AN IMPROVED METHOD OF ORNAMENTING STEEL AND WROUGHT IRON, ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO THE ORNAMENTING OF PURSE, BAG, AND OTHER LIKE FRAMES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Weintraud, of Aldermanbury, in the City
of London, Merchant, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF
ORNAMENTING STEEL AND WROUGHT IRON, ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO THE
ORNAMENTING OF PURSE, BAG, AND OTHER LIKE FRAMES."-A communication
from abroad by Christian Weintraud, junior, of Offenbach, Hesse
Darmstadt.
Sealed the 30th September 1864, and dated the 7th April 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Weintraud at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th April 1864.
I, FREDERICK WEINTRAUD, of Aldermanbury, in the City of London, Mer-
chant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF ORNAMENTING STEEL AND WROUGHT IRON, ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO
THE ORNAMENTING OF PURSE, BAG, AND OTHER LIKE FRAMES," to be as follows:
This Invention consists in ornamenting, by drawing or otherwise marking
on the surface of steel or wrought iron, which must be first polished or bright
or "matted," any desired spots, pattern, or device with boracic acid. The

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Frederick Weintraud in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 7th October 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
WEINTRAUD, of Aldermanbury, in the City of London, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Frederick Weintraud, Her special licence that I, the said Frederick
Weintrand, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Frederick Weintraud, 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 "AN IMPROVED METHOD
OF ORNAMENTING STEEL AND WROUGHT IRON, ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO THE ORNA-
MENTING OF PURSE, BAG, AND OTHER LIKE FRAMES," communicated to me from
abroad by Christian Weintraud, junior, of Offenbach, Hesse Darmstadt, upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Frederick Weintraud, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, 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 I, the said Frederick Weintrand, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in ornamenting, by drawing or otherwise marking
on the surface of steel or wrought iron, which must be first polished or bright

page_text: or "matted," any desired spots, pattern, or device with boracic acid. The
metal is then fired, and according to different temperatures so will the effects
differ.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Weintraud, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.
FRED. WEINTRAUD. (L.S.)