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Claim 1

A COMPOSITION FOR AIR ATOMIZING AND SPRAY-DEPOSITING ON A SURFACE THEREBY PRODUCING A FLEXIBLE AND ADHESIVE AND NON-TACKY COATING THEREON, THE COMBINATION OF: A SLOW SETTING TYPE BITUMINOUS EMULSION CONTAINING NOT UNDER 50 PERCENT AND NOT OVER 70 PERCENT BY WEIGHT OF BITUMEN, AND CONTAINING NOT LESS THAN 0.1 PERCENT NOR OVER 10 PERCENT BY WEIGHT OF EMULSIFYING CHEMICALS, THE BALANCE OF SAID EMULSION BEING WATER OF NOT UNDER 25 PERCENT NOR OVER 49 PERCENT; AN ALIPHATIC WATER-SOLUBLE EVAPORATION ACCELERATION COMPOUND BOILING BELOW 100* C., AND CONTAINING NO OTHER ELEMENT THAN CARBON, HYDROGEN, AND OXYGEN, IN QUANTITY NOT UNDER 1 PERCENT NOR OVER 40 PERCENT OF THE WEIGHT OF EMULSION; A WATER DISPERSIBLE THICKENING AGENT IN QUANTITY NOT UNDER 0.15 PERCENT NOR OVER 10 PERCENT OF THE WEIGHT OF THE EMULSION; FIBER IN QUANTITY NOT UNDER 5 PERCENT NOR OVER 12 PERCENT OF THE WEIGHT OF THE EMULSION; AND A FINELY GROUND GRANULAR MINERAL FILLER IN QUANTITY NOT UNDER 2 PERCENT NOR OVER 6 PERCENT OF THE WEIGHT OF THE EMULSION, SAID INGREDIENTS BEING MIXED WITHIN THE SAID RANGING PROPORTION TO PRODUCE A THIXOTROPIC SLURRY ADAPTED TO AND CAPABLE OF ATOMIZATION AND SPRAY-GUN DEPOSITION.