IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING LUBRICATING MATTERS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Nickels, of the Albany Road, Camber-
well, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING LUBRICATING MATTERS."-A con-
munication.
Sealed the 23d August 1853, and dated the 16th March 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Nickels at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 16th March 1853.
EDWARD NICKELS, of the Albany Road, Camberwell, in the County
of Surrey, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING LUBRICATING MATTERS " to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists of combining india-rubber and gutta-percha,
by heat, with oils and fatty matters, with or without tar, pitch, or
bituminous matters, and using such preparations as lubricating matters.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Nickels, in the Great Seal Patent
Office, on the 16th September 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
EDWARD NICKELS, of the Albany Road, Camberwell, in the County of
Surrey, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Ierself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Edward Nickels, Her special licence
that I, the said Edward Nickels, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Nickels, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PREPARING LUBRICATING MATTERS," communicated to me from abroad,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Nickels,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should par-
ticularly 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 Edward Nickels, 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 of combining india-rubber and gutta-percha,
by heat, with oils and fatty matters, with or without tar or bituminous
matters, and using such preparations as lubricating matters.
Having thus stated the nature of the said Invention, I will proceed
to describe the means of performing the same. The india-rubber and

page_text: the gutta-percha are to be rolled between pressing rollers in like
manner to what is practised in preparing india-rubber for the mastica-
ting machinery, by which the same are reduced to thin sheets or films,
or what is called laminated, by which means they will more readily
dissolve in oils by the aid of heat. The india-rubber and gutta-percha,
being thus rolled or pressed into thin sheets or films, is placed together
or separately, in any suitable vessel, together with sufficient oil to cover
them, and heat is to be gradually applied thereto, which should be
raised to the boiling point, and continued till the india-rubber or gutta-
percha are dissolved, when a further quantity of oils or fatty matters,
and other matters, if any are to be used, may be added and combined
therewith, without the further addition of heat beyond what is neces-
sary to melt any fatty matters which may be added. The matters in
all cases are to be well mixed by stirring when in the fluid or melted
state. A great variety of compounds may be made in this manner, and
I will proceed to give some as examples. At the same time I would
remark that others may be prepared according to my Invention, which
consists of employing india-rubber and gutta-percha (together or sepa-
rately) combined by heat with oily and fatty matters, for the purpose of
lubricating the moving parts of machinery.
To make 3 cwt. of lubricating matter take
200 lbs. of palm oil,
66 lbs. of fish oil,
40 lbs. of Russian tallow,
15 lbs. of india-rubber,
15 lbs. of gutta-percha.
336 lbs.
To make 5 cwt. of lubricating matter take
200 lbs. palm oil,
100 lbs. fish oil,
15 lbs. india-rubber,
15 lbs. gutta-percha,

page_text: fatty matters, Lake
210 lbs. of fish or animal or vegetable oil or fats,
14 lbs. of gutta-percha.
224 lbs.
In mixing or combining gutta-percha and india-rubber with oils and
fatty matters, in order to prepare them in a suitable form for lubricating
machinery, tar, pitch, or bituminous matters may be added, particularly
for the rougher class of machinery. By gutta-percha and india-rubber
I mean those gums or products which are known by those names, and
gums of a like nature, and having like properties.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim
is the combination of materials herein described, in preparing lubricating
matters for machinery.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Nickels, have hereunto set
my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
EDWARD NICKELS. (L.8.)
Witness, H. W. CARPMAEL.