Improvements in Cleaning and Disinfecting Textile Goods, Wearing Apparel, and similar Articles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 27th June, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 27th Mar., 1899-Accepted, 24th June, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cleaning and Disinfecting Textile Goods, Wearing
Apparel, and similar Articles.
I, EMANUEL FRANCIS KUR, of Queen Street, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Technical Chemist (a communication in part to me from Martin
Boehler, of Frankfort-a-Main, in the Empire of Germany, Technical Chemist),
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to a new or improved process for treating textile fabrics,
wearing apparel or the like whereby they may be dry cleaned and disinfected at
one and the same operation.
Hitherto dry cleaning has been effected by means of volatile solvents such as
naphtha, benzine or tetra-chloride of carbon which are applied to the article.
I find that by the use of certain disinfecting agents the cleaning and disinfecting
can be carried out simultaneously.
In carrying out the invention to the solvents or cleaning agents such as above
mentioned I add or mix disinfectants in solution such as phenol and its homo-
logues, mercurial compounds, formaldehyde or the like.
The materials are treated with this compound either by immersion, sprinkling,
rubbing or otherwise and are thoroughly disinfected as well as cleaned.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
Improvements in Cleaning and Disinfecting Textile Goods, Wearing
Apparel, and similar Articles.
I, EMANUEL FRANCIS KUR, of Queen Street, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Technical Chemist, (a communication in part from Martin Boehler,
of Frankfort-a-Main, in the Empire of Germany, Technical Chemist), do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to a new or improved process for treating textile fabrics,
wearing apparel or the like whereby they may be dry cleaned and disinfected at
one and the same operation.
Hitherto dry cleaning has been effected by means of volatile solvents such as

page_text: naphtha, benzine or tetra-chloride of carbon which are applied to the article.
I find that by the use of certain disinfecting agents the cleaning and disinfecting
can be carried out simultaneously.
In carrying out the invention to the solvents or cleaning agents such as above
mentioned I add or mix disinfectants in solution such as phenol and its homo-
logues, mercurial compounds, formaldehyde or the like.
A suitable mixture may be composed of solutions of one part of phenol, cresol,
alpha naphthol or beta naphthol in ten parts of benzol, benzine (solvent naphtha)
or tetra chloride of carbon, or one part of formaldehyde in twenty parts of one
of the above solvents.
In mercurial compounds owing to their strong toxic properties their use
in the disinfecting of clothes must be limited. The solution of such mercurial
salts as are soluble in benzol, benzine etcetera viz. (mercurial oleates, stearates
ctcetera) need not exceed 1%, one part mercurial salt in 100 parts solvent.
The materials are treated with this compound either by immersion, sprinkling,
rubbing or otherwise and are thoroughly disinfected as well as cleaned.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
1. The simultaneous cleaning and disinfecting textile goods wearing apparel
and similar articles which consists in treating the articles with a volatile solvent
such as naphtha, benzine, tetra-chloride of carbon or the like mixed with dis-
infecting agents such as phenol and its homologues, mercurial compounds form-
aldehyde or the like substantially as described.
2. A compound for simultaneously cleaning and disinfecting textile fabrics,
wearing apparel comprising a volatile solvent such as naphtha, benzine tetra
chloride of carbon or the like and a disinfectant in solution such as phenol and
its homologues mercurial compounds formaldehyde or the like substantially as
described.
Dated the 04h
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1000
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool and London, Patent Agents.