EP0665787B1 - Multilayer film structure - Google Patents

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EP0665787B1
EP0665787B1 EP93923923A EP93923923A EP0665787B1 EP 0665787 B1 EP0665787 B1 EP 0665787B1 EP 93923923 A EP93923923 A EP 93923923A EP 93923923 A EP93923923 A EP 93923923A EP 0665787 B1 EP0665787 B1 EP 0665787B1
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Gordon Leonard Musclow
Robert Victor Poirier
Ralph Johannes Weber
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
    • B41M5/00—Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
    • B41M5/00—Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
    • B41M5/50—Recording sheets characterised by the coating used to improve ink, dye or pigment receptivity, e.g. for ink-jet or thermal dye transfer recording
    • B41M5/52—Macromolecular coatings
    • B41M5/5263—Macromolecular coatings characterised by the use of polymers obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds
    • B41M5/5272—Polyesters; Polycarbonates

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  • This invention relates to a multilayer packaging or label stock film structure having excellent printability and non-blocking characteristics.
  • the standard commercial approach to achieve wetting and adhesion of printing inks on certain packaging and label stock film is to subject the film to a surface modifying treatment, especially with corona discharge or a gas flame.
  • This type of treatment does not always provide for sufficient ink adhesion for many applications.
  • Excellent adhesion can be obtained by applying a primer layer to the film before application of the ink. While this may provide an excellent surface for wetting and adhering printing inks, preprimed film cannot be sold in roll form: the primer layer will cause destructive blocking between the primed surface and the reverse side of the film after it is rolled up and stored for any length of time.
  • the present invention seeks to provide a film which has excellent printability and which is not subject to destructive blocking.
  • the present invention provides a printable film structure comprising a polymeric film substrate having at least one surface adherently incompatable with printing ink and having a primer coating thereon of a type which can cause destructive blocking between contacting layers of such coated films wherein the primer coating has thereon a polyester coating, with or without pigment, to prevent blocking.
  • the printing ink base is a coating of a water-dissipatable copolyester having an inherent viscosity of at least 0.1 as measured in a 60/40 parts by weight solution of phenol/tetrachloroethane at 25°C and at a concentration of 0.5 gm. of polyester in 100 ml. solvent, especially wherein the copolyester comprises the condensation product of the following monomers (or their polyester forming equivalents):
  • the copolyester comprises the condensation product of the following monomers (or their polyester forming equivalents) :
  • the primer coating can be a coating of a member selected from the group consisting of (A) the reaction product of acidified aminoethylated vinyl polymer and an epoxy resin, (B) poly(ethyleneimine), and (C) mixtures thereof.
  • the substrates contemplated herein include any polymeric film substrate that can be employed for packaging purposes; for a label stock film; or for decorative purposes. Included within this class of materials are nylon; polyethylene terephthalate; polycarbonate; and polyolefins.
  • the contemplated structures also include coextrudates of the recited materials, laminates of any two or more of these materials or interblends of any of the materials extruded as a single base film.
  • a particularly preferred class of films are the polyolefins. Within the polyolefin class, homopolymers and copolymers of propylene are preferred. Particularly preferred are isotactic polypropylenes containing at least 80% by weight of isotactic polypropylene.
  • the preferred base substrate layer can be homopolymer polypropylene having a melting point from 161°C (321°F) to 169°C (336°F).
  • Commercially available materials of this description include Exxon 4252 and FINA 3371.
  • the skin material can be a copolymer of propylene and another olefin, e.g., ethylene and/or butene-1.
  • the other olefin can be present in the copolymer in an amount from 1 to 7 wt. %.
  • White opaque, cavitated polypropylene is also a substrate film of choice. Polyethylene film in all of its forms and densities, oriented or unoriented is also contemplated.
  • the films employed can be unaxially or biaxially oriented.
  • the preferred range of orientation can be from 1.3 to 7 times in the machine direction and from 5 to 10 times in the transverse direction.
  • any of these materials may be corona discharge treated to 38 to 42 dynes/cm by standard commercial techniques. They may also be flame treated by means known in the art.
  • the primer coating material contemplated, as indicated above, is the type which inherently causes destructive film blocking between contacting layers of such a coated film when the film is convolutely rolled up and store for at least a number of days.
  • the primer coating comprises a reaction product of an acidified aminoethylated vinyl polymer and an epoxy resin; a poly(ethyleneimine); or a mixture thereof.
  • the primer coating (A) is described in U.S. Patent 5,066,434.
  • the primer materials include the reaction product of an epoxy resin and an acidified aminoethylated vinyl polymer.
  • the contemplated epoxy resins are glycidyl ethers of polyhydroxy compounds.
