An Improved Fluid Composition Chiefly Designed for use in Branding Sheep.
Year: 1898

page_text: * Date of Application, 6th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 14th Jan., 1899
[Communicated from abroad by HAROLD WILLIAM GRIMWADE, of 346, Flinders
Lane, Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Druggist.]
An Improved Fluid Composition Chiefly Designed for use in Branding
Sheep.
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I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
45, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention consists of an improved fluid composition principally useful
for branding sheep and which when used will not disappear or wash out by the
action of the weather, but which nevertheless readily disappears when the wool
or other material to which it is applied is being scoured.
Its essential ingredients are a resin dissolved either in a non-drying oil such
as olein, or in a melted animal fat such as stearine.
As this solution is too thick for practical purposes it is thinned by adding to
it a volatile body such as kerosene, ether, or turpentine, which will volatilise on
exposure to the atmosphere, so as to enable it to be more readily used for
branding purposes.
Carbolic acid is also added for its antiseptic properties, but may be dispensed
with.
A colouring agent, such as vegetable black, Venetian red, or ultramarine is also
added for giving the desired colour to the composition.
In practice 100 gallons of olein is placed in a tank and heated to about 250 Fah.
care being taken to prevent burning. To this 16 cwt. of common resin is added
as fast as it can be taken from the cask being broken up roughly in the process.
This mixture is stirred until the resin is dissolved which usually takes from
two to three hours. It is then allowed to cool to about 100 Fah. when it is
decanted into another tank into which 100 gallons of kerosene is poured and the
whole well stirred until it is thoroughly mixed. After this 3½ gallons of carbolic
acid are added and the stirring repeated, and finally 30 lbs. of vegetable black
are added and the whole re-stirred until it becomes a homogeneous mixture
which is then run off into tins or other suitable receptacles.
It will be understood that any resin which is soluble in oil may be used instead
of the common resin above described, and that any fixed oils or melted animal
fats may be used as a substitute for the olein.
The object of heating the olein or its equivalent is to facilitate the dissolving
of the resin and the heat applied is just sufficient to dissolve it in a moderate
time, although it would dissolve even if the olein or other fixed oil were not
heated, but it would take a much longer time.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:-
1. A fluid composition principally useful for branding sheep consisting of a
resin dissolved either in a non-drying oil such as olein, or in a melted animal
fat such as stearine thinned by a volatile body such as kerosene, ether, or turpen-
tine which will volatilise on exposure to the atmosphere, and colored by a color-
ing agent such as vegetable black, Venetian red or ultramarine substantially as
and for the purposes herein described and explained.
2. A fluid composition principally useful for branding sheep consisting of a
resin dissolved either in a non-drying oil such as olein or in a melted animal fat
such as stearine, thinned by a volatile body such as kerosene, ether, or turpentine
which will volatilise on exposure to the atmosphere, and colored by a coloring
agent such as vegetable black, Venetian red, or ultramarine combined with an
antiseptic such as carbolic acid, substantially as and for the purposes herein
described and explained.
Dated this Sixth day of December One thousand eight hundred and ninety-
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.