An Improvement in the Manufacture of Coloured Sealing Wax.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Loft, 18th Dec
1889-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Manufacture of Coloured Sealing Wax.
1, JOHN FREEMONT, 73 Myddelton Square, in the County of Middlesex, E.C.
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Sealing wax as usually manufactured consists of resinous material such as lac
thickened by a pulverulent body such as barytes. For producing sealing wax of
various colours, pulverulent pigments which are generally expensive, such as
vermillion for red or ultra-marine for blue, are mixed with the resinous material and
the body.
I
My invention relates to means of producing sealing wax of various colours by the
use of materials that are comparatively inexpensive and do not injuriously affect the
quality of the wax. For this purpose dye the barytos-or-other pulverulent body,
preferably with aniline colours, applied to it liquid, and after the body thus dyed is
dry, I pulverise it and add it to the resinous material and melt and mould in the
usual way. Instead of using only the body material dyed as above described,
pulverulent pigments in moderate quantity may be used along with it. The wax,
instead of being made up as usual in sticks, may be first cast in the form of cakes,
or slabs, these being ground into a coarse powder, which can be readily melted for
bottling and such like uses.
75
5011
of Nb 1889
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Manufacture of Coloured Sealing Wax.
1, JOHN FREEMONT of 73 Myddelton Square in the County of Middlesex, E.C.
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
Sealing wax as usually manufactured consists of resinous material such as lac
thickened by a pulverulent body such as baryies. For producing sealing wax of
various colours pulverulent pigments which are generally expensive, such as
vermillion for red or ultra marine for blue, are mixed with the resinous material and
the body.
My invention relates to means of producing sealing wax of various colours by the
use of materials that are comparatively inexpensive and do not injuriously affect the
quality of the wax. For this purpose, I dye the barytes or other pulverulent body,
preferably with aniline colours, applied to it liquid, and after the body thus dyed is
dry, I pulverise it and add it to the resinous material and melt and mould in the
usual way. Instead of using only the body material dyed as above described,
pulverulent pigments in moderate quantity may be used along with it.
As an example of my process, I describe that for red sealing wax. I make a
solution of aniline scarlet in the proportion of about $ lbs. to 80 gallons of water and
I add one gallon of the solution to 160 lbs. of sulphate of Baryta or to 80lbs. of
carbonate of lime and, after thoroughly incorporating the ingredients, I place the
This stained material is
mixture in a drying room to drive off all moisture.
then ready for use in the way in which the unstained pulverulent materials are
employed.
French or Vienna white or other analogous substances may be similarly prepared
for use in the manufacture of wax.

page_text: For greens, blues or other colors, I proceed in the same way, selecting those dyes
which best withstand the heat applied in making wax and straining them to the depth
of tint desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is :-
In the manufacture of coloured sealing wax, dyeing the pulverulent materials
employed to give body, and mixing the dyed materials with the resinous ingredients
and with or without other pigments, substantially as described.
Dated this 17th day of December 1889.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.