliffe, Ohio

A coating composition comprisinga film forming resin and a rheol­ogy control comprising the reac­tion product of at least one car­boxylic acid acylating agent andat least one nitrogen-containingcompound consisting of a hy­droxyamine or a hydroxyiamine.

POWDER PAINT COMPOSmONU.S. Patent 6,008,301. Dec. 28, 1999T. Miyawaki et al., assignors toMitsui Chemicals Inc., Japan

A thermosetting powder paintcomposition for topcoating com­prising a copolymer componentcontaining 20 to 60 parts byweight of an ethylenically unsat­urated monomer having at leastone glycidyl group and at leastone unsaturated double bond inthe molecule, 1 to 30 parts byweight of styrene, and 10 to 9parts by weight of an ethyleni­cally unsaturated monomer hav­ing neither carboxyl group nortert-butyl ester group in the mol­ecule; and a curing agent compo­nent, which is a linear acid anhy-

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