Electrodeposited coatings

Claim 1

Coatings on electrically conductive bases produced by connecting said bases as the anode and dipping them into a liquid aqueous coating composition containing: I. about 10 - 50 percent by weight of a non-heat reactive phenol-aldehyde resin; and Ii. about 50 - 90 percent by weight of a copolymer acrylic resin, said copolymer resin containing sufficient water-soluble amine compound to impart anionic polyelectrolyte behavior, said copolymer acrylic resin comprising: a. about 50 - 85 percent by weight of an ester of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid with an alcohol having 1 - 10 carbon atoms; b. about 5 - 20 percent by weight of a compound selected from the group consisting of drying oil or drying oil fatty acids containing olefinically unsaturated acids; c. about 5 - 15 percent by weight of an α,β-olefinically unsaturated carboxylic acid having 3 - 5 carbon atoms; and d. about 3 - 20 percent by weight of an amide selected from the group consisting of acrylamide, methacrylamide, methylol acrylamide, methylol methacrylamide, an ether of methylol acrylamide with an alcohol having 1 - 8 carbon atoms, an ether of methylol methacrylamide with an alcohol having 1 - 8 carbon atoms and mixtures thereof, the improvement comprising, dispersing additionally in said liquid aqueous coating composition a solution of cyclized rubber, the ratio of weight between cyclized rubber and the weight of said coating composition of I and II being from about 40 - 70 percent cyclized rubber to about 30 - 60 percent coating composition of I and II and air drying the electrodeposited coating at a temperature between about room temperature and 85° C, said cyclized rubber having a specific gravity of about 0.97 - 1.02, a melting point of about 135° - 150° C and a viscosity of about 700 - 1050 seconds as measured in a viscosimeter at 50 percent solution of analytical benzene according to German Industrial Standard 53,211.