Ax IMPROVED COMPOUND FOR THE LUBRICATION OF WOOL AND OTHER SIMILAR ANIMAL MATERIAL IN THEIR PROCESSES OF MANUFACTURE, AND IN PREVENTING AND ARRESTING THE COMBUSTION OF SUCH MATERIALS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John James Lundy, of Leith, near Edinburgh,
in the County of Mid Lothian, North Britain, Color, Paint, Varnish,
Grease, and-Chemical Manufacturer, for the Invention of "Ax
IMPROVED COMPOUND FOR THE LUBRICATION OF WOOL AND OTHER SIMILAR
ANIMAL MATERIAL IN THEIR PROCESSES OF MANUFACTURE, AND IN PREVENTING
AND ARRESTING THE COMBUSTION OF SUCH MATERIALS."
Sealed the 18th April 1871, and dated the 25th October 1870.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John James Lundy at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 25th October 1870.
I, JOHN JAMES LUNDY, of Leith, near Edinburgh, in the County
of Mid Lothian, North Britain, Color, Paint, Varnish, Grease, and
Chemical Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED COMPOUND FOR THE LUBRICATION OF WOOL AND
OTHER SIMILAR ANIMAL MATERIAL IN THEIR PROCESSES OF MANUFACTUre, and in

page_text: PREVENTING AND ARRESTING THE COMBUSTION OF SUCH MATERIALS," to be as
follows:
:-
This Invention relates to improvements in the production and use of
an improved compound or compounds for the lubrication of wool and of
other similar animal material during their processes of manufacture, and
for preventing and arresting the combustion thereof, and consists,
firstly, in the manufacture and use of a mixture or emulsion made
by adding gallipoli or olive oil, recovered wool oil, or other suitable oil
or oils to a solution of caustic alkali, soda ash or potash, or one or more
of them in water, and incorporating the same therewith; and secondly,
to the employment separately or in conjunction with the before-
mentioned or other lubricants of solutions of such salt, salts, or
compounds as shall possess the power of preventing or arresting the
effects of fire arising from spontaneous combustion or otherwise.
.
In carrying out this first part of my Invention I make a mixture or
emulsion by adding olive or other suitable oil or oils to a solution of
soda ash or potash in a similar manner to that herein-after described
for using caustic soda, but I employ by preference a mixture.or emulsion
made by adding about one pint of a solution of a hydrated oxide of
sodium (NaO or NaO HO) commonly known as caustic soda marking,
for example, about 69° Twaddell, or a specific gravity of about 1.345 to
about 10 gallons of water, to which solution is then added and
thoroughly incorporated and mixed about one galon of olive or other
suitable oil or oils in order that a mixture or emulsion may be obtained,
which mixture or emulsion may be employed for the purposes herein-
before mentioned by being sprinkled or otherwise upon the wool or
other animal fibre previous to being submitted to the willeying machine
or before being carded and spun in a manner similar to that now adopted
when oil, or oil and water, or other lubricants are employed, as is well
understood.
My Invention further relates to the employment separately or in
conjunction with or the application before or after the before-mentioned
compound, emulsion, or mixture, or other lubricants of a solution of
such salt, salts, or compounds as have the power of preventing or
arresting the injurious effects of fire, arising either from spontaneous
combustion or otherwise, as for example, tungstate of soda, phosphate of
soda, chloride of mag nesium, or a solution of one or more of them
or of any other fire-arresting salt, salts, or compounds, separately or

page_text: combined, with which the materials under treatment may be sprinkled,
tempered, or moistened.
In carrying out this second part of my Invention the solution of
tungstate of soda, phosphate of soda, chloride of magnesium, or a
mixture of any of them or of any other suitable salt or salts or com-
pounds may be sprinkled or otherwise applied to the wool either before
or after the application of oil, oil and water, the emulsion before
described, or of any other lubricant, or they may be mixed therewith
previous to application to the wool or other animal fibre, but I find a
good result from using a combined mixture, compound, or emulsion by
dissolving about one pound of phosphate of soda and seven pounds of
tungstate of soda in forty gallons of water, to which I also add half a
gallon of a solution of a hydrated oxide of sodium (NaO or NaO, HO)
commonly known as caustic soda marking about 69° of Twaddell or a
specific gravity of 1.345 and thereafter I add about 4 gallons of olive or
other suitable oil or oils.
Although I have given the proportions which I have found to give
good results I do not limit myself to the same as other proportions.
of caustic soda, soda ash, potash water, fire-arresting salt, salts, or
compounds, and oil or oils may be employed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,.
filed by the said John James Lundy in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 25th April 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
JAMES LUNDY, of Leith, near Edinburgh, in the County of Mid
Lothian, North Britain, Color, Paint, Varnish, Grease, and Chemical
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John James Lundy, Her special
license, that I, the said John James Lundy, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John James Lundy, my
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page_text: executors, administrators, or 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 "AN IMPROVED
COMPOUND FOR THE LUBRICATION OF WOOL AND OTHER SIMILAR ANIMAL MATERIAL
IN THEIR PROCESSES OF MANUFACTURE, AND IN PREVENTING AND ARRESTING THE
COMBUSTION OF SUCH MATERIALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said John James Lundy, my executors or administrators, 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 John James Lundy, do hereby 1
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, that is to say :—
This Invention relates to improvements in the production and use of
an improved compound or compounds for the lubrication of wool and of 2
other similar animal material during their processes of manufacture, and
for preventing and arresting the combustion thereof; and consists,-
Firstly. In the manufacture and use of a mixture or emulsion made
by adding gallipoli or olive oil, recovered wool oil, or other suitable oil
or oils to a solution of caustic alkali, soda ásh, or potash, or one or more 2
of them, in water, and incorporating the same therewith.
And, secondly. To the employment separately or in conjunction with
the before-mentioned or other lubricants of solutions of such salt, salts,
or compounds as shall possess the power of preventing or arresting the
effects of fire arising either from spontaneous combustion or otherwise.
3
In carrying out this first part of my Invention I make a mixture or
emulsion by adding olive or other suitable oil or oils to a solution of
soda ash or potash in a similar manner to that herein-after described for
using caustic soda, but I employ by preference a mixture or emulsion
made by adding about one part by measure of a solution of a hydrated 3
oxide of sodium (NaO or NaO HO) commonly known as caustic soda,
marking, for example, about 69° Twaddell, or a specific gravity of about
1.345 to about 80 parts by measure of water, to which solution is there-

page_text: after added and thoroughly incorporated and mixed about eight parts by
measure of olive or other suitable oil or oils in order that a mixture or
emulsion may be obtained, which mixture or emulsion may be employed
for the purposes herein-before mentioned by being sprinkled or otherwise
upon the wool or other animal fibre previous to being submitted to the
willeying machine, or before being carded and spun in a manner similar
to that now adopted when oil, or oil and water, or other lubricants are
employed, as is well understood.
My Invention further relates to the employment separately or in
conjunction with or the application before or after the before-mentioned
compound emulsion or mixture or other lubricants of a solution of such
salt, salts, or compounds as have the power of arresting or preventing
the injurious effects of fire arising either from spontaneous combustion
or otherwise, as, for example, tungstate of soda or other suitable tungstate,
phosphate of soda or other suitable phosphate, chloride of magnesium or
other deliquescent salt or a solution of one or more of them, or of any
other fire-arresting salt, salts, or compounds, separately or combined,
with-which the materials under treatment may be sprinkled, tempered,
or moistened.
In carrying out this second part of my Invention the solution of
tungstate or tungstates, phosphate or phosphates, chloride of magnesium
or other deliquescent or fire-arresting salt or salts or compounds, or a
mixture of any of them or of any other suitable salt or salts or compounds
may be sprinkled or otherwise applied to the wool either before or after
the application of oil, of oil and water, or of the emulsion before described,
or of any other lubricant, or they may be mixed therewith previous to
application to the wool or other animal fibre, but I find a good result
from using a combined mixture, compound, or emulsion by dissolving
about one pound of phosphate of soda and seven pounds of tungstate of
soda in forty gallons of water, to which I also add half a gallon of a
solution of a hydrated oxide of sodium (NaO or NaO HO) commonly
known as caustic soda, marking about 69° of Twaddell, or a specific
gravity of 1.345, and thereafter I add about four gallons of olive or other
suitable oil or oils.
-
Although I have given the proportions which I have found to give
good results I do not limit myself to the same, as other proportions of
caustic soda, soda ash, potash, water, fire-arresting salt, salts, or còm-
pounds and oil or oils may be employed.

page_text: Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of
my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may
be used or carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that
what I consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the
Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited. Letters
Patent is,―
First. The manufacture or production of partially saponified oils
prepared substantially in the manner herein-before described, and their
use as an improved lubricant for carding and spinning wool and other
animal fibrous material.
Second. The employment separately or in conjunction with the before-
mentioned lubricant or with other lubricants of solutions of such salt,
salts, or compounds as shall possess the power of preventing or arresting
the effects of fire arising either from spontaneous combustion or other-
wise.
In witness whereof, I, the said John James Lundy, have to this my
Specification set my hand and seal, the Seventeenth day of April
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
JOHN J. LUNDY. (L.S.)