AN IMPROVEMENT IN LIQUIDS FOR THE LUBRICATION OF SHEEPS OR OTHER WOOL OR OTHER ANIMAL TEXTILE FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Georges Felix Henry, Ivar Axel Ferdinand Bang,
François Roch Charles Monestier, and Jean Pierre Albin Figuier,
of Paris, France, Gentlemen, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN LIQUIDS FOR THE LUBRICATION OF SHEEPS OR OTHER WOOL OR OTHER
ANIMAL TEXTILE FIBROUS MATERIALS,"
Sealed the 9th November 1869, and dated the 14th May 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Georges Felix Henry,
Ivar Axel Ferdinand Bang, François Roch Charles Monestier, and
Jean Pierre Albin Figuier, at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 14th May 1869.
We, GEORGES FELIX HENRY, IVAR AXEL FERDINAND BANG, FRANÇOIS
ROCI CHARLES MONESTIER, and JEAN PIERRE ALBIN FIGUIER, of Paris,
France, Gentlemen, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN LIQUIDS FOR THE LUBRICATION OF SHEEPS' OR OTHER
WOOL OR OTHER ANIMAL TEXTILE FIBROUS MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
The Invention consists in making use as a substitute for oil or fatty
matters, for the lubrication of sheeps' or other wool or other anima
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page_text: textile fibrous materials, when such materials are to be submitted to
combing, carding, spinning, or other similar operations, of a suitably
concentrated solution of any suitable hygroscopic deliquescent salt
(by preference a neutral salt) or combination of such salts, such for
instance as chloride of calcium, chloride of magnesium, chloride of 5
zinc, the mother liquors of the manufacture of sea salt, and with
or without the addition of a small quantity of ammonia or other suitable
alkaline body
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Georges Felix Henry, Ivar Axel Ferdinand Bang,
François Roch Charles Monestier and Jean Pierre Albin Figuier,
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th November 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGES
FELIX HENRY, IVAR AXEL FERDINAND BANG, FRANÇOIS ROCH CHARLES
MONESTIER and JEAN PIERRE ALBIN FIGUIER, of Paris, France, Gentle-
men, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most. Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Fler reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Georges Felix Henry, Ivar Axel
Ferdinand Bang, François Roch Charles Monestier, and Jean Pierre
Albin Figuier, Her special licence that we, the said Georges Felix
Henry, Ivar Axel Ferdinand Bang. François Roch Charles Monestier,
and Jean Pierre Albin Figuier, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Georges Felix Henry, Ivar Axel
Ferdinand Bang, François Roch Charles Monestier, and Jean Pierro
Albin Figuier, our 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 Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN LIQUIDS FOR THE LUBRICATION OF SHEEPS' OF
OTHER WOOL OR OTHER ANIMAL TEXTILE FIBROUS MATERIALS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that we, the said Georges Felix Henry, Iva

page_text: Axel Ferdinand Bang, François Roch Charles Monestier, and Jean
Pierre Albin Figuier, our executors or administrators, by an instrumen
in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Georges Felix Henry, Ivar Axel
Ferdinand Bang, François Roch Charles Monestier, and Jean Pierre
Albin Figuier, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
It has been the practice hitherto in the manufacture of cloth or othe
fabrics from sheeps' or other wool, or other similar animal textile fibrous
materials, and particularly in carding or combing them of lubricating
or intimately imbibing the said fibrous materials, after having deprived
them of the yolk, or adhering natural grease, and previous to submitting
them to combing, carding, spinning, or other similar operations, with
oil or other unctuous fatty liquid, in order to increase the supple and
smoothness of the fibres or filaments, and thus making them less liable
to rupture.
Our Invention consists in replacing the oil or fatty matters hitherto
made use of for the above said purpose by a solution in water, or other
suitable menstruum of any suitable hygroscopic deliquescent salt or
combinations of such salts, with which solution we imbibe or lubricate
the sheeps' or other wool, or other similar animal textile fibrous
materials intended to be submitted to carding, combing. spinning, or
other similar operations, and previously deprived of the yolk or adhering
natural grease.
The salt we prefer making use of for this purpose is the chloride of
calcium dissolved in water, and the solution reduced to such state of
concentration as to allow of its suitably moistening the animal fibres
or filaments. Solutions of chloride of magnesium, chloride of zinc, or
of other suitable hygroscopic deliquescent salts or suitable combinations
of such salts, such for instance, as the mother liquids of the manu-
facture of sea salt might be resorted to, neutral salts being preferable,
though if required any oxidizing effects might be prevented by the

page_text: addition of small quantities of ammonia, or other suitable alkaline
bodies.
Our solutions are made use of in a similar manner as oil or other
fatty liquids are employed for lubricating sheeps' wool, viz., by
sprinkling, rubbing, steeping, or other suitable means, and the wool
or other animal textile fibrous materials require to have been deprived
previously of the yolk, or adhering natural grease.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the manner
of putting the same into effect, we declare that what we consider to be
novel and original, and consequently claim as the Invention secured
to us by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, employing
solutions of chloride of calcium, chloride of magnesium, chloride of
zine, or other suitable hygroscopic deliquescent salts or combinations
of them, with or without the addition of ammonin or other suitable
alkaline bodies for the lubrication of sheeps' or other wool, or other
similar animal textile fibrous materials, when the said materials are to
be submitted to combing, carding, spinning, or other similar operations.
In witness whereof, we, the said Ivar Axel Ferdinand Bang,
François Roch Charles Monestier, and Jean Pierre Albin Figuier,
have hereunto set our hand and seal, this Ninth day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
Witness,
A. G. BRADE.
(L.S.)
F. A. F. BANG.
F. R. CH. MONESTIER. (LS.)
J. P. A. FIGUIER.
(L.S.)