IMPROVEMENTS IN CEMENTING MATTERS IN THE PRODUCTION OF ORNAMENTAL AND OTHER BADING AND SUBLADO
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Moses Poole, of Serle Street, in the County
of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CEMENTING MATTERS IN THE PRODUCTION OF ORNAMENTAL AND OTHER
BADING AND SUBLADO "
communication
Sealed the 21st January 1853, and dated the 19th November 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Moses Poole at the
Office of the Cominissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 19th November 1852.
I, MOSES POOLE, of Serle Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CEMENTING MATTERS IN THE PRODUCTION OF ORNAMENTAL
AND OTHER FORMS AND SURFACES " to be as follows:-
This Invention, which is communicated from Hamburgh in behalf
of Mr. H. C. Meyer, jun', of that place, consists of employing curd
or product obtained from milk or other albuminous matter when
cementing saw-dust, chips of wood, sand, dust, and other granular
and fibrous matters, and then rolling these compositions to produce
sheets applicable as veneers, and otherwise, or moulding or shaping
such compositions in other ways.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Moses Poole in the Great Scal Patent
Office, on the 17th May 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
MOSES POOLE, of Serle Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Moses Poole, Her special licence
that I, the said Moses Poole, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Moses Poole, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS
IN CEMENTING MATTERS IN THE PRODUCTION OF ORNAMENTAL AND OTHER FORMS
AND SURFACES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Moses Poole, by an instrument in writing under my hand and scal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the saine 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 Moses Poole, 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):
This Invention, which is communicated from IIamburg in behalf
of Mr. II. C. Meyer, junior, of that place, consists of employing
curd or product obtained from milk or other albuminous matter
when cementing saw-dust, chips of wood, sand, dust, and other

page_text: granular and fibrous matters, and then rolling these compositions to
produce sheets applicable as vencers, and otherwise, or moulding
or shaping such compositions in other ways.
And in order that the Invention may be more fully understood I
will proceed to describe the means pursued by the Inventor.
The Invention relates to the production of artificial veneers or or-
namental articles in imitation of, or to be substituted for, ornamental
woods and marble or other stone, and consists in the employment
of the curd triturated and thoroughly amalgamated with lime or
other alkali, and mixed or combined with saw-dust, chips, or other
fragments of wood, bone, ivory, stone, or other granular or fibrous
matter, or with coloring matter, so that when moulded or otherwise
formed to the configuration desired, and dried, it will admit of being
used as a substitute for vencers and other ornamental matters..
I take curd, and after the water has been drained or pressed out
of it, and with it I mix about thirty per cent. of slacked line. These
two ingredients I triturate until the mixture assumes a semi-liquid
appearance somewhat resembling molasses, but not quite so liquid.
When in this condition I add the material or materials which are
to give the character to the substance to be produced. If I desire
to produce vencers or imitations of ornamental woods I take saw-
dust or chips of varied colored woods, fragments of other sub-
stances may, if desired, be added, and I thoroughly amalgamate the
whole.
But if I wish to produce veins of various colors, or shades, I add
the saw-dust to the pasty substance in separate colors, and make
up separate parcels, and then knead or work them together, and roll
or press or mould the mass into any forin desired, and dry it by a
slow heat.
Instead of natural or colored saw-dust other coloring matter
may be substituted and mixed in for the purpose of ornamenting or
varying the color or colors of the mass.
When I desire to make artificial stone I substitute for the saw-
dust fragments of various kinds of mineral, or sand or other earth,
with coloring matters, if desired, to give greater variety to the

page_text: shades. And when I desire to produce surfaces for grinding or
polishing metals I substitute emery or other granular or pulverized
minerals, such as are used on lead and buff wheels.
The process is to be conducted in the same inanner with all the
substances which are to be substituted for the saw-dust as first
described. The proportion of lime may be greatly varied, but I
usually employ froin fifteen to thirty per cent.
Instead of line other alkalines may be substituted, although I
prefer lime slacked in the open air.
. If in the process it should be found that in triturating the curd
and lime the semi-fluid state is not readily obtained, or when
obtained that it is not sufficiently fluid to receive the other matter, a
little water may be added, which will evaporate in the process of
drying.
Veneers of a high degree of beauty can be produced on this plan,
which can be worked in the same manner as vencers of wood, and
which will take a very high and beautiful polish.
Articles may be moulded and thus produced at much less expense
than carving, and of any desired variety of form, color, and veins.
What I claim is, the manufacture of artificial vencers and other g
articles by combining with saw-dust and other matters curd and
lime, or its equivalents, after these latter matters have been triturated,
mixed, and reduced as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Moses Poole, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness,
Гоих Госк.
M. POOLE. (L.S.)