A COMPOSITION TO PRESERVE WOOD AND IRON, CALLED A SUBMARINE AND PRESERVING COATING
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Louis Rey and Adolphe Guibert, of Marseilles,
in the Kingdom of France, for the Invention of "A COMPOSITION TO
PRESERVE WOOD AND IRON, CALLED A SUBMARINE AND PRESERVING COATING."
Sealed the 3rd August 1855, and dated the 21st May 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Louis Rey and
Adolphe Guibert at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 21st May 1855.
We, JOSEPH LOUIS REY and ADOLPHE GUIBERT, of Marseilles, in the
Kingdom of France, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "A
COMPOSITION TO PRESERVE WOOD AND IRON, CALLED A SUBMARINE AND PRESERVING
COATING," to be as follows:-·
This Invention consists in the employment of sulphuret of copper and
sulphuret of antimony mixed with resin or varnish as a coating for preserving
wood and iron.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Louis Rey and Adolphe Guibert in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 21st November 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH
LOUIS REY and ADOLPHE GUIBERT, of Marseilles, in the Kingdom of France,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Joseph Louis Rey and Adolphe Guibert, Her special licence that we, the
said Joseph Louis Rey and Adolphe Guibert, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Joseph Louis Rey and Adolphe Guibert,
our 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 "A COMPOSITION TO PRESERVE WOOD AND IRON,
CALLED A SUBMARINE AND PRESERVING COATING," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Joseph Louis Rey and Adolphe Guibert, by an instru-
ment in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of
one of us, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, 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 we, the said Joseph Louis Rey and Adolphe
Guibert, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in the employment of sulphuret of copper and
sulphuret of antimony mixed with resin or varnish as a coating for preserving
wood and iron.
Having thus stated the nature of the said Invention, we will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same. The proportions of the
matters or substances above named may be varied, but it is preferred to employ
the following:-Ten parts of sulphuret of copper, two parts of sulphuret of
antimony, five to thirty parts of the best varnish, according to the nature of
the material to be preserved, as a compound, having greater or less preserving

page_text: capability as required. These matters are ground together in the manner of
paints, and are similarly applied to wood or iron to preserve them.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, we would have
it understood that we do not confine ourselves to the proportions above
mentioned; but what we claim is, the combining the materials herein set
forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Joseph Louis Rey and Adolphe Guibert,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Seventeenth day of
November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-five.
Witness,
ADÉE DE ST JULIEN,
27, Rue Peirier, à Marseille.
JOSEPH LOUIS REY. (L.S.)
ADOLPHE GUIBERT. (Ls.)