IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LUBRICATING MATTERS
Year: 1854

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the 'said George Fergusson Wilson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th February 1854.
I, GEORGE FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, Managing Director
of Price's Patent Candle Company, do hereby declare the nature of the
Invention for AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LUBRICATING MATTERS
to be as follows:-
It has been long known to chemists that castor oil when treated with
hyponitrous acid or nitrous acid or sulphurous acid solidifies, and what is called
palmine is produced, but such product of castor oil has not, I believe, been
used in the manufacture of lubricating matters; and my Invention has for its
object the employment of palmine in such manufacture, and I combine it with
other fats and matters used in manufacturing lubricating matters.

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 11th August 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J, GEORGE
FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, Managing Director of Price's
Patent Candle Company, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth 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, iny 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LUBRICATING MATTERS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Fergusson Wilson,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof (that is to say):-
It has been long known to chemists that castor oil when treated with
hyponitrous acid or nitrous acid or sulphurous acid solidifies, and what is called
palniine is produced, but such product of castor oil has not, I believe; been
used in the manufacture of lubricating matters; and my Invention has for its
object the employment of palmine in such manufacture, and I combine it with
other fats and matters used in manufacturing lubricating matters.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner of performing the same. In carrying out my Invention,
I prefer to employ the palmine manufactured or prepared according to the
Invention for which Letters Patent were granted to me on the Sixteenth day

page_text: of January, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four but any other prepara-
tion of palmine, so long as it can be obtained at a reasonable cost and tolerably
pure, is equally applicable for the purposes of this Invention. I combine the
palmine with about half its weight of tallow, which I do by boiling or stirring
these matters (when melted) by the passage of free steam through them; or,
when the lubricating matter is desired to be of a cheaper and more readily fusible
character than would result from one part of tallow to two parts of palmine,
I melt and mix the palmine in the manner above described with about half its
weight of crude cocoa nut oil. Or the palmine may be combined with both
tallow and cocoa nut oils, or with other fats and oils for the making up of
lubricating matters; and the palmine itself, after being well washed and freed
from any acid which may remain adhering, may be used alone, but it is preferred
in all cases to combine palmine with other oils or fats for the manufacture of
lubricating matters therewith.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
B. GOBEY,
12, Cursitor Street,
Chancery Lane.
GEO. F. WILSON. (L.S.)