IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING COMPOUNDS CONTAINING SULPHUR FOR PREVENTING AND DESTROYING BLIGHT, MILDEW, AND INSECTS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont, Vauxhall, in
the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING
COMPOUNDS CONTAINING SULPHUR FOR PREVENTING AND DESTROYING BLIGHT,
MILDEW, AND INSECTS."
Sealed the 1st April 1859, and dated the 15th October 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Fergusson Wilson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th October 1858.
I, GEORGE FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, in the County of
Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN PREPARING COMPOUNDS CONTAINING SULPHUR FOR PREVENTING AND DESTROYING
BLIGHT, MILDEW, AND INSECTS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in preparing compounds
containing sulphur, for preventing and destroying blight, mildew, and insects,
and consists in preparing compounds of sulphur and soap by combining sulphur
in a state of solution with soap, in place of simply mixing them mechanically
as heretofore. In carrying out my Invention I prefer that the sulphur should
be dissolved by the aid of heat in about one quarter of the fatty or oily matters
used; the solution is obtained at from 300° to 350° of Fahrenheit. This con-
pound is then combined with the remainder of the oily or fatty matters which
are melted and raised to about 212° of Fahrenheit, when a proper quantity of
caustic alkaline lye is crutched in, and when thoroughly mixed the compoun
is ready for framing.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Fergusson Wilson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 14th April 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, in the County of Surrey, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said George Fergusson Wilson, Her special licence that I, the said
George Fergusson Wilson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, my 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
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING COMPOUNDS CONTAINING SULPHUR FOR
PREVENTING AND DESTROYING BLIGHT, MILDEW, AND INSECTS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Georgo Fergusson Wilson my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, 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 I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, do hereby
declare the nature on the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be articularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in preparing compounds
containing sulphur, for preventing and destroying blight, mildew, and insects,
and consists in preparing compounds of sulphur and soap by combining sulphur
in a state of solution with soap, in place of simply mixing them mechanically
as heretofore. In carrying out my Invention I prefer that the sulphur should
be dissolved by the aid of heat in about one quarter of the fatty or oily matters
used; the solution is obtained at from 300° to 350° of Fahrenheit. This
compound is then combined with the remainder of the oily or fatty matters,

page_text: which are melted and raised to about 212° of Fahrenheit, when a proper
quantity of caustic alkali lye is crutched in, and when thoroughly mixed, the
compound is ready for framing.
The fatty body I prefer is fat acid of cocoa nut or of palm oil, but other
grease may be substituted, and to this fatty body, I prefer that about one-third
its weight of rosin should be added. The mixture I make as follows:-All
the resin and about one-seventh or more of the weight of the fatty body, and
sulphur equal to about eight and a half per cent. of the finished compound as
given hereafter, is heated up until thorough incorporation is effected, which is
between 300° to 350° of Fahrenheit. This mixture is then stirred in to the
remainder of the fatty body, which has been previously heated to about 180°
Fahrenheit or upwards, lye (preferring soda lyc, sp. gr. 1850), is then stirred
in the proportion of about 150 lbs. of lye to 275 lbs. of the other ingredients,
and the stirring is then kept up until the whole is thoroughly mixed and
incorporated.
The compound thus prepared is, when used, mixed or dissolved in water,
and applied by syringe or by a sponge, brush, or otherwise.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Witness,
R. HAZARD,
Belmont, Vauxhall.
GEO. F. WILSON. (L.S.)