A NEW PROCESS FOR OILING WOOLS
Year: 1858

page_text: (This Invention received Provisional Protection, but notice to proceed with the
application for Letters Patent was not given within the time prescribed
by the Act.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Jules Juhel Desmares at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th July 1858.
I, JULES JUHEL DESMARES, Manufacturer, at Vire, Departement of the
Calvados, in the Empire of France, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "A NEW PROCESS FOR OILING WOOLS," to be as follows:-
In the working of wools, in order to make easier the carding and beckling,
an unctuous substance, olive oil, or any other cheaper oil, is employed. Not
only the quantity of oil necessary for this preparation is great and costly, but
besides these oils are not distributed or spread with uniformity, as should be,
and the object of my Invention is to obviate these defects. This result is
attained by combining with a given weight of pure olive oil one-fifteenth part
of liquor ammonia, and oiling the wools with this compound. The liquor
ammoniæ, mixed with fifteen times its weight of pure olive oil, forms a perfect
combination, provided the olive oil be pure, and the operation be made
practically in the above proportions. This compound answers the purpose of
olive oil, and may be used in the same proportions. The apparatus repre-
sented in the Drawing is used for distributing or spreading it with regularity.
is a vessel for containing the oiling matter within the vessel, and at its
center there is a cock b, for the purpose of drawing up the liquid at the bottom

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by means of the siphon c, terminated by a funnel head d, pierced with very
small appertures; the key of this cock is placed outside the vessel, and carries
a needle E, which, when the liquid is flowing out, indicates on a dial H the
degree to which the cock is open. The cock being opened, the liquid flows
through the tube i into the perforated tube k, situated under the vessel, and
about 3 inches shorter than the feeders of the machine for preparing the wool,
and for which my apparatus is intended. The small perforations of the tube
are equidistant, and each of them is provided with a short spout for the
purpose of guiding the flowing of the liquid. The vessel a is provided with a
graduated tube m for indicating the heighth of the liquid, every degree of which
indicates the space taken up by a given quantity of the oiling matter.
system is suspended at the fixed point v by a rod n, which is the rod of this
pendulum, which is put in motion by means of the mechanism employed in
clocks, and simply indicated by the wheelwork, anchor, pulleys, or other such
contrivance, over the vessel a. By means of the weight P, fixed point v, and
length of the rod n, a too-and-fro motion, more or less rapid, as may be
required, is imparted to the vessel. The apparatus just described being sus-
pended, the vessel filled with the above compound, the cock opened according
to the required degree, and the motion given, the oiling liquid flows down
in a constant and uniform manner on the wool which is spread on the table of
the preparing machine, and as this table moves without intermission or
irregularity, every part of the wool, by coming successively under the spouts
of the apparatus, receives an equal quantity of the unctuous substance.