Liquid for Use as a Fertilizer and Insecticide, and for other Agricultural and Horticultural Purposes, applicable also as a Deodorizer and Disinfectant.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Mar., 1894-Accepted, 7th Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Liquid for Use as a Fertilizer and Insecticide, and for other
Agricultural and Horticultural Purposes, applicable also as a
Deodorizer and Disinfectant.
I, SAMUEL ELLIOTT of Albert Works, Newbury, in the County of Berks,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to a liquid possessing in a high degree the fertilizing
properties required for agricultural and horticultural purposes for which it can be
used alone or in conjunction with other fertilizing matters or compounds. The
liquid also possesses the properties of a germicide and insecticide or preventative
against the destruction of plant life by the ravages of insects, and of an eradicator
or preventative of fungi, blight, mildew, smut, and other kindred diseases. The
liquid may also be used as a dip or otherwise for destroying parasites infesting
animals, or as a deodorizer or disinfectant.
The invention consists of a liquid produced by effecting the absorption and
solution or suspension in water of the gaseous volatile and solid constituents of coal
or wood smoke but preferably the former, whereby all the valuable properties
contained in the smoke are retained and preserved in a form available for the
purposes to which the liquid is to be applied as above mentioned. This is effected
by causing the smoke whilst still in its heated and almost nascent condition to
traverse the water in which its gaseous and solid constituents are to be dissolved or
suspended, the water being in a finely divided and agitated condition, so as to bring
a large area of surface into contact and ensure the complete absorption or suspension
of the smoke in the water.
Dated this 3rd day of Mar 1902
S. ELLIOTT,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Liquid for Use as a Fertilizer and Insecticide, and for other
Agricultural and Horticultural Purposes, applicable also as a
Deodorizer and Disinfectant.
I SAMUEL ELLIOTT of Albert Works Newbury in the County of Berks
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
This invention relates to the employment of a liquid possessing in a high degree.
the fertilizing properties required for agricultural and horticultural purposes for
which it can be used alone or in conjunction with other fertilizing matters or
compounds and which also possesses the properties of a germicide and insecticide or
preventative agent so as to prevent the destruction of plant life by the ravages of
insects and of an eradicator or preventative of fungus blight, mildew, smut and
other kindred diseases. The liquid may also be used as a dip or otherwise for
destroying parasites infesting animals and also as a deodorizer or disinfectant, for
which purposes it is especially useful.
The liquid may be conveniently produced in the manner described in the
Specification of former Letters Patent granted to me dated August 7, 1889
No. 12460. The gaseous volatile and solid constituents of coal or wood or other
substances are absorbed by and in some cases held in solution and in other cases in
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page_text: suspension in water and a liquid is thereby produced which has hitherto been
treated as a waste product but which I have, discovered to possess very valuable
properties enabling various chemical agents to be used in a form available for the
purposes above mentioned. On referring to the said Specification it will be seen
that the desired product is advantageously obtained by causing the smoke whilst
still in its heated and almost nascent condition to traverse the water in which its.
gaseous and solid constituents are to be dissolved or suspended the water being in a
finely divided and agitated condition so as to bring a large area of surface into
contact and ensure the complete absorption or suspension of the smoke in the
water.
This object is effected by taking the smoke and products of combustion as they
pass off from the chimney of any furnace through a washer of suitable construction
such for example as that illustrated in longitudinal section in Fig. 2 of the first
sheet of the drawing of my said previous Letters Patent in which A is referred to
as a closed tank containing water and having mounted within it a revolving pipe
with radial beaters attached and having above the beaters a series of superposed
screens of wire gauze or perforated sheet metal which are kept constantly washed
by the splash of the water and through which the effluent vapour and any non
soluble gases must pass before they can escape at an outlet which is attached in any
suitable manner to the closed washing tank. The revolving pipe with the beaters
attached is rapidly revolved by a belt worked by a suitable motor shaft and the
smoke and products of combustion after being driven through the revolving
perforated pipe which is closed at the end opposite to the entrance are forced out
through the numerous apertures of the pipe and are brought into intimate contact
with the water which is splashed up in a finely divided state by the beaters
attached to the perforated revolving pipe and by this means the products of
combustion which vary in accordance with the fuel consumed and materials treated
become absorbed by the water which when thus impregnated constitutes the liquid
possessing the properties which I have found to be useful for the purposes
hereinbefore mentioned.
It will be understood that instead of utilizing smoke from an ordinary manu-
facturing or other furnace a special fire may be used to produce from properly
selected materials the smoke and gases required for the manufacture of the liquid
which it is desired to produce. The liquid will of course vary in its character
according to the materials operated on and will be known to possess in any given
case the characteristics imparted by the various chemical agents evolved.
It is well known that in many manufacturing and metallurgical operations
various products of combustion are given off which might if they could be utilized
in a proper condition be employed for the purposes above mentioned.
Among these agents may be mentioned various forms of sulphur and sulphur
gases and various acid products and forms of mineral salts whose properties are
well known and which may be selected and introduced into the liquid without
difficulty by persons experienced in the use and production of fertilizing insect-
destroying deodorizing or disinfectant liquids such as those hereinbefore
referred to.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is-
The employment for purposes such as are above mentioned of liquid products
prepared and produced in the manner described.
Loted thie Kr day Of March X4A
Loted
March 1X44
S. ELLIOTT,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.