IMPROVEMENTS IN PURIFYING DISTILLATES FROM CARBONACEOUS OR BITUMINOUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Stephen Henry Emmens, of 2, Gresham Build-
ings, in the City of London, Scientific Referee, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PURIFYING DISTILLATES FROM CARBONACEOUS OR
BITUMINOUS SUBSTANCES.”
Sealed the 10th May 1872, and dated the 18th November 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Stephen Henry
Emmens at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 18th November 1871.
I, STEPHEN HENRY EMMENS, of 2, Gresham Buildings, in the City of
London, Scientific Referee, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PURIFYING DISTILLATES FROM CARBONACEOUS
OR BITUMINOUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to purifying the distillates derived from car-
bonaceous or bituminous substances, and consists in distributing a
current of the distillate in the form of spray in atmospheric air, in pure
oxygen, ozonized oxygen, or other oxidizing gas, for the purpose of pro-
ducing a direct oxidation of the substances which it may be desirable
to remove.

page_text: The purifying process may be carried on by blowing or injecting a jet
of spray into a close vessel or chamber from which the product or
products can be removed by filtration, decantation, or otherwise, aided
or not by the addition of acid or alkalies according as the oxidised
matters desired to be removed are basic or acid.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Stephen Henry Emmens in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 18th May 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, STEPHEN
HENRY EMMENS, of 2, Gresham Buildings, in the City of London,
Scientific Referee, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Stephen Henry Emmens,
Her special licence that I, the said Stephen Henry Emmens, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Stephen Henry Emmens, 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 PURIFYING DISTILLATES FROM
CARBONACEOUS OR BITUMINOUS SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I; the said Stephen Henry Emmens, 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 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 Stephen Henry Emmens, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to purifying the distillates derived from car-
bonaceous or bituminous substances, and consists in distributing a
current of the prepared distillate in the form of spray in atmospheric
air, in pure oxygen or ozonized oxygen, or other oxidizing gas, for the
purpose of producing a direct oxidation of the substances which it may
be desirable to remove.
The purifying process may be carried on by blowing or injecting a jet
of spray into a close vessel or chamber, from which the product or
products can be removed by filtration, decantation, or otherwise, aided
or not by the addition of acid or alkalies, according as the oxidised
matters desired to be removed are basic or acid.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I claim as my Invention, the
process of purifying the distillates derived from carbonaceous or
bituminous substances, by the injection of a spray of such distillates in
or among an oxidising gas as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Stephen Henry Emmens, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of May,
•
. One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
Witness,
H. M. BAKER,
9 & 10, King Street,
Cheapside.
STEPHEN H. EMMENS. (L.S.)