A METHOD OF EXTRACTING ALL THE GROSS OR MUCILAGINOUS MATTER FROM FINKS OB GREENLAND BLUBBER PRODUCED FROM WHALES WHEN BOILED INTO OIL, WHICH METHOD NOT ONLY. RENDERS THE OIL SO BOILED MORE FREE FROM ITS USUAL RANCID SMELL AND TASTE, BUT IN A GREAT DEGREE ADDS TO ITS BURNING AND INFLAMMABLE QUALITIES
Year: 1813

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ALLAMUS DAY, of Poplar, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His Majesty's most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twentieth day of
December, in the fifty-fourth year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs,
and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Allamus Day, His
special licence that I, the said William Allamus Day, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Allamus Day, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"A METHOD OF EXTRACTING ALL THE GROSS OR MUCILAGINOUS MATTER FROM FINKS
OB GREENLAND BLUBBER PRODUCED FROM WHALES WHEN BOILED INTO OIL, WHICH
METHOD NOT ONLY. RENDERS THE OIL SO BOILED MORE FREE FROM ITS USUAL RANCID
SMELL AND TASTE, BUT IN A GREAT DEGREE ADDS TO ITS BURNING AND INFLAMMABLE
QUALITIES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging
me, the said William Allamus Day, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of
my said

page_text: Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the
same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High. Court of Chancery within two
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Allamus Day, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascer-
tained in the following explanation thereof (that is to say) :-
The finks or Greenland blubber produced from whales taken in Greenland
and Davis's Straights is brought home, cut into small pieces and packed in
casks, and when it arrives in England is in a putrid state. From these casks
it should be started into a large back or receiver containing about twenty tuns,
from thence the fluid parts are suffered immediately to strain through a semi-
circular wire grating in the side of the back close to the bottom. The grating
should be about four feet wide and two feet high, receding in a convex form
into the back, and the wires sufficiently close to prevent the finks from passing
through. The oil as it drains through this grate is to be conducted by means
of a copper cylinder of four inches diameter into another. back..containing
about the same quantity. When this second back is full, it should be left
about two hours to settle, after which it must be conducted by means of a
sluice into a copper containing about fourteen tuns, heated by a fire. in thé
usual way; the oil must then be kept stirring in the copper until it has
acquired heat equal to two hundred and twenty-five degrees of Fahrenheit's
thermometer, which will destroy the rancidity of the smell, and also strike
down all the gross or mucilaginous matter to the bottom. As soon as the
copper of oil has received the before-mentioned degree of heat, the fire must
be immediately drawn from under, and about half.a tun of cold water pumped
upon the surface of the oil; this.assists in cooling the bottom of the copper,
and prevents the gross and mucilaginous parts from adhering to the sides of
the copper. 'In this state the oil should remain cooling in the copper for the
space of one hour, and should then be conducted into other backs or.coolers,
and when perfectly.cold should be drawn off into casks; it will then be fine,
and fit for immediate use.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Allamus Day, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Twenty-fourth day of January, in the year.
of our Lord One thousand. eight,hundred and fourteen.
WM A. DAY. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of January, in
the fifty-fourth year of His Majesty King George the Third, the said William
Allumus Day came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein con-
tained and specified, in form above written. And also the instrument aforesaid
was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute made in the forty-eighth year.
of His said Majesty's reign.
Inrolled the Twenty-fourth day of January, One thousand eight hundred
and fourteen.