Process for the preparation of stable emulsions from nu-methylol substituted amides of acrylic acid or the ethers of such nu-methylolamides

Claim 1

A LINEAR COPOLYMER OF ADDITIVELY COMBINED UNITS OF (A) 0.25 TO 10 PERCENT BY WEIGHT OF AN ALKALINE EARTH METAL SALT OF AN A:B-MONOETHYLENICALLY UNSATURATED MONOCARBOXYLIC ACID CONTAINING 3 TO 4 CARBON ATOMS, (B) 0.25 TO 30 PERCENT BY WEIGHT OF AN AMIDE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF AN N-METHYLOLAMIDE AND AN N-METHLOLAMIDE ETHER DERIVED FROM AN ALIPHATIC ALCOHOL HAVING AT MOST 4 CARBON ATOMS, THE ACID OF SAID AMIDE BEING AN AT MOST DICARBOXYLIC ACID WHICH IS A-B-ETHYLENICALLY UNSATURATED AND CONTAINS 3 TO 5 CARBON ATOMS, AND (C) 99.5 TO 60 PERCENT BY WEIGHT OF AT LEAST ONE OTHER COPOLYMERIZABLE COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF AN ESTER OF ACRYLIC ACID AND AN ALKANOL WITH 1 TO 18 CARBON ATOMS, AN ESTER OF METHACRYLIC ACID AND AN ALKANOL WITH 1 TO 18 CARBON ATOMS, AN N-SUBSTITUTED ACRYLAMIDE, A VINYLHALIDE, A VINYLIDENE HALIDE, A VINLESTER, A VINYL ARYL COMPOUND AND ACRYLONITRILE.