AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR PRE- VENTING RUST ON BRIGHT STEEL, IRON, BRASS, OR METAL SURFACES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Myers, of 41, Bloomsbury Square, in the
County of Middlesex, and Edward Myers, of 56, Millbank Street,
Westminster, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR PRE-
VENTING RUST ON BRIGHT STEEL, IRON, BRASS, OR METAL SURFACES."
Sealed the 4th July 1862, and dated the 17th January 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Myers and Edward
Myers at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 17th January 1862.
THOMAS MYERS, of 41, Bloomsbury Square, in the County of Middle-.
sex, and EDWARD MYERS, of 56, Millbank Street, Westminster, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR
PREVENTING RUST ON BRIGHT STEEL, IRON, BRASS, OR METAL SURFACES," to be
as follows:-
One portion of gutta percha, two portions of mutton suet, three portions of
beef suet, one portion of sweet oil, two portions of neat's foot oil, one portion
of oil of thyme, and one portion of rose pink.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Myers and Edward Myers in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 17th July 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
MYERS, of 41, Bloomsbury Square, in the County of Middlesex, and EDWARD
MYERS of 56, Millbank Street, Westminster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of January in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Thomas Myers and Edward Myers, Her special licence that we, the said
Thomas Myers and Edward Myers, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Thomas Myers and Edward Myers, our execu-
tors, 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 "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING RUST ON
BRIGHT STEEL, IRON, BRASS, OR METAL SURFACES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Thomas Myers and Edward Myers, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our; or their, or one
of their hands and seals, 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 we, the said Thomas Myers and Edward Myers,
do hereby declare the nature of our 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 combination of well-known substances to be
used as a composition for preventing rust on bright steel, iron, brass, or metal
surfaces, and is composed of the following ingredients:-
We take, say, ten pounds of gutta percha, twenty pounds of mutton suet,
thirty pounds of beef suet, half a gallon of sweet oil, two gallons of neat's foot
oil, one gallon of oil of thyme, and. half a pint of rose pink, or, any other
suitable perfuming and coloring matter. These ingredients must be gently
simmered until the whole is dissolved and well mixed together, and when cold

page_text: the composition is ready for use, and is applied by rubbing the same over the
article to be preserved.
The proportions of these ingredients vary according to the quality, consis-
tency, and quantity of the composition intended to be manufactured and the
purposes to which it is to be applied.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, we would in con-
clusion add, that we are well aware that some of the above ingredients have
been applied as a preservative from rust; but what we claim as our Invention
and desire to secure by Letters Patent is, the combination of gutta percha
with the various other ingredients herein-before specified, as a new and
improved composition for preserving the before-mentioned articles free from
rust.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Myers and Edward Myers, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fourteenth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
HENRY' HALL,
38, Matilda Street,
.Barnsbury, N.
THOMAS MYERS. (L.S.)
EDWARD MYERS. (L.S.)