IMPROVED PREPARATIONS FOR THE TREATMENT AND PRESERVATION OF THE HAIR
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Henry Johnson, of 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields,
in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVED
PREPARATIONS FOR THE TREATMENT AND PRESERVATION OF THE HAIR."--A
communication from abroad by Max Oldendorff and Pierre Lévy, of
Paris, in the Empire of France.
Sealed the 21st November 1865, and dated the 19th June 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Henry Johnson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th June 1865.
I, JOHN HENRY JOHNSON, of 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of
"IMPROVED PREPARATIONS FOR THE TREATMENT AND PRESERVATION OF THE HAIR,"
a communication from abroad by Max Oldendorff and Pierre Lévy, of Paris,
in the Empire of France, to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to two preparations or oils to be used in the treat-
ment and preservation of the hair.
One of these preparations the Inventor calls the "preparatory oil," and the
other the "preservative oil," the latter being applied to the hair after the
former has been used.
The first-mentioned oil consists of an admixture of 30 parts by weight of
castor oil, 30 parts by weight of olive oil, 1·05 parts by weight of bergamot

page_text: oil, and 1-05 parts by weight of oil of citron. As the last-mentioned ingre-
dient is intended solely to perfume the mixture it may be replaced by any
other essential oil. The proportions above given may be varied to a slight
extent if desired.
The second or preservative oil is composed of 30 parts by weight of abso-
lute alcohol, in which there have been dissolved about 0.106 parts by weight
of powdered grains of Levant (Graine de Levant), or even a less proportionate
quantity; and in order to reduce the strength of the alcohol so that it shall
not injure the skin when applied to the hair, and to complete the composition
15 parts by weight of castor oil and 15 parts by weight of rectified alcohol
are added.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Henry Johnson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 19th December 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HENRY JOHNSON, of, 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord.
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the Twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Henry Johnson, Her special license that I, the said John
Henry Johnson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said John Henry Johnson, my executors, administrators, or 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
'IMPROVED PREPARATIONS FOR THE TREATMENT AND PRESERVATION OF THE HAIR,"
a communication to me from abroad by Max Oldendorff and Pierre Levy, of
Paris, in the Empire of France, upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said John Henry Johnson, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Henry Johnson, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say:-
The said Invention relates to two preparations or oils to be used in the
treatment and preservation of the hair.
One of these preparations the Inventor calls the "preparatory oil," and the
other the "preservative oil," the latter being applied to the hair after the
former has been used.
The first-mentioned oil consists of an admixture of 30 parts by weight of
castor oil, 30 parts by weight of olive oil, 1·05 parts by weight of bergamot
oil, 1.05 parts by weight of oil of citron. As the last-mentioned ingredient
is intended solely to perfume the mixture it may be replaced by any other
essential oil. The proportions above given may be varied to a slight extent if
desired.
The second or preservative oil is composed of 30 parts by weight of absolute
alcohal, in which there have been dissolved about 0.106 parts by weight of
powdered grains of Levant (Graine de Levant), or even a less proportionate
quantity; and in order to reduce the strength of the alcohal so that it shall
not injure the skin when applied to the hair, and to complete the composition
15 parts by weight of castor oil and 15 parts by weight of rectified alcohol are
added.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried
into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel
and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the herein-before described
preparations for treating and preserving the hair.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Henry Johnson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of December, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five.
J. HENRY JOHNSON. (L.S.)