AN IMPROVED DEODO- RIZING COMPOUND TO BE EMPLOYED IN CHAMBERS OR RECEPTACLES CONTAINING DEAD BODIES OR BODIES AFFECTED WITH A CONTAGEOUS DISEASE
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Kirby Ogden, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