A PREPARATION FOR DESTROYING THE FLY OR APHIS AND OTHER INSECTS ON HOP AND OTHER PLANTS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Newington, of Ticehurst, in the County of
Sussex, Doctor of Medicine, for the Invention of "A PREPARATION FOR
DESTROYING THE FLY OR APHIS AND OTHER INSECTS ON HOP AND OTHER
PLANTS."
Sealed the 25th November 1856, and dated the 26th May 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Newington at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th May 1856.
I, SAMUEL NEWINGTON, of Ticehurst, in the County of Sussex, Doctor of.
Medicine, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "A PRE-
PARATION FOR DESTROYING THE FLY OR APHIS AND OTHER INSECTS ON. HOP AND.
OTHER PLANTS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of a preparation for destroying the fly or aphis and,
other insects on hop and other plants. For this purpose strong tobacco is
boiled in water (taking care not to allow the steam to escape) to which
is added vinegar. When the liquor is sufficiently strong, and has been pressed,
out of the tobacco, it is applied to slack lime, and the powder produced is
packed in tin or other suitable cases, and is then ready for use for the purpose,
of killing the flies and insects.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Newington in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
25th November 1856..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
NEWINGTON, of Ticeliurst, in the County of Sussex, Doctor of Medicine, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, er heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Samuel Newington, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Newington,
my exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel.
Newington, 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 "A PREPARATION FOR DESTROYING
THE FLY OR APHIS AND OTHER INSECTS ON HOP AND OTHER PLANTS," upon the condi-
tion (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Newington, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said. Invention, and in what manner. the same 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 Samuel Newington, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same, is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:
This Invention consists of a preparation for destroying the fly.or aphis and
other insects on hops and other plants. For this purpose strong tobacco is
boiled in water (taking care not to allow the steam to escape) to which is
added vinegar. When the liquor is sufficiently strong, and has been pressed out
of the tobacco, it is applied to, slack lime, and the powder produced is packed
in tin or other suitable cases, and is then ready for use for the purpose of
killing the flies and insects.
:
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
Into a closed vessel, such as a Pappins digester, I place strong tobacco with

page_text: water, using about three pints of rain water to each pound of tobacco, and boil
the same for about an hour, and I prefer to raise the heat to about 600°
Fahrenheit, so as to extract the whole of the virtues of the tobacco; so high a
heat is not, however, absolutely necessary. The solution thus obtained is
strained, sometimes mixed with a quantity of vinegar, say about a quarter of a
pint for each pound of tobacco. The mixed solution, or the solution alone, is
then run on to as much fresh burned lime (as it is taken from the kiln) as it
will slack, by which means the lime will be slacked, and fall into a fine brown
powder, which is then fit to be dusted on to the hop or other plant. For the
purpose of transport the dust is packed in close boxes or cases.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Newington, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
15 Witness,
FREDERICK HAYWARD,
of Ticehurst, Sussex.
SAMUEL NEWINGTON. (L.s.)