IMPROVEMENTS IN COATING METAL WITH METAL AND METALLIC COMPOUNDS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Bedson, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Manager, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COATING
METAL WITH METAL AND METALLIC COMPOUNDS."
Sealed the 7th August 1857, and dated the 10th February 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Bedson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 10th
February 1857.
I, GEORGE BEDSON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manager,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
COATING METAL WITH METAL AND METALLIC COMPOUNDS," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to that method of coating metal known as tinning or
galvanizing, and consists in the application of certain substances floating on
the bath of molten metal through which the articles are usually passed. For
this purpose I employ salts of tin, of which I prefer the chloride and sulphate;
with these other substances, such as common salt or chloride of calcium, may
be combined.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Bedson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th August 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
BEDSON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manager, send
greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty. Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
George Bedson, Her especial license that I, the said 'George Bedson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Bedson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
COATING METAL WITH METAL AND METALLIC COMPOUNDS," upon the condition,
amongst others, that I; the said George Bedson, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Bedson, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say:-
'
My Invention relates to that method of coating metal known as tinning or
galvanizing, and consists in the application of certain substances floating on
the bath of molten metal and through which the articles are passed. For
this purpose, instead of the salammoniac or tallow, commonly used, I employ
salts of tin, of which I prefer the chloride, perchloride, and sulphate; with
these other substances may be combined, for the purpose of causing the metal
to run more freely, as for instance, common salt, without departing from the
principle of my Invention, that which I claim as secured to me being the use
of salts of tin, for the purpose above set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Bedson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
GEORGE BEDSON. (L.S.)