Ax IMPROVED PROCESS OF APPLYING A COATING OF SILVER UPON ANY ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, OR MINERAL SUBSTANCE
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of the Firm of John
Gedge and Son, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "Ax
IMPROVED PROCESS OF APPLYING A COATING OF SILVER UPON ANY ANIMAL,
VEGETABLE, OR MINERAL SUBSTANCE."-A communication from abroad
by Artus Claude Loddé, junior, of 293, Rue St. Denis, Paris,
France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Gedge
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 4th May 1868.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son,
of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED PROCESS OF APPLYING A COATING OF SILVER UPON ANY ANIMAL,
VEGETABLE, OR MINERAL SUBSTANCE," a communication to me from abroad
by Artus Claude Loddé, junior, of 293, Rue St. Denis, Paris, France,
to be as follows:-

page_text: The improved process, the subject of this Invention, consists in
passing the article to be operated upon, firstly, into a bath of sulphuret
of carbons lightly phosphorated; secondly, into a solution of nitrate of
silver; thirdly, in reducing the silver thus deposited by placing the
article in a current of hydrogen gas.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 3rd November 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 11,
Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-first
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said William Edward Gedge, Her special licence
that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Edward Gedge,
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 PROCESS or APPLYING A COATING OF SILVER UPON ANY ANIMAL,
VEGETABLE, OR MINERAL SUBSTANCE," a communication to me from abroad
by Artus Claude Loddé, junior, of 293, Rue Saint Denis, Paris, France,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward
Gedge, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should parti-
cularly 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 Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Gedge, 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 :-
The improved process, the subject of this Invention, consists in
passing the article to be operated upon, firstly, into a bath of sulphurct
of carbon slightly phosphorated; secondly, into a solution of nitrate
of silver; thirdly, in reducing the silver thus deposited by placing the
article in a current of hydrogen gas.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have
hereunto set my hand and scal, this Third day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.