A. NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OF MAKING, PAINT PROM MATERIALS NOT BEFORE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE
Year: 1841

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
ANNES, of Plymouth, in the County of Devon, Painter, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most-Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain; bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixteenth day of January, in the fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
John Annes, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said John Annes, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such other's
as I, the said John Annes; my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make; use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and
also in all Her said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention
of "A. NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OF MAKING, PAINT PROM MATERIALS NOT
BEFORE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE;" in which said Letters Patent is con-
tained a proviso that I, the said John Annes, shall cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and, in, what manner the
same is to be performed, to be, inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said in part recited. recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference 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
John Annes do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say)
My Invention relates to the manufacturing of paint from the following
materials: The sulphuret of copper, the sulphuret of lead, the sulphuret of
antimony, iron pyrites or mundic, granite stone, gneis, the Elvan stone called
"Elvans" in Devon and Cornwall, felspar stone and quartz, by combining any
one or more of them with the following ingredients, namely, water, sugar
of lead, vitriol, and alum; and in respect to the first four of the materials, the
further combining them with hydrate of potasb, sal ammonia, and sulphuric
acid. And in order to give the best information in my power, I will proceed to
explain the means I have pursued in carrying out my Invention:-I first, by
stamping, crushing, or grinding the materials above mentioned, get them into
as impalpable a powder as possible, and then, by levigating with the water and
other matters, I reduce them into paint; and although the materials above
mentioned may be combined, I prefer using them separately. I make a
mixture of the following ingredients, namely, two gallons of water, eight
ounces of sugar of lead, eight ounces of blue vitriol or sulphate of copper,
eight ounces of green vitriol or sulphate of iron, eight ounces of white vitriol
or sulphate of zinc, twenty-four ounces of alum, and mix one hundredweight
of the fine powder of any one or more of the materials above mentioned with
so much of such mixture as will form a thick paste, and when well mixed I
grind and levigate the mixture with two and a half gallons of linseed oil,
employing any colouring matters to give the tint desired; and when using any
of the first four of the materials, then, in addition to the above ingredients, I
add four pounds of sulphuric acid, four ounces of hydrate of potash, and eight
ounces of sal ammonia.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the best means I
am acquainted with for performing the same, I would have it understood that
what I claim is, the mode of manufacturing paint as herein described; but
though I prefer the foregoing proportions for making the mixture for general
purposes, yet I vary them according to circumstances.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Annes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
JOHN ANNES. (L.8.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twelfth day of May, in the year
of our Lord 1841, the aforesaid John Annes came before our said Lady the
Queen in Her 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
Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Fourteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-one.