Hardenable mixtures of unsaturated polyesters and monomeric ethylene compounds polymerizable therewith

Claim 1

A COMPOSITION CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF A MIXTURE OF (I) AN UNSATURATED POLYESTER OF AN ALPHA, BETA-ETHYLENICALLY UNSATURATED DICARBOXYLIC ACID AND A POLYHYDRIC ALCOHOL, (II) A MONOMERIC ETHYLENICALLY UNSATURATED COMPOUND THAT IS COPOLYMERIZABLE THEREWITH, (III) AN ACCELERATOR CONSISTING OF AN ORGANIC COMPOUND OF COBALT IN AN AMOUNT BETWEEN ABOUT 0.005 AND ABOUT 0.1 PERCENT BY WEIGHT, COMPUTED AS COBALT METAL, OF THE SAID COMPOSITION (IV) A PHOSPHORUS COMPOUND OF THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ACIDS OF PHOSPHORUS AND PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS THAT FORM SUCH ACIDS IN ADMIXTORE WITH THE SAID POLYESTER, IN AN AMOUNT BETWEEN ABOUT 0.5 AND ABOUT 150 PERCENT BY WEIGHT, COMPUTED AS PHOSPHORUS, OF THE COBALT METAL CONTENT OF THE SAID COMPOSITION, AND (V) AN AMINE PROMOTER IN AN AMOUNT BETWEEN ABOUT 0.001 AND ABOUT 1.0 PERCENT BY WEIGHT OF THE SAID COMPOSITION, WHICH COMPOSITION IS HARDENABLE AT ROOM TEMPERATURES, WITHOUT DISCOLORATION AND WITHOUT SUBSTANTIALLY AFFECTING THE GELATION TIME OF THE COMPOSITION, BY THE ADDITION THERETO OF AN ORGANIC RADICAL-FORMING PEROXIDE.