€ IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL OILS
Year: 1855

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Armand. le Comte
de Fontaine Moreau at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 1st June 1855.
I, PETER ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of 39; Rue de l'Echiquier,
5 Paris, in the Empire of France, & 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Patent
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of "CERTAIN
€ IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL OILS" to be as
afollows, that is to say:
The Invention consists in the application of iodine or iodide of potassium
0 to the preparation of colza and other oils employed in the lubrification of
machinery..
The following are the ingredients which employ-500 lbs. pure colza oil,
-(the fifth part of this quantity may be advantageously substituted by employing
"arachide"-oil); 16.lbs. hogs lard12lbs? fresh butter;-12 lbs. white-resin;

page_text: these matters are mixed together, and heated and dissolved in a balneum
mariæ, to which is added a variable quantity of iodine and alkali, taking for
base of the said quantity the degree or consistance to be given to the oil to be
prepared. The iodine may be substituted without inconvenience by employing
iodide of potassium, taking in this case one dose 20 per cent. stronger.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Armand le Comte de .Fontaine Moreau in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 30th November 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in
the Empire of France, and 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Patent Agent,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, Her special license
that I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Peter Armand le
Comte de Fontaine Moreau, 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 of "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL OILS," commu-
nicated to me from a foreigner residing abroad, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Peter Armand le Comite de Fontaine Moreau, 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 Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, do 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:--

page_text: This Invention consists in the application of iodine or iodide of potassium
in the preparation of colza and other oils employed for lubricating machinery.
The following are the ingredients which I employ-Pure colza oil, five
hundred pounds, (the fifth part of this quantity may be advantageously sub-
stituted by using arachide oil); hogs lard, sixteen pounds; fresh butter, twelve
pounds;-white-resin,-twelve-pounds. These-materials-are-mixed-together,
afterwards heated and dissolved in a suitable vessel placed in a balneum mariæ,.
adding a sufficient quantity of iodine and alkali to give the-required consistence
to the oils. The iodine may be substituted by iodide of potassium, increasing
the quantity of the latter twenty per cent. if employed.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that I do not confine
myself to the precise proportions herein mentioned; but what I claim is, the
employment of iodine and an alkali or iodide of potassium for neutralizing
the acid in colza and other oils, which in combination with the other ingredients
is used for lubricating machinery.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day
of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-five.
L DE FONTAINE MOREAU. (L.S.)'