A New Or IMPROVED COMPOSITION OR VARNISH."
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Joseph De Meyer, Alphonse Ruidant, and Pierre.
Joseph Mulders, all of Brussels, Belgium, for the Invention of "A New Or
IMPROVED COMPOSITION OR VARNISH."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Joseph De Meyer,
Alphonse Ruidant, and Pierre Joseph Mulders at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents on the 23rd September 1876.
"
:
CHARLES JOSEPH DE MEYER, ALPHONSE RUIDANT, and PIERRE JOSEPH MULDERS,
all of Brussels, Belgium. A NEW OR IMPROVED COMPOSITION OR VARNISH."
According to this Invention the following ingredients are employed in or about
the proportions named,
1 pint of spirit of wine.
1/4 pound gum-lac, red or yellow.
1/2 ounce lead acetate crystallized.
The lacquer is first melted cold in spirit of wine for 3 or 4 days; the same result
can be more quickly obtained by putting the recipient which contains the lacquer
and the spirit of wine in lukewarm water. Afterwards about 1%, of an ounce of
crystallized lead acetate is added, and the whole is allowed to pass through a filter.
The varnish lacquer may be mixed with any color and bronzes. The product is
applied with the brush; it drys immediately, so that the different coats or layers
can be given if desired at intervals of 5 minutes.
Example. A railway carriage can be varnished in 48 hours. Brilliancy can be
obtained by rubbing on with a cloth the same material as that applied with the
brush. The first coat which adheres must be applied with simple lacquer, that is
to say, before the colors are mixed.
This varnish lacquer can be applied on all kinds of wood, metals, and any.
substance whatever, as old metal, and it is not necessary to scrape off all or part of
the old colors as it is necessary to do with the old system, our varnish therefore
offers in this respect alone a great advantage.
Neither the heat of the fire nor any atmospherical circumstances have any action
on this product; it is very adhesive, very brilliant and more lasting than other
varnish it is also unalterable, unbreakable, and never produces either cleft or

page_text: swelling which are the great defects of other varnishes; its economy is immense,
and amongst other purposes it can be applied to boats; salt water does not alter or
have any effect on it.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles Joseph De Meyer, Alphonse Ruidant, and Pierre Joseph
Mulders in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd March 1877.
CHARLES JOSEPH DE MEYER, ALPHONSE RUIDANT, and PIERRE JOSEPH MULDERS,
"A NEW OR IMPROVED COMPOSITION OR VARNISH."
all of Brussels, Belgium.
According to this Invention the following ingredients are employed in or about
the proportions named,-
1 pint of spirit, of wine.
1/4 pound gum-lac, red or yellow.
1/, ounce lead-acetate crystallized.
The lacquer is first melted cold in spirit of wine for 3 or 4 days; the same result
can be more quickly obtained by putting the recipient which contains the lacquer
and the spirit of wine in lukewarm water. Afterwards about 1/, of an ounce of
crystallized lead acetate is added, and the whole is allowed to pass through a filter.
The varnish lacquer may be mixed with any color and bronzes. The product is
applied with the brush; it drys immediately, so that the different coats or layers
can be given if desired at intervals of 5 minutes.
Example. A railway carriage can be varnished in 48 hours. Brilliancy can be
obtained by rubbing on with a cloth the same material as that applied with the
brush. The first coat which adheres must be applied with simple lacquer, that is to
say, before the colors are mixed.
This varnish lacquer can be applied on all kinds of wood, metals, and any sub-
stance whatever, as old metal, and it is not necessary to scrape off all or part of the
old colors as it is necessary to do with the old system, our varnish therefore offers
in this respect alone a great advantage.
Neither the heat of the fire nor any atmospherical circumstances have any action
on this product; it is very adhesive, very brilliant and more lasting than other
varnish; it is also unalterable, unbreakable, and never produces either cleft or
swelling which are the great defects of other varnishes; its economy is immense,
and amongst other purposes it can be applied to boats; salt water does not alter or
have any effect on it.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, we declare that we claim, the new or improved composition
or varnish, substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alphonse Ruidant, for myself and on behalf of
the said Charles Joseph De Meyer and Pierre Joseph Mulders, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
ALPHONSE RUIDANT. (L.S.)