Claims
- 1. A ink composition comprising a substantially homogeneous system of the components:
- (1) from about 4 to about 80% weight % of polymeric material of at least one linear, water-dissipatable polymer having carbonyloxy linking groups in the linear molecular structure wherein up to 80% of the linking groups may be carbonylamido linking groups, the polymer having an inherent viscosity of from about 0.1 to about 1.0 measured in a 60/40 parts by weight solution of phenol/tetrachloroethane at 25.degree. C. and at a concentration of 0.25 gram of polymer in 100 ml of the solvent, the polymer containing substantially equimolar proportions of acid equivalents (100 mole percent) to hydroxy and amino equivalents (100 mole percent), the polymer comprising the reaction products of (a), (b), (c) and (d) from the following reactants or ester forming or esteramide forming derivatives thereof;
- (a) at least one difunctional dicarboxylic acid;
- (b) from about 4 to about 25 mole percent, based on a total of all acid, hydroxyl and amino equivalents being equal to 200 mole percent, of at least one difunctional sulfomonomer containing at least one cationic sulfonate group attached to an aromatic or cycloaliphatic nucleus wherein the functional groups are hydroxy, carboxyl or amino;
- (c) at least one difunctional reactant selected from a glycol or a mixture of a glycol and diamine having two --NRH groups, the glycol containing two --CH.sub.2 --OH groups of which
- (1) at least 15 mole percent based on the total mole percent of hydroxy or hydroxy and amino equivalents, is a poly(ethylene glycol) having the structural formula
- H.paren open-st.OCH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 .paren close-st..sub.n OH,
- n being an integer of from 2 to about 20, or
- (2) of which from about 0.1 to less than about 15 mole percent based on the total mole percent of hydroxy or hydroxy and amino equivalents, is a poly(ethylene glycol) having the structural formula
- H.paren open-st.OCH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 .paren close-st..sub.n OH,
- n being an integer of between 2 and about 500, and with the proviso that the mole percent of said poly(ethylene glycol) within said range is inversely proportional to the quantity of n within said range; and
- (d) from none to at least one difunctional reactant selected from a hydroxycarboxylic acid having one --C(R).sub.2 --OH group, an aminocarboxylic acid having one --NRH group, and an amino-alcohol having one --C(R).sub.2 --OH group and one --NRH group, or mixtures of said difunctional reactants;
- wherein each R in the (c) or (d) reactants is a H atom or an alkyl group of 1 to 4 carbon atoms;
- (2) from about 1.0 to about 60.0 weight % of pigment material;
- (3) from about 0.01 to about 30 weight % total of one or a mixture of compounds of the formula R--C.tbd.C--R.sup.1 wherein R and R.sup.1 are each selected from straight and branched alkyl of 1-15 carbons wherein at least one of R and R.sup.1 carries from 1-3 hydroxyl groups wherein the H of each said hydroxyl group is independently unsubstituted or substituted with a substituent of the formula
- .paren open-st.CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --O.paren close-st..sub.n H or .brket open-st.CH.sub.2 --CH(CH.sub.3)--O.brket close-st..sub.m H
- wherein n and m are each from 1 to about 50 and the total of these substituents present is such that the total of n and m is less than about 60; and
- (4) from substantially none to about 90 weight % of water.
- 2. The composition of claim 1 wherein the n value of reactant (c) of the formula
- H.paren open-st.OCH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 .paren close-st..sub.n OH
- is between 2 and about 20.
- 3. The composition of claim 2 wherein the polymeric material comprises one or more polyester materials having an inherent viscosity of from about 0.28 to about 0.38, an acid moiety of from about 75 to about 84 mole % isophthalic acid and conversely from about 25 to about 16 mole % 5-sodiosulfoisophthalic acid, and a glycol moiety of from about 45 to about 60 mole % diethylene glycol and conversely from about 55 to about 44 mole % 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol or ethylene glycol or mixtures thereof, and the pigment material is present in a weight ratio with respect to total polyester materials of from about 1/10 to about 2/1 blended with said polyester materials.
- 4. The composition of claim 3 wherein said acid moiety comprises from about 80 to about 83 mole % isophthalic acid and conversely from about 20 to about 17 mole % 5-sodiosulfoisophthalic acid, and said glycol moiety comprises from about 52 to about 56 mole % diethylene glycol and conversely from about 48 to about 44 mole % 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol.
- 5. The composition of any one of claims 1-4 wherein the pigment is one or a mixture of the following color index materials: C.I. Pigment Yellow 17; C.I. Pigment Blue 27; C.I. Pigment Red 49:2; C.I. Pigment Red 81:1; C.I. Pigment Red 81:3; C.I. Pigment Red 81:x; C.I. Pigment Yellow 83; C.I. Pigment Red 57:1; C.I. Pigment Red 49:1; C.I. Pigment Violet 23; C.I. Pigment Green 7; C.I. Pigment Blue 61; C.I. Pigment Red 48:1; C.I. Pigment Red 52:1; C.I. Pigment Violet 1; C.I. Pigment White 6; C.I. Pigment Blue 15; C.I. Pigment Yellow 12; C.I. Pigment Blue 56; C.I. Pigment Orange 5; C.I. Pigment Black 7; C.I. Pigment Yellow 14; C.I. Pigment Red 48:2; and C.I. Pigment Blue 15:3.
- 6. The composition of claim 5 wherein the polymeric material comprises from about 4 to about 30 weight %, the pigment material comprises from about 1 to about 20 weight %, the water comprises from about 55 to about 90 weight %, and the total property modifier comprises from about 0.05 to about 10.0 weight %.
- 7. The composition of claim 5 wherein the polymeric material comprises from about 10 to about 25 weight %, the pigment material comprises from about 8 to about 15 weight %, the water comprises from about 65 to about 75 weight %, and the total property modifier comprises from about 0.1 to about 7 weight %.
- 8. The composition of claim 5 wherein the weight ratio of water to total modifier is from about 10 to about 180.
- 9. The composition of claim 1 wherein each of n and m is from about 3 to about 35.
Parent Case Info
This is a file wrapper continuation application of application Ser. No. 07/964,812 filed on Oct. 22, 1992, now abandoned, which is a divisional application of Ser. No. 07/465,695 filed on Jan. 16, 1990, now abandoned, which is a divisional application of Ser. No. 07/187,712 filed on Apr. 29, 1988, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,912,157, which is a continuation of Ser. No. 07/050,665 filed on May 18, 1987, now abandoned.
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