IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF OILS FOR MEDICINAL AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Dugald Campbell, of No. 7, Quality Court, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Consulting Chemist, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF OILS FOR MEDICINAL AND OTHER
PURPOSES."
Sealed the 10th February 1860, and dated the 13th August 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Dugald Campbell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 13th
August 1859.
I, DUGALD CAMPBELL, of No. 7, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Consulting Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF OILS FOR MEDICINAL AND
OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
These improvements consist in treating cod liver, cocoa nut, olive, or other
fatty oils, as also turpentine or other terebenthene oils, oil of lemons, and
other similar essential oils, by more or less impregnating them with ozone,
which may be done in several ways, such as by submitting them to the action
of the sun's rays when in contact with oxygen gas, atmospheric air, ozonized
air, or other gas or gases containing oxygen, or by impregnating the said oils
with either of these gases, and passing through them a current of electricity
derived from any suitable electrical source. By the proper adoption of
either of the processes here described or equivalent ones, a small quantity

page_text: (more or less, depending upon the nature of the oils submitted to these or
similar prossesses,) of an acid watery fluid generally becomes separated from the
oils, and which fluid gradually falling to the bottom of the vessels containing
such oils, indicates that they have become ozonized and ready for use.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Dugald Campbell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
13th February 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DUGALD
CAMPBELL, of 7, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Consulting Chemist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself. Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Dugald Campbell, Her special licence that I, the said Dugald
Campbell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Dugald Campbell, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF OILS FOR MEDICINAL AND OTHER PURPOSES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Dugald Campbell, 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 Dugald Campbell, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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:
These improvements consist in treating cod liver, cocoa nut, olive, or other
fatty oils, as also turpentine or other terebenthene oils, oil of lemons, and other
similar essential oils, by more or less impregnating them with ozone, which

page_text: may be done in several ways, such as by submitting them to the action of the
sun's rays when in contact with oxygen gas, atinospheric air, ozonized air or
other
gas or gases containing oxygen, or by impregnating the said oils with
either of these gases, and passing through them a current of electricity derived
from any suitable electrical source. By the proper adoption of either of the
processes here described or equivalent ones, a small quantity (more or less,
depending upon the nature of the oils submitted to these or similar processes,)
of an acid watery fluid generally becomes separated from the oils, and which
fluid gradually falling to the bottom of the vessels containing such oils, indicates
that they have become ozonized and ready for use.
In witness whereof, I, the said Dugald Campbell, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
DUGALD CAMPBELL. (L.S.)