IMPROVEMENTS IN COMPOSITIONS FOR COATING SHIPS BOTTOMS AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES, ALSO APPLICABLE TO STONE AND OTHER BUILDING MATERIALS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Jesty, of Gosport, in the County of
Iants, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COMPOSITIONS FOR COATING
SHIPS BOTTOMS AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES, ALSO APPLICABLE TO STONE AND
OTHER BUILDING MATERIALS."
Sealed the 17th June 1870. and dated the 14th April 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Jesty at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th April 1870.
I, WILLIAM JESTY, of Gosport, in the County of Hants, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COM-
POSITIONS FOR COATING SHIPS' Borios AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES, ALSO APPLICABLE
TO STONE AND OTHER BUILDING MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the preparation of composition or cola-
positions to be used as paints or varnishes for coating the bottoms of
wood or iron ships, and which may also be rendered applicable to all

page_text: kinds of wood, iron, stone, brick, or plaster, and other like materials
used for building purposes. Preventing (in the case of ships' bottoms)
the corrosive action of the salt water, and in that of the building
materials the action of the atmosphere. For iron tanks also, which are
intended to hold fresh water, the composition is equally applicable.
These compositions I prepare in two distinct forms as follows:-
No. 1 to consist of grey lime, resin, boiled oil, and Japan gold size.
This can be used as a varnish or paint for fresh water tanks, and also for
the various building materials before mentioned. It can be made to any
color required.
No. 2 to consist of gas lime, mercury, sulphate of copper, iron rust,
creosote, boiled oil, and japanners' gold-size. This form of composition.
is especially applicable for coating ships' bottoms and similar purposes,
being "anti-fouling" in its character.
The above compositions as coatings can be used singly or together as
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
, filed by the said William Jesty in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 14th October 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
JESTY, of Gosport, in the County of Hants, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Jesty, Her special licence
that I, the said William Jesty, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Jesty, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN COMPOSITIONS
FOR COATING SHIPS' BOTTOMS AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES, ALSO APPLICABLE TO STONE

page_text: AND OTHER BUILDING MATERIALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said William Jesty, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Jesty, 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:—
This Invention consists in the preparation of compositions to be used
as paints or varnishes for coating the bottoms of wood or iron ships, and
may be also applied to all kinds of wood, iron, stone, brick, or plaster,
and other like materials used for building purposes, preventing the action
of the atmosphere upon these materials, and in the case of ships' bottoms
the corrosive action of the salt water is prevented. For iron tanks also
intended to hold fresh water the composition is equally applicable.
These compositions I prepare in three distinct forms, viz. :—
No. 1. consists of boiled oil, Japan gold size, grey lime, and resin.
This may be used as a paint or varnish for fresh water tanks, and as a
coating for the building materials above mentioned in the form of a
varnish of any color required.
No. 2 consists of prepared gas lime, mercury, iron rust, sulphate of
copper, creosote, Japan gold size, sugar of lead, and arsenic. This com-
position is especially applicable for coating ships' bottoms, being "anti-
fouling" in its character.
No. 3 consists of marine glue, mineral turps, Japan gold size, sugar of
lead, naptha and litharge. This composition is for coating iron ships'
bottoms previous to being coated with No. 2 “ anti-fouling" composition.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, I would wish
it to be understood that I do not confine myself precisely to the ingre-
dients herein set forth, but what I claim and desire to be secured to me
by Letters Patent is, the Invention for improvements in compositions for
coating ships' bottoms and other like purposes, also applicable to stone,

page_text: and other building materials, substantially as herein set forth, or any
mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Jesty, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.