AN IMPROVED COMPOUND FOR PRESERVATIVE, ANTISEPTIC, CURATIVE, LUBRICATING, CLEANSING, AND SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Joyes, of Plaistow, in the County of Essex, Analytical
Chemist, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED COMPOUND FOR PRESERVATIVE,
ANTISEPTIC, CURATIVE, LUBRICATING, CLEANSING, AND SIMILAR PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Jeyes at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th December 1877.
"AN
JOHN JEYES, of Plaistow, in the County of Essex, Analytical Chemist..
IMPROVED COMPOUND FOR PRESERVATIVE, ANTISEPTIC, CURATIVE, LUBRICATING,
CLEANSING, AND SIMILAR PURPOSES."
My Invention relates to an improved compound useful for preservative, antiseptic,
curative, lubricating, cleansing, and similar purposes, and is designed to utilizo
certain materials, in combination, for such purposes, the said combination rendering
them highly effective in their operation.
Napthaline and creosote are well known to possess great preservativo and anti-
soptic properties, but in order to apply the same it is necessary in most cases to
dissolve them. Ilitherto it has not been possible to dissolvo cicosoto or napthalino
in any solvents which will mix with water, consequently it has been necessary to
obtain the solution by means of materials which render it comparatively costly,
and therefore its application to very many purposes is practically prevented, to
which purposes it could otherwise be applied with highly beneficial results. My
Invention is chiefly designed to overcome this difficulty, and the said improved
compound consists of the ordinary creosote of commerco, or napthalino (such as is
produced in tar distilleries), combined with caustic soda and resinous materials in
such proportions that the whole mass becomes mixable in water, and by varying
the proportions I produce a perfect solution. The proportions I prefer to employ
are as follows, or nearly so, according to circumstances, that is to say:-To four
parts of creosote or napthaline I add four parts of ordinary resin and two and a half
parts of solution of caustic soda, specific gravity, 30º Beaumè. ·
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page_text: The compound prepared as above described, and in most cases diluted with water,
has been found of great utility for a variety of purposes; such, for instance, as
preserving timber, whether for railway sleepers, piles, hop poles, house timber,
fences, and most purposes where wood is required, to resist the decaying effect of
ago; disinfecting linen, clothing, carpets, walls, floors, closets, drains, larders, stables,
dog kennels, piggeries, cow slieds, railway trucks, holds of vessels, bilge water, or
the like; cleansing paper makers' materials from paint, pitch, tar, or otherwise;
killing all kinds of insects, such as black beetles, bugs, lice, fleas, earwigs, green,
black, and brown fly, scalo, American blight, and all insects that infest sheep, dogs,
cattle, or other animals, curing the blight of grapes, potato disease, and the blight
of hops; curing the itch, and foot and mouth discaso of cattle.
For washing sheep it cleanses the wool, and at the same time cures scab, "blow,”
maggots, foot rot, and like diseases; and is useful as a lubricator for railway trucks,
carriages and the lil
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Jeyes in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th June
1878.
JOHN JEYES, of Plaistow, in the County of Essex, Analytical Chemist.
« AN
IMPROVED COMPOUND FOR PRESERVATIVE, ANTISEPTIC, CURATIVE, LUBRICATING,
CLEANSING, AND SIMILAR PURPOSES."
My Invention relates to an improved compound for preservative, antiseptic,
. curative, lubricating, cleansing, and similar purposes. The said compound consists of
naphthaline or creosote, or both, mixed or combined with certain other materials
herein-after specified.
Naphthaline and creosoic are well known to possess great preservative and anti-
septic properties, but in order to apply these substances it is usually necessary to
dissolve them. Hitherto it has not been practicable to dissolve creosote or naphtha-
line in any solvents which will mix with water, consequently it has been necessary
to obtain the solution by the use of materials which render it very costly, and
therefore its application to many purposes to which it could otherwise be applied
with highly beneficial results has been prevented. But by my Invention I over-
come this difficulty, as heroin-after described, that is to say, I form a compound of
the ordinary creosote of commerce, or naphthaline (such as is produced in tar
distilleries), or both, with caustic soda and resinous materials, in such proportions
that the whole mass becomes soluble in water. The proportions I prefer to employ
are as follows, namely:-100 pounds of creosote or naphthaline, and 100 pounds of
ordinary resin; or 100 pounds of equal or unequal parts of creosote and naphtha-
line and 100 pounds of the resin. The naphthaline or creosote, or both, and the
resin aro melted or dissolved in a pan or vessel, heated preferably by steam. To
this mixture I add 5 gallons of caustic soda solution of a specific gravity, 30° Beanmé..
The compound prepared as above described, and in most cases diluted with water,
has been found of great utility for a variety of purposes; such, for instance, as

page_text: preserving timber for railway sleepers, piles, hop poles, house timber, fences, and
other purposes where wood is required to resist the natural process of decay by age
or the destructivo influences of the weather or alinosphere. It is also highly useful
for disinfecting linen, clothing, carpets, walls, flours, closets, drains, lardeis, stables,
dog kennels, piggeries, cow sheds, ailway trucks, holds of vessels, bilge water, or
tho liko; cleansing paper makers' materials from paint, pitch, tar, or otherwise; for
killing all kinds of insects, such as keeties, bugs, lice, fleas, carwigs, green, black,
and brown flies, scale, American blight, and all insects that infest sheep, dogs,
cattle, or other animals; for curing or preventing the blight of grapes, hops, and the
potato disease; and for treating the foot and mouth discase of cattle.
In washing sheep it cleanses the wool, and at the same time cures scab, "blow,"
maggots, fool rot, and like discase.
It is also highly useful as a lubricator for railway carriages, and waggons, and
the like, and for many other purposes.
In making soap for domestic and sanitary purposes I add to the above mixture.
about 25 per cent, of ordinary soap, and form the same into tablets or cakes. I
thus supply my Invention in a solid and portable form, whereby it is rendered highly
advantageous for domestic and general use. The proportions may vary according
to the purpose for which the article is required. By combining a large proportion,
say 75 per cent., of my aforesaid compound with ordinary soap I am enabled to
supply a material possessing the properties of such compound in a concentrated
form, without bottles or similar vessels, and in a comparativoly inexpensive
manner.
Having thus fully described my said Invention, and the manner of performing
the same, I wish it understood that I claim,-
First. The improved compound for the purposes above set forth, and consisting
of creosote or naphthaline, or both, combined with resin and caustic soda, in or
about in the proportions specified.
Second. The production of the compound in a convenient form and condition for
domestic and similar purposes by mixing with the same ordinary soap, as above set
forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Jeyes, havo hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand