Decorative coating composition for coating glassware

Claim 1

A thermofluid decorative coating composition consisting essentially of by weight a. 20 to 50% of an essentially water-insoluble vehicle having a melt softening point range from about 45° to about 65° C. and b. 80 to 50% of a particulate, non-vitrifiable filler material intimately dispersed in said vehicle, said vehicle consisting essentially of by weight from 5 to 75% of at least one normally solid saturated aliphatic monohydric alcohol having 14 to 32 carbon atoms, 0 to 55% of paraffin wax, 0 to 40% of one or more polyalkylene glycols having an average molecular weight ranging from about 1500 to 20,000 in which the alkylene groups have 2 to 3 carbon atoms, 7 to 55% of at least one polystyrene having an average molecular weight ranging from about 200 to about 1200 and a softening point below 105° C., and 0 to 20% of one or more lower alkyl acrylate polymers having an inherent viscosity between about 0.2 and about 0.7, the sum of said alcohol, wax and polyalkylene glycol components being 45 to 77% of the vehicle and the sum of said polystyrene and acrylate polymer components being 23 to 55% of the vehicle.