Polyvalent metal soap coating and method of manufacture

Claim 1

AN OPAQUE COATING MIXTURE FOR APPLICATION AS A SUBSTANTIALLY CONTINUOUS OPAQUE COATING ON A SURFACE, WHICH MIXTURE COMPRISES A POLYVALENT METAL SOAP OF A FATTY ACID HAVING FROM SIX THROUGH EIGHTEEN CARBON ATOMS SAID SOAP BEING DISPERSED UNDISSOLVED THROUGHOUT AN ORGANIC AND LIQUID DISPERSION MEDIUM INERT TO THE SAID SOAP AND HAVING A SYNTHETIC RESIN BINDER AND AN ORGANIC SOLVENT WHICH DISSOLVES THE BINDER AND IS OTHERWISE INERT TO IT AND IS ALSO INERT TO THE SOAP, SAID BINDER BEING INERT TO AND CAPABLE OF HOLDING THE SOAP DISPERSED UNDISSOLVED IN IT AFTER THE MIXTURE IS APPLIED TO THE SURFACE, AND OF BINDING THE SOAP TO SAID SURFACE EVEN AFTER EVAPORATION OF THE SOLVENT, THE SOAP BEING PRESENT IN AN AMOUNT IN EXCESS OF THAT OF THE BINDER WHICH LATTER IS AT LEAST TWO PERCENT OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF SOAP AND BINDER, THE INGREDIENTS BEING SO PROPORTIONED TO ONE ANOTHER FOR THE MIXTURE TO BE SPREADABLE OVER THE SURFACE OVER WHICH IT IS TO BE COATED AND FOR THE DISPERSION OF SOAP IN BINDER TO REMAIN FIDED AS AN OPAQUE COATING ON THE SURFACE AFTER EVAPORATION OF THE SOLVENT, THE OPACITY OF THIS COATING BEING DISPLACEABLE WHEREVER THE COATING IS PLACED UNDER IMPACT PRESSURE SUCH AS BY APPLICATION OF A WRITING STYLUS OR TYPEWRITER KEY, WHEREBY SUCH THUS APPLIED IMPRESSION EASILY IS LEGIBLE.