Abstract A powder coating composition comprising a homopolymer or copolymer of polyvinylidene fluoride having a melt flow index of 10 to 300 grams per ten minutes, determined in accordance with ASTM D 1238, Condition J and 5 to 50 weight percent of a glass having a grain size of 1 to 300 μm; an improvement in a method of coating a metal or inorganic oxidic surface wherein a powder coating composition containing polyvinylidene fluoride is applied to such surface and fused thereon, the improvement residing in employing as the powder coating composition one containing 5 to 50 weight percent glass, based upon the weight of the polyvinylidene fluoride polymer; a coated object having a metallic or inorganic oxidic surface which is coated with a polyvinylidene fluoride homopolymer or copolymer which coating contains 5 to 50 weight percent, based upon the weight of the polyvinylidene fluoride, of glass particles, especially glass particles of a grain size of 1 to 300 μm.
A powder coating composition consisting essentially of a homopolymer or copolymer of polyvinylidene fluoride having a melt flow index of 10 to 300 grams per ten minutes, determined in accordance with ASTM D 1238, Condition J and 5 to 50 weight percent of a glass in spherical form having a grain size of 1 to 300 μm, said polyvinylidene fluoride being in the form of particles.
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A powder coating composition consisting essentially of a homopolymer or copolymer of polyvinylidene fluoride having a melt flow index of 10 to 300 grams per ten minutes, determined in accordance with ASTM D 1238, Condition J and 5 to 50 weight percent of a glass in spherical form having a grain size of 1 to 300 μm, said polyvinylidene fluoride being in the form of particles.
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A powder coating composition according to claim 1 wherein the glass grain size is 5 to 150 μm.
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A powder coating composition according to claim 1 wherein the polyvinylidene fluoride polymer is in the form of 50 to 450 μm particles.
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A powder coating composition according to claim 3 wherein the polyvinylidene fluoride polymer is in the form of 20 to 200 μm particles.
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A powder coating composition according to claim 3 wherein the glass particles are present in an amount of 10 to 40 weight percent.
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A powder coating composition according to claim 5 wherein the glass particles have a grain size of 5 to 150 μm.
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A powder coating composition according to claim 1 wherein said glass is in the form of balls.