AN IMPROVED PREPARATION OR COMPOSITION FOR RENDERING THE WALLS OF BUILDINGS IMPERVIOUS TO WET, AND WHICH MAY BE USED FOR RENDERING OTHER SURFACES DAMP PROOF
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edmond Simmonds, of the City of Worcester, Builder, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVED PREPARATION OR COMPOSITION FOR RENDERING
THE WALLS OF BUILDINGS IMPERVIOUS TO WET, AND WHICH MAY BE USED
FOR RENDERING OTHER SURFACES DAMP PROOF."
Scaled the 19th June 1877, and dated the 22nd December 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edmond Simmonds at the
"
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd December 1876.
EDMOND SIMMONDS, of the City of Worcester, Builder. AN IMPROVED PRE-
PARATION OR COMPOSITION FOR RENDERING THE WALLS OF BUILDINGS IMPERVIOUS
TO WET, AND WHICH MAY BE USED FOR RENDERING OTHER SURFACES DAMP
PROOF."
My improved preparation or composition to be used for the purposes named in
the title consists of the following component parts, viz. :—
Boiled linseed oil
Mutton suet or Russian tallow
Resin
-
-
-
-
11/2 gallon.
1 lb.
1% lb.
These ingredients are well mixed together, and boiled for about an hour, when the
preparation is fit to be applied to an ordinary brick wall for the purpose of rendering
it damp proff, but if the mixture should be found to be of too thick a consistency it
may easily be thinned down by the addition of more oil, the preparation being then
allowed to cool, and again heated as before when required for use.
It must be understood that my improved composition is always to be applied in
a boiling or nearly boiling state. It may be spread on the surface to which it is
applied by a common whitewash brush, or by any other convenient means, and
when dry it presents the appearance of a smooth enamel, and will, when applied to a
wall and when carefully and completely laid on, last as long as the bricks themselves.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edmond Simmonds in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd
June 1877.
EDMOND SIMMONDS, of the City of Worcester, Builder. "AN IMProved Pre-
PARATION OR COMPOSITION FOR RENDERING THE WALLS OF Buildings ImpERVIOUS
TO WET, AND WHICH MAY BE USED FOR RENDERING OTHER SURFACES DAMP
PROOF."
My improved preparation or composition to be used for the purposes named in
the title consists of the following component parts, viz. :—
Boiled linseed oil
Mutton suet or Russian tallow
Resin
-
-
-
11/2 gallon.
11%, lb.
1/4 lb.
These ingredients are well mixed together, and boiled for about an hour, when
the preparation is fit to be applied to an ordinary brick wall for the purpose of
rendering it damp proof, but if the mixture should be found to be of too thick a
consistency it may easily be thinned down by the addition of more oil, the pre-
paration being then allowed to cool and again heated as before when required for
usc.
It must be understood that my improved composition is always to be applied in
a boiling or nearly boiling state. It may be spread on the surface to which it is
applied by a common whitewash brush, or by any other convenient means, and
when dry it presents the appearance of a smooth enamel, and will when applied to
a wall, and when carefully and completely laid on, last as long as the bricks them-
selves.
.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which
the same is or may be performed, I desire it to be understood that without limiting
myself to the precise details herein-before contained, as these may be varied or
modified without departing from the nature of my said Invention, I claim as the
Invention to be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, the
mixture or preparation or combination of parts for manufacturing the composition
for rendering the walls of buildings and other surfaces impervious to wet, substan-
tially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edmond Simmonds, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of June, One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-seven.
EDMOND SIMMONDS. (LS.