CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF BOTTLES, POTS, JARS, TUBES, AND OTHER RECEPTACLES, PART OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES FOR COMMERCIAL AND DOMESTIC USE
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Southwood Stocker and Samuel Darling,
both of No. 11, the Poultry, Cheapside, in the City of London, Manu-
facturers, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF BOTTLES, POTS, JARS, TUBES, AND OTHER RECEPTACLES, PART
OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES FOR
COMMERCIAL AND DOMESTIC USE."
Sealed the 26th June 1855, and dated the 3rd January 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Southwood
Stocker and Samuel Darling at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 3rd January 1855.
We, ALEXANDER SOUTHWOOD STOCKER and SAMUEL DARLING, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF BOTTLES, POTS, JARS, TUBES, AND OTHER RECEPTACLES, PART
OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES FOR COM-
MERCIAL AND DOMESTIC USE," to be as follows:-
We mix pigments, with or without other articles, with a mixture of glue,
rosin, and oil, or other suitable material or materials, and then roll into sheets
of desired thickness, which may be applied to the covering of bottles, pots, jars,

page_text: tubes, and other articles; or these and numerous other articles may be moulded.
out of the solid mass of this material; or the sheeting may be applied to the
covering of cabinet and other furniture, in place of veneer, or for decorating
holla and for various athen
and dow
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alexander Southwood Stocker and Samuel Darling in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd July 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ALEXANDER
SOUTHWOOD STOCKER and SAMUEL: DARLING, both of No. 11, the Poultry,
Cheapside, in the City of London, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of January, 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 us, the
said 'Alexander Southwood Stocker and Samuel Darling, Her special. licence
that we, the said Alexander Southwood Stocker and Samuel Darling, our
executors, administrators; and assigns, or such others as we, the said Alexander
Southwood Stocker and Samuel Darling, our 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
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOTTLES, POTS, JARS, TUBES,
AND OTHER RECEPTACLES, PART OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS
OTHER PURPOSES FOR COMMERCIAL AND DOMESTIC USE," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Alexander Southwood Stocker and
Samuel Darling, by an instrument in writing under our 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alexander Southwood. Stocker,;,on
behalf of myself and Samuel Darling, do hereby declare the nature of our
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, .to, be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and, by the following statement

page_text: We claim the mixture of glue, rosin, and oil, or other such mixture forming
a semi-fluid, with whiting, farinaceous or other materials, mixed with pigments,
and worked in the manner herein-after described, and applying the same, to the
manufacture of bottles, pots, jars, tubes, and other receptacles, and to articles
generally of commercial and domestic use.
And in order to explain our Invention, we will describe the best method of
carrying the same into effect which we have found to answer our purpose, and
is as follows:-
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We take ordinary glue, melted or made fluid in the ordinary manner, and
ordinary rosin, melted by heat in the ordinary manner, and mix with these
two articles oil, which forms (when they are united together) a semi-fluid, (in
which there is nothing-particular as to-Invention, the same.-being-long-well
known and used for various purposes) We then take whiting, farinaceous
or other such like material, and suitable pigments, first mixing with the
semi-fluid a suitable quantity of whiting, farinaceous or other such material,
until it is of about the consistency of putty (in which also there is nothing
particular as to novelty); we then place the composition so prepared on
one side in a plastic state, and next mix a certain kind of color or colors in
a similar manner, and place them also on one side; we then, while these are
in a heated and plastic state, and having a close affinity for each other, place
them together in certain chosen proportions, and artistically work them up
together to form, when rolled out into sheets, (which is the essential part of
our Invention,) variegated surfaces, to imitate marble, stones, malachite, and
other beautiful imitations of nature. We then apply the sheet of material so
prepared to coating of the outsides of bottles, pots, jars, tubes, and other
receptacles, of whatever material or materials they may be composed. The
sheeting we have described the mode of producing, for the purposes of orna-
mentation, in accordance with our Invention, may also be applied to coating
the posts and other parts of bedsteads, copying or other presses, and various
other articles of manufacture; or the composition prepared according to our
Invention may be moulded into various articles and of various configurations ;
and when required for the further ornamentation of articles covered with our
composition, colors similarly prepared, but in solution, may be applied by the
aid of a brush or otherwise. The material, when applied to any of the p
described, will in a few hours become set hard, when it may be planed, turned,
and worked very conveniently, and with as much facility as wood.
purposes
The application of this composition is very economical, and when the articles
so treated are finished off, by varnishing or French polishing, they will have

page_text: a very beautiful appearance, superseding papier maché and japanning, being
also very durable.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Southwood Stocker, on behalf
of myself and Samuel Darling, have hereunto set my hand and seal,
this Third day of July, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five..
Witness,
JAMES E. HALL,
10, Salisbury St., Adelphi,
July 3rd, 1855.
ALXR S. STOCKER. (L.S.)