PRESERVING OR WATERPROOFING ROPES, STRANDS, CORDAGE, CABLES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Henson Henson, of No. 38, Parliament
Street, in the City of Westminster for the Invention of "PRESERVING OR
WATERPROOFING ROPES, STRANDS, CORDAGE, CABLES, AND OTHER SIMILAR
ARTICLES."
Sealed the 17th December 1858, and dated the 21st June 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Henson Henson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 21st June 1858.
I, HENRY HENSON HENSON, of No. 38, Parliament Street, in the City of
Westminster, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"PRESERVING OR WATERPROOFING ROPES, STRANDS, CORDAGE, CABLES, AND OTHER
SIMILAR ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
I subject the ropes, or other similar articles or strands to be made into
ropes, &c. to a coating of wax, or resin, or glue or gum, such as shellac, or
india-rubber, or gutta percha, or other gum, or of vulcanite, or marine glue
or oil paints, pitch, tar, varnish, or japan, or solutions of any of these in
naptha, turpentine, or other solvents or mixtures of any two or more of them,
and I pass the strand or rope, &c., if required, through a set or sets of grooved
rollers, or finish in the ordinary manner. Or I saturate the fibre, the ropes, or
other similar articles when manufactured, or during or previous to the process
of their manufacture, with any of the above mentioned materials, or with tallow
mixed or unmixed with arsenic or with tannin, with or without subsequent

page_text: subjection to fatty matter, or to a mixture of water, sulphate, or silicate of
potash and alumina, and compounds of lead, or to a saponaceous matter, and
subsequent subjection to the action of silicate solutions. And I effect this
saturation by means of pressure or exhaustion with suitable vessels and
chambers. Or I pass the rope or other similar article, when complete, through
a mixture of asphalte, vulcanite, marine glue, gutta percha, or other similar
material, and then pass the rope through rollers, grooved or elastic, to give it
any desired form, and dust it with silecious compound, vegetable, or animal
dust or powder, or cover it with hemp. Or I cover the rope or each strand
to form the rope, &c., with a covering of pure or sulpherized or mineralized
caoutchouc,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Henson Henson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 21st December 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
HENSON HENSON, of No. 38, Parliament Street, in the City of Westminster,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henry Henson Henson, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Henson
Henson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Henry Henson Henson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "PRE-
SERVING OR WATERPROOFING ROPES, STRANDS, CORDAGE, CABLES, AND OTHER
SIMILAR ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Henry Henson Henson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 imme
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Henson Henson, 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) :-
I subject the ropes, or other similar articles or strands, to be made into
ropes, &c., to a coating of wax, or resin, or glue, or gum, such as shellac or
india-rubber, or gutta percha or other gum, or of vulcanite, or marine glue, or
oil paints, pitch, tar, varnish, or japan, or solutions of any of these, in naptha,
turpentine, or other solvent, or mixtures of any two or more of them, and I
pass the strand or rope, &c., if required, through a set or sets of grooved
rollers, or finish in the ordinary manner. Or I saturate the fibre, the rope,
or other similar article when manufactured, or during or previous to the pro-
cess of their manufacture, with any of the above-mentioned materials, or with
tallow mixed or unmixed with arsenic, or with tannin, with or without sub-
sequent subjection to fatty matter, or to a mixture of water, sulphate or silicate
of potash, and alumina and compounds of lead, or to a saponaceous matter
and subjection to the action of silicate solutions; and I effect this saturation
by immersion, or by means of pressure or exhaustion with suitable vessels and
chambers. Or, I pass the rope, or other similar article, when complete,
through a mixture of asphalte, vulcanite, marine glue, gutta percha, or other
similar material, and then pass the rope through rollers grooved or elastic, to
give it any desired form, and dust it with silecious compounds, vegetable or
animal dust or powder, or cover it with hemp. Or, I cover the rope or each
strand to form the rope, &c. with a covering of pure or sulphurized or
mineralized caoutchouc.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, I wish it to be understood
that I claim the use or application of the before-mentioned materials in the
treatment of ropes, cordage, &c., and in the manner or with the apparatus
referred to for preserving or waterproofing the same, and particularly in the
said use or application of the following materials for the said purpose,
namely:-
1st, boiled tallow mixed or unmixed with arsenic and palm oil; 2nd, weak
solution of glue, albumen, or gelatine, and. subsequently tannin and fat;
3rd, gutta percha and resin; 4th, india-rubber and resin; 5th, solution of
Venice turpentine; 6th, common japani; 7th, "kamptulicon" or mixture
of granulated wood or cork, with caoutchouc or gutta percha, put on the sur-
face of the rope, &c.; 8th, silicate solutions, as silicate of soda or potash alone
or in combination with other materials, afterwards to be subjected, if desired,
to a heat above 212° Farh., to render the silica insoluble and the rope, &c.,

page_text: flame proof; 9th, silicate and oil; 10th, "vulcanite" or caoutchouc and tar;
11th, "marine glue," or caoutchouc and shellac; 12th, acetate of alumina;
13th, alumina and compounds of lead; 14th, tannin and similar treatment to
that of leather; 15th, tannin and subsequent treatment with acetate of
alumina; 16th, tannin and fat; 17th, solutions of india-rubber; 18th, solutions
of gutta percha.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Henson Henson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
In the presence of,
HENRY FLETCHER, Patent Agent,
42, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane.
H. H. HENSON (L.s.).