Lubricant composition

Claim 1

A LUBRICANT PREPARATION IN ANHYDROUS PARTICULATE FROM SUITABLE FOR SUBSEQUENT MIXING WITH AQUEOUS MEDIA CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF 0.5% TO 2% BY WEIGHT OF THE DRY SOLIDS OF A WATER SOLUBLE NON-CORROSIVE WETTING AGENT SELECTED FROM THE CLASS CONSISTING OF (1) THE ANIONIC ALKYL, ALKARYL SULPHATES AND SULPHONATES IN WHICH THE ALKYL RADICAL HAS A CHAIN LENGTH OF 8 TO 12 CARBON ATOMS AND ARYL SULPHONATES, (2) THE CATIONIC IMIDAZOLINE SALTS OF THE PHOSPHORIC ACIDS, (3) THE NONIONIC CONDENSATION PRODUCTS OF POLYALKYLENE OXIDE AND MIXTURES THEREOF WITH A MEMBER SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF LONG CHAIN HYDROCARBON FATTY ACIDS, FATTY ALCOHOLS, FATTY AMINES, FATTY AMIDES AND ALKYL PHENOLS, (4) HIGH TITER SOAPS OF A HIGH TITER FATTY MATERIAL AND A BASE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ORGANIC BASES AND ALKALI METAL BASES, AND (5) FATTY ALKANOL AMIDES; FROM ABOUT 10% TO ABOUT 40% BY WEIGHT OF A SUSPENDING AGENT COMPRISING A MEMBER OF THE CLASS CONSISTING OF THE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE GUMS, THE POLYVINYL LACTAMS HAVING A MOLECULAR WEIGHT IN THE RANGE BETWEEN 50,000 AND 400,000, THE BENTONITIC CLAYS, THE ALKYL CELLULOSES, THE POLYACRYLIC ACIDS HAVING A MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF 18,000 TO 100,000 AND THEIR ALKALI METAL AND AMMONIUM SALTS, AND PECTIN; 0.5% TO 5% BY WEIGHT OF A FUNGICIDE/BACTERICIDE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF A MONOHYDROXY MONONUCLEAR AROMATIC COMPOUNDS, HALOGENATED MONOHYDROXY MONONUCLEAR AROMATIC COMPOUNDS AND THE ALKALI SALTS THEREOF AND THE BALANCE COMPRISING A SOLID LUBRICANT SELECTED FROM THE CLASS CONSISTING OF GRAPHITE AND VERMICULITE MAINTAINED IN PARTICULATE FROM BY BEING COATED WITH DRY PREMIXTUE OF SAID WETTING AND SUSPENDED AGENTS.