IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OR MANUFACTURE OF MANURE
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Beale, of Hope Street, Maidstone, in the
County of Kent, Gentleman, and Mary Anne Beale, of Upper Bruns-,
wick Terrace, Barnsbury, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Beale and Mary
Anne Beale, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 7th October 1862.
We, JOHN BEALE, of Hope Street, Maidstone, in the County of Kent,
5 Gentleman, and MARY ANNE BEALE, of Upper Brunswick Terrace, Barnsbury,
in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OR MANUFACTURE OF MANURE," to
be as follows:-
Our improved manufacture of manure consists of night soil, lime, soot, salt,
and dregs of assafoetida suitably mixed and prepared.
Of night soil we take about
Lime about=
Soot -
Common salt =
60 parts
80
7
2.
"

page_text: When the night soil is of a dry and compact nature we add a greater pro-
portion of lime, we place the night soil in a pit or suitable receptacle and
protect it from wet, if much water is with it we allow as much as possible of
the water to run off, but we prefer to allow it to dry somewhat before adding
the other ingredients which are to be mixed intimately with the night soil.
The mixing may be continuous or at intervals of two or three hours; for
this purpose we find a mill such as used for working clay answers well; the
component parts are thoroughly mixed and allowed to stand a sufficient length
of time the whole becomes a pulverable and friable mass. It may be applied
in a state of powder on the surface of the land to growing crops, besides
inducing a rapid growth of the crops it destroys all animal and insect life so
detrimental to growing crops.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Beale and Mary Anne Beale in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 7th April 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
BEALE, of Hope Street, Maidstone, in the County of Kent, Gentleman,
and MARY ANNE BEALE, of Upper Brunswick Place, Barnsbury, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said John Beale and Mary Anne Beale, Her special licence that we, the
said John Beale and Mary Anne Beale, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said John Beale and Mary Anne Beale,
our 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 THE PRE-
PARATION OR MANUFACTURE OF MANURE," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said John Beale and Mary Anne Beale, our executors or admin-
istrators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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

page_text: ingredients are still more intimately incorporated by spreading it out to dry in
the open air, or in sheds, and by turning it over and carefully sifting it by any
suitable means. The manure is then complete and in the form of a fine
powder fit for immediate use. In applying our improved manure to crops,
flowers, plants, or vegetables, it may be used with the admixture of sand,
mould, or other substances ordinarily employed to reduce the strength or to
economize the consumption of manures generally, or it may be used without
such admixture, and further, from its equality and fineness and its freedom
from lumps be readily spread over the land by any existing machinery or
implements for that purpose, or when used as a top dressing (as such it is
peculiarly beneficial) it can be evenly and uniformly sifted or spinkled over the
crops or plants.
In witness whereof, I, the said Mary Anne Beale, on behalf of myself
and the said John Beale, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three.
MARY ANNE BEALE. (L.S.)