Improvements in the Manufacture of Gold Paint for Interior Gilding and other purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 7th June, 1895-Accepted, 20th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Gold Paint for Interior Gilding
and other purposes.
We, JOHN TENNANT and JAMES TENNANT, Painters, of 25ª Roslin Terrace,
and WILLIAM RICHARD TENNANT, Painter, of 50 Esslemont Avenue, all of the
City and County of Aberdeen, North Britain, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of gold paint for
interior gilding and other purposes.
In accordance with our invention, we take and mix one gallon bleached linseed
oil, one and a half pounds of litharge, and two ounces sugar of lead. The mixture
is highly boiled and thereafter strained and allowed to cool down. Then it is
hermetically sealed in iron flasks, and allowed to lie for a period of from four to
six months. Thereafter there is added three quarters gallon of benzol (standard 90),
and the mixture is allowed to mature for another period of eight days, and then the
gas which forms during maturity is allowed to escape. Thereafter there is added
one quarter gallon of benzine, and finally gold bronze in the proportion of thirty-
two quarters, that is eight pounds, of gold bronze to one gallon of the mixture.
Dated this 22nd day of April 1895.
JOHNSONS,
115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Petitioners' Agents.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Gold Paint for Interior Gilding
and other purposes.
We. JOHN TENNANT and JAMES TENNANT, Painters, of 25' Roslin Terrace,
and WILLIAM RICHARD TENNANT, Painter of 50 Essiemont Avenue, all of the
City and County of Aberdeen North Britain, do liereby 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of gold paint for
interior gilding and other purposes.
In accordance with our invention, we take and mix one gallon bleached linseed
oil, one and a half pounds of litharge, and two ounces sugar of lead. The mixture
is highly boiled, and thereafter strained and allowed to cool down. Then it is
hermetically sealed in iron flasks and allowed to lie for a period of from four to
six months. Thereafter there is added three quarters gallon of benzol (standard 90),
and the mixture is allowed to mature for another period of eight days, and then the
gas which forms during maturity is allowed to escape. Thereafter there is added
one quarter gallon of benzine, and finally gold bronze in the proportion of thirty-
two quarters, that is eight pounds of gold bronze to one gallon of the mixture.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is :-
The improvements in the manufacture of gold paint for interior gilding and other
purposes, substantially as described.
Dated this 4th day of June, 1895.
JOHNSONS,
115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Petitioners' Agents.