Organic ammonium silicate coating compositions

Claim 1

A COATING COMPOSITON CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF (A) A BODY COMPONENT SUCH AS PIGMENTS, DYES, COLORING MATERIALS OR FILLERS, (B) A SETTABLE COMPONENT, (C) SAID SETTABLE COMPONENT CONSISTING ESSENTIAL OF A COMPOUND HAVING THE FORMULA: X(NRPS)2O$YUSIO2$ZH2O WHEREIN: N REPRESENTS A NITROGEN ATOM; N IS A SMALL INTEGER LESS THAN 10 AND PREFERABLY LESS THAN 5; X,Y AND Z REPRESENTS NUMBERS DEFINING THE RELATIVE AMOUNTS OF EACH OF THE COMPONENT PARTS OF THE COMPOUND, AND X IS 1, Y IS PREFERABLY BETWEEN 0.5 BETWEEN AND 50, AND Z IS PREFERABLY BETWEEN 0 AND 99; R REPRESENTS ALKYL RADICALS CONTAINING BETWEEN ABOUT 1 AND 20 CARBON ATOMS, AT LEAST ONE OF WHICH IS AN OMEGA HYDROXY ALKYL GROUP; P IS LEAST 4, INDICATING BONDS OF TOTAL R GROUPS TO N; AND S IS AN INTEGER FROM 1 TO P, INDICATING THE NUMBER OF DIFFERENT R GROUPS, AND (D) BETWEEN ABOUT 6% AND 36% BY WEIGHT OF A SETTING AGENT SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF BORIC ACID, PHOSPHORIC ACID, LEAD OXIDES, LEAD CARBONATE MAGNESIUM CARBONATE, ZINC CARBONATE AND SILICOFLUORIDES, (E) SAID BODYING COMPONENT BEING SUBSTANTIALLY INSOLUBLE AND NON-REACTIVE WITH BOTH THE SAID SETTING AGENT AND SAID SETTABLE COMPONENT.