A METHOD OF AND PREPARATION FOR RENDERING TEXTILE AND OTHER LIKE FABRICS SANITARY AND DISINFECTING AGENTS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in tho City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "A METHOD OF
AND PREPARATION FOR RENDERING TEXTILE AND OTHER LIKE FABRICS SANITARY
AND DISINFECTING AGENTS."-A communication from J. Ledoyen and
J. Beaulavon.
Sealed the 19th May 1857, and dated the 21st November 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 21st, November 1856.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A METHOD OF AND PREPARATION FOR RENDERING TEXTILE AND OTHER LIKE FABRICS
SANITARY AND DISINFECTING AGENTS," (communicated to me by J. Ledoyen and
J. Beaulavon, foreigners residing abroad,) to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in impregnating or treating cloth or other like
material (by immersion or sprinkling) with a preparation consisting of equal
parts of a solution of nitrate of lead at or about 25°, and a solution of nitrate
of lime at or about 20°.
This preparation, applied on cloth or other similar materials retains its
sanitary property, and exerts its disinfecting action for a considerable period

page_text: by neutralizing or absorbing mephitic and noxious gases which may exist or
be generated in the apartment or locality where the cloths, &c. are placed.
Cloth or other fabrics prepared as above may be made up into a variety of
articles, both ornamental and useful.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Offico
on the 19th May 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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
"A METHOD OF AND PREPARATION FOR RENDERING TEXTILE AND OTHER LIKE FABRICS
SANITARY AND DISINPECTING AGENTS," (communicated to me by J. Ledoyen and
J. Beaulavon, foreigners residing abroad,) upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, tho said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the samo
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the dato of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 tho
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in impregnating or treating cloth or other like
material (by immersion or sprinkling) with a preparation consisting of equal

page_text: parts of a solution of nitrate of lead at or about 25°, and a solution of nitrate
of lime at or about 20°.
This preparation, applied on cloth or other similar materials, retains its
sanitary property and exerts its disinfecting action for a considerable period by
neutralizing or absorbing mephitic and noxious gases which may exist or bo
generated in the apartment or locality where the cloths, &c. are placed.
Cloth or other fabrics prepared as above may be made up into a variety of
articles, both ornamental and useful, and may be used with advantage in
hospital wards, kitchens, water-closets, &c.
In carrying the Invention into effect, equal parts of a solution of nitrate of
lead at or about 25°, and a solution of nitrate of lime at or about 20°, are
mixed, and the cloth or other material to be operated upon is immersed for
about an hour in the combined solution, then withdrawn and subjected to
slight pressure; or the combined solution may be simply sprinkled upon the
cloth or other material.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First, the method herein-before described of rendering textile and other like
fabrics sanitary and disinfecting agents.
Second, the employment of a mixture composed of a solution of nitrate of
lead and a solution of nitrate of lime for rendering textilo and other like
fabrics sanitary and disinfecting agents, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of May, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-seven.