MENTS IN PREPARING COMBINATIONS OF MATERIALS FOR PREVENTING RUST IN TRON AND AMEED MAT AXED DAMERON AND OTHER METALS, AND DECAY INTIM
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Nicholas Charles Szerelmey, of No. 6, Park Terrace,
Brixton Road, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVE
MENTS IN PREPARING COMBINATIONS OF MATERIALS FOR PREVENTING RUST IN
TRON AND AMEED MAT AXED DAME"
Sealed the 29th November 1859, and dated the 16th June 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Nicholas Charles Szerelmey
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th June 1859.
I, NICHOLAS CHARLES SZERELMEY, of Number 6, Park Terrace, Brixton
Road, in the County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING COMBINATIONS OF MATERIALS FOR PREVENTING
RUST IN IRON AND OTHER METALS, AND DECAY IN TIMBER," to be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object the preparation of certain combinations of
well-known materials, so as thereby to obtain certain compositions which will
prevent rust in iron and other metals, and decay in timber. These com-
positions, which I call granitic compositions, Nos. 1, 2, and 3, are produced in
the following manner:-
For granitic composition, No. 1, I take and mix together four hundred-
weight blue argillaceous earth, six hundredweight brown stone, nine hundred-
weight hydraulic lime, two hundredweight silica. These materials are burned
or calcined in a strong furnace until they become red hot, and when cool are
reduced to a fine powder; I then mix with them the following substances

page_text: previously well ground and pulverised; viz., ten hundredweight Krems white,
five hundredweight carbonate of lime, nine hundredweight black ash, one
hundredweight sulphur, five hundredweight red oxide of iron. The whole is
then mixed with lime water until it is reduced to a thick paste; this paste is
then well ground and dried by exposure to the air.
For granitic composition, No. 2, I proceed as follows:-I boil together, for
two hours in a suitable iron pot, about one ton of well purified linseed oil
(prepared by mechanical process), thirty-two pounds litharje; thirty-two pounds
lime, sixty pounds white copperas, forty pounds burnt umber. I then add to
the above two hundredweight of pure Egyptian asphalt, and one hundred-
weight of American rosin. The whole is then boiled together for about half
an hour, until it spontaneously bursts into flame; and after it has burned for
a very short time, the flame is extinguished by means of a close fitting cover.
For granitic composition, No. 3, I proceed as follows:-I melt in an iron
pot about one hundred and fifty-six pounds of pure Egyptian asphalt; in
another pot I boil, for about two hours one ton of well purified linseed oil, and
thirty pounds of litharje; these I then mix with the asphalt and boil the whole
until it becomes quite thick, when I take it from the fire, allow it to cool, and
then add fifty-six pounds red oxide of iron, fifty-six pounds Krems white and
sixty gallons of Venetian turpentine. These compositions are to be applied
with a brush or any other suitable means.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Nicholas Charles Szerelmey in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 6th December 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, NICHOLAS,
CHARLES SZERELMEY, of No. 6, Park Terrace, Brixton Road, in the County.
of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of June, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said.
Nicholas, Charles Szerelmey, Her special licence that I, the said Nicholas
Charles Szerelmey, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Nicholas Charles Szerelmey, 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.

page_text: 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 FOR PREPARING COMBINATIONS OF MATERIALS FOR PREVENTING
RUST IN IRON AND OTHER METALS, AND DECAY IN TIMBER," upon the condition,
amongst others, that I, the said Nicholas Charles Szerelmey, 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 Nicholas Charles Szerelmey, 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:-
My Invention has for its object the preparation of certain combinations of
well-known materials, so as thereby to obtain certain compositions which will
prevent rust in iron and other metals, and decay in timber. These compo-
sitions, which are called granitic compositions Nos. 1, 2, and 3, are produced
in the following manner :-
For granitic composition, No. 1, I take and mix together four hundredweight
of blue argillaceous earth, six hundredweight of brown stone, nine hundredweight
bydraulic lime, two hundredweight of silica. These materials are burned or
calcined in a strong furnace until they become red hot, and when cool are
reduced to a fine powder. I then mix with them the following substances,
previously well ground and pulverised, videlicit:- Ten hundredweight of
Krems white, five hundredweight of carbonate of lime, five hundredweight of
black ash, one hundredweight of sulphur, five hundredweight of red oxide of
iron. The whole is then mixed with lime water until it is reduced to a thick
paste. This paste is then well ground and dried by exposure to the air.
For granitic composition, No. 2, I proceed as follows:-I boil together, for
two hours in a suitable iron pot, about one ton of well purified linseed oil
(prepared by a mechanical process); thirty-two pounds of litharge, thirty-two
pounds of lime, sixty pounds of white copperas, forty pounds of burnt umber.
I then add to the above two hundredweight of pure Egyptian asphalte and
one hundredweight of American rosin. The whole is then boiled together
for about half an hour until it spontaneously bursts into flame, and after it has
burnt for a very short time, the flame is extinguished by means of a close
fitting cover.

page_text: For granitic composition, No. 3, I proceed as follows:-I melt in an iron
pot about one hundred and fifty-six pounds of pure Egyptian asphalt; in
another pot I boil, for about two hours, one ton of well purified linseed oil,
and thirty pounds of litharge. These I then mix with the asphalt and boil the
whole until it becomes quite thick, when I take it from the fire, allow it to cool,
and then add fifty-six pounds red oxide of iron, fifty-six pounds Krems white,
and sixty gallons Venetian turpentine. The above compositions are applied
with a brush or other usual means.
In witness whereof, I, the said Nicholas Charles Szerelmey, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Third day of December, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-nine.
N. C. SZERELMEY. (L.S.)