A NEW METALLIC ALLOY
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francois Joseph Anger, of No. 16, Stamford Street,
Blackfriars Road, in the County of Surrey, Merchant, for the Invention
of "A NEW METALLIC ALLOY." -A communication
Sealed the 14th September 1855, and dated the 25th April 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francois Joseph Anger
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
25th April 1855.
I, FRANCOIS JOSEPH ANGER, of Number 16, Stamford Street, Blackfriars
Road, in the County of Surrey, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "A NEW METALLIC ALLOY" to be as follows:-
My said Invention consists of a new combination or combinations of
materials for the purpose of producing a new metallic substance, which I call
kalcose or oreide. The combination is formed as herein-after explained.
In conjunction with the metals ordinarily used in the manufacture of copper
alloys I mix certain other compound substances not heretofore so used, and
which are not in the metallic state, but which during the process of the manu-
facture become elementary, and partly enter into the composition of the alloy, and
impart to it properties which it otherwise would not possess, being remarkable
in its resemblance to gold, not changing color by use, being dense, malleable,
ductile, homogenious, and sonorous to a marked degree. I melt in a crucible

page_text: 100 parts of good copper, and while in a perfect state of fusion I add 17
parts of zinc, 6 parts of maquisite, or substance of a like nature, though,
perhaps, differing in name, 3-60 parts of ammonia or salt of ammonia, 1-80
parts of quick lime or other calx, and 9 parts of crude tartar; the crucible is
then covered and the whole allowed to come to a complete state of fusion,
when it may be poured into moulds of the necessary shape, or into ingots or
bars, to be afterwards shaped for articles of use: If the metal is required of a
more tenacious character, tin may be substituted for zinc.
According to the ductility or shade of color of the metal which may be
required, I alter the proportions of zinc, tin, maquisite, ammonia or salts, quick
lime, and crude tartar.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Francois Joseph Anger in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 24th October 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCOIS
JOSEPH ANGER, of Number 16, Stamford Street, Blackfriars Road, in the
County of Surrey, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her. Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of April, in the year of our. Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs, and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Francois Joseph Anger, Her special licence that I, the said Francois Joseph
Anger, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Francois Joseph Anger, 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
A NEW
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "
METALLIC ALLOY," upon the condition: (amongst others) that I, the said Francois
Joseph Anger, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 imme
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Francois Joseph Anger, 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:-
My said Invention consists of a new combination or combinations of
materials for the purpose of producing a new metallic substance, which I call
kascole or oreide. The combination is formed as herein-after explained.
In conjunction with the metals ordinarily used in the manufacture of copper
alloys I mix certain other compound substances not heretofore so used, and
which are not in the metallic state, but which during the process of the manu-
facture become elementary, and partly enter into the composition of the alloy,
and impart to it properties which it otherwise would not possess, being remarkable
in its resemblance to gold, not changing color by use, being dense, malleable,
ductile, homogenious, and sonorous to a marked degree. I melt in a crucible
100,parts of good copper, and while in a perfect state of fusion I add 17 parts
of zinc, 6 parts of magnesite, or substance of a like nature, though, perhaps,
differing in name, 3-60 parts of ammonia or salt of ammonia, 1.80 parts of
quick lime or other calx, and 9 parts of crude tartar. The crucible is then
covered, and the whole allowed to come to a complete state of fusion, when it
may be poured into moulds of the necessary shape, or into ingots or bars, to be
afterwards shaped for articles of use. If the metal is required of a more
tenacious character, tin may be substituted for zinc.
According to the ductility or shade of color of the metal which may be
required, I alter the proportions of zinc, tin, magnisite, ammonia or salts,
quick lime, and crude tartar.
In witness whereof, I, the said Francois Joseph Anger, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of October, in the year
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FRANCOIS JOSEPH ANGER. (L.B.)
FRANCOIS JOSEPH ANGER. (L.S.)