AN IMPROVED ALLOY OR METAL
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Campbell Morfit, Consulting Chemist, of the
City of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, and United States of
America, but now residing at Sudbrook Park, in the County of
Surrey, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED ALLOY OR METAL."—A
communication from abroad by James C. Booth; of Philadelphia, in
the State of Pennsylvania, and United States of America, Chemist.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Campbell Morfit at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 1st September 1870, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852:
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CAMPBELL
MORFIT, Consulting Chemist, of the City of Baltimore, in the State of
Maryland, and United States of America, but now residing at Sudbrook
Park, in the County of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "AN IMPROVED
ALLOY OR METAL," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the
same, and have made solemn Declaration that it has been communi-

page_text: cated to me from abroad by James C. Booth, of Philidelphia, in the State
of Pennsylvania, and United States of America, Chemist.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Campbell Morfit, do hereby declare
that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and seal, fully
describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, in and by the followng statement
thereof, that is to say :-
The Invention relates to the production of a metallic alloy having the
colour and properties which entitle it to rank as a very superior and
economical-substitute for-silver-in-the-manufacture-of-many-domestic-
articles, coach furniture, harness mountings, buttons, pencil cases,
writing pens, and various other articles.
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The manner of carrying out the Invention practically is as follows :-
Thirty-three parts of commercially pure metallic nickel are to be put into
a plumbago crucible or black lead pot together with thirty-four parts
of commercially pure metallic copper and melted with a little borax
flux. The more intimate mixture of the metals is then to be promoted
by, stirring, after which thirty-three parts more of commercially pure
copper are to be added in such masses as will not chill the pot, care
being observed to stir well upon the fusion of each charge. When. the
whole has become melted a full heat is to be given with a charcoal
cover on, and the metal cast into ingots for use.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the mode
in which the same is carried into effect, I would have it understood that
what I claim is, the use of copper and nickel in or about the proportions
of sixty-seven parts by weight of the former, and thirty-three parts.
by weight of the latter, to form a metallic alloy for manufacturing
purposes, after the manner as herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Campbell Morfit, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventv.