AN IMPROVED GLUE OR COMPOSITION SUITABLE FOR COVERING THE, CAULKING OF SHIPS, AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES, FOR UNITING WOOD AND OTHER SUBSTANCES, FOR FILLING UP SEAMS, AND FOR USE AS A WATERPROOF GLUE OR COMPOSITION GENERALLY
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William John Hay, of Southsea, in the County of
Hants, Experimental Chemist, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
GLUE OR COMPOSITION SUITABLE FOR COVERING THE, CAULKING OF SHIPS, AND
OTHER LIKE PURPOSES, FOR UNITING WOOD AND OTHER SUBSTANCES, FOR FILLING
UP SEAMS, AND FOR USE AS A WATERPROOF GLUE OR COMPOSITION GENERALLY."
Sealed the 11th June 1861, and dated the 28th February 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William John Hay at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th February 1861.
I, WILLIAM JOHN HAY, of Southsea, in the County of Hants, Experimental
Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED GLUE OR COMPOSITION SUITABLE FOR COVERING THE CAULKING OF SHIPS, AND
OTHER LIKE PURPOSES, FOR UNITING WOOD AND OTHER SUBSTANCES, FOR FILLING UP
SEAMS, AND FOR USE AS A WATERPROOF GLUE OR COMPOSITION GENERALLY," to be as
follows:-
My present Invention is for an improvement on a former Invention,
for which Letters Patent were granted me for Great Britain, the 1st
February 1858, No. 186, and the object of my present improvement is to
render the composition more elastic and free from the disagreeable odour of
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page_text: such compositions generally; for which purpose instead of oil or crude
naphtha and rough creosote as a solvent for asphaltes and caoutchouc I use
resin oil, and I form my new composition of the following ingredients:-
The different varieties of asphalte or natural bitumens, vegetable tar, resin
oil, with or without caoutchouc.
I also sometimes use vegetable pitch or resin in lieu of vegetable tar
with the asphaltes, and resin oil, with or without the addition of caoutchouc
I also use spirit of turpentine, vegetable naphtha, or any other spirit or
essential oil.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William John Hay in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th August 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
JOHN HAY, of Southsea, in the County of Hants, Experimental Chemist,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William John Hay, Her special licence that I, the said William
John Hay, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said William John Hay, 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 "AN IMPROVED GLUE OR COMPOSITION SUITABLE FOR COVERING THE CAULKING OF
SHIPS, AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES, FOR UNITING WOOD AND OTHER SUBSTANCES, FOR
FILLING UP SEAMS, AND FOR USE AS A WATERPROOF GLUE OR COMPOSITION
GENERALLY," upon the condition. (amongst others) that 1, the said William
John Hay, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William John Hay, 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 fol-
lowing statement thereof, that is to say:―
My present Invention is for an improvement on a former Invention, for
which Letters Patent were granted me for Great Britain, the 1st
February 1858, No. 186, and the object of my present improvement is to
render the composition more elastic and free from the disagreeable odour of
such compositions generally; for which purpose instead ofoil or crude naphtha
and rough creosote as a solvent for asphaltes and caoutchouc I use resin oil,
and I forminy new composition of the following ingredients, melted and mixed
together: The different varieties of asphalte or natural bitumens, vegetable
tar, resin oil, with or without caoutchouc.
I also sometimes use vegetable pitch or resin in lieu of vegetable tar, with
the asphaltes and resin oil, with or without the addition of caoutchouc.
I also use spirit of turpentine, vegetable naphtha, or any other spirit or
essential oil.
By way of example I give the proportions of the ingredients I use for
making my improved glue or composition, but I do not in any way limit
myself to the proportions stated, nor to the employment of all the ingredients,
for they may be considerably varied according to the purpose to which the glue
or composition is applied :-
Take of asphalte or natural bitumen -
vegetable pitch
"
وو
resin oil
caoutchouc
-
Or, take of asphalte or natural bitumen
-
20 cwt.
5 cwt.
-
5 cwt.
-
17 lbs. ;
"
"
resin oil -
caoutchouc
Or, table of asphalte or natural bitumen
"
black or yellow resin
vegetable pitch
33
Resin oil
"
caoutchouc
"
20 cwt.
7cwt.
26 lbs. ;
21 cwt.
2 cwt.
5 cwt.
5 cwt.
17 lbs. ;
Or, take of asphalte or natural bitumen
وو
vegetable tar
"
resin oil -
caoutchouc
"
-
20 cwt.
-
5 cwt.
3 cwt.
10 lbs.
The glue or composition prepared with the ingredients, and in the pro-

page_text: portions above given, is applicable to all the purposes of my Invention; but
where the composition is to be painted on, I recommend the exclusion of
pitch and tar.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim "as my improved
glue or composition suitable for covering the caulking of ships and other like
purposes, for uniting wood and other substances, for filling up seams, and for
use as a waterproof glue or composition generally," the improved glue or
composition produced by the employment of resin oil, together with asphalte
natural bitumens, and some or all of the other ingredients herein-before
mentioned.
In witness whereof, I, the said William John Hay, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of August, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
above-named William John Hay, in
the presence of
C. H. BINSTEED,
Solicitor & Notary,
Portsmouth.
WILLIAM JOHN HAY. (L.S.)