IMPROVEMENTS IN CLEANSING, WASHING, SCOURING WOOL AND WOOLLEN FABRICS AND YARNS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Adolphe Guido, of Versailles, in the Empire of
France, Chemist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CLEANSING,
WASHING, SCOURING WOOL AND WOOLLEN FABRICS AND YARNS."
Sealed the 27th June 1856, and dated the 29th March 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Adolphe Guido at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 29th
March 1856.
I, ADOLPHE GUIDO, of Versailles, in the Empire of France, Chemist, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CLEANSING,
WASHING, SCOURING WOOL AND WOLLEN FABRICS AND YARNS," to be as follows:-
I.prepare a kind of powder for washing & scouring purposes as follows:-
I mix together the following ingredients: liquid soda caustic, 20 parts; green
soap, four parts; Marseilles soap, 2 parts; panama, 4 parts; carbonate of
soda, 68 parts. Dissolve the green and Marseilles soap in the caustic, add a
certain quantity of carbonate of soda, and let all the mixture boil during an
hour; then add the quantity of soap & panama in powder, & let all the
mixture boil during another hour; then add the quantity of soap & panama
in powder, & let all the mixture boil during another hour; afterwards add
the quantity of carbonate of soda; take it off the fire, and let it dry on pieces
of linen.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Adolphe Guido in the Great Seal Patent Office -on the
7th July 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ADOLPHE
GUIDO, of Versailles, in the Empire of France, Chemist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did; for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Adolphe Guido, Her special licence that I, the said Adolphe Guido,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Adolphe Guido, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
.time .agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVE
MENTS IN CLEANSING, WASHING, SCOURING WOOL AND. WOLLEN FABRICS AND
YARNS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Adolphe Guido,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Adolphe Guido, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My Invention relates to a new chemical compound, called "Panama
powder," appropriated to the cleaning, washing, and scouring of wool and
wollen fabrics and yarns. This Panama powder consists of,-
20 parts

page_text: Having thus set forth the nature of my Invention, I desire it to be distinctly
understood that what I claim as new and of my Invention is, the chemical
compound (called "Panama powder ") above described, used for the purpose
herein specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Adolphe Guido, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this 4th day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-six.
AHE GUIDO. (L.S.)