IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING MATERIALS TO BE USED IN MAKING PICTURE AND OTHER FRAMES, AND FOR ARCHITECTURAL AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1844

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
EGGENE CHABERT, of Paris, but now of Chancery Lane, in the City of London,
Gentleman, 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 Tenth day of October, in the eighth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Joseph Eugene Chabert, Her especial licence, full power, solo privilege and
authority, that I, the said Joseph Eugene Chabert, my exors, adiiors, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Eugne Chabert, my exors,
admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times 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, and in the Islands of Guernsey,
Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, and also in all Her said Majesty's Colonies and
Plantations abroad, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING MATERIALS
TO BE USED IN MAKING PICTURE AND OTHER FRAMES, AND FOR ARCHITECTURAL AND
OTHER PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that
I, the said Joseph Eugene Chabert, shall cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
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page_text: six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto bad,
will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Eugene Chabert, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following description thereof (that is to say) :-
The Invention consists in preparing certain materials to be afterwards
described to be used for the manufacture of picture and other frames, and for
architectural and other purposes, in such manner as to bring them into a liquid
state, so that in making picture and other frames or mouldings, architectural
forms or figures, it will only be necessary to pour the materials into moulds
suitably arranged for the purpose. The materials consist of glue, which I
prefer to be made from rabbits' skins, although other glue will answer the
purpose, of gelatine, oxide of lead, Spanish white, sawdust, and sulphate of
lime. The proportions in which I prefer to use them is as follows:-For
every thirty-six parts I take 12 parts of glue, one part of gelatine, four parts
of oxide of lead, eight parts of Spanish white, one part sawdust, and ten parts
sulphate of lime. The modo of preparing the composition is as follows:-The
glue is first to be melted in a suitable vessel, the oxide of lead is put into
another vessel, and the glue in a melted state is then mixed with it; the
Spanish white and sawdust is then to be added, and the whole well mixed
together. If it is required that the material should be of any peculiar colour,
it may be made so by adding at this part of the preparation either lamp black,
ochre, or any other required colour. The sulphate of lime is now to be mixed
with the other materials, and the whole well stirred up together. The moulds
being suitably arranged and first rubbed over with oil, or other suitable
material, as is well understood, the composition is to be poured in with a
suitable vessel, and when full of the liquid the upper part of the framing of
the mould is to be put on so as to insure that all the parts of the mould shall
be filled with the composition; it is to be allowed to remain in that state for
five minutes, when the cast may be turned out of the mould, and when dry,
will be in a fit state to be finished off according to the purpose for which it is
intended.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the precise materials mentioned, nor the quantities of the different materials
employed, so long as the character of the composition be retained, that of

page_text: using oxide of lead and sulphate of lime with other matters such as are herein
mentioned, made up into a suitable liquid to be run into moulds.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Eugene Chabert, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-five.
JOSEPH EUGENE (L.S.) CHABERT.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Tenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord 1845, the aforesaid Joseph Eugene Chabert came
before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Tenth day of April in the year of our Lord One thou-