IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE APPLICATION OF ASPHALTE AND THE METHOD OF APPLYING THE SAME.
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Finlay, of 15, Camden Grove,
Peckham, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of “IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE APPLICATION OF ASPHALTE AND THE METHOD OF APPLYING THE
SAME.
"
Sealed the 24th September 1872, and dated the 2nd May 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Finlay at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 2nd May 1872.
I, FREDERICK FINLAY, of 15, Camden Grove, Peckham, in the County
of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "In-
PROVEMENTS IN THE APPLICATION OF ASPHALTE AND THE METHOD OF APPLYING THE
SAME," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the application-and-the-method-of-applying™
the material or composition known as asphalte (now used for paving and
other purposes) to coating or covering iron, copper, zinc, wood, cement, ..
stone, brick, tile, slate, plaster, paper, canvass, felt, and leather, so as to

page_text: preserve them from decay, it not having hitherto been used for the
purpose in the manner I propose. I first apply a coating of pitch or tar
to the surface, to be put on with a brush or by similar means, upon
which I lay the asphalte, using hot irons to incorporate and form the
surface.
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on the 25th September 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
FINLAY, of No. 15, Camden Grove, Peckham, in the County of Surrey,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Frederick Finlay, Her special licence
that I, the said Frederick Finlay, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Frederick Finlay, my 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 APPLI-
CATION OF ASPHALTE AND THE METHOD OF APPLYING THE SAME, " upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Frederick Finlay, my
exccutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my or
their or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner tho
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 VE, that T the said Broderick Finley do hereby declare

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:—
This Invention consists in the application and the method of applying
the material or composition known as asphalte (now used for paving and
other purposes) to coating or covering iron, copper, zinc, wood, cement,
stone, brick, tile, slate, plaster, paper, canvas, felt, and leather, so as to
preserve them from decay, and also making them available for many
purposes to which they are not in themselves applicable, it not having
been used hitherto for the purposes in the manner I propose. I first
apply a coating of pitch or tar to be put on with a brush or by similar
means, upon which I lay the asphalte either hot or cold, using hot irons
to incorporate and form a surface when required.