A NEW OR IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR PRESERVING BUILDINGS, SHIPS, OR ANY STRUCTURE WHATEVER EXPOSED TO DAMP OR WET OR ANY OTHER EXTERNAL INFLUENCES. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Johnston, of Battle, in the County of
Sussex, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR
PRESERVING BUILDINGS, SHIPS, OR ANY STRUCTURE WHATEVER EXPOSED TO
DAMP OR WET OR ANY OTHER EXTERNAL INFLUENCES.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Johnston at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 27th June 1873.
I, BENJAMIN JOHNSTON, of Battle, in the County of Sussex, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
COMPOSITION FOR PRESERVING BUILDINGS, SHIPS, OR ANY STRUCTURE WHATEVER
EXPOSED TO DAMP OR WET OR ANY OTHER EXTERNAL INFLUENCES," to be as
follows:
This Invention consists of a composition for preserving external or
internal walls of buildings, whether of stone, brick, cement, wood, iron,
or concrete from all damp and decay through the influence of wet
weather, and all conditions of the atmosphere, the same being likewise

page_text: applicable to ships and other vessels, and in fact any structure liable to
be affected by external influences.
The composition consists of the following ingredients:-Russian
tallow, resins, linseed oil, and beeswax, the proportions of the same
being as follows:-Tallow, seven pounds; resin, five pounds; oil, two
pounds; beeswax, one and a quarter pounds.
The composition is prepared by boiling or melting in any convenient
manner, and for its use in applying it to the walls of buildings or to
ships, I have a vessel of suitable size for holding the composition,
having attached to it by wires (at the sides) a charcoal fire can under-
neath, for keeping the said composition in a liquid and useable
.condition. It is applied with a painter's brush, or in any like suitable
manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Benjamin Johnston in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 27th December 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
JOHNSTON, of Battle, in the County of Sussex, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Benjamin Johnston, Her special licence,
that I, the said Benjamin Johnston, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Benjamin Johnston, 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

page_text: Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
COMPOSITION FOR PRESERVING BUILDINGS, SHIPS, OR ANY STRUCTURE WHATEVER
EXPOSED TO DAMP OR WET OR ANY OTHER EXTERNAL INFLUENCES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Benjamin Johnston, my
executors 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 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 I, the said Benjamin Johnston, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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 of a composition for preserving external or
internal walls of buildings, whether of stone, brick, cement, wood, iron,
or concrete from all damp and decay through the influence of wet
weather, and all conditions of the atmosphere, the same being likewise
applicable to ships and other vessels, and in fact any structure liable to
be affected by external influences.
The composition consists of the following ingredients :--Russian
tallow, resin, linseed oil, and beeswax, the proportions of the same being
as follows: Tallow, seven pounds; resin, five pounds; oil, two pounds;
beeswax, one and a quarter pounds.
The composition is prepared by boiling or melting in any convenient
manner, and for its use in applying it to the walls of buildings or to
ships, I have a vessel-of suitable size for holding the composition, having
attached to it by wires (at the sides) a charcoal fire can underneath, for
keeping the said composition in a liquid and usuable condition. It is
applied with a painter's brush, or in any like suitable manner.
Having thus described my said Invention, I would have it understood
that though I have herein stated the proportions of the ingredients of
my composition, it might be necessary sometimes to slightly vary these
proportions to suit circumstances, but what I claim and desire to be
secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the
new or improved composition for preserving buildings, ships, or any

page_text: structure whatever exposed to damp or wet or any other external
influences, substantially as herein-before described, or any mere modifi-
cation thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Johnston, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of December, in 5
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.