  • Typical polyhydroxy compounds which may be used include bisphenol A, ring substituted bisphenol A, resorcinol, hydroquinone, phenol-formaldehyde, novolac resins, aliphatic diols, such as ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, 1,4-butanediol, 1,6-hexanediol, glycerol, lower alkyl hydantoins and mixtures thereof.
  • Epoxy resins of the present invention are those made by the glycidation reaction between epichlorohydrin and bisphenol A. Epoxy resins of this type are commonly classified by their epoxy equivalent weight (EEW) which is defined as the weight of resin in grams which contains one gram equivalent of epoxy groups. Resins with an EEW from 170 to 280 may be used in the present invention, but the preferred range is from 180 to 210.
  • EW epoxy equivalent weight
  • a variation in the composition of the epoxy resin component is one in which a hydantoin compound is substituted for the bisphenol A.
  • 1,1-dimethyl hydantoin may be employed in a low molecular weight epoxy resin since resins based on this material are completely water soluble thereby eliminating the necessity for emulsification.
  • the specific structure of the epoxy resin is not critical to the primer employed in the present invention, important considerations in the selection of the epoxy resin depend upon its physical state. For example, it must be liquid and capable of being readily dispersed or dissolved with the second component or curing agent as described hereinbelow. If the epoxy resin is of low viscosity, it may be stirred directly into the second component, i.e., curing agent, however, it is preferred to employ the epoxy resin in an aqueous emulsion.
  • the second component in the epoxy primer compositions of the present invention is an amino modified acrylic polymer which is water soluble.
  • This polymer is a curing agent for the epoxy compound.
  • the preferred material is described in the U.S. Patent No. 3,719,629 and may be generically described as an acidified amino-ethylated interpolymer having pendant amino alkylate groups. This material is produced by polymerizing acrylate, methacrylate, styrene or other suitable monomers with sufficient methacrylic or acrylic acid to give a - COOH content of 7.5 to 12.5%. Solvent polymerization techniques are preferred. The polymer is then reacted with ethyleneimene monomer and acidified with hydrochloric acid to render the polymer water soluble.
  • the primer coating may be applied to the substrate as a dispersion or as a solution, from an organic vehicle, for example, an alcohol or an aromatic hydrocarbon, such as xylene or a mixture thereof.
  • a liquid epoxy resin is emulsified in a solution of the curing agent by rapid stirring. Thereafter, the resultant dispersion is diluted with water to the desired concentration for coating, which typically includes from about 2 to about 25% solids.
  • the stoichiometric ratio may be varied over a wide range, for instance, from about one epoxy group to about three amine groups through three epoxy groups to one amine group and, preferably, from about one epoxy group to two amine groups through about two epoxy groups to about one amine group, without seriously affecting the product's usefulness as a primer coating.
  • the solution or dispersion of epoxy resin and curing agent can contain small amounts of wetting agents in order to facilitate the application of the primer material to the surface of layer (b).
  • wetting agents which can be employed include the hexyl or benzyl ether of ethylene glycol, the hexyl ether of diethylene glycol, butyl alcohol, hexyl alcohol, octyl alcohol and diacetone alcohol.
  • catalysts include propylene diamine and hexamethylene diamine.
  • the alternative primer coating material (B) poly(ethyleneimine) is also known as PEI.
  • PEI poly(ethyleneimine)
  • the use of PEI as a primer material for polymeric coatings on film substrates such as cellophane or polyolefins is well known in the art as disclosed in British Patent Nos. 766,827 & 910,875. This material is also described in U.S Patent No. 3,230,175.
  • a commercially available material of this type is known as EPOMIN L50 a product of Nippon Shogubi. This material can be applied from either aqueous or organic solvent media, such as ethanol in a solution comprising from 0.1 to 0.6% by weight of the poly(ethyleneimine) when a mixture of A and B are employed any ratio is contemplated.
  • polyesters in particular water-dispersible polyester ink bases
  • these polyesters can withstand extremely high (93°C; 200°F.+) temperatures. Further, these polyester surfaces permit an exceptionally strong bonding to result when printed indicia or design is printed thereon.
  • the multilayer structure and the printed information and/or design can withstand water temperatures of 93°C (200°F) alone or in combination with moderate abrasive action in contact with the printed surface.
  • These polyesters have been described as linear, water-dissipatable polyesters having inherent viscosities as disclosed above and having the equimolar proportions of acid and hydroxy moieties referred to above.
  • the polyesters can comprise repeating units of components (a), (b), (c) and (d), as follows:
  • Biaxially oriented homopolypropylene of a thickness of about 4.83 x 10 -5 m (1.9 mils) is corona discharge treated to about 3.8 x 10 -2 N/m (38 dynes/cm) and is one-side prime coated with the reaction product of an acidified aminoethylated vinyl polymer and an epoxy resin as described in Example 3 of U.S. Patent No. 4,214,039.
  • the film After drying in hot air to a weight of 7.75 x 10 -5 kg/m 2 (0.05 gms/msi), the film is convolutely wound and stored at 21°C (70°F) for about 7 days. On attempting to uncoil the film it will be found to have destructive blocking and be unusable for subsequent conversions.
  • a film as in Example 1, before being rolled up is top-coated with the polyester composition described in Example 13 of U.S. Patent No. 5,006,598. This top-coat is applied to a dry weight of just less than 0.06 gms/msi.
  • the film is convolutely wound and stored at 21°C (70°F) for about 7 days. This film can be unrolled and re-rolled with no evidence of blocking.
  • Example 2 The film of Example 2 is printed with a water-based flexographic ink known as "No. WR30007, from Environmental Inks and Coating Corp.. Employing #610 Scotch Tape R from 3M Co. as an adherence test, the printing can not be removed.
  • a water-based flexographic ink known as "No. WR30007, from Environmental Inks and Coating Corp.. Employing #610 Scotch Tape R from 3M Co. as an adherence test, the printing can not be removed.
  • Example 3 The printed film of Example 3 is coated with a pressure sensitive adhesive on the reverse side thereof and applied as a label to a glass container.
  • the label and glass are submerged in 93°C (200°F) water for 10 minutes and then scraped in an attempt to remove the ink.
  • the ink will be found to be firmly bonded to the polyester coated epoxy primed oriented polypropylene substrate.
  • the flexographic ink will not wet corona treated polypropylene film alone and the ink can be easily lifted off by the tape.
  • Biaxially oriented homopolypropylene of a thickness of about 4.83 x 10 -5 m (1.9 mils) is corona discharge treated to about 3.8 x 10 -2 N/m (38 dynes/cm) and is one-side prime coated with the reaction product of an acidified aminoethylated vinyl polymer and an epoxy resin as described in Example 3 of U.S. Patent No. 4,214,039.
  • the film After drying in hot air to a weight of 7.75 x 10 -5 kg/m 2 (0.05 gms/msi), the film is convolutely wound and stored at 21°C (70°F) for about 7 days. On attempting to uncoil the film it will be found to have destructive blocking and be unusable for subsequent conversions.
  • a film as in Example 5, before being rolled up is top-coated with the polyester composition described in Example 28 of U.S. Patent No. 4,525,419. This top-coat is applied to a dry weight of just less than 9.3 x 10 -5 kg/m 2 (0.06 gms/msi).
  • the film is convolutely wound and stored at 21°C (70°F) for about 7 days. This film can be unrolled and re-rolled with no evidence of blocking.
  • Example 6 The film of Example 6 is printed with a water-based flexographic ink known as "No. WR30007, from Environmental Inks and Coating Corp.. Employing #610 Scotch Tape R from 3M Co. as an adherence test, the printing can not be removed.
  • a water-based flexographic ink known as "No. WR30007, from Environmental Inks and Coating Corp.. Employing #610 Scotch Tape R from 3M Co. as an adherence test, the printing can not be removed.
  • Example 7 The printed film of Example 7 is coated with a pressure sensitive adhesive on the reverse side thereof and applied as a label to a glass container.
  • the label and glass are submerged in 93°C (200°F) water for 10 minutes and then scraped in an attempt to remove the ink.
  • the ink will be found to be firmly bonded to the polyester coated epoxy primed oriented polypropylene substrate.
  • the flexographic ink will not wet corona treated polypropylene film alone and the ink can be easily lifted off by the tape.
  • oriented polypropylene film can be prime coated with a primer material which leads to destructive blocking between adjacent layers.
  • This blocking can be eliminated by top coating the prime coating with a polyester composition within the scope of U.S. Patent 4,525,419 or 5,006,598.
  • This polyester coating not only prevents the destructive blocking of the film but also provides a surface to which conventional label printing inks will aggressively adhere and even withstand the rigors of hot water applied in an agitating manner to the film in label form applied to a container surface.
  • the prime coating is poly(ethyleneimine) alone or in combination with the epoxy prime coating material.
  • the polyesters of the present invention are fundamentally an ink without any pigment. If commercial pigments were added to polyester, they indeed could be employed as a printing ink composition. When the primed substrate is coated with the proper amount of the polyester, blocking between films is prevented. This would be true whether the polyester contained an ink pigment or not. Thus, in its broadest sense the present invention overcomes the tendency of primed substrate films to block by applying a pigment or non-pigmented polyester uniformly over the primed surface. As indicated, since the polyester is fundamentally an ink without pigment and a necessary attribute of an ink is that it has good adhesion to itself, the primed and polyester coated film has excellent print characteristics.
  • the ink base polyester compositions must not be coated to an extent greater than 9.3 x 10 -5 kg/m 2 (0.06 gms/msi). As a lower limit the polyester can be coated to that extent which effectively prevents blocking of the primed substrate film.

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