A NEW COMPOUND USED FOR VARNISHING PAPER HANGINGS. AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Raymond Fletcher, of Siddall's Road, Derby, in
the County of Derby, Manufacturer of Washable Paper Hangings, for
the Invention of "A NEW COMPOUND USED FOR VARNISHING PAPER HANGINGS.
AND OTHER ARTICLES."
Sealed the 8th September 1864, and dated the 12th March 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Raymond Fletcher at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th March 1864.
I, RAYMOND FLETCHER, of Siddall's Road, Derby, in the County of Derby,
Manufacturer of Washable Paper Hangings, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "A NEW COMPOUND USED FOR VARNISHING PAPER HANGINGS
AND OTHER ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in the employment of gum sandarac (or sandaric),
shell-lac, or other gums of suitable character, in conjunction with resin, alcohol,
and methylated spirits of wine, each in convenient proportion, forming a com-
pound. This compound I use for the purpose of varnishing paper hangings,
maps, stationery goods, pictures, and all kinds of inside woodwork; also for
making waterproof papers for the packing of goods, and also as a solution for
uniting the same, and for other purposes to which it may be applicable.
Moreover, paper used for hangings which heretofore, owing to the extreme
looseness of their colours, could not receive varnish, may by the employment
of my Invention be made serviceable.

page_text: My Invention is also applicable to the rendering of hat, bonnet, or other
linings, either water-proof or grease-proof.
Heretofore paper and other hangings have had to be sized over two or three
times, in order to prevent the varnish from striking through the paper,
whereas by the employment of my Invention the sizing of the paper is entirely
abolished, thus saving time, trouble, and expense, besides imparting to the
paper a superior finish.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Raymond Fletcher, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
12th September 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RAYMOND
FLETCHER, of Siddall's Road, Derby, in the County of Derby, Manufacturer
of Washable Paper Hangings, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Raymond Fletcher, Her special licence that I, the said Raymond Fletcher,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Raymond
Fletcher, 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 "A NEW COMPOUND USED
FOR VARNISHING PAPER HANGINGS AND OTHER ARTICLES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Raymond Fletcher, 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 Raymond Fletcher, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in 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 :-

page_text: My Invention consists in the employment of gum sandarac (or sandaric);
gum shell-lac, or other gums of suitable and convenient character, in conjunc-
tion with resin and alcohol, or with resin and methylated spirits of wine, or
with resin, alcohol, and methylated spirits of wine, each in convenient propor-
tion, altogether forming a compound. This compound I use for the purpose
of varnishing paper hangings, maps, stationery goods, pictures, and all kinds
of inside woodwork, also for varnishing paper in order to produce a water-
proof paper for the packing of goods, and also as a solution for uniting paper
or goods, and for other purposes to which it may be applicable. Moreover,.
paper used for hangings, which heretofore, owing to the extreme looseness of
their colors, could not receive varnish, may by the employment of my
Invention be made washable and therefore serviceable.
My Invention is also applicable to the rendering of hat, bonnet, or other
linings both water-proof and grease-proof.
Heretofore paper and other hangings have had to be sized over some two or
three times in order to prevent the varnish from striking through the paper;
whereas, by the employment of my Invention the sizing of the paper may be
dispensed with, thus saving time, trouble, and expense, besides imparting to
the paper a superior finish.
My Invention is also applicable to the coating of woodwork for cabinet
purposes, by being used as a preparation by cabinet makers previous to polish-
ing or finishing their work, whereby much labour is saved, and a better
polish is thus effected. It is also equally adapted to making transparent
window or other blinds.
In carrying my Invention into effect, the proportions in which I prefer to
use the ingredients forming my compound are :—

page_text: from a boiler adjacent thereto, by which means the gum or gums, and the
resin, are dissolved; when these ingredients are dissolved I run the liquid
through a fine wire gauze, and strain it off from the sediment that remains.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same may be performed, I declare that I claim the compound or compo-
sition herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Raymond Fletcher, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
Witness,
GEO. JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Office.
RAYMOND FLETCHER. (L.S.)