IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPLICATION OF CERTAIN MATERIALS TO THE MANU- FACTURE OF INK AND OTHER STANDS AND OTHER ARTICLES, AND IN THE MANUFACTURE AND FINISHING OF ARTICLES, PRODUCED OUT OF SUCH OR OTHER MATERIAL OR MATERIALS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to 'Alexander Southwood Stocker, of 11, Poultry,
Cheapside, in the City of London, Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPLICATION OF CERTAIN MATERIALS TO THE MANU-
FACTURE OF INK AND OTHER STANDS AND OTHER ARTICLES, AND IN THE
MANUFACTURE AND FINISHING OF ARTICLES, PRODUCED OUT OF SUCH OR OTHER
MATERIAL OR MATERIALS."
Sealed the 24th October 1856, and dated the 24th April 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Southwood
Stocker at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 24th April 1856.
I, ALEXANDER SOUTHWOOD STOOKER, of No. 11, Poultry, Cheapside, in the
City of London, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPLICATION OF CERTAIN MATERIALS TO
THE MANUFACTURE OF INK AND OTHER STANDS AND OTHER ARTICLES, AND IN THE
MANUFACTURE AND FINISHING OF ARTICLES PRODUCED OUT OF SUCH OR OTHER
MATERIAL OR MATERIALS," to be as follows::
I manufacture ink and other stands and other articles by employing various
substances, such as pigments, colors, whiting, farinaceous or other substances
or materials, mixed with glue, rosin, oil, water, paper, gutta-percha, or any
suitable material or materials with which I may be enabled to form a plastic
body, or such substance as may be capable of receiving various shapes by the

page_text: aid of dies and pressure, or otherwise, the same being strengthened or made
up when necessary by using wood, iron, or any other convenient substance
suitable for such purpose. I then finish and beautify them by staining,
colouring, penciling, gilding, varnishing, french polishing, or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alexander Southwood Stocker in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 24th October 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
SOUTHWOOD STOCKER, of No. 11, Poultry, Cheapside, in the City of London,
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Alexander Southwood Stocker, Her special licence that I, the said
Alexander Southwood Stocker, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Alexander Southwood Stocker, 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 THE APPLICATION OF CERTAIN
MATERIALS TO THE MANUFACTURE OF INK AND OTHER STANDS AND OTHER ARTICLES,
AND IN THE MANUFACTURE AND FINISHING OF ARTICLES PRODUCED OUT OF SUCH OR
OTHER MATERIAL OR MATERIALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Alexander Southwood Stocker, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
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 Alexander Southwood Stocker, 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 :-
My Invention consists in the application of pigments, colors, whiting,

page_text: farinaceous or other substances or materials, severally combined, or one of
these ingredients alone, mixed with glue, resin, oil, water, paper, gutta percha,
or other suitable material or materials with which I may be enabled to form
a plastic body, to the manufacture of ink stands, glass shade stands, pen stands,
clock and various other stands, knobs, finger plates, and other door furniture,
and moulding or forming the same by the aid of dyes and pressure; or I form
or mould them by hand or otherwise, as is common in moulding and modelling
other plastic substances; also in the staining, coloring, pencilling, gilding,
varnishing, french polishing, beautifying, and finishing them when so made,
which I effect by any of the well-known methods now in use for other purposes,
these processes being well known and commonly resorted to in finishing many
articles not in accordance with my Invention.
The mixture or semi-fluid which I have found to answer my purpose well
is that referred to in the Specification of a Patent granted to me, and sealed
on the Twenty-sixth day of June, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five,
and the same means are employed in producing and mixing in readiness for
use the semi-fluid, and working up the same with the whiting, pigments,
colours, and other material or materials to which I have referred in my said
Letters Patent, and the mode of working them up together in a plastic state,
with the view to obtain any colored, marbled, or other surface, is much the
same as that described therein. This being done, the material may be formed
and shaped almost into any configuration or design required, which may be
accomplished by the aid of dyes and pressure, or other suitable means. The
articles having been so moulded or formed are allowed a few days to set hard,
when they may be planed, chiselled, turned, sand papered, and surfaced, in
readiness for french polishing and finishing, in the manner herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Southwood Stocker, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of October, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
ALX S. STOCKER.