Water-based silicone-organic polymer compositions and method therefor

Claim 1

A process for preparing a silicone-organic polymer composition, said process comprising mixing components comprising (A) an aqueous, silicon compound emulsion composition and (B) an aqueous, organic polymer composition to provide a silicone-organic polymer composition wherein the weight ratio of said silicon compound to said organic polymer has a value of from 1/100 to 100/1, said aqueous, silicon compound emulsion composition comprising (i) an aqueous phase consisting essentially of at least 10 parts by weight of water and (ii) an oil phase consisting essentially of 100 parts by weight of a silicon compound having the average formula R a SiO.sub.(4-a)/2 wherein each R denotes a monovalent, silicon-bonded radical selected from the group consisting of the hydrogen atom, alkoxy radicals, hydroxy radicals, hydrocarbon radicals and substituted hydrocarbon radicals, the substituents of which are selected from radicals containing one or more atoms selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur and halogen, there being at least one R radical per molecule of said silicon compound selected from the group consisting of hydroxy radicals and alkoxy radicals; has a value of from 1 to 4; and said aqueous phase and/or said oil phase further containing, in total, (1) at least 3 millimols of a nonionic primary surfactant having an HLB number of from 13 to 15, (2) from 1 to 5 millimols, per millimol of said nonionic primary surfactant, of a nonionic secondary surfactant having an HLB number of from 7 to 9 and (3) at least 0.05 millimol of a nonionic tertiary surfactant having an HLB number of at least 16.