Improvements in or relating to Plating or Covering Articles with Metal.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application. 10th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 11th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 16th Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Plating or Covering Articles with
Metal.
I, SERAPHICUS FRANCIS PICHLER, of 54 Hammersmith Road, London W.,
Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to effect improvements in or relating to plating or
covering articles with metal, my invention being specially applicable to capsuling
bottles and the like.
In carrying out my invention, I take liquid collodion, and, after thinning the
same (if necessary) with alcohol and ether, I mix therewith powdered aluminium,
aluminium bronze, silver, gold, or other powdered metal.
Upon dipping the neck of a bottle or other article into the mixture, a film of
the same is taken up, and upon being removed to the open air, the alcohol and
ether evaporate, leaving a plating or covering of metal, which operates as a secure
capsule to the bottle.
In like manner cigars and the like may be covered and protected, the lips being
thereby prevented from coming in contact with the leaf, the covering being also
tasteless.
Numerous other articles may be plated and protected in like manner with any
suitable metal plate.
Dand 10th Mar 1901
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Plating or Covering Articles with
Metal.
I, SERAPHICUS FRANCIS PICHLER, late of 54 Hammersmith Road, London W.,
but now of 19 Ferency Jozsef Rackpart, Buda-Pesth, Hungary, Civil Engineer, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to effect improvements in or relating to plating or
covering articles with metal, my invention being specially applicable to capsuling
bottles and the like and tipping cigars cigarettes and the like.
According to my invention I take liquid collodion or analogous compound, and,
after thinning the same (if necessary) with alcohol and ether, I mix therewith
powdered aluminium, aluminium bronze, silver, gold, or other powdered metal.
For capsuling bottles and the like the neck of the bottle is dipped into the
mixture; a film of the same is taken up, and upon being removed to the open air,
the alcohol and ether evaporate, leaving a plating or covering of metal, which
operates as a secure capsule to the bottle.

page_text: In like manner cigars, cigarettes and the like may be tipped, the lips being
thereby prevented from coming in contact with the leaf or paper, the covering
being also tasteless. Cigarettes tipped according to my invention are free from
the objections usual with ordinary cigarettes, the tip forming a hard yet cellular
mouthpiece and effectually preventing the tobacco becoming loose and entering
the mouth.
Numerous other articles may be plated or protected in like manner with any
suitable metal covering. For instance photographic reproductions affixed to glass
may be covered at the back with the mixture, instead of white paper or its
equivalent as now used, imparting thereto a brilliant appearance.
Also paper may
be covered with the mixture, such covered paper being useful for packing and
other purposes requiring water, air or acid proof properties.
The proportions of the materials vary according to the use to which the mixture
may be applied; but I have obtained satisfactory results, for tipping cigarettes
and capsuling bottles, with a mixture of one dram (avoirdupois) of fine aluminium
bronze powder to one ounce of 4% collodion.
In mixing, the metal is, preferably, first placed in the receptacle, the collodion
or analogous compound being added thereto; the whole contents are agitated and
the articles covered as rapidly as possible, as the alcohol quickly evaporates
leaving the mixture in a coagulated condition when the mixture must be thinned
again by adding more collodion and alcohol.
Plating or coverings so formed are air and water proof, and are also proof
against sulphuric and nitric acids.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. In plating or covering articles with metal, the application and use of collodion
or analogous compound (thinned with alcohol and ether, if necessary) combined
with aluminium, aluminium bronze, silver, gold, or other suitable powdered metal,
substantially as described.
2. The application and use of the before mentioned mixture for tipping cigarettes
and the like and for capsuling bottles and the like, substantially as described.
3. The improvements in or relating to plating or covering articles with metal,
substantially as described.
Dated 11th February 1895
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.