A NEW METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OIL FROM FATTY MATTERS, OR THE RESIDUUM ARISING FROM THE DISTILLATION OF FATTY MATTERS, THE MANUFACTURE OF STEARIC ACID, SOAP, AND PURIFICATION OF OILS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street, in
the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "A NEW METHOD
OF MANUFACTURING OIL FROM FATTY MATTERS, OR THE RESIDUUM ARISING
FROM THE DISTILLATION OF FATTY MATTERS, THE MANUFACTURE OF STEARIC
ACID, SOAP, AND PURIFICATION OF OILS."-A communication from abroad
by Pierre Réné Beaumont, of Paris, France.
Sealed the 24th November 1865, and dated the 27th May 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 27th May 1865.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "A NEW METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OIL FROM FATTY MATTERS, OR THE
RESIDUUM ARISING FROM THE DISTILLATION OF FATTY MATTERS, THE MANUFACTURE
OP STEARIC ACID, SOAP, AND PURIFICATION OF OILS," to be as follows:-
I place fatty matters, or the residual products remaining after the distil-
lation of fatty bodies in the manufacture of stearic acid, soap, and in the

page_text: purification of oils, into shells closed at both ends, and open at top. I place
these shells into retorts open at one end and otherwise closed, except to a
tubular outlet from the top. After the insertion of the shells the retorts are
hermetically closed at the end through which the shells have been admitted
by means of stoppers with a rim which fits a groove in the end of the retort.
The stoppers are secured by screw clamps. The tubular outlet fits into a
tube terminating in a coil carried through a condenser; a tap regulates the
outlet from the coil. The vaporized products enter the tube and coil, and
flow out condensed into a vessel placed to receive them. These, like similar
products, are treated by sulphuric acid, and washed either with a solution of
caustic soda or lime water, and distilled. The resulting product is of a low
density, and burns without smell or smoke in shale lamps without any disc
or special chimney being necessary, as is the case with such lamps when
burning shale oils.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 27th November 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 NEW METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OIL
FROM FATTY MATTERS, OR THE RESIDUUM ARISING FROM THE DISTILLATION OF
FATTY MATTERS, THE MANUFACTURE OF STEARIC ACID, SOAP, AND PURIFICATION OF
OILS," (communicated to me from abroad by Pierre Réné Beaumont, of Paris,
France,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard

page_text: Archibald Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should parti-
cularly 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 Richard Archibald Brooman, 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
aunexed, that is to say:-
I place fatty matters or the residual products remaining after the distil-
lation of fatty bodies in the manufacture of stearic acid, soap, and in the
purification of oils into shells closed at both ends and open at top. I place
these shells into retorts open at one end and otherwise closed, except to a
tubular outlet from the top. After the insertion of the shells the retorts are
hermetically closed at the end through which the shells have been admitted
by means of stoppers with a rim which fits a groove in the end of the
retort. The stoppers are secured by screw clamps. The tubular outlet
fits into a tube terminating in a coil carried through a condenser; a tap
regulates the outlet from the coil. The vaporized products enter the tube
and coil, and flow out condensed into a vessel placed to receive them. These,
like similar products, are treated by sulphuric acid, and washed either with
a solution of caustic soda or lime water, and distilled. The resulting product
is of a low density, and burns without sinell or smoke in shale lamps without
any disc or special chimney being necessary, as is the case with such lamps
when burning shale oils.
The accompanying Drawings represent an apparatus suitable for carrying
this Invention into effect.
a is a retort fitted in a furnace 6 (see Figures 1 and 2); this retort is
closed at one end; c, Figures 1 and 3, is a shell which is charged with the
matter to be treated, and introduced into the retort a.. After the shell
has been placed in the retort, the open end of the retort is hermetically
closed by a stopper fwith a rim which fits a grooved in the end of the retort.
The stoppers are secured by screw clamps g. h is a tubular outlet in the top
of the retort fitting into a tube i which terminates in a coil ; carried through
a condenser; k is a tap for regulating the outlet from the coil into a vessel ?
in which the condensed products are received.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim manufacturing
oil substantially by the means and in manner herein-before described from
fatty matters or the residuum arising from the distillation of fatty matters
in the manufacture of stearic acid, soap, and purification of oils.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto, set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of November, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.S.)