AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR CLEANSING BOILERS, CONDENSERS, AND OTHER VESSELS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Seymour, of Wallsend-on-Tyne, in the County
of Northumberland, Engineer, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED
COMPOSITION FOR CLEANSING BOILERS, CONDENSERS, AND OTHER VESSELS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Seymour at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th July 1880.
WILLIAM SEYMOUR, of Wallsend on Tyne, in the County of Northumberland,
Engineer. "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR CLEANSING BOILERS, CONDENSERS,
AND OTHER VESSELS."
This Invention relates to the manufacture of a composition for cleansing the
boilers and condensers of steam engines; also other vessels requiring cleansing,
such as tanks, chambers, chemical condensers, refrigerators, casks, etcetera.
The composition is a preparation of (extract of) lime, sulphate of salt (soda ?),
chalk, and coal, in equal or nearly equal proportions, which ingredients I pulverise,
then roast in a furnace, and then boil in water till considerably reduced in bulk
and rendered of the consistency of clay or dough. The composition is now ready
for forming into moulds or being put into tins, in which it sets into a solid form
and is ready for use.
The composition is or may be applied to boilers and condensers by being intro-
duced in small pieces into the water while they are at work. For other vessels,
such as tanks, casks, etcetera, it is used with hot water, and after a sufficient time
is washed out with clean water.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Seymour in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th
January 1881.
WILLIAM SEYMOUR, of Wallsend on Tyne, in the County of Northumberland,
Engineer. "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR CLEANSING BOILERS, CONDENSERS,
AND OTHER VESSELS."
This Invention relates to the manufacture of a composition for cleansing the
boilers and condensers of steam engines; also other vessels requiring cleansing,
such as tanks, chambers, chemical condensers, refrigerators, casks, etcetera.
This composition is a preparation of (extract of) lime, sulphate of salt (soda),
chalk, and coal, in equal or nearly equal proportions, which ingredients I pulverise,
then roast in a furnace, and then boil in water till considerably reduced in bulk
and rendered of the consistency of clay or dough. The composition is now ready
for forming into moulds or being put into tins, in which it sets into a solid form
and is ready for use.
The composition is or may be applied to boilers and condensers by being intro-
duced in small pieces into the water while they are at work. For other vessels,
such as tanks, casks, etcetera, it is used with hot water, and after a sufficient time
is washed out with clean water.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the mode of carrying it
into practical use, I claim as novel and secured to me under Letters Patent,-
The cleansing composition prepared from the ingredients and for the purposes
hereinbefore described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Seymour, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
WILLIAM SEYMOUR. (L.S.)