IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OR MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL MANURE
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Colonel Horace Francis Stephens d'Esplaviz, of 5, Amyand
Park Road Villa, Twickenham, County of Middlesex, for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OR MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL
MANURE."
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Colonel Horace Francis
Stephens d'Esplaviz at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
4th August 1881.
Colonel HORACE FRANCIS STEPHENS D'ESPLAVIZ, of Amyand Park, Terrace,
Twickenham, County of Middlesex. IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OR
"
MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL MANURE."
The employment or using of the following matters or ingredients :—
No. 1. Pure human urine not evaporated.
No. 2. Powdered bones.
No. 3. Powdered oysters shells.
No. 4. Dried and powdered excrements of cattle.
No. 5. Wood ashes.
No. 6. Common salt.
No. 7. Old red bricks powdered.
No. 8. Soot.
No. 9. Common Paris plaster.
All these substances above mentioned to be mixed together, and when dried
reduced to powder.
The proportions of the ingredients are as follows:34 per % pure urine;
16 bones; 16. shells; 81% old bricks; 8%, wood ashes, soot, salt, and cattle
excrements; and 16%, % Paris plaster.
The novelty of the improvement is to mix together the various substances, to
reduce and solidify the whole, and afterward powder.
Each of the substances possess fertilizing.matters exceedingly beneficial for
agricultural and horticultural purposes, besides being extremly cheap and easily
procured.
The object of the inventor's improvement is to fertilize the soil with means at
such reduced price never before obtained by any fertilizer.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Colonel Horace Francis Stephens d'Esplaviz in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 3rd February 1882.
Colonel HORACE FRANCIS STEPHENS D'ESPLAVIZ, of 5, Amyand Park Road
Villa, Twickenham, County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION
OR MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL MANure."
The employment or using of the following matters or ingredients
No. 1. Pure human urine not evaporated.
No. 2. Powdered bones.
No. 3. Powdered oyster shells.
No. 4. Dried and powdered excrements of cattle.
No. 5. Wood ashes.
No. 6. Common salt.
No. 7. Old red bricks powdered.
No. 8. Soot.
No. 9. Common Paris plaster.
All the substances above mentioned to be mixed together, and when dried
reduced to powder.
The proportions of the ingredients are as follows:-34 per cent. of pure urine;
16 bones; 16¹, shells; 8% old bricks; 8 wood ashes, soot, salt, and cattle
excrements; and 16 per cent. of Paris plaster.
The novelty of the improvement is to mix together the various substances; to
reduce and solidify the whole, and afterwards powder.
Each of the substances possess fertilizing matters exceedingly beneficial for
agricultural and horticultural purposes, besides being extremely cheap and easily
procured.
The object of the inventor's improvement is to fertilize the soil at such a
reduced price never obtained by any fertilizer.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention, I would
have it understood that I do not limit myself to the exact proportions herein given,
as the same may be varied to suit certain circumstances, but what I claim and
desire to be secured to me is,―
1. The combination and admixture of the several ingredients, in the proportions
and manner substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
2. The improvements in the preparation and manufacture of artificial manure,
substantially as herein before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Colonel Horace Francis Stephens d'Esplaviz,
have hereunto set my hand, this Third day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
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COLONEL II. F. S. D'ESPLAVIZ.
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