The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-04 00:00:00

PURE WATER.

OBINS'S ROYAL FILTERS.-office, 163, Strand, Lon-
don.—The Royal Filters are confidently recommended to
the Public as the only invention capable of producing a con-
stant and plentiful supply of the most pure, wholesome, and
brilliant Water, however foul or turbid Lite source from which
' they are supplied; and the simple fott of more than 37,000
being now in daily use throughout...tie United Kingdom, the
navy and merchant vessels, indefiendent •of those adopted in
various public and private establishments ou the Continent,
and in more distant quarters of the Globe, is a sure test of their
efficacy and advantages.—The following are selected from a
very numerous body of testimonials presented to the Patentee
by scientific and literary individuals :-
82, Gower-street.
I have at different periods, both in England and abroad, had
.opportunities of observing and using the various contrivances
known as. " Ascension Filters," " Spring Filters," " Water Fil-
ters," " Barbadoes Stone Filters," &e., but are all certain, after
a short trial, to fail in effect, producing a scanty supply of water,
by no means of the first quality. Not •so 'the Royal Filters ;
the water is soon rendered pure and brilliant ; the supply con-
stant, and, I conceive, the apparatus likely to be improved by
being many years in use.
T. C. CRANE, M.D., Bedford-row.
I consider these Filters a mosevaluable invention, and when
patients. come te me,_iind finish their catalogue of the horrors
of indigestion, I say " Go to Robins's, and get a Royal Filter."
- J. ABERNETHY, Tentercleu-street.
After a constant use of the Royal Filter, I have much satis-
faction in giving my testimony in its favour, as the most com-
plete apparatus of the kind, and an indispenSable requisite for
culinary purposes, and, consequently, for the preservation 'of
health. W. BEATIE, M.D., Calcutta.
Durin our voyage, not a single case of indisposition occurred
among the passengers or crew, and I do not hesitate to say, that
the total absence of sickness may be traced to the pure and de-
licious- state of the water supplied by the Royal Filter.
J. S. GIiEGORY, M.D., Vienna.
The Royal Fitter is a most extraordinary discovery; and
many scientific persons who have drank' the illtrat6(li.iker, have
not scrupled to affirm, that such a state of purity could only be
produced by distillation.

R. ZIDDER, F.F.J., F.V.A.. A.G.R.
The increasing demand in this country and on the Continent
for the Royal Filters having induced unprincipled and ignorant
persons to fabricate humble imitations, and, in some cases, pre-
tended improvements of the Patent, all of which must of ne-
cessity utterly fad in effect, and to guard against such attempts
the Patentee earnestly requests Purchasers to observe that the
words " ROYAL FILTER, GEORGE ROBINS PATENTEE, LON-
DON," are invariably placed upon each, and that they can Le
obtained of his accredited Agents throughout the Kingdom.
PRICES,
EXCLUSIVE OF CARRIAGE AND PACKAGE.

E c d.
Two Gallon size, purifying 12 Gallons per day 1 5 0
Three ditto • 18 '—
.• 1 10 0
26 Four ditto
Six ditto 4O
Nine ditto
Twelve ditto
Plans, Drawings, and Prospectuses can he obtained, and the
Apparatus inspected at the office of Messrs. GOLIIORNE and
DOBBS, Crown Chambers, Redeross-street, Liverpool.

NEW ZEALAND FLAX, PRESERVED HEMP 4.ND
FLAX, AND WATERPROOF CLOTH COMPANY,
FUME following Articles, of which Specimens were exhibited
at the Public Meeting, and to be seen at the Office, will,
in future, be manufactured by this Company :-
1. The Flax dressed and brought into a fit state for preserva-
tion.

2. Samples of Preserved Flax for Cables, Ropes, 80lt-ropes,
Lines, Twines, &c. &c.
3. Preserved and Flexible Cord or Whale-line.
4. Twine Preserved, and thereby rendered impervious to the
action of water, designed for Fishing; Wats.
5. Cloth designed for Seamen's Bread-bags, for Floor-cloth
Painters, Bed-sacking, and for Coal-sacks, &c.
6. Cloth designed for Hammocks.
7. A Specimen of Preserved No. 1 Sail-cloth, a correspond-
ing part of which has beenin constant uie in two of his Majesty's
vessels, in exposed situations, in all weathers, for upwards of
two years and a-half, without exhibiting the smallest. symptoms
of decay.

8. Ditto for Tents and Marquees, Soldiers' Trowsers, Haver-
-sacks, &c.

9. A Specimen of fine peculiar Canvas, adapted to the use of
Portrait Painters, &c.
10. Fine Thread, designed for Linen, Cambric, and Lae
WATERPROOF CLOTHS.

1. Sheathing for Ships' Bottoms.
2. Rope-servings, a Substitute for Leather, Chaffing-mats,
&C.

3. Water-buckets.

4. Rain-awnings, and Bags to protect Wool, Cotton, and Other
substances, from wet and damp during their importation and
exportation.
•
o. Hammock Cloths or Covers.
6. Seamen's Clothes-bags, flexible Watch-coats, Trowsers,
&c.

7. Pawling-cloths, a corresponding part of which has been in
constant use in one of the King's vessels as .a hatchw4y-cover
for upwards of two years, and is 'moved to be perfectly lie ;ibis
in frosty weather, and entirely free from heating or cracking.
8. Artillery aggon-covers.
9. Artillery Water-deckers.
10. Artillery Limber-covers, Knapsacks, &c.
11. Hose for Fire-engines.
12.. Suction Hose.

13. Hose for Watering Ships, designed also for Brewers. &c.
This description of Hose has undergone alternate experiments
of wet and dry for four years.

Specimens of all the above Waterproof Cloths have been
submitted to the severest ordeal for two years by putting them
aside in a wet. state; and keeping them closely confined in a box,
wetting them every six months; yet they have been found at
the end of that time capable of containing boiling water, and to
be perfectly free. front mildew, and all dispositions to heat, and
without the least mark of deterioration.
The two first of the following. experiments' were made on Ake
12th January, 1832, upon No. 1 Sail-cloth, manufactured from
the best. Riga Flax, against No. 1 Sail-cloth manufactured
from the Phorimum Tenax. The third experiment was made on
a specimen of Preserved 'Sail-cloth, manufactured from a per-
ennial plant growing in great luxuriance in Ireland.
Ist. A Slip of No. 1 Canvas of one inch in width and two
feet in length, with a knot in the middle, (as test of its flexibility)
and made from 'the best Riga Flax, bore, carried, and brace
near the knot, at the weight of 5611b5.

2d. A Slip of No. 1 Canvas one inch in width and two feet
in length, with a similar knot in the middle, and manufactured
from Phorimum Tenax, bore, carried, and broke, but not near
the knot, with a weight of 6211b5.

3d. A Slip of No.' 1 Canvas, of one inch in width and two
feet in length, with a knot in the middle and manufactured from
the plant before alluded to as growing in Ireland, but made in a
particular loom, bore, carried, and broke, but not at the knot,
with a weight of eight hundred and thirly.Jbur pounds, being the
strongest cloth ever made 83,11b5.

PHORIMUAI TENAX, or New Zealand Flax, when satura-
ted with the peculiar compound recently discovered—boiling
heat, 212 degrees, will not affect it. Frosty weather does not
injure it.

The superior qualities of this new manufacture have been estab-
lished by a severe trial of two years and a half to the satisfac-
tion of some of the most scientific Judges in this kingdom, who
have given their written testimony to that effect; and the Public
are respectfully informed that an extensive water-:side premises,
near London, have been already engaged for the purpose of
commencing immediate operations, and that the operative de-
partment will always be conducted under the superintendence
of competent persons.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
WM. 11. A. FITZ-STRATHERN, Secretary.
\o. 3, Coptltal 771Togniorton-sheet,
1911, September, 1833.