AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING THE FOULING OF IRON AND OTHER SHIPS' BOTTOMS, AND FOR PRESERVING METAL AND OTHER SURFACES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Davison, of Southwick, Builder, and
William Richards, of Monkwearmouth, Painter, both in the County
of Durham, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR
PREVENTING THE FOULING OF IRON AND OTHER SHIPS' BOTTOMS, AND FOR
PRESERVING METAL AND OTHER SURFACES."
Scaled the 2nd August 1870, and dated the 8th February 1870..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Davison and
William Richards at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 8th February 1870.
We, WILLIAM DAVISON, of Southwick, Builder, and WILLIAM
5 RICHARDS, of Monkwearmouth, Painter, both in the County of
Durham, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING THE FOULING OF IRON AND OTHER

page_text: SHIPS BOTTOMS, AND FOR PRESERVING METAL AND OTHER SURFACES," to be
as follows:
Our Invention relates to an improved composition for preventing the
fouling of iron and other ships' bottoms, and also for preserving metal
and other surfaces, such as buoys and breakwaters for example.
The following are the ingredients of this composition, which we find
it convenient to make in quantities of about 568 lbs. at a time, the
ingredients being in the proportions under-mentioned (more or less),
viz.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Davison and William Richards in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th August 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, WC, WILLIAM
DAVISON, of Southwick, Builder, and WILLIAM RICHARDS, of Monk-
wearmouth, Painter, both in the County of Durham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said William Davison and William Richards, Her
special licence that we, the said William Davison and William Richards,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as wo, the said
William Davison and William Richards, 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 "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR PRE-
VENTING THE FOULING OF IRON AND OTHER SHIPS' BOTTOMS, AND FOR PRESERVING
METAL AND OTHER SURFACES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
WC, the said William Davison and William Richards, 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 William Davison and William
Richards, 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, that
is to say :-
Our Invention relates to an improved composition for preventing

page_text: the fouling of iron and other ships' bottoms, and also for preserving
metal and other surfaces, such as buoys and breakwaters for example.
The following are the ingredients of this composition, which wo find
it convenient to make in quantities of about 508 lbs. at a time, the
ingredients being in the proportions under-mentioned (more or less),
vizis

page_text: limiting ourselves to the preciso proportions given), forming an improved
composition applicable for the purposes specified.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Davison and William
Richards, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fourth
day of August One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
WILLIAM DAVISON. (L.S.)
WILLIAM RICHARDS. (L.S.)