COVERING OF IRON AND WOODEN SHIDO VACUTO SMRAMPAAMO AND RADGO' ROMMON AND ORGIEACHTEAMBOATS, BARGES' BOTTOMS ANDOUTSIDE
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Smith, of Islington, in the Borough of Fins-
bury, Shipowner, for the Invention of "COVERING OF IRON AND WOODEN
SHIDO VACUTO SMRAMPAAMO AND RADGO' ROMMON AND ORGIE"
Sealed the 12th March 1861, and dated the 21st September 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Smith at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st September 1860.
I, ROBERT SMITH, of Islington, in the Borough of Finsbury, Shipowner,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "THE COVERING OF
IRON, WOODEN SHIPS, YACHTS, STEAMBOATS, AND BARGES' BOTTOMS AND OUTSIDE,"
to be as follows:-
I employ for the purpose of keeping vessels' bottoms and outside & inside
from fouling and worming, pitch, tar, rosin, turpentine in equal parts, with any
other adhesive, mixed or seperate, also along with it a nauseous drug, asafos-
tida; this covered with paper, cloth, or substitute equivalent thereto, forms
the coating.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Smith in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st March 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
SMITH, of Islington, in the Borough of Finsbury, Shipowner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Robert Smith, Her special licence that I, the said Robert Smith,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert
Smith, 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 "COVERING OF IRON AND
WOODEN SHIPS, YACHTS, STEAMBOATS, AND BARGES' BOTTOMS AND OUTSIDE," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Robert Smith, 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 Robert Smith, 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:-
My Invention, which I am about to describe, is for the purpose of preser-
ving iron and wooden ships, yachts, steam vessels, and barges' bottoms, both
inside and outside, and also for the preservation of metal, wood, or stonework
of any description, whether used on land or in water, from decay, and which
consists of a preparation composed of the following ingredients:-If the com-
pound is intended to preserve iron, wood, or stonework from the action of sea
water I compose my compound of the following ingredients :-I take, accord-
ing to the quantity required, a certain quantity of sulphur rendered soluble, or
such as can be held in solution, to which I add a similar quantity of asafoetida,
pitch, tar, rosin, and, if necessary, white lead and paint of any description.

page_text: This compound is prepared by heat in the usual way, but great care must
be taken in the preparation of it from its dangerous qualities. But if the com-
pound is merely intended for preserving metal, wood, or stonework from the
action of the atmosphere and water (not sea water), I take, according to the
quantity required, a certain quantity of sulphur rendered soluble, or such as
can be held in solution, to which I add a similar quantity of pitch, tar, rosin,
and, if necessary, white lead and paint of any description.
This preparation can be applied as a coating similar to paint, or in the fol-
lowing manner :-I take cloth, linen, felt, paper, or any other suitable
material, which is steamed or saturated with the compound, so as to be
thoroughly impregnated with it while in a heated state, and the surface about
to receive the coating being also covered with it, the material prepared as before
mentioned is then pressed on it, and, if necessary, with heavy hot irons or other
suitable tools, and, if required, another coating may be added, so that the
entire coating when dry becomes impervious to air and water.
What I claim therefore as my Invention is, the application of sulphur ren-
dered soluble, or such as can be held in solution, in conjunction with asafoetida,
pitch, tar, rosin, turpentine, and, if necessary, white lead and paint of any
description, or with any other known adhesive ingredient.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Smith, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
ROBERT SMITH. (L.S.)