IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR RENDERING OBJECTS INCOMBUSTIBLE
Year: 1884

page_text: I BARON LOUIS MOSER DULFUS, Gentleman of London, 265 Gresham House,
Old Broad Street in the County of Middlesex England do hereby declare the
nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR RENDERING OBJECTS
INCOMBUSTIBLE to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to render objects of an inflammable nature such
as wainscoting, timber work, theatre decoration and other articles, incombustible and
inflammable.
In carrying out this invention I employ the paper made from the pulp described
in the provisional specification filed with my application for a patent No 378094
of even date with the present application, to cover the object to be rendered
incombustible.
This paper is pasted on to the objects by means of a special uninflammable
adhesive material in order that the said objects shall not be damaged by the hurtful
action which other adhesive materials (few of which are non-inflammable) might
exert say, on the front of a drop scene of a theatre.
The special adhesive material which is perfectly innocuous, having so to speak no
base, is composed of from 80 to 85 per cent of neutral- silicate of soda having a
density of 40 degrees Baumé mixed with from 10 to 15 per cent of fossil powder
ground together in any ordinary manner.
After two or three days the lime contained in the fossil powder will have caused
what little there is of soda or potash in the silicate to precipitate, and on decanting
the mixture the adhesive material without base and without hurtful principle as
mentioned above is obtained.
By the above means I am enabled to preserve the most inflammable objects or
articles from the effects of the most intense fire.
Date : 09nd day of February 1884

page_text: I BARON LOUIS MOSER DULFUS Gentleman, of London, 265, Gresham House, Old
Broad Street, in the County of Middlesex, England, do hereby declare the nature of
my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR RENDERING OBJECTS INCOMBUSTIBLE
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
The object of this invention is to render objects of an inflammable nature such
as wainscoting timber work, theatre decoration and other articles incombustible and
uninflammable.
In carrying out this invention, I employ a paper made from a pulp composed of
asbestos, fossil powder, neutral silicate of soda and a pulp made from annual fibres
in varying proportions and mixed with a size composed of water kaolin, neutral
silicate of soda, with or without some resinous soap in varying proportions or with
any other suitable and well known size and all of which are described in the
complete specification filed in respect of application No. 3780 of even date with the
present application, to cover the object to be rendered incombustible.
This paper is pasted on to the object by means of a special uninflammable
adhesive material in order that the said object shall not be damaged by the hurtful
action which other adhesive materials (all of them being inflammable) might exert
say, on the front of a drop scene of a theatre.
The special adhesive material which can be employed with impunity because it
is perfectly uninflammable and innocuous, and having so to speak no base, is
composed of from 80 to 85 per cent of neutral silicate of soda having a density of
40 degrees Baumé mixed with from 10 to 15 per cent of fossil powder ground
together in any ordinary manner.
After two or three days the lime contained in the fossil powder will have caused
what little there is of soda or potash in the silicate to precipitate and on decanting
the mixture the adhesive material without base and without hurtful principle as
mentioned above is obtained.
By the above means I am enabled to preserve the most inflammable objects or
articles from the effects of the most intense fire.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1st Rendering inflammable objects uninflammable by applying thereto by means
of an incombustible adhesive material an incombustible paper prepared in the
manner above referred to.
2nd The incombustible adhesive material substantially as herein described and
composed of neutral silicate of soda and fossil powder in or about the proportions
set forth.