Stabilized liquid coating composition containing butadiene 1-3 and method of preparing same

Claim 1

A LIQUID COATING COMPOSITION CHARACTERIZED BY VISCOSITY-STABILITY AND RESISTANCE TO GELATION CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF (A) AT LEAST ONE OILY POLYMER OF BUTADIENE-1,3 HAVING A MOLECULAR WEIGHT FROM 700 TO 20,000 AND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF (1) HOMOPOLYMERS OF BUTADIENE 1,3 (2) COPOLYMERS OF BUTADIENE 1,3 AND STYRENE, THE PROPORTION OF COPOLYMERIZED BUTADIENE 1,3 BEING AT LEAST 75% BY WEIGHT OF SAID COPOLYMER, (3) SAID HOMOPOLYMERS (1) AND SAID COPOLYMERS (2) MODIFIED WITH A MINOR AMOUNT OF MALEIC ANHYYDRIDE AND (4) SAID HOMOPOLYMERS (1) AND SAID COPOLYMERS (2) MODIFIED WITH A MINOR AMOUNT OF CITRACONIC ANHYDRIDE, SAID ANHYDRIDES BEING PRESENT IN AN AMOUNT NO GREATED THAN 2% BASED ON THE WEIGHT OF SAID POLYMERS (1) AND (2), (B) A SUBSTANTIALLY NON-VOLITALE ORGANIC-SOLVENT-SOLUBLE ORGANIC METAL COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE CLASS CONSISTING OF ORTHOTITANATE ESTERS AND ORTHOZIRCONATE ESTERS IN AN AMOUNT FROM 1% TO 15% BASED ON THE WEIGHT OF (A), (C) A VOLATILE LIQUID ORGANIC MUTUAL SOLVENT FOR (A) AND (B) HAVING A BOILING RANGE WITHIN THE LIMITS OF 80*C. TO 220* C. AND CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF AT LEAST ONE HYDROCARBON SOLVENT, AND (D) AN ALIPHATIC MONOHYDRIC ALCOHOL IN A STABILIZING AMOUNT FROM AT LEAST 30% TO ABOUT 40% BASED ON THE WEIGHT OF SAID ORGANIC METAL COMPOUND, COMPONENT (B), THE NON-VOLATILE CONTENT BEING FROM ABOUT 10% TO 70% BY WEIGHT OF THE COMPOSITION.