Correction fluid
AssigneeThe Gillette Company
InventorsGary F. Matz, Kimberly B. Sanborn
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Abstract
An aqueous, correction fluid that includes a suspending agent, a binding resin, water, and an opacifying pigment. The suspending agent is preferably a gum or hydrocolloid, e.g., xanthan gum, and the composition preferably has a shear-thinning index (n) of from about 0.08 to 0.50.
Claims13
An aqueous correction fluid having a shear-thinning index of between 0.08 to 0.50, said correction fluid comprising a binding resin, titanium dioxide as an opacifying agent, water, and a sufficient quantity of a suspending agent to provide said fluid with said shear-thinning index, said correction fluid being capable of obscuring an underlying typewritten marking when applied over said marking on a paper substrate and of providing a surface capable of receiving a corrective typewritten ink marking that can be easily read, said correction fluid having a drying time of about 60 seconds or less.
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