Claims
- 1. An improved thermosetting gel coat resin composition adapted to heat react and form a hardened gel coat, the gel coat resin composition consisting essentially of on a weight basis:
- between 50% and 90% of a low molecular weight acrylic resin having a number average molecular weight between 550 and 3,000, said acrylic resin having pendant ethylenically unsaturated groups and produced by reacting an acrylic copolymer which is an acrylate or methacrylate copolymer having multiple epoxide groups with lesser equivalents of acrylic or methacrylic acid to produce the pendant unsaturation groups, where the acrylic copolymer has a number average molecular weight between 500 and 2500; and
- between 10% and 50% of an aromatic vinyl monomer adapted to coreact with the pendant ethylenically unsaturated groups of the low molecular weight acrylic resin to form a thermoset gel coat.
- 2. The gel coat resin composition in claim 1 where the acrylic copolymer was produced by copolymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers including between 20% and 90% of glycidyl monomers based on the weight of copolymerized monomers to produce the acrylic copolymer having glycidyl groups.
- 3. The gel coat resin composition in claim 1 wherein the acrylic copolymer is a solution copolymer comprising butyl acrylate and glycidyl methacrylate which is further reacted with methacrylic acid to provide a copolymer having pendant unsaturation.
- 4. The gel coat resin composition of claim 1 wherein the acrylic copolymer comprises acrylate copolymer having pendant unsaturated acrylate ester linkages.
- 5. The gel coat resin composition of claim 1 wherein the acrylic copolymer comprises methacrylate copolymer having pendant unsaturated methacrylate ester linkages.
- 6. The gel coat resin composition of claim 1 wherein the acrylic copolymer comprises copolymerized monomers consisting of one or more acrylate alkyl esters, and one or more glycidyl acrylates or methacrylates.
- 7. The gel coat resin composition of claim 1 where the resin contains pigment and the composition is a pigmented gel coat resin.
Parent Case Info
This is a continuation-in-part of copending Ser. No. 728,399 filed Apr. 29, 1985, now abandoned, and the same is incorporated herein by reference.
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Continuation in Parts (1)
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