Textile pigment printing compositions

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AN OIL-IN-WATER EMULSION HAVING THE CONSISTENCY OF A TEXTILE PRINTING PASTE WHICH WHEN ADMIXED WITH DISPERSED PIGMENT PRODUCES TEXTILE PRINTS WITH IMPROVED RESISTANCE TO ABRASIVE LAUNDERING, IN WHICH EMULSION THE TOTAL NON-VOLATILE RESIN BINDER CONTENT OF THE OIL-PHASE RANGES FROM ABOUT 3.5 WEIGHT PERCENT TO ABOUT 14.5 WEIGHT PERCENT BASED UPON THE TOTAL WEIGHT OF THE EMULSION, SAID EMULSION COMPRISING AS SOLE NONVOLATILE RESIN BINDER COMPONENTS (I) A THERMO-SETTABLE RESINOUS ESTER OF A POLYHYDRIC ALCOHOL, WHICH IS AT LEAST TRIHYDRIC, FORMED WITH A LONG CHAIN UNSATURATED FATTY ACID, WHICH RESINOUS ESTER IS A MEMBER OF THE GROUP CONSISTING OF AN ESTER OF THE REACTION PRODUCT OF P.P''-DIHYDROXYDIPHENYLDIMETHYLMETHANE AND EPICHLORHYDRIN, AN OIL-MODIFIED ALKYD AND A STYRENATED OIL, (II) AN ELASTOMER, AND (III) AN ORGANIC SOLVENT SOLUBLE THERMOSETTING AMINO-ALDEHYDE RESIN SELECTED FROM THE GROUP OF MELAMINE-FORMALDEHYDE AND UREAFORMALDEHYE RESINS, SAID AMINO-ALDEHYDE RESIN BEING PRESENT IN THE PERCENTAGE RANGE OF FROM ABOUT 18 WEIGHT PERCENT TO ABOUT 35 WEIGHT PERCENT, THE RESINOUS ESTER RANGING FROM ABOUT 17 WEIGHT PERCENT TO ABOUT 37 WEIGHT PERCENT, AND THE ELASTOMER CONTENT RANGING FROM ABOUT 37 WEIGHT PERCENT TO ABOUT 57 WEIGHT PERCENT BASED UPON THE TOTAL WEIGHT OF SAID NON-VOLATILE RESIN BINDER COMPONENTS, AND SAID ELASTOMER BEING AN ACRYLIC POLYMER COMPRISING A POLYMERIZED ESTER OF AN A,B-VINYLIDENE MONOCARBOXYLIC ACID FORMED WITH AN ALCOHOL WHICH IS A MEMBER OF THE CLASS CONSISTING OF ALKYL ALCOHOLS, SUBSTITUTED ALKYL ALCOHOLS, ALICYLIC ALCOHOLS, AROMATIC ALCOHOLS, ARALIPHATIC ALCOHOLS AND HETEROCYCLIC ALCOHOLS, SAID MONOCARBOXYLIC ACID BEING A MEMBER OF THE CLASS REPRESENTED BY THE GENERAL FORMULA OF