IMPROVED GELATINOUS OR GLUTINOUS COMPOUNDS FOR LUBRICATING RAILWAY AND OTHER MACHINERY
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Banks Nicklin, of Bartholomew Lane,
in the City of London, and Richmond, in the County of Surrey,
Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVED GELATINOUS OR GLUTINOUS
COMPOUNDS FOR LUBRICATING RAILWAY AND OTHER MACHINERY."
Sealed the 25th March 1854, and dated the 5th November 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Banks
Nicklin at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 5th November 1853.
I, JOHN BANKS NICKLIN, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVED GELATINOUS OR GLUTINOUS COMPOUNDS FOR
LUBRICATING RAILWAY AND OTHER MACHINERY" to be as follows:-
I take any gelatinous or glutinous animal substance, and add, or not,
resin or resinous matter, and I reduce the same by steaming or boiling,
and mix the same with palm or other vegetable oil, soda or other alkali,
whiting or other form of lime, nitre and water, and dipping liquor or
other coloring matter, and mix and combine the whole well together,

page_text: thereby producing coloured compounds, which may be either green,
blue, or rose color, whereby each different quality or compound suitable
for certain descriptions of mechanism may be denoted by a distinguish-
ing color, for the convenience and protection of the purchaser.
STATEMENT of the 3 PRINCIPAL QUALITIES or COMPOUNDS.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Banks Nicklin in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 5th May 1854..
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN BANKS NICKLIN, of Bartholomew Lane, in the City of London,
and Richmond, in the County of Surrey, Merchant, send greeting.
: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date, the Fifth day of November, in-the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, forHerself, "Her heirs and successors,

page_text: give and grant unto me, the said. John Banks Nicklin, Her special
licence. that I, the said John Banks Nicklin, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Banks Nicklin,
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
"IMPROVED GELATINOUS OR GLUTINOUS COMPOUNDS FOR LUBRICATING RAIL-
WAY AND OTHER MACHINERY," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said John Banks Nicklin, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal; 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 John Banks Nicklin, 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:
The 'nature of my said Invention consists in this; that I take any
animal substance,.as skin, flesh, and other parts of animals, and add, or
not, as may be desirable, resin or resinous matter, and I reduce the
same by steaming or boiling to a gelatinous or glutinous liquid, and.
then mix the same with palm or other vegetable oil, or palm and other
vegetable oil together, soda or other, alkali, or soda and other alkali
together, whiting or limy matter, or whiting and limy matter together,
nitre, and water, and dipping liquor or acetate of copper, verdigris, or
other coloring matter, and mix and combine the whole well together,
thereby producing colored compounds, which may be either, say green,
blue, or rose; color, whereby each of the different qualities or com-
pounds suitable for lubricating different descriptions of machinery may
be denoted by a distinguishing color, for the convenience and protection
of the purchaser...
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, I will now..

page_text: carried into practical effect, in furtherance whereof here followeth a
statement of the principal qualities or compounds that I consider most.
serviceable.
STATEMENT OF PROPORTIONS FOR MIXING THE SUBSTANCES ABOVE STATED.
Proportions of No. 1.-Animal substance, 20 cwt.; oil, 10 cwt.;
alkali, 4 cwt.; whiting or limy matter, 3 cwt.; water, 2 cwt.; nitre,
3 lbs. and add coloring matter for No 1, as dipping liquor or acetate
of copper, say 10 lbs.
Proportions of No. 2.-Animal substance, 10 cwt.; resinous sub-
stance, or resinous substance mixed with animal substance, 5 cwt.;
oil, 2 cwt.; alkali, 4 cwt.; whiting or liny matter, 3 cwt.; water,
2 cwt.; nitre, 2 lbs.; add coloring matter, Prussian blue (damp), say
10 lbs.
Proportions of No. 3.-Animal substance, 5 cwt.; resinous substance,
or resinous substance mixed with animal substance, 10 cwt.; oil 1 cwt.;
alkali, 4 cwt.; whiting or limy matter, 3 cwt.; water, 3 cwt.; nitre,
2 lbs.; add coloring matter, rose color (damp), red lead for instance,
say 8 lbs.
In order to mix and prepare this composition for use, I take the
animal substances in the proportions required as aforesaid for the par-
ticular purpose intended, and steam or boil them in a suitable vessel;
and having brought them to a liquid state, or nearly so, I take off the
liquid portions and reject any solid matter or refuse; the resinous
substance, when used, to be heated in the same manner.
I then take
the alkali, nitre, whiting or limy matter, and dissolve them together in
a suitable vessel by heat or otherwise. After this is done I mix and
incorporate the whole of the above, so as to produce the compound
desired, and whilst in the liquid state I add the coloring matter; and
having mixed and incorporated the whole, and then set it in shallow
pans or vessels to cool, when cool it is fit for use.
These compounds
are then applied the same as the ordinary lubricating grease or oils.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I intend it to be

page_text: understood that I do not confine myself to any particular proportions
or process of mixing the substances above named, although I have set
forth such proportions and processes as will answer the requirements
of most cases; what I do claim being the formation of improved
gelatinous or glutinous compounds for lubricating railway and other
machinery, by the use as aforesaid of any gelatinous or glutinous
animal substance in combination with any or all of the materials above
enumerated.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Banks Nicklin, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
JOHN BANKS NICKLIN. (L.S.)
Signed and sealed in my presence,
F. W. CAMPIN,
Patent Agent,
156, Strand.

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animal
"The nature of my said Invention consists in this: that I take any
substance, as skin, flesh, and other parts of animals, and-add, or-not-as-may
"be desirable, resin or resinous matter, and I reduce the same by steaming or
boiling to a gelatinous or glutinous liquid," as is well understood, "and then
"mix the same with palm or other vegetable oil, or palm and other vegetable
"oil together, soda or other alkali," that is to say, carbonate of soda or carbonate
of potash, "or soda and other alkali together, whiting or limy matter, or
whiting and limy matter together, nitre and water, and-dipping-liquor-or
"acetate-of-copper, verdigris, or other-coloring-matter, and mix and combine the
"whole well together, thereby producing eolored" lubricating "compounds,
"which may be," if desired, be colored, "either, say green, blue, or rose colour,
whereby each of the different qualities or compounds suitable for lubricating
"different descriptions of machinery may be denoted by a distinguishing color,
"for the convenience and protection of the purchaser;" but I make no claim
to the use of coloring matters in lubricating compounds.
"Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, I will now proceed
"to describe in what manner the same is to be performed or carried into
practical effect, in furtherance whereof here followeth a statement of the
principal qualities or compounds that I consider most serviceable:-
"STATEMENT OF PROPORTIONS FOR MIXING THE SUBSTANCES ABOVE STATED.
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Proportions of No. 1.-Animal substance, 20 cwt.; oil, 10 cwt.; alkali,
4 cwt.; whiting or limy matter, 3 cwt.; water, 2 cwt.; nitre, 3 lbs.; and-add
colouring-matter-for-No. 1, as dipping-liquor-or-aectate-of-copper, say-10 lbs.
"Proportions of No. 2.-Animal substance, 10 cwt.; resinous substance, or
resinous substance mixed with animal substance, 5 cwt.; oil, 2 cwt.; alkali,
4 cwt.; whiting or limny matter, 3 cwt.; water, 2 cwt.; nitre, 2 lbs.; add
eolouring-metter, Prussian blue, (demp)-say-10-lbs.
"Proportions of No. 3.-Animal substance, 5 cwt.; resinous substance, F
"resinous-substance-mixed with animal substance, 10 cwt.; oil, 1 cwt.; alkali,
4 cwt.; whiting or limy matter, 3 cwt.; water, 3 cwt.; nitre, 2 lbs.; add
colouring matter, rose-color-(damp), red-lead, for instance, say-S-lbs.
"In order to mix and prepare this composition for use, I take the animal
"substances in the proportions required as aforesaid for the particular pur-
pose intended, and steam or boil them in a suitable vessel; and having
brought them to a liquid state, or nearly so, I take off the liquid portions
"and reject any solid matter or refuse," and I stir in and mix the oil with the
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page_text: fluid gelatine. "The resinous substance, when used," is "to be heated,"
melted, and stirred into and mixed with the gelatine and oil, "in-the-same-manner.
"I then take The alkali, nitre, whiting or limy matter, and " I " dissolve
them-together in the water in a suitable vessel by heat or otherwise. After
"this is done I mix and incorporate them "whole of the above," with the
gelatine and oil, so as to produce the compound desired, and whilst in the
"liquid state I add the" if desired "colouring matter; and having mixed
"and incorporated the whole, and-then "I" set it in shallow pans or vessels
"to cool; when cool it is fit for use. These compounds aro then applied the
"same as the ordinary lubricating grease or oils.
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Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
"manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I intend it to be under-
"stood that I do not confine myself to any particular proportions or process
of mixing the substances above named, although I have set forth such
proportions and processes as will answer the requirements of most cases;
"what I do claim being the formation of improved gelatinous or glutinous
"compounds for lubricating railway and other machinery, by the use as
"aforesaid of any gelatinous or glutinous animal substance in combination
with any or all of the materials above enumerated." But I make no claim
to the use of any of such materials, when animal glutinous or animal gelatinous.
substances are not used in the compounds.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Banks Nicklin, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
JNO. ALCOCK.
I hereby grant my fiat, giving leave to the above-mentioned John Banks
Nicklin to file in the Great Seal Patent Office, with the Specification to
which the same relates, the above-written Disclaimer and Memorandum of
Alteration.