IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CLOTHS AND IN THE PREPARATION OF WOOL
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont, Vaux-
hall, in the County of Surrey, Managing Director of Price's Patent
Candle Company, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
Sealed the 27th May 1853, and dated the 1st April 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Fergusson
Wilson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 1st April 1853.
I, GEORGE FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, in the County
of Surrey, Managing Director of Price's Patent Candle Company, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF CLOTHS AND IN THE PREPARATION OF WOOL" to be as
follows:-
I prepare the oily matters that result from the destructive distillation
of rosin by distillation or repeated distillation, with the air excluded;
or I previously subject the rosin oily matters to the action of powerful
agents, such as sulphuric acid; or I expose them to heat to drive off
their more volatile part; and I apply them, either alone, or mixed with

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Fergusson Wilson, in the Great Seal
Patent Office, on the 1st October 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
GEORGE FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, in the County of
Surrey, Managing Director of Price's Patent Candle Company, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the sixteenth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said George Fergusson Wilson, Her special licence that I,
the said George Fergusson Wilson, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CLOTHS AND IN THE PREPARATION OF WOOL,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Fergusson
Wilson, 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 George Fergusson Wilson, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):

page_text: I prepare the oily matters that result from the destructive distillation
of rosin by distillation or repeated distillation, with the air excluded; or
I previously subject the rosin oily matters to the action of powerful
agents; such as sulphuric acid; or I expose them to heat to drive off
their more volatile part; and I apply them, either alone, or mixed with
oleic acid or neutral oils, in the preparation of wool, and in the manu-
facture of woollen and other cloths, in place of the oils now in use for
like purposes.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed
to describe the manner in which the same is to be performed.
In the manufacture of woollen and other cloth, and also in the pre-
paration of wool, oils are used; and my present Invention consists of
applying rosin oil in substitution or in part substitution of the oils here-
tofore employed for such purposes. I prefer to use distilled rosin oil,
prepared as described in the Specification of a Patent granted to
Mr. Gwynne and me on the Sixteenth day of November, One thousand
eight hundred and forty-three; and such rosin oil may be employed
alone or mixed with other oils, either in the acid or neutral state. I
prefer, however, to combine distilled resin oil with oleic acid, and I mix
them in equal quantities. The resin oil or the combined oils are to be
used in like manner to what other oils have heretofore been employed,
and as is well known.
This Invention consists, as above explained, in the application of rosin
oil to such purposes, by which the processes where oil is used when
treating wool and woollen cloths are cheapened and improved.
In witness whercof, I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
three.
GEO. F. WILSON. (L.S.)
Witness, JNo. ALCOCK.