IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT Of PETROLEUM OILS, AND IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CANDLES AND SOAP."
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Julien Thellot, of 16, Rue Fontaine, St. George's, Paris, in
the Republic of France, at present residing at the Cannon Street Hotel, in the
City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT Of
PETROLEUM OILS, AND IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CANDLES AND SOAP."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Julien Thellot at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th July 1876.
JULIEN THELLOT, of 16, Rue Fontaine, St. George's, Paris, in the Republic of
France, at present residing at the Cannon Street Hotel, in the City of London.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF PETROLEUM OILS, AND IN THE MANUFAC-
TURE OF CANDLES AND SOAP."
This Invention has for its object to obtain petroleum oils in a solid form, to
facilitate their transport, and subsequently to treat such solid material to regain
the fluid petroleum. The Invention has also for its object to employ petroleum in
the manufacture of candles and soap.
To obtain petroleum in a solid form I combine with it a vegetable wax; the wax
I use is known by the name of Carnauba, and is obtained in the Brazils from a sort
of palin tree.
The vegetable wax I reduce to a powder and gradually add it to petroleum heated
to about 160° Fahrenheit; the wax is thereby dissolved in the petroleum, which is
thereby rendered harmless, that is, not in any way dangerous. If a proportion of
about 20 parts of the wax be added to 80 parts petroleum the mixture will, on
cooling, solidify and form a solid mass, which may be transported in casks or other-
wise with perfect safety and with no loss of the petroleum contained in it.
If it be desired to regain the petroleum in a liquid state from the above solid
material the material is melted and sulphuric acid added to it. The wax and
petroleum will then separate one from the other, and can be drawn off separately,
or other means may be adopted for separating the petroleum from the wax.
In the manufacture of candles I also use petroleum together with vegetable wax
and with oily or fatty matters.

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vegetable wax.
stearine or paraffin.
oil (say, cotton seed oil, as being the cheapest).
For soap making I combine a small proportion of vegetable wax with petroleum
oil, I then add oil or fatty matters to them and saponify with caustic alkali in the
ordinary manner of soap making.
The vegetable wax employed in the manner herein-before described may b
bleached in any suitable manner before being added to the petroleum.
" On pory, Con Section, as being the cheapest).
For soap making I combine a small proportion of vegetable wax with petroleum
oil, I then add oil or fatty matters to them and saponify with caustic alkali in the
ordinary manner of soap making.
The vegetable wax employed in the manner herein-before described may b
bleached in any suitable manner before being added to the petroleum.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Julien Thellot in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th January
1877.
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JULIEN THELLOT, of 16, Rue Fontaine, St. George's, Paris, in the Republic of
France, at present residing at the Cannon Street Hotel, in the City of London.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF PETROLEUM OILS, AND IN THE MANUFAC-
TURE OF CANDLES AND SOAP."
This Invention has for its object to obtain petroleum oils in a solid form, to
facilitate their transport, and subsequently to treat such solid material to regain the
fluid petroleum. The Invention has also for its object to employ petroleum in the
manufacture of candles and soap.
To obtain petroleum in a solid form I combine with it a vegetable wax; the wax
I use is known by the name of Carnanba, and is obtained in the Brazils from a sort
of palm tree.
The vegetable wax I reduce to a powder and gradually add it to petroleum heated
to about 160° Fahrenheit; the wax is thereby dissolved in the petroleum, which is
thereby rendered harmless, that is, not in any way dangerous. If a proportion of
about 20 parts of the wax be added to 80 parts petroleum the mixture will, on
cooling, solidify and form a solid mass, which may be transported in casks or other-
wise with perfect safety and with no loss of the petroleum contained in it.
If it be desired to regain the petroleum in a liquid state from the above solid
material the material is melted and sulphuric acid added to it. The wax and
petroleum will then separate one from the other, and can be drawn off separately,
or other means may be adopted for separating the petroleum from the wax.
In the manufacture of candles I also use petroleum together with vegetable wax
and with oily or fatty matters.
20 parts petroleum.
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vegetable wax.
stearine or paraffin.
oil (say, cotton seed oil, as being the cheapest).
For soap making I combine a small proportion of vegetable wax with petroleum
oil, I then add oil or fatty matters to them and saponify with caustic alkali in the
ordinary manner of soap making.
The vegetable wax employed in the manner herein-before described may be
bleached in any suitable manner before being added to the petroleum.
In witness whereof, I, the said Julien Thellot, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-seven.