AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE APPLICATION OF A MATERIAL HITHERTO UNUSED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAINTS, VARNISHES, AND FOR VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES TO WHICH IT HATH NOT HITHERTO BEEN APPLIED
Year: 1832

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
Cook, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brassfounder, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster; the Twenty-second day of March, in the second year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Benjamin Cook, His especial licence that I, the said Benjamin
Cook, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Benjamin
Cook, my exors, admors, 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, my Inven-
tion of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE APPLICATION OF A MATERIAL HITHERTO
UNUSED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAINTS, VARNISHES, AND FOR VARIOUS OTHER
PURPOSES TO WHICH IT HATH NOT HITHERTO BEEN APPLIED;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Benjamin
Cook, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner

page_text: the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be enrolled in
His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and
by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Benjamin Cook, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascertained
as follows (that is to say) :-
My said Invention consists in and improved. method. of. making paints,
varnishes, lacquer, and other compounds in the making of which alcohol is
commonly used, by using and mixing therein, in lieu and in the place of the
alcohol now commonly used, a certain other alcohol or spirit, which is extracted
by the usual process of rectification from a diluted spirit which is saved and
collected during the process of baking fermented.dough into bread, and which
alcohol or spirit so extracted as aforesaid from the diluted spirit saved and
collected during the process of baking fermented dough into bread has never
hitherto been used in the making of paints, varnishes, lacquer, and other
compounds in the making of which alcohol is commonly used. In all other
respects I make the said paints, varnishes, and lacquer, and other compounds
in which alcohol is commonly used, in the ordinary and usual manner of
making the same.
The improvement in my said method of making paints, varnishes,
lacquer, and other compounds consists in producing paints, varnishes, lacquer,
and other compounds in which alcohol is commonly used, by the use of
the said alcohol or spirit so extracted as aforesaid from the diluted spirit
saved and collected during the process of baking fermented dough into bread,
of as good a quality and at a cheaper rate than can be produced by the use
of the alcohol hitherto commonly used. It is for the application of the
said alcohol or spirit so extracted as aforesaid from the diluted spirit
saved and collected during the process of baking fermented dough into
bread to the purposes herein-before mentioned that I claim the exclusive
privilege.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Cook, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
BENJAMIN COOK (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighteenth day of September, in
the year of our Lord 1882, the aforesaid Benjamin Cook came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Nineteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.