Document RjadN58EQVqOM31kQDLB0Naw8

Highlights of Filnt Frogross J From* OFFICIAL DIGEST, federation of Faint and Varnish Production Clubs* 'liMVa.'19i7._____ _____ ;------------ ^________ - ** * . I860 The Ossa of Rsady-Hixed Pslats * The yivil War Era sitasssod ths birth of s nation industrially as well as politically. Men of enterprise risked their scarce dollars to dew-lop this young country's natural resources, to establish new industries and to start new mills and factories.' In 1852 the infaat Hew Jersey Zinc Company oon- eeivedt and developed a unique metnods for producing sins oxide direct from ore - one of the all-time most Important contributions to sine . metallurgy. Produced for the first time in this country, this sine oxide was whiter, brighter and had more hiding power than the one white pigment - white lead - then used. Zino pastes were dereloped and market-* ed - sine oxide in linseed oil for general usp, in white and colorst and sino oxide in Darner rarnish for porceleia-like enamels. .* ' * This set the stage for a resolution in paints the derelopment of ready-mixed painta - for paint maker* found that incorporation nf sine oxide into their white lead pastes permitted the latter to be packaged in thinned, ready-to-use form. In this period many new companies sprang up to meet the growing demand for ta.'se ready-to-use paints. Customers pre ferred these first ready-mixed paints for their, time-sawing convenience, superior beauty and durability. Thee saute features, greatly improwed, are inherent in modem ready-mixed paints. 1848-1948 - Partners la Paint Progress. Based on sino oxide, or with siho oxide as a principal ingredient, the earliest American patents on readjr-nixed paints ware issued during the Civil War Era. Today, Zinc Oxide* is still the back-bone of outside house paints. The Hew Jersey Zinc Co, - Advertisement Established 1848 160 front Street, Hew Xork 7, H.I. 0007-SWP-000008693 Prepared paint was first offtrsd tor sals ty hase \ paintar named Cnarterman In Hew York in 1B<2* ^ About 1827 Suarterman began buslnsss in law York u a houss paintar and eenoeivsd ths Idas of supplying paint mixed ready for use* la 1842 ha astabliahad himself la lowsr Is* Yrk confining hit affortt solely to tha askin( tad tala of rady-lxd paint* Yba chiaf ingredients wars lead, liasaad oil* sad turpentns, which, of courts sattlsd in tha package and was rathsr difficult b stir up* Za 1887 Dr* Averill of Icwburg, Ohio, resslvad a patent, number 68778, for nsw and useful paint compound which was supposed to not tattle in tha package aad the formula sat claimed to produce *white, glossy, ohtap, ao&durable paint"* She emphasis should hare bean placed on tha CHEAP as tha paint contained a ninimum of pigment and linseed oil sad OoaMaed with a large amouat of water aad beoslae* Zt was praotloally an emulsion which had/rery little paint wsaring quality* y / This feature soon gars patent paint or ready-mixed paint a had reputation from which it has newer fully rscoterad* The bettor manufacturers would have nothing to do with tha stuff . but it was soon found that there was a definite growing dsssnd for paint in ready-mixed fora* In 1880 the Sherwin-Williams Co* decided to put on the market a paint in prepared form under tha mama of Sharsln-Williams Paint* Ve developed one which was ths very best it was possible to sake at that time* Other manufacturers also entered tha field end there soon developed prepared paint of high quality which has been con stantly improved until ths modem high-grade palxt is offered in pre pared form for every purpose* It ie accepted by the Bureau of Standards, War, laey and all Government Departments, railroads, shipbuilders, eto*, as being the best form in which paint own ho mads* 0007-SWP-000008694