A NEW ARTICLE OF TRADE, WHICH I DENOMINATE ALBION METAL, AND WHICH I APPLY TO THE MAKING OF CISTERNS, LININGS FOR CISTERNS, COVERING AND GUTTERS, FOR BUILDINGS, BOILERS, VATS, COFFIN FURNITURE, WORMS FOR DISTILLERS, AND SUCH OTHER THINGS AS REQUIRE TO BE MADE OF A FLEXIBLE, A WHOLESOME, OR A CHEAP METALLIC SUBSTANCE
Year: 1804

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
DOBBS, of King's Norton, in the County of Worcester, Chemist, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fourteenth day of
May, in the forty-fourth year of His reign, did give and grant unto me, the
said Thomas Dobbs, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His special
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Thomas Dobbs,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully night make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"A NEW ARTICLE OF TRADE, WHICH I DENOMINATE ALBION METAL, AND WHICH I
APPLY TO THE MAKING OF CISTERNS, LININGS FOR CISTERNS, COVERING AND GUTTERS,
FOR BUILDINGS, BOILERS, VATS, COFFIN FURNITURE, WORMS FOR DISTILLERS, AND
SUCH OTHER THINGS AS REQUIRE TO BE MADE OF A FLEXIBLE, A WHOLESOME, OR A
CHEAP METALLIC SUBSTANCE;" in which Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso obliging me, the said Thomas Dobbs, under my hand and seal, to
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after
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page_text: the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Dobbs, do hereby declare that my said Invention consists in plating,
coating, or uniting lead with tin, and also their various alloys or mixtures,
as the case may require, which, when done, I denominate Albion Metal, and
which I apply to the manufacturing of cisterns, linings for cisterns, covering
and gutters for buildings, boilers, vats, and linings, coffin furniture, worms for
distillers, and such other things as require to be made of a flexible, a whole-
some, or a cheap metallic substance.
The operation of coating or plating lead with tin, or coating or plating
alloyed lead with tin, or with alloyed tin, to make albion metal, I perform by
various methods, as hereafter described; that is to say, I take a plate or ingot
of lead, or alloyed lead, and a plate of tin or alloyed tin, of equal or unequal
thicknesses, and laying them together, their surfaces being clean, pass them
between the rollers of a flatting or rolling mill with what is technically called
a hard pinch, so as to inake the metals cohere. If after the the first passage of
the plates or pieces of metal between the rolls the plates or pieces do not
sufficiently cohere, I pass them a second or third time or more between the
rolls, untill a sufficient degree of cohesion is produced.
N.B. It will be useful, if not necessary, to have the rolls and the metals
hot when the cohesion of the metals is to be effected by their passage between
the rolls, especially when the alloyed pieces or plates are used. When lead
or alloyed lead is required to be coated or plated on both sides with tin or
alloyed tin, I apply a plate of tin or alloyed tin on each side the plate or piece
of lead, or alloyed lead, and pass them between the rolls of a mill under the
circumstances aforementioned; or the same may be effected by taking a
plate which is already coated or covered on one side with tin, or alloyed tin,
which I double with the lead side inwards, and pass it through the rolls, as
before described, to obtain the proper degree of cohesion. I also make albion
metal by the following method:-I casta plate or ingot of lead oralloyed lead,
and as soon as it is set or congealed I cast tin or alloyed tin upon it, or under,
or on all sides of it, which will cohere with the piece of metal first cast, and
the albion metal thus prepared may be wrought or flatted, by the usual
means of rolling, hammering, or pressing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Dobbs, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of September, One thousand eight
L and fame
THOMAS (L.S.) DOBBS.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Tenth day of September,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Dobbs came before our
Lord the King in His 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.
Inrolled the Twelfth day of September, in the year above written.