Base for universal pigment concentrates

Claim 1

A UNIVERSAL PIGMENT CONCENTRATE FOR COLORING A POLYMERIC MATERIAL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF POLYOLEFINS, ETHYLENE-VINYL ACETATE COMPOLYMERS, ACRYLONITRILE-BUTADIENESTYRENE TERPOLYMER, POLYSTYRENE, POLYAMIDES AND POLYESTERS CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF: DISTINCT PARTICLES HOMOGENEOUSLY DISPERSED IN A CARRIER MATERIAL, SAID CARRIER MATERIAL CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF FROM ABOUT 10 TO ABOUT 60 WEIGHT PERCENT, BASED ON WEIGHT OF CARRIER MATERIAL, OF AT LEAST ONE FIRST POLYMERIC MATERIAL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF COPOLYMERS OF AT LEAST ONE CONJUGATED DIENE HAVING FROM 4 TO 12 CARBON ATOMS AND AT LEAST ONE MONOVINYL AROMATIC HYDROCARBON HAVING FROM 8 TO 18 CARBON ATOMS; SAID COPOLYMER HAVING BEEN OBTAINED BY THE POLYMERIZATION OF ONE OR MORE OF SUCH MONOMERS IN THE PRESENCE OF AN INERT SOLVENT FOR SUCH COPOLYMER AND A POLYMERIZATION INITIATOR SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF AN ALFIN CATALYST, AN ALKALI METAL AND AN ORGANOLITHIUM COMPOUND; FROM ABOUT 20 TO ABOUT 75 WEIGHT PERCENT, BASED ON WEIGHT OF CARRIER MATERIAL OF AT LEAST ONE EXTENDER OIL; AND, FROM ABOUT 15 TO ABOUT 70 WEIGHT PERCENT OF POLTETHYLENE AS A BINDER MATERIAL WHEREIN THE AMOUNT OF SAID PIGMENT PARTICLES IS IN THE RANGE OF ABOUT 20 TO ABOUT 90 WIEHT PERCENT, BASED ON WEIGHT OF PIGMENT AND CARRIER MATERIAL, AND THE AMOUNT OF SAID CARRIER MATERIAL IS IN THE RANGE OF ABOUT 80 TO 10 WEIGHT PERCENT, BASED ON WEIGHT OF PIGMENT AND CARRIER MATERIAL.