An Improved Composition for the Protection and Preservation of Metal or other Surfaces.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Composition for the Protection and Preservation of
Metal or other Surfaces.
We, HENRY FORSTER CLOUGHI, ARTHUR TURNER and JOIN TURNER, of The
Virginia Electric Company, of Falcon Works, 10a, Virginia Street, Southport,
in the County of Lancaster, Electrical Engineers, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the protection and preservation of surfaces from the
action of water or moisture and is especially applicable to articles of iron or steel
or other metal to prevent the formation of rust thereon.
The invention consists of a mixture or composition formed from tallow, caustic
soda, and alum, dissolved or liquefied in turpentine.
In producing our composition we proceed as follows:-
We dissolve a suitable quantity (say about 15 parts, by weight) of caustic soda
in water and we melt a suitable quantity (say about 100 parts, by weight) of tallow
into the above solution.
We also dissolve a suitable quantity (say 160 parts, by weight) of alum in
water, and we mix these two solutions together.
We take the precipitate from this mixture and we dissolve or liquefy it in a
suitable quantity of turpentine (say about 20 parts of turpentine to 1 of the
precipitate).
We thus produce a transparent composition or paint which can be readily
applied to metal and other surfaces like ordinary paint, and will without altering
their appearance act as a preservative and protection against the action of water
or moisture.
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This paint or composition is very cleanly in its application, as it dries on the
article to which it is applied and is not sticky.
An Improved Composition for the Protection and Preservation of
Metal or other Surfaces.
We, HENRY FORSTER CLOUGHI, ARTHUR TURNER, and JOHN TURNER, of The
Virginia Electric Company, of Falcon Works, 10A, Virginia Street, Southport,
in the County of Lancaster, Electrical Engineers, do hereby declare the nature
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page_text: of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
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This invention relates to the protection and preservation of surfaces from the
action of water or moisture and is especially applicable to articles of iron or steel,
or other metal to prevent the formation of rust thereon.
The invention consists of a mixture or composition formed from tallow, caustic
soda, and alum, dissolved or liquefied in turpentine.
In producing our composition we proceed as follows:-
We dissolve a suitable quantity (say about 15 parts, by weight) of caustic soda
in hot water and we melt a suitable quantity (say about 100 parts, by weight) of
tallow into the above solution.
We also dissolve a suitable quantity (say 160 parts, by weight) of alum in
water, and we mix these two solutions together.
We take the precipitate from this mixture and we dissolve or liquefy it in a
suitable quantity of turpentine (say about 20 parts of turpentine to 1 of the
precipitate).
We thus produce a transparent composition or paint which can be readily
applied to metal and other surfaces like ordinary paint, and will without altering
their appearance act as a preservative and protection against the action of water
or moisture.
'
This paint or composition is very cleanly in its application, as it dries on the
article to which it is applied and is not sticky.
Having now rarticularly 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:-
An improved composition for the protection and preservation of metal and other
surfaces, consisting of a mixture formed by the combination of tallow with solu-
tions of caustic soda, and alum, the precipitate from which mixture is dissolved
or liquefied in turpentine, substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 22nd day of March 1899.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicants, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.