IMPROVEMENTS IN DISINFECTING LITTER POWDER OR COMPOUNDS
Year: 1884

page_text: I JOSEPH BROWN of the Chemical Works, Savile Town, Dewsbury, in the
County of York, Manufacturing Chemist do hereby declare the nature of iny said
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN DISINFECTING LITTER POWDER OR COMPOUNDS,"
to be as follows :—
The spread of foot and mouth disease is probably largely owing to the cows
carrying infected dirt in their hoofs from one part to another. If however the
litter was of a disinfectant nature, this would be prevented.
'
Now my invention consists in saturating or partly saturating ordinary litter
inaterial (such as sawdust, peat, or chaff) with crudo carbolic acid or crude phenol
with or without the addition of a cheap hydrocarbon such as creosote. I will
describe the method of manufacture as applic i to peat litter. The peat is torn up
in any suitable machine and riddled.. The coarser material is thus separated from
the finer. I then place a layer of either material on the floor, water it with a
strong solution of carbolic acid or phenol, and add sufficient creosote oil to give the
material a pleasant feel. I then add a second layer of peat material, and sprinkle
again, and so on till a goodly heap is formed. It is then spaded into the cart,
barrel, or other container, and is ready for use, the spading completing the mixing.
The coarser material is used for litter, the finer as a disinfecting powder. Peat
can be replaced by saw-dust or chaff for litter, and by saw-dust or kicselguhr for
use as a disinfecting powder. My experimental mixture has been litter material
(saw-dust or peat saturated to the extent of fifty per cent by weight with carbolic
acid and about five per cent of creosote oil, the object of the latter being to keep
the stuff slightly moist and pleasant to the feel.

page_text: I JOSEPH BROWN of the Chemical Works, Savile Town, Dewsbury, in the
County of York, Manufacturing Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN DISINFECTING LITTER, POWDER, OR COMPOUNDS,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The spread of foot and mouth disease is probably largely owing to the Cattle
carrying infected dirt in their hoofs from one part to another. If however the
litter was of a disinfectant nature, this would be prevented.
Now my invention consists in saturating porous vegetable matters, kieselguhr,
or other very porous and absorbent earth with crude carbolic acid and creosote or
other very cheap innocuous disinfectant, so as to form a litter for cattle, or cheap
disinfectant powder for farm use. I prefer sawdust for this purpose, and have
found in practice that fine sawdust saturated to the extent of fifty per cent by
weight with carbolic acid, and five per cent of creosote oil give very good results,
but I distinctly wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to these
quantities, as these may be increased or diminished as circumstances may require.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is,
1st The manufacture of a disinfectant litter, powder, or compound, by the
combination of mixture of sawdust or other vegetable matters, kieselguhr, or
other very porous and absorbent earth, with crude carbolic acid, and creosote oil,
substantially as described.
2nd The use of the herein described disinfectant litter, powder, or compound;
formed by the combination or mixture of the substances and chemicals herein set
forth,