Coating processes – With post-treatment of coating or coating material – Solid treating member or material contacts coating
Patent
1999-02-23
2000-09-26
Cameron, Erma
Coating processes
With post-treatment of coating or coating material
Solid treating member or material contacts coating
427365, 427391, 427392, 427395, 427396, B05D 302, B05D 312
Patent
active
061239968
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an aqueous composition for coating, such as surface sizing or application of a layer of a coating slip, of cellulose-based two-dimensional products. The composition has improved properties at increased temperatures and at high shear rates. These properties are achieved by using as thickening agent a cellulose ether, which is substituted with hydroxyalkyl groups, such as hydroxyethyl and hydroxypropyl, and alkyl groups having 1-3 carbon atoms.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In coating, such as application of a layer of a coating slip or surface sizing of cellulose-based two-dimensional products, such as paper or cardboard, with a composition, the primary object is to change the properties of the paper product, such as improved strength, improved appearance, improved printability, improved impermeability or improved adhesion properties. Thus, it is common to surface-size paper or cardboard with an aqueous binder-containing composition for improving, inter alia, the wet strength, or to coat paper or cardboard with a composition, which contains pigment pastes, for improving the printability and the appearance of the surface. The coating slip compositions can, in addition to binder and pigments, also contain secondary binders (co-binders), protective colloids, thickening agents and dispersing agents. As thickening agent, protective colloid or secondary binder it is common to add water-soluble or water-swellable polymers based on polyvinyl alcohol, modified celluloses, starch, casein, alginate or high-molecular carboxyl-group-containing polymerisates.
The use of cellulose ethers in coating slips is disclosed in e.g. EP 15 517, where carboxymethylcellulose is added as a secondary binder. From EP 307 795 it is known to use as protective colloid, inter alia, methyl cellulose. EP 425 997 discloses that hydrophobically modified alkylcellulose, alkylhydroxyalkylcellulose or hydroxyalkylcellulose can be used as thickening agent in aqueous paper coating compositions. The hydrophobing groups are preferably C.sub.12-16 -alkyl groups or alkylaryl groups. When used in coating slip compositions, these cellulose ethers result in an improved viscosity at high shear rates, compared with carboxymethylcellulose ethers. Even if paper coating slip compositions according to EP 425 997 result in paper coating slip compositions having properties that in some respects are better than those of carboxymethylcellulose, they also have certain limitations. Thus, they give a comparatively low viscosity at the increased temperatures prevailing when drying the compositions.
From EP 496 269 it is also known to produce, for the coating of paper, a multipolysaccharide-containing suspension, which contains a low molecular polysaccharide, which is dissolved in the aqueous phase and which can be a carboxymethylcellulose or a hydroxyethylcellulose. Moreover, the coating composition contains one or more dispersed, i.e. not dissolved, cellulose polymers, such as hydroxypropylcellulose, methylcellulose, methylhydroxypropylcellulose and hydrophobically modified hydroxyethylcellulose.
The present invention generally relates to an aqueous composition for coating a cellulose-based two-dimensional product containing a binder, wherein said composition contains a water-soluble nonionic alkylhydroxy-alkylcellulose, which contains alkyl groups having 1-3 carbon atoms and hydroxyalkyl groups having 2-3 carbon atoms, but which is free from hydrophobically modified hydrocarbon groups having at least 4 carbon atoms, the alkylhydroxy-alkylcellulose having a cloud point in the range from 35 to 80.degree. C.
According to the present invention, it has now been found that compositions for coating, such as application of a layer of a coating slip or surface sizing, of cellulosebased products, such as paper and board, with improved properties in respect of viscosities at increased temperatures and at high shear rates can be obtained if use is made as thickening agent of a water-soluble, nonionic alkylhydroxyalkylcell
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Dahlvik Peter
Eklund Dan
Hermansson Erland
Larsson Kerstin
Akzo Nobel Surface Chemistry AB
Cameron Erma
Mancini Ralph J.
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