A NEW METHOD OF APPLYING OXYGENATED AND OTHER GAS CHARGED CHARCOAL FOR CURATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Welton, of 13, Grafton Street, Fitzroy
Square, in the County of Middlesex, Maker of Artificial Limbs, for
the Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF APPLYING OXYGENATED AND OTHER
GAS CHARGED CHARCOAL FOR CURATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 2nd October 1869, and dated the 5th May 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Welton at the.
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th May 1869.
1, THOMAS WELTON, of 13, Grafton Street, Fitzroy Square, in the
County of Middlesex, Maker of Artificial Limbs, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "A NEW METHOD OF APPLYING OXYGENATED
AND OTHER GAS CHARGED, CHARCOAL FOR CURATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in a means of rendering charcoal or other
charred matters applicable to the curing of disease in man and animals,
also as a new dentifrice, also as a cataplasm or poultice, also as a

page_text: manure, also as an anisthetic, and when compressed into a proper forma
block to act as a filter.
This Invention is carried into effect by the following means:-I take
charcoal, either animal or vegetable as may be found most suitable, and
grind it into a powder, and put it into a proper vessel and heat it, and by
so doing expel the atmospheric air; then admit to it while so heated such
gas as may be required, or mixture of gases, or vapour of metal or
metals, or drugs, or vapour of phosphorus, bromine, sodine, ammonia, or
other material, which the charcoal by a well-known law will absorb in
various quantities according to the gas or other named materials used.
Such charcoal when so prepared may then be used as a dentifrice,
cataplasm, anisthetic, or for other curative purposes; or the charcoal
not charged with gas or other vapour may be mixed with wheaten or
other flour, and made into cakes or biscuits, and the compound baked in
the usual manner, and afterwards charged with gas or other vapour
in the manner and for the purposes as before described.
And I also claim as my Invention the right to electricise such
charcoal or biscuits when so prepared by any of the known means, and
thereby increase its potency for the purposes before described; and also
to produce the desired effect do not confine myself to use one special
material but many, such as ozone, chlorine, oxygen, nitrogen, or azote,
hydrogen, nitrous oxide, carbonic acid gas, ammoniacal gas, or admixture
of gases, or vapour of phosphorus, sodine, bromine, or other vapour of
metal or metals, or drugs, or all or any of them separately or combined.
And further I claim the admixture of urine or other focal matter
with charcoal or other charred substances, either when heated or
otherwise, which may be then dried or evaporated in fitting vessels,
and by so doing form a very powerful manure, which may or may not be
then treated as before described, viz., by charging it with such gas or
vapour as it requires for such purpose.
Finally, I claim the right to form such manure to mix with charcoal
in powder or soot or other charred substances, urine, or other focal
matter, and afterwards reheat the mixture in close vessels, or to mix any
refuse materials, such as wood dust or turnings, sweepings of the
markets, spent tannage, woollen or cotton waste, &c., with the urine or
other fecal matter, and burn them, viz., the mixture, in a retort or other

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Welton in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 18th October 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
WELTON, of 13, Grafton Street, Fitzroy Square, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Maker of Artificial Limbs, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the 5th day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Thomas Welton, Her special licence that I,
the said Thomas Welton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Thomas Welton, 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 APPLYING OXYGENATED
AND OTHER GAS CHARGED CHARCOAL FOR CURATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Welton, 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 Thomas Welton, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:―
My Invention consists in the means for rendering charcoal, soot, or
other charred matters applicable to the curing diseases in man and

page_text: animals, also for further uses, such as a dentifrice, a cataplasm, or
poultice, a manure, an anisthetic, and when compressed into proper
form as a filter for water or other liquids, by the following means:-
I take charcoal, either animal or vegetable as may be found most
suitable, and grind it into a powder or such sized pieces as may be
requisite, and put it into a proper vessel and heat it, and by so doing
expel the atmospheric air; then admit to it while so heated such gas as
may be required, or mixture of gases, or vapour of metal or metals, or
drugs, or vapour of phosphorus, bromine, ammonia, sodine, or other
materials, which the charcoal by a well-known law will then absorb
in various quantities according to the gas and the other named materials
used. Such charcoal when so prepared may then be used as a dentifrice,
or cataplasm, or anisthetic, or for other curative purposes.
And, further, I claim as my Invention the making of pills, cakes,
troches, lozenges, capsules, or biscuits of charcoal or charcoal mixed
with other materials (to cause the compound to adhere), which may
then be baked, and while in the oven, or afterwards, be charged with the
gas, vapour, or drugs, as may be required; or an exhausting air pump
may be attached to the oven or other vessel containing the biscuits or
charcoal, so as to form a vacuum, into which the gas, gases, vapour
of metals or drugs may be injected or allowed to enter.
And further I claim the right to clectricise such charcoal cakes or
biscuits, and other similar articles when so prepared by any of the
known means, and thereby increase it and their potency for the purposes
before described. I also to produce the desired effects do not confine
myself to use one special material, but many, such as ozone, chlorine,
oxygen, nitrogen, azote, carbonic acid gas, hydrogen, ammoniacal gas,
nitrous oxide, or other gas or admixture of gases, or vapour of phos-
phorous or phosphorous acid, sodine, bromine, or other vapour of metal
or metals, or drugs.
Also I claim the admixture of urine or other focal matter with char-
coal or other charred substances, either when heated or otherwise, which
may be then dried or evaporated in fitting vessels, and by so doing from
a very powerful manure, which may or may not be then treated as
before described, viz., by changing it with such gas or vapour, as before
described, or as it requires for such purposes.

page_text: Finally. I claim the right to form such manure to mix with charcoal
or soot, or other charred substances, urine or other foecal matter, and
afterwards reheat the mixture in close vessels, or to mix any refuse
materials, such as wood dust of turnings, or spent tannage with the
urine or other focal matter, and burn the mixture in a retort or other
closed vessel or vessels, to which may then he added (or not) such
vapour, or gas or gases, as before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Welton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
THOMAS WELTON. (L.S.)