IMPROVE- MENTS IN PACKING GOODS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hermann Turck, of Broad Street Buildings,
in the City of London, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PACKING GOODS."
Sealed the 22nd December 1852, and dated the 1st October 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hermann Turck at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 1st October 1852.
I, HERMANN TURCK, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING GOODS" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in securing bales and packages of goods by
iron or other metal hoops properly protected by some coating or pre-
paration from the action of water, moisture, or atmospheric air. Zinc
or other metal hoops not liable to corrosion by the action of the above
causes may also be employed for the above purpose, and in that case
it will not be necessary to coat or cover the metal hoops with any
preparation.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Hermann Turck in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 31st March 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
HERMANN TURCK, of Broad Street Buildings, in the City of London,
Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Hermann Turck, Her special licence
that I, the said Hermann Turek, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Hermann Turck, 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 night 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 PACKING GOODS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Hermann Turck, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, 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 Hermann Turck, 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 (that is to say):
This Invention relates to the packing of goods, which are done up
in bales, and are bound around with metallic hoops or bands, the
object being to prevent such hoops or bands, which have heretofore
been composed of iron, from being eaten away or corroded by rust,
and thereby subjecting the packages of goods to injury. To effect this

page_text: object, which is a matter of considerable importance, more especially
when the goods are to be transported across the sea for any considerable
distance, I employ hoop iron coated with zinc or with tin. For pre-
paring this iron any of the methods or processes now in use for
covering iron with zinc or tin may be adopted, and by the use of hoop
iron so coated I am enabled effectually to secure the goods from the
injury to which they are now liable from the corrosion of the iron.
Having now set forth the nature of my Invention of improvements
in packing goods, I wish it to be understood that under the above in
part recited Letters Patent I claim, first, the employment of tinned
hoop iron for the purpose above set forth; and, secondly, the employment
of hoop iron coated with zinc for the purpose above set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hermann Turck, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of March, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness,
W TURCK.
HERMANN TURCK. (L.S.)