CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN COATING OR COVERING THE SURFACES OF METALS OF VARIOUS FORMS, AND OF APPLYING THE SAME TO A VARIETY OF USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1843

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
Cook, junior, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eighteenth day of December, in the seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Benjamin Cook, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Benjamin Cook, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, and such others as I, the said Benjamin Cook, my executors, adminis-
trators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times during the term of years therein mentioned, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN COATING OR COVERING THE SURFACES OF METALS OF VARIOUS FORMS, AND OF
APPLYING THE SAME TO A VARIETY OF USEFUL PURPOSES;" in which said Letters
Patent 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 the same is
to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in Her Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: 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 particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following description thereof, that is to say:-
The Invention for which I have obtained Her Majesty's Royal Letters
Patent in part recited above, consists in applying the elements or principles of
the Invention for which a Patent was granted to me for England, dated at
Westminster the Twenty-third day of May, One thousand eight hundred and
forty-two, to other purposes than those therein contemplated. The former
Invention I described as consisting in constructing the post, shafts, or pillars, and
other parts of bedsteads, of 'metallic tubes, and covering the same with paper,
papier maché, pasteboard, or other similar material, and afterwards japanning
or otherwise ornamenting the same. Now, the object of the present Invention
is to apply this principle or mode of covering metals with paper or papier
machê, and afterwards japanning them, to a wider range of articles.
My present Invention consists in permanently coating or covering the
surfaces of metallic articles of various shapes and forms with papier machê,
pasteboard, or some other similar material, so as to form an external surface
for japanning, painting, or otherwise decorating the said articles. A thin sheet
of metal is, first fashioned, in any convenient manner, into the shape or form, or
nearly so, of the article intended to be produced, and then covered over with a
number of layers or thicknesses of papers or paper pulp in the manner. usually
adopted in making papier machê articles. The thickness of the paper
coating must depend in some measure upon the character and size of the
article to be coated, but it must always be sufficiently thick to afford a firm
hold to the japanning or painting materials to be put upon it. The operations
of japanning, painting, and decorating are to be conducted in precisely the
same manner as when the articles are made entirely of papier mache or of
plate metal, as common teaboards, trays, dishes, &c., and therefore need not
be more particularly described. The articles to which I particularly intend to
apply my Invention are such as the following (viz.), cornice poles, rings, and
ends, curtain pins and bands, finger plates, window and other cornices, trays
and waiters, chimney pieces, bread and other baskets, tea urns, plates, dishes,
and tureens, dish covers, fenders, balustrades, bars and bannister rails, port-
folios, and other similar articles which are ordinarily made of papier maché or
metal.
Having now described my Invention, and the manner of carrying the same
into effect, I wish it to be understood that I lay no claim under the present
Letters Patent to the application of my Invention to bedsteads, or any part

page_text: thereof, that having been fully claimed in the Specification of my former Patent
inrolled in the Petty Bag Office, in Chancery, on or before the Twenty-third
day of November One thousand eight hundred and forty-two; but that which I
claim as the Invention secured to me by the above in part recited Letters
Patent is permanently coating or covering the surfaces of the above-mentioned
articles (bedsteads excepted) with papier machê, or other similar materials
which are capable of forming a basis or ground for japanning, painting, or
decorating, and which articles, when so constructed, coated, and covered are
made to resemble articles made of papier machê only, but possess much greater
strength and solidity.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Cook, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
BENJAMIN (L.S.) COOK, JUN
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Fourteenth day of June
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Benjamin Cook came before our
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
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