An Improved Composition for Branding Sheep; Fabrics, such as Wool Bales and the like; and applicable as a Damp-resisting Paint.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd May, 1897-Accepted, 19th June, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Composition for Branding Sheep; Fabrics, such as
Wool Bales and the like; and applicable as a Damp-resisting
Paint.
I, ALICE LOUISA POTTER of Neptune Street, Saint Kilda, in the Colony of
Victoria, Married Woman, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
"An improved composition for branding sheep; fabrics such as wool bales and the
like; and applicable as a damp resisting paint" and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The wool from sheep branded with tar, lamp black and oil or other ordinary
composition of the like nature is considerably damaged and deteriorated in value
owing to the permanent nature of the branding matter used and the necessity for
sorting out as waste all the wool impregnated or stained thereby. My invention
is to provide a branding composition that will remain fast and permanent when
exposed to climatic changes (rain, or dry heat) but which will when washed in hot
water and soda entirely dissolve and wash away leaving the wool perfectly clean
and unimpaired. My said invention consists of a composition of ingredients
hereinafter named, mixed together and compounded in the relative quantities and
treated in the manner hereinafter set forth so as to form a paste for sheep
branding purposes, and reducible to any lesser consistency when required to be
applied to branding wool bales or the like, or to be used and applied as a damp
resisting paint for walls, rocfs, and the like whether of wood iron or other material,
that is to say: Say to manufacture one gallon of the sheep-branding composition:
of common glue, gelatine, or size add three pounds weight to one gallon of water,
add from a half to one ounce of bichromate of potash; three pounds weight of
lamp black, raddle or other suitable coloring matter, black, or of any desired tint
or color, and a quarter of a pint of turpentine, or other drying liquid. The above
mixture is boiled in an ordinary boiler and stirred till it is thoroughly mixed,
say for half an hour, when it may be run off into suitable vessels such as oil cans
and the like. The action of the bichromate of potash in the gelatinous substance
renders the composition, when applied and dry, water proof or damp-resisting, and
impervious to climatic influence (rain, or dry heat) without impairing in any
degree the adhesive tendency of the compound. To give a stronger, and more
tenacious body to the compound so manufactured as aforesaid, Spanish-clay or like
substance may be added with advantage. When desiring to use the compound
for branding wool bales or like fabrics, or as a damp-resisting paint, the same
may be reduced to the consistency of an ordinary paint by the addition of
hot water.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A compound consisting of glue, gelatine, or size, water, bichromate of potash ;
lamp black, raddle or other suitable coloring matter; turpentine, or other drying

page_text: boiling substantially in the proportions, and for the purposes hereinbefore
.described.
Deted the 29th day of March 1897.
Witness-
JAMES HINGSTON,
Notary Public, Melbourne.
ALICE LOUISA POTTER.