IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF REPRESENTATIONS FORMED FROM WAX, OR FROM COMPOSITIONS OF WAX WITH OTHER MATTERS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Randall Tussaud and Francis Curtius
Tussaud, of Marylebone Road, in the County of Middlesex, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF REPRESENTATIONS
FORMED FROM WAX, OR FROM COMPOSITIONS OF WAX WITH OTHER MATTERS."
Sealed the 6th February 1868, and dated the 18th August 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Randall Tussaud
and Francis Curtius Tussaud at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 18th August 1862.
We, JOSEPH RANDALL TUSSAUD and FRANCIS CURTIUS TUSSAUD, of
Marylebone Road, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature
of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF REPRESENTATIONS
FORMED FROM WAX, OR FROM COMPOSITIONS OF WAX WITH OTHER MATTERS," to be
as follows:-
The surfaces of representations formed from wax, or combinations thereof
with other matters, are very liable to be affected by atmospheric influences, and
this is particularly the case when delicate and variously tinted shades of color
are used to give effect to such surfaces. Besides which, if from any cause
such surfaces become soiled, a cleaning thereof has a tendency, when water
color or color in powder has been employed to remove such surface tints,
requiring them to be re-applied.
The object of our improvements is to protect the surfaces of such matters
by the application thereto of a coating adapted to prevent the injurious effects
of atmospheric influences, and to admit of repeated cleansing thereof without
disturbance of surface tints or colors. For this purpose when the desired

page_text: forms have been obtained, and any needful coloring or tinting has been applied
thereto, we apply to such surfaces a coating of a solution of shellac or white
hard, or other suitable comparatively colorless varnish, and then to neutralize
the glossy or shiny effect of such coating we apply thereon one or more coat-
ings of wax, stearine, spermaceti, or of other similar solid fatty or oleaginous
matters, or of the composition of which the representation is formed dissolved
in benzole or other suitable solvent.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Randall Tussaud and Francis Curtius Tussaud in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th February 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPHI
RANDALL TUSSAUD and FRANCIS CURTIUS TUSSAUD, of Marylebone Road, in
the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and graut unto us, the
said Joseph Randall Tussaud and Francis Curtius Tussaud, Her special licence
that we, the said Joseph Randall Tussaud and Francis Curtius Tussaud, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Joseph
Randall Tussaud and Francis Curtius Tussaud, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF REPRESENTATIONS FORMED
FROM WAX OR FROM COMPOSITIONS OF WAX WITH OTHER MATTERS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Joseph Randall Tussaud and
Francis Curtius Tussaud, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of
one of us, or them, 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 Joseph Randall Tussaud and Francis
Curtius Tussaud, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and i4

page_text: what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The surfaces of figures or busts and other representations formed from wax
or combinations thereof with other matters are very liable to be affected by
exposure to atmospheric influences so as to become discolored, obtaining
thereby generally a yellowish tint of various shades or degrees depending on
time of exposure and other circumstances, and this discoloration is particularly
manifest when the surface exposed has been left uncolored, or when delicate
and variously tinted shades of colour have been applied to give effect to it; and
when from atmospherical or other causes such exposed surfaces become solid, so
that a cleaning thereof becomes necessary, such cleaning has a tendency, par-
ticularly when water colour or colour in powder has been employed, to remove
the surface tints obtained, so as to require them to be re-applied.
The object of our improvements is to protect the surfaces of such matters
by the application thereto of a coating adapted to prevent the injurious effects
of atmospheric influences, and to admit of repeated cleansing thereof without
the necessary disturbance of surface tints or colours. For this purpose, when
the desired forms have been obtained, and any needful colouring or tinting has
been applied thereto, we apply to the surface thereof a coating of a suitable
varnish, such as a solution of shellac, gelatine, or albumen, or white hard or
other varnish, preferring those varnishes which are comparatively colourless;
and then in order to neutralize the glossy or shiny effect of such coating, we
apply thereon one or more coatings of wax, stearine, spermaceti, or of other
similar solid fatty or oleaginous matters, or of the composition of which the
representation is formed dissolved in benzole or other suitable solvent.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and means we
adopt in carrying the same into effect, we would have it understood that what
we claim is the treatment of representations formed from wax or from com-
positions of wax with other matters, substantially as explained.
In witness whereof, we, the said Joseph Randall Tussaud and Francis
Curtius Tussaud, have hereunto set. our hands and seals, this Twelfth
day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
J. R. TUSSAUD. (L.B.)
F. C. TUSSAUD. (L.S.)
J. R. TUSSAUD. (L.B.)
F. C. TUSSAUD. (L.S.)