IMPROVEMENTS IN COATING OR PROTECTING METALLIC SURFACES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin Sturge, of Walworth, in the County of Surrey,
Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COATING OR PROTECTING
METALLIC SURFACES."
Sealed the 26th January 1864, and dated the 29th July 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin Sturge at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 29th
July 1863.
1, EDWIN STURGE, of Walworth, in the County of Surrey, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COATING
OR PROTECTING METALLIC SURFACES," to be as follows:-
This Invention of "Improvements in Coating or Protecting Metallic
Surfaces" consists in coating or covering the metallic surface first with some
suitable varnish or sticky solution or preparation which will adhere with
tenacity to the metallic surface, and sifting over such sticky or adhesive surface
pulverized or disintegrated fibres, which are to be pressed in to the adhesive
preparation by passing the coated metal between rollers or other suitable
pressing apparatus. A second and third coating of the adhesive preparation
and flocking fibres may be applied if desired, and all the fibres that do not
adhere may be removed by brushing or otherwise. In some cases it will be
found convenient to cover the metal with some fabric, such as paper or woven
or textile fabric, which may be caused to adhere to the metal by any suitable
varnish or analogous adhesive preparation. Then, the surface of the paper or

page_text: woven or textile fabric having been made adhesive in the manner already
mentioned, the pulverized or disintegrated fibre is dusted on as before described
and a flocked surface is produced, the metal underneath being thereby pro-
tected from oxidation.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edwin Sturge in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th
January 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWIN
STURGE, of Walworth, in the County of Surrey, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Ter heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edwin Sturge, Ifer special license that I, the said Edwin Sturge,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edwin
Sturge, 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 COATING
OB PROTECTING METALLIC SURFACES," upon the condition (amongst others) that J,
the said Edwin Sturge, 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 Edwin Sturge, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say) :-
This Invention of improvements in coating or protecting metallic surfaces
relates to a novel mode of coating or covering the metallic surface of crinoline
steel, stay busks, and other analogous articles. The metallic surfaces are
coated first with some suitable varnish, such as copal varnish, or with other
sticky solution or preparation, such as oil paint, which will adhere will tenacity
to the metallic surface, and then 1 sift or dust over such sticky or adhesive

page_text: surface pulverized or disintegrated fibres, which may if desired be pressed into
the adhesive preparation by passing the coated metal between rollers or other
suitable pressing apparatus. When rollers or pressing surfaces are employed
I prefer to make such surfaces slightly elastic. To this end the rollers may
be made of wood or wood or metal covered with leather or india-rubber or some
other suitable elastic material. A second and third coating of the adhesive
preparation and flocking or disintegrated fibres may be applied if desired, and
all the fibres that do not adhere should be removed by brushing or otherwise.
In some cases it will be found convenient to cover the metal with some fabric,
such as paper or woven or textile fabric, which may be caused to adhere to the
metal by means of any suitable adhesive preparation, such as copal or other
varnish, gum, glue, or gelatine. Then, the surface of the paper or woven or
textile fabric having been made adhesive by the application of paint or varnish
as already mentioned, the pulverized or disintegrated fibre is to be dusted or
sifted on as before described, and a flocked surface will be thereby produced,
the metal underneath being thus protected from oxidation and the edges of
the crinoline steel or other article will be thereby prevented from cutting the
dress or garment to which it is applied.
Ilaving now described my Invention of "Improvements in Coating or
Protecting Metallic Surfaces," and having explained the manner of carrying
the same into effect, I claim as the Invention secured to me by Letters Patent
as aforesaid, coating or protecting the metallic surfaces of crinoline steel, stay
busks, and other analogous articles with flock or pulverized or disintegrated
fibres, either alone or in combination with paper or woven or textile fabrics, as
herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edwin Sturge, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
EDWIN STURGE. (L.S.)