IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANITRA HRACTURE OR QU' OMG
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont,"
Vauxhall, in the County of Surrey, Managing Director of Price's
Patent Candle Company, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANITRA
HRACTURE OR QU'
OMG
"
Sealed the 27th May 1853, and dated the 1st April 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Fergusson
Wilson, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 1st April 1853.
I, GEORGE FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, in the County
of Surrey, Managing Director of Price's Patent Candle Company, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
TREATING CERTAIN OILY MATTERS, AND IN THE MANUFACTURE OF OIL," to be
as follows:-
My Invention consists of diminishing or removing the smell and
color from the oily matters that are produced by the destructive distil-
lation of rosin, and in combining them with the oleine of palm oil and
other neutral oils.

page_text: I distil or repeatedly distil the rosin oily matters with the air excluded,
the rosin oily matters in some cases being treated with powerful agents,
such as sulphuric acid, before this distillation; or I expose them to heat
to drive off their more volatile part. I mix the purified rosin oily
matters with the other oily matters, by means of agitation or boiling
up with free steam.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Fergusson Wilson, in the Great Seal
Patent Office, on the 1st October 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
GEORGE FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, in the County of
Surrey, Managing Director of Price's Patent Candle Company, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the sixteenth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said George Fergusson Wilson, Her special licence that
I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Fergusson Wilson,
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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
TREATING CERTAIN OILY MATTERS, AND IN THE MANUFACTURE OF OIL," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Fergusson
Wilson, by an instrument in writing under my hand and scal, 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 George Fergusson Wilson, do

page_text: hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
My Invention consists of diminishing or removing the smell and
color from the oily matters that are produced by the destructive distil-
lation of rosin, and in combining them with the oleine of palm oil, and
other neutral oils. I distil or repeatedly distil the rosin oily matters
with the air excluded, the rosin oily matters in some cases being treated
with powerful agents, such as sulphuric acid, before this distillation; or
I expose them to heat to drive off their more volatile part. I mix the
purified rosin oily matters with the other oily matters, by means of
agitation or boiling up with free steam.
Having thus stated the nature of the Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner in which the same is to be performed. In a former
Patent granted to Mr. Gwynne and myself, on the Sixteenth day of
November, One thousand eight hundred and forty-three, means of
distilling and treating rosin oil with the air excluded were described; I
therefore now make no claim to such process, and I simply have
recourse to them as a preparation for the mixing of such resin oil,
with the oleine of palm oil and other neutral oils. I cause the resin oil
to be first heated for about four hours in a close vessel, by means of
heated steam, keeping the temperature to about 350° of Fahrenheit.
The rosin oil is then to be distilled with the air excluded; and accord-
ing to the state of purity desired to be obtained, the distillation is to be
performed again and again; and for this purpose I prefer to use steam
heated to a high degree after it leaves the steam boiler, as is well under-
stood. If the rosin oil be very impure, I stir in about two pounds
sulphuric acid, to one hundred and twelve pounds of rosin oil. The
same is then to be washed in water, and then submitted to the process
of beat.
Having thus prepared the resin oil, it is to be mixed with a neutral
oil, and for this purpose I prefer the oleine of palm oil; and the best
mixture, I believe, will be found to be in about equal quantities, but this
may be varied; and in order intimately to mix these matters or oils, I
boil them by the aid of free steam, by which a most intimate admixture

page_text: is effected, and such combined oils will be found very useful for lubrica-
ting heavy machinery.
In. witness whereof, I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
three.
GEO. F. WILSON. (L.S.)
Witness, JNO. ALCOCK.