A NEW AND IMPROVED MEANS OF PRESERVING SOLUTIONS OF CERTAIN PLANTS AND MATTERS IN A CONCENTRATED STATE
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Heuri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and Foreign
Patent Offices, 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of
France, and 38, Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "A NEW AND IMPROVED
MEANS OF PRESERVING SOLUTIONS OF CERTAIN PLANTS AND MATTERS IN A
CONCENTRATED STATE." - A communication from Clémence d'Estains,.
Widow of Leon de Wailly residing at Rue de Chaillot. 74. Paris.
Sealed the 30th July 1867, and dated the 11th March 1867.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonnevillé
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 11th March 1867, pursuant to the 9th Section of
the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852:
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI ADRIEN
BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 24, Rue du Mont
Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 38, Porchester Terrace, Bays-
water, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "A NEW AND IMPROVED
MEANS OF PRESERVING SOLUTIONS OF CERTAIN PLANTS AND MATTERS IN A CON-
CENTRATED STATE," a communication from Clémence d'Estains, Widow of
Léon de Wailly, a person resident at Rue de Chaillot, 74, Paris, aforesaid,
and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made
solemn Declaration that it is a communication.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and seal,
fully describes and ascertains the nature of the Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, that is to say:-
The Invention communicated to me relates to an easy, handy, and expedi-
tious means of tempering the harshness of the water which is used for the
purpose of ablutions or bygienic lotions, and consists in concentrating under a
small volume, so as to be easily dissolved, the principles of the plants and
other matters which I propose employing to attain this result. With this
object in view I make concentrated decoctions of marsh mallow, linseed, bran,
starch, gum, or any softening, emollient, or astringent matter or plant, or
possessing any such other quality. I dip into any one of these several
decoctions a piece of cotton stuff spun wide apart like canvas, or analogous
spungy material, twelve or fifteen times, taking care to dry it well after each
immersion; these pieces of cotton stuff or like material, after being well
dried, are cut up into little bits of the size of book leaflets, collected together,
and bound with a cover, so as to be easily carried, and the leaves easily
detached one after another, In order to use it it is then merely necessary to
take one or several leaflets, according to the degree of saturation to be given
to the ablution water, and to squeeze and manipulate it, or them, in this
water, whether hot or cold, with the view of doing away with or tempering
its virgin harshness and giving to the said water the principle of the plant or
matter yielded in the decoction with which the leaflets of cotton stuff or other
such like spungy material are impregnated,
Having thus particularly described the nature of the said Invention, and
the manner of carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that
I do not restrict myself to the exact details above given; but what I claim as
new and original is the means of preserving in a concentrated state the
principles obtained, through the process of decoction, of all sorts of plants or
matters whatsoever, by impregnating them on bits of cotton stuff, canvas, or
such like spungy material, and drying them several times, after which they

page_text: may be manipulated in the water, whether hot or cold, to be used in ablutions
or for hygienic purposes, in which they leave their respective principles.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereto
set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.S.)