A NEW OR IMPROVED LUBRICANT
Year: 1884

page_text: I JOSEPH BATSON trading as Joseph Batson and Company of Tipton in the
County of Stafford Grense Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED LUBRICANT" to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of a new or improved lubricant having the composition
hereinafter described which said lubricant is especially applicable for use in cases
where suet is ordinarily employed as for example in lubricating hot and cold
bearings of rolling machinery but is also applicable as a lubricant for general
purposes.
In making the new or improved lubricant constituting my Invention I take of
brown Yorkshire wool grease thirty parts by weight of wool oil grease thirty
parts by weight of plumbago fourteen parts by weight of unslaked quicklime
four parts by weight of suet fourteen parts by weight and of tallow eight parts
by weights. The suct and tallow together with the two kinds of grease are
melted in a tank and the plumbago and quicklime both reduced to fine powder
added thereto. The mixture is stirred until the several ingredients are thoroughly
incorporated when it is allowed to cool and is cut into lumps or blocks of any
required size.
:
The two kinds of grease 1 employ are both obtained from residual or waste
products of the wool and cloth manufacture. The kind called brown Yorkshire
wool grease is of a thicker consistence than that called wool oil grease. As both
kinds of grease are articles of commerce I do not consider it necessary further to
describo them.
I do not limit myself to the exact proportions hereinbofore given of the materials
I employ as the materials themselves vary considerably. Thus no two samples of
the same kind of grease are exactly similar in consistence and the difference
between the consistence of the two kinds of grease also varies and the relative
proportions of the two kinds of grease require to be modified to compensate these
differences. But the proportions I have herein before given answer well in ordinary
cases and with materials of the kind which are supplied to commerce at the present
time.
Dad y Wlawatha of 1004

page_text: I JOSEPH BATSON trading as Joseph Batson and Company of Tipton in the
County of Stafford, Grease Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my
Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED LUBRICANT" and in what manner the same
is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My Invention consists of a new or improved lubricant having the composition
hereinafter described, which said lubricant is especially applicable for use in cases
where suet is ordinarily employed, as for example in lubricating hot and cold
bearings of rolling machinery but is also applicable as a lubricant for general
purposes.
In making the new or improved lubricant constituting my Invention I take of
brown Yorkshire wool grease thirty parts by weight; of wool oil grease thirty
parts by weight; of plumbago fourteen parts by weight; of quicklime four parts
by weight; of suet fourteen parts by weight and of tallow eight parts by weight.
The suet and tallow together with the two kinds of grense are melted in a tank
and the plumbago and quicklime both reduced to fine powder added thereto.
The mixture is stirred until the several ingredients are thoroughly incorporated
when it is allowed to cool and is cut into lumps or blocks of any required size.
The two kinds of grease I employ are both obtained from residual or waste
products of the wool and cloth manufacture. The kind called brown Yorkshire
wool grease is of a thicker consistence than that called wool oil grease. As both
kinds of grease are articles of commerce I do not consider it necessary further to
describe them.
I do not limit myself to the exact proportions herein before given of the materials
I employ as the materials themselves vary. considerably. Thus no two samples of
the same kind of grease are exactly similar in consistence and the difference
between the consistence of the two kinds of grease also varies and the relative
proportions of the two kinds of grense require to be modified to compensate these
differences. But the proportions I have herein before given answer well in
ordinary cases and with materials of the kind which are supplied to commerce at
the present time.
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Where brown Yorkshire grease and wool oil grease combined in the proportions
or about the proportions herein before given form a lubricant too hard to be
convenient in use, I replace part of the brown Yorkshire grease with curriers' grease
or dubbin the proportion of the said brown Yorkshire grease replaced by the said
curriers' grease or dubbin being greater or less according as the brown Yorkshire
grease is more or less hard.
Or the proportions of brown Yorkshire grease and wool oil grease herein before
given may be retained and a greater or less quantity of curriers' grease or dubbin
added as may be necessary to produce the required consistence in the lubricant.
I prefer to issue to commerce my new or improved lubricant in the form of
blocks or bars similar in figure to bricks and bars of soap. These blocks and bars
are made by pouring the lubricant. when in a melted state into moulds of the
required size and shape.
In some cases I employ the suct which forms part of my new or improved
lubricant in the following manner. Instead of melting the suet with the other
ingredients as herein before described I keep it apart from the other ingredients
until the casting or moulding process at which stage of the manufacture I add the
suet. This I do preferably by forming rods or bars of suet of about one inch in
diameter and I place these bars or rods of suet in the mould at a distance of about

page_text: three inches apart. I then pour the melted lubricant into the mould. By this
method of proceeding the rods or bars of suet become embedded in the blocks or
bars of the lubricant.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The new or improved lubricant herein before described; that is to say, a
lubricant consisting essentially of brown Yorkshire grease; wool oil grease;
plumbago; quicklime; suet and tallow, with or without the addition of curriers'
grease or dubbin, the several ingredients being combined in the proportions or in
about the proportions and mixed or combined in the ways substantially as herein
before described.