IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LIQUID AND PASTE BLACKING, BY THE INTRODUCTION OF INDIA RUBBER, OIL, AND OTHER ARTICLES AND THINGS
Year: 1836

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
BRYANT and EDWARD JAMES, of Plymouth, in the County of Devon, Merchants
and Co-partners, being of the People called Quakers, send greeting.
WHEREAS King William the Fourth, by His Letters Patent under the
Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Third day of
December, in the seventh year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said William Bryant and Edward.
James, His especial licence that we, the said William Bryant and Edward
James, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the
said William Bryant and Edward James, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF LIQUID AND PASTE BLACKING, BY THE INTRODUCTION OF INDIA RUBBER, OIL, AND
OTHER ARTICLES AND THINGS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso obliging us, the said William Bryant and Edward James, by an
instrument in writing under our hands and seals, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, and to causes the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
William Bryant and Edward James, do hereby declare that the nature of
our said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is
described and ascertained as follows; that is to say :-
For the liquid blacking, take india-rubber oil, (which consists of eighteen
ounces of india-rubber, or a little more or less, according to its quality, dissolved
by heat in nine pounds of rape oil,) fine ivory black, sixty pounds; molasses,
forty-five pounds; gum arabic, finely powdered and dissolved in vinegar, one
pound; vinegar (No. 24) twenty gallons; the above to be well mixed, and
ground in a mill until perfectly smooth, when add sulphuric acid, twelve pounds,
in small quantities at a time, stirring it briskly for half an hour. Allow it to
remain fourteen days, stirring it for half an hour every day; then add gum
arabic, finely powdered, three pounds; repeat the stirring for half an hour
every day during fourteen days longer, and then it will be fit for use.
And for the paste blacking, take india-rubber oil (which consists of eighteen
ounces of india rubber, or a little more or less, according to its quality, dis-
solved by heat in nine pounds of rape oil); fine ivory black, sixty pounds;
molasses, forty-five pounds; and gum arabic, finely powdered and dissolved in
twelve pounds of vinegar (No. 24). The above to be mixed and ground in
a mill until perfectly smooth, and then add in small quantities at a time
sulphuric acid, twelve pounds, stirring it briskly whilst adding the acid, and
for half an hour after the whole is mixed; in seven days it will be fit for
use.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Bryant and Edward James,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, the Twenty-seventh day of
the first month (called January), in the year One thousand eight
hundred and thirty-seven.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
above-named William Bryant and
Edward James, in the presence of
W. D. BICKLE, J',
WILLIAM (L.S.) BRYANT.
EDWARD (L.s.) JAMES.
Of Plymouth,
Scrivener.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-seventh day of
January, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Bryant and
Edward James came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the First day of February, in the year above written.