IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COVERED BUTTONS, AND IN PREPARING METAL SURFACES FOR SUCH MANUFACTURE AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1841

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CORNELIUS
ALFRED JAQUIN, of Huggin Lane, Wood Street, in the City of London,
Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of January, in the fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Cornelius Alfred Jaquin, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said Cornelius Alfred Jaquin, my exors, adñors,
exors,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Cornelius Alfred Jaquin, my
admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time, and at all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COVERED BUTTONS, AND IN PREPARING METAL SURFACES
FOR SUCH MANUFACTURE AND OTHER PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso that I, the said Cornelius Alfred Jaquin, shall cause
a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
'manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately

page_text: after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Cornelius Alfred Jaquin, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say) :-
:-
The Invention relates to a mode of preparing metal used for the backs
of covered buttons, by coating the same with flock, in order to obtain a
surface thereon similar to cloth, which, in addition to covering the metal,
will render the back surfaces of buttons more suitable to come against the
cloth on which they are fastened; and metal surfaces, when so prepared, will
be found useful for other purposes. And in order that my Invention may be
fully understood and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the
means pursued by me in performing the same. I cover one surface of the
thin metal used in the manufacture of buttons by coating the same over with
copal varnish thinned with turpentine, so that it may be used freely with a
painter's brush; and I color such varnish according to the color of the flock
to be employed, by grinding therewith vegetable black for black, and the usual
pigments or other coloring matter for colors; and I submit the sheets of
metal so coated to the heat of an oven for about five minutes, the oven being
heated to about one hundred and fifty degrees of Fahrenheit. When cold, I
apply a second coat of a composition or varnish prepared by mixing one pound
of white lead, one pint of boiled linseed oil, half a gill of free gold size, and
color as before; and I thin such mixture with boiled linseed oil to about the
fluidity of treacle, and I apply it over the previous varnish. I place a sheet
of metal so treated on to what is called a drum, that is, a sheet of canvass,
linen, or leather, stretched over a frame, and I sift or otherwise throw a quan-
tity of flock over the prepared surface of the sheet metal, and by a cane I
repeatedly strike the under surface, and at different parts of the druin, sharply,
by which the flock is thrown up and again subsides on to the coated surface,
and I continue this operation till the surface of the metal is well covered
with flock, and then allow the varnish or composition to dry for twelve hours
or more; I then shake off the superfluous flock, and place the sheet metal on
racks for a few days, when it will be in good condition for use. The flock I
employ is similar to what is used for paper hangings, but of the best kind;
and I prepare the surfaces of metal with colored flock, according to the color
of the face of the button. The sheets of metal, being so coated with flock, are
then formed into collets or shells for the backs of covered buttons by the aid
of the dies now used for cutting out and making collets for the backs of

page_text: buttons, which is well understood; and when a button is made, having a collet
of prepared metal according to my Invention, the back of the button will have
the appearance of being covered with woollen cloth, there being no appear-
ance of the metal of which the collet is made, which will be of considerable
advantage in the manufacture of covered buttons; and, further, sheets of metal
prepared with flock, as above described, may be beneficially applied to other
purposes.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the use of the precise varnishes above described, though I believe them to
be the best for the purpose. But what I claim is, the mode of improving the
manufacture of buttons by applying flocked metal back surfaces thereto, and
preparing metal surfaces in a similar manner for other purposes.
In witness whereof, I, the said Cornelius Alfred Jaquin, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
CORNELIUS ALFRED (L.8.) JAQUIN.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of July, in
the year of our Lord 1841, the aforesaid Cornelius Alfred Jaquin came
before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and speci-
fied, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-sixth day of Tule in the HOOK
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