IMPROVE- MENTS IN COVERING SHIPS AND VESSELS BUILT OF WOOD, OR IRON SHIPS, WITH A. BACKING OF WOOD BEFORE PLACING IRON, STEEL, OR OTHER ARMOUR PLATES ON SUCH SHIPS AND VESSELS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN COVERING SHIPS AND VESSELS BUILT OF WOOD, OR IRON SHIPS, WITH
A. BACKING OF WOOD BEFORE PLACING IRON, STEEL, OR OTHER ARMOUR PLATES
ON SUCH SHIPS AND VESSELS."-A communication from abroad by Donald
Bethune, of Port Hope. Upper Canada.
Sealed the 3rd February 1868, and dated the 7th. August 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 7th August 1862.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERING SHIPS AND VESSELS BUILT OF WOOD,
OR IRON SHIPS, WITH A BACKING OF WOOD BEFORE PLACING IRON, STEEL, OR OTHER
ARMOUR PLATES ON SUCH SHIPS AND VESSELS," (communicated to me from abroad
by Donald Bethune, residing at Port Hope, Upper Canada,) to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in placing india-rubber sheets, whether vulcanized
or otherwise, or gutta percha sheets or other similar material or substance
between the iron or steel plates and the wood of such vessel. I cover the
ship or vessel, wherever it is to be iron or steel plated, with sheets of india-
rubber or gutta percha or other similar material about an eighth of an inch
in thickness, more or less, so as to prevent the iron or steel plates, or plates
of similar material, from coming in immediate contact with the wood of the
vessel, thereby preventing any injury to the wood or to the plates; and also
preventing the water from lodging between the india-rubber or gutta percha

page_text: sheets and the wood of the vessel. The wood should be made a little rough
with a rasp or other instrument, so as to retain a proper hold of the india-
rubber or gutta percha sheets, and the sheets of india-rubber or gutta percha
or other similar material may be attached to each other, and to the wood by
the cement or preparation used in connecting india-rubber or gutta percha
to the soles of boots and shoes, and which preparation or cement and the
manner of using it are well known to the manufacturers of india-rubber and
gutta percha and to the vendors thereof. The plates may be a little heated
before put on.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald, Broonian in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 7th February 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERING SHIPS AND VESSELS BUILT
OF WOOD, OR IRON SHIPS, WITH A BACKING OF WOOD BEFORE PLACING IRON, STEEL,
OR OTHER ARMOUR PLATES ON SUCH SHIPS AND VESSELS," (communicated to me
from abroad by Donald Bethune, of Port Hope, Upper Canada,) upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman,
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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 :-
This Invention consists in placing india-rubber sheets or gutta percha sheets
or other similar material or substance between the iron, steel, or other armour
plates and the wood of such vessel. I cover the ship or vessel, wherever it
is to be iron or steel plated, with sheets of india-rubber, or gutta percha, or
other similar material about an eighth of an inch in thickness, more or less,
so as to prevent the iron or steel plates, or plates of similar material, from
coming in immediate contact with the wood of the vessel, thereby preventing
any injury to the wood or to the plates, and also preventing the water from
lodging between the india-rubber or gutta percha sheets and the wood of the
vessel. The sheets of india-rubber, or gutta percha, or other similar material,
may be attached to each other and to the wood by the cement or preparation
used in connecting india-rubber or gutta percha to the soles of boots and
shoes, and which preparation or cement, and the manner of using it, are well
known to the manufacturers of india-rubber and gutta percha sheets and to
the vendors thereof. The plates may be a little heated before being put on.
The joints or spaces between the sheets of india-rubber may be filled up with
liquid india-rubber, and a hot iron passed over such joints to make the sheets
adhere to each other, and to prevent the water from getting between the
india-rubber and the wood of the vessel, and the liquid india-rubber may be
placed under the joints of the iron plates.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim placing india-
rubber sheets or gutta percha sheets or other similar material or substance
between the iron, steel, or other armour plates and the wood of ships and
vessels, substantially in manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of February, Ono
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.