IMPROVEMENT IN THE METHOD OR FORM OF MAKING UP SUPERFINE OIL AND WATER COLOURS FOR DRAWING, PAINTING, AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1819

page_text: SMITH'S SPECIFICATION..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
SMITH, of Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Superfine Colour Manufac-
turer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fifteenth day of
January, in the fifty-ninth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
Charles Smith, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Charles Smith, my.exors, admors,
and assigns, during the term therein mentioned, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of an "IMPROVEMENT IN THE METHOD OR
FORM OF MAKING UP SUPERFINE OIL AND WATER COLOURS FOR DRAWING, PAINTING,
AND OTHER PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
that if I, the said Charles Smith, shall not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of my said: Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under my.hand and seal, and cause
the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent,
that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by
the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Smith, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained in the following description thereof (that is to say) :-
My Invention of enclosing all kinds of superfine oil and water colours in
wood or any other material, so as to become new-invented coloured pencils, to
work by dipping in liquid, and not dry and chalky, like those before known,
capable of making perfect transparent or opaque drawings on paper, or wood,
linen, or any other material, by being wetted or moistened with water, oil,
varnish, spirit, or any other liquid matter; to make them take wood or other
grooves, similar to those used for blacklead pencils, and inclose in them, after the
manner of blacklead or blacklead pencils, all kinds of the best superfine water
or oil colours, by whomsoever made, capable of being so inclosed, and which
deliver their teints on any material when moistened as above described, and
fasten or glue them up of whatsoever material they may be made, and round
and finish them so as to appear and be like a regular coloured drawing pencil,
fit for the purpose of drawing or painting on any material with colours and
japan, or color each pencil outside of the same teint it contains within.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Smith, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Second day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
ALEXANDER.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Second day of July, in the
year of our Lord 1819, the aforesaid Charles Smith came before our said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Second day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and nineteen.