AN IMPROVED POMADE OR BALSAM
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Engineer and Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED POMADE OR BALSAM."-A communication from abroad by
Mr Achille Barborin of 90 Boulevert St Martin. Paris. Dentist.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Clark at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 21st
July 1862.
I, WILLIAM CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED POMADE OR BALSAM," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of an improved pomade for toilet
purposes, which I term "halsam Achilles," and may be used for all purposes in
which cosmetics are applicable.
The "balsam Achilles" is composed of the following ingredients :-Resio
and galipot, white fat and suet, virgin and yellow wax, fine olive oil, camphor,
white soap, benzoin, spirits of wine, essence of lavender.
The above matters are mixed together, the solids being dissolved in
the liquids so as to form a homogeneous composition. This odoriferous
cosmetic is first melted and then applied by friction. The "balsam Achilles'
is especially applicable for the cure of all kinds of wounds or sores by rubbing
them externally with the ointment or pomade.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th
January 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer and
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Clark, Her special licence that I, the said William Clark, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Clark,
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 "AN IMPROVED POMADE
OR BALSAM," a communication to me from abroad by Mr. Achille Barborin, of
29, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris, Dentist, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William Clark, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describo 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 William Clark, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say) :-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of an improved pomade for toilet
purposes which I term "balm Achilles," and may be used for all purposes in
which cosmetics are applicable.
The "balm Achilles" is composed of the following ingredients:-Resin and
galipot, white fat and suet, virgin and yellow wax, fine olive oil, camphor,
white soap, benzoin, spirits of wine, essence of lavender.
The above matters are mixed together, the solids being dissolved in the
liquids so as to form a homogeneous composition. This odoriferous cosmetic
is first melted and then applied by friction.

page_text: Having described the nature of this Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be pro-
tected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is the manufacture
of a pomade or balm of the ingredients herein-before specified, which is
especially applicable for the cure of all kinds of wounds or sores by rubbing
them externally therewith.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Clark, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Witness,
JAMES DAISH,
53, Chancery Lane,
London.
W. CLARK. (L.B.)