Polymeric quaternary ammonium salt compositions and method of making the same

Claim 1

A FILM-FORMING INTERNALLY PLASTICIZED COMPOSITION CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF A WATER-INSOLUBLE REACTION PRODUCT OF ANANIONIC POLYMER AND A CATRIONIC QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUND, SAID REACTIONPRODUCT BEING SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF: (I) THOSE QUATERNARY AMMONIUM SALTS HAVING THE FORMULA R1-N(-R2)(-R3)(-R4)-A IN WHICH R1 IS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF HYDROGEN, LOWER ALKYL AND LOWER ALKYLOL, R2 IS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ALKYL, ALKYLOL, ARYL AND ARALKYL, R3 AND R4 ARE EACH SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF A LONG CHAIN CARBON SUBSTITUENT HAVING 8 TO 22 CARBON ATOMS INSTRAIGHT AND BRANCHED CHAIN ARRANGEMENTS, NOT NECESSARILY THE SAME, AND A IS AN ANIONIC RADICAL HAVING A MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF AT LEAST 2000 AND DERIVED FROM A SYNTHETIC POLYMER OF THE GROUP CONSISTIN FO HOMO AND COPOLYMERS OF ETHYLENICALLY UNSATURATED COMPOUNDS, SAID POLYMER CONTAINING AN ACTIVE HYDROGEN CAPABLE OF SALT FORMATION WITH THE QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUND; (II) THOSE QUATERNARY AMMONIUM SALTS HAVING THE FORMULA SET FORTH IN (I) ABOVE, IN WHICH R1 IS AS THEREIN SET FORTH, AND IN WHICH EACH OF R2, R3 AND R4 IS AN ALKYL OF AT LEAST 6 CARBON ATOMS IN STRAIGHT AND BRANCHED CHAIN ARRANGEMENTS, ADN A IS AS SET FORTH IN (I) ABOVE; (III) THOSE DIQUATERNARY AMMONIUM SALTS HAVING THE FORMULA