AN IMPROVED DISINFECTANT
Year: 1885

page_text: I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake, and Co, Patent
Agents, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare
the nature of my invention for "AN IMPROVED DISINFECTANT" to be as follows :—
My invention relates to an improved disinfectant which destroys the gases arising
from putrifying matter, or other effluvia, without leaving any trace of its own sinell
as is the case with the disinfecting materials heretofore employed such as phenol
and thymol.
The properties of the improved disinfectant permit it to be employed in apart-
ments, sick chambers, and other places without causing any smell as do chlorides,
phenol and analogous substances which cannot destroy the miasmata without
discharging disagreeable odours.
The improved disinfectant is formed by mixing a liquid compound with a
pulverulent compound, and the different component parts of each of these com-
pounds will be hereinafter mentioned.
In order to make use of the disinfectant, it is sufficient to pour the liquid upon
the powder in a suitable receptacle, the combination which then takes place causing
the disengagement of gases which instantaneously decompose any infected gases
in the apartment or place.
The liquid compound is composed of the following enbatannes.

page_text: The purverdient compound in comp
Calcined saccharoid marble
(marbre saccharoid calciné)}
Suboxide of manganese
Sulphate of alumina and of potassium
Permanganate of potash
Manganate of potash
Citric acid
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500 grammes
100
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50.
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100
"
50
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100
"
I may vary the proportions indicated above, according to the nature of the
disinfectants to be produced, the intensity of the effluvia to be destroyed, or the
rapidity with which the compound is to act.
In certain cases, and especially when the disinfection of dissection-rooms, cattle-
trucks, water-closets and the like is concerned, I may employ bichromate of potash
in the pulverulent compound in combination or not with the manganate and the
permanganate of potash, with the object of disengaging oxygen.

page_text: I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co, Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex, 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:—
My invention relates to an improved disinfectant which destroys the gases arising
from putrifying matter, or other effluvia, without leaving any trace of its own smell
as is the case with phenol thymol and other disinfecting materials.
These properties of the improved product, which I term "Mosar disinfectant,"
permit it to be employed in apartments, sick chambers and other places without
causing any smell as do chlorides, phenol, and analogous substances which cannot
destroy the miasmata without discharging disagreeable odours.
The improved disinfectant consists of a liquid compound and a pulverulent
compound; the different component parts of each of these compounds are herein-
after mentioned.
In order to make use of the disinfectant, it is sufficient to pour the liquid upon
the powder in a suitable receptacle, the combination causing the disengagement
of gases which instantaneously decompose any gases infecting the apartment or
place.
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign Correspondent I declare that what I claim is:-
The improved disinfectant composed of the substances indicated, which are
combined substantially as described for the purpose specified.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.