A COMPOSITION WHICH WILL EFFECT A CONSIDERABLE SAVING IN OIL AND SOAP USED IN THE WOOLLEN MANUFACTORIES
Year: 1835

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Sir JOHN
BYERLEY, of Whitehead's Grove, in the Parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea, in the
County of Middlesex, Knight, send greeting.
WHEREAS His Majesty King William the Fourth, by His Royal Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
on the Twenty-second day of April, in the fifth year of His reign, did give
and grant unto me, the said Sir John Byerley, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Sir John Byerley, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or
deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Sir John Byerley,
my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years.
therein expressed, should and lawfully might, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, make, use, exercise, and vend the In-
vention of "A COMPOSITION WHICH WILL EFFECT A CONSIDERABLE SAVING IN OIL
AND SOAP USED IN THE WOOLLEN MANUFACTORIES," communicated to me from
a foreigner residing abroad; in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso, obliging me, the said Sir John Byerley, by an instrument in writing

page_text: under my hand and seal, to describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause
the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
six calender months next and immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereto had) may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Sir John Byerley, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention to
consist in the use and employment of a certain fluid composition ("consisting
of a saturated solution of lime in water and a certain quantity of oil properly
mixed together, as herein-after more particularly mentioned and described) for
those purposes for which oil is now used in the woollen manufactories in the
preparation and manufacture of wool, whereby a very great saving, which may
amount to seventy-five per cent. of. the quantity of oil now required or there-
abouts, and also a large portion of the soap requisite to cleanse the wool after
the use and employment of oil in the present mode will be effected; and in
further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Sir John Byerley, do
hereby describe the manner in which the said Invention is to be performed by
the following directions and particulars (that is to say):-
To obtain a saturated solution of lime in water in sufficient quantity I
would recommend a tank or tanks of convenient size for the quantity required
in the manufactory where the same is to be used, with a cock or tap in the
side, at a convenient distance from the bottom, to draw off the lime water when
saturated. When the tank is filled with water, and a quantity of lime slacked
or unslacked more than sufficient to saturate the water is put in (water not
being capable of holding a solution more than about one five-hundredth part
of its own weight of lime) the water and lime should be agitated together for
a sufficient time in order that a solution of the lime may take place to satu-
ration, say for a period of from half an hour to an hour, after which the
lime not in solution should be suffered to subside to the bottom of the tank,
being allowed from six to twelve hours for that purpose according to the quan-
tity. The lime water so saturated may then be drawn off at the cock or tap,
and a further solution obtained by a repetition of the above process. The
softest water is desirable for this purpose, and distilled rain or soft river water.
are to be preferred. It is evident that lime, whether slacked or unslacked, may
be used in preparing the lime water; but it is preferable to use properly slacked
lime, as the saturated solution of lime is thereby obtained in a much shorter
time. The composition I recommend is formed and composed of three parts

page_text: of the saturated solution of lime in water and one part of any of the oils in
use of the woollen manufactories for the like purposes, which should be mixed
in the above proportions in a convenient tank or vessel, and kept in agitation
together by any ordinary method until such mixture of the lime water and oil
shall be compleatly effected and the fluid shall have become homogeneous, in
which state it is ready for use. The proportion of three parts of lime water
and one of oil is not absolutely necessary and essential, but it is the proportion
which I prefer, especially for fine wools. The oil, however, may be permitted
to bear a somewhat larger proportion than a fourth part, particularly in the
preparation of coarse wools, and may then extend to one-third part, but the
lime water should never exceed three-fourth parts in the composition. The
composition thus prepared may then be used and applied instead of oil in the
preparation and manufacture of wool, and may be used for that purpose in the
proportion of twenty-two pounds weight of the composition to one hundred
pounds weight of wool or thereabouts, and the wool is afterwards to be cleared
from the composition in the same way as it is cleared from oil in the ordinary
manufacture, which will require a much smaller quantity of soap than is
consumed where oil alone is used. Now whereas I do not claim as the
Invention or improvement the saturated solution of lime in water, nor the
mixture of such solution with oil, nor the mode of preparing the saturated
solution of lime water, nor the mode of preparing the said composition, but
only the application of the said composition in the woollen manufacture
instead of oil alone, as above described, thereby occasioning a great saving of
oil and soap in the woollen manufactories, and such Invention being to the
best of my knowledge and belief entirely new and never before used in that
part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
called England, His Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
I do hereby declare this to be my Specification of the said Invention, and
that I do verily believe this my said Specification doth comply in all respects
fully and without disguise with the proviso in the said herein-before in part
recited Letters Patent contained; wherefore I do hereby claim to maintain
exclusive right and privilege to the said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sir John Byerley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-second day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.
JOHN (L.S.) BYERLEY.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of August,
in the sixth year of the reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth, the
said Sir John Byerley came before our said Lord the King in His Chan-
cery, and acknowledged the instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing
therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also the instru-
ment aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in
the fifty-fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twenty-second day of October, One thousand eight hundred
and thirty-five.