IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING WATER- PROOF STUFFS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, of
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris,
Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING WATER-
PROOF STUFFS."-A communication.
Sealed the 22nd August 1854, and dated the 15th March 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Armand le Comte de
Fontaine Moreau at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 15th March 1854.
I, PETER ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, Patent Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING
WATERPROOF STUFFS" to be as follows:-
The process is applicable to cotton, wool, hemp, or any other fabrics. It
consists, firstly, in raising one of the surfaces of the tissue, by means of teazles:
or other suitable contrivance, the other side remaining even. The tissue.
is then dyed in the colour required. A composition is prepared consisting
of linseed oil, white lead, litharge, cuttle-fish, and acetate of lead; these
ingredients are boiled down together during several hours; turpentine is then
added, and afterwards the required colours, which are bruised in the usual
manner. The tissue to be operated upon is stretched on a suitable frame with
the even side upwards, and the aforesaid half liquid mixture is spread over it in
a cold state with a metallic blade, so as to fill up exactly the interstices between
the threads; the cloth is then left to dry, and printed over the even side...

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions. of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 15th September 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of 4, South Street, Finsbury,
London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing-date-the Fifteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, Her special licence that I,
the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Peter Armand le Comte-
de Fontaine Moreau, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times -there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might inake,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PRODUCING WATERPROOP STUFFS," communicated to me by a foreigner
residing abroad, upon the condition (amongst others) that I,. thé. sáid Peter
Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, by an instrument in writing. under my
hand and seal, 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 Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, 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:
"
The Invention communicated to me consists in preparing and applying a
composition to cotton, woollen, and other stuffs, for the preparation of oil cloths.
One of the surfaces of the cotton, wool, or other stuff has first to be raised by
means of teazles, after which it is dyed the same color as the varnish to be
applied.
: 'The new composition is prepared as follows:-
-
. I introduce about eleven pounds of white lead, nine pounds of litharge,
twelve cuttle-fish, and two and a quarter pounds of acetate of lead, into about

page_text: ninety quarts of clarified linseed oil, made to boil during about six hours over a
slow fire.
I steep the colors which I desire to apply during about six hours, then
pound and add them to the oil, prepared as before described and diluted with
I spread this matter in a state of cold paste over the stuff, while
well stretched on a suitable frame. I set it to dry in the open air, then apply
four coats more of the preparation. I pounce it twice, then apply the required
impression and a light varnish. By this process I give to the tissue a suppleness
not obtained by ordinary known means.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner
of putting the same into effect, I would have it understood that what I
claim is,-
The preparation and application of a composition to cotton, woollen, and
other stuffs for the production of oil cloths, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, have hereto set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of
September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-four.
L' DE FONTAINE MEREAU.
(L.S.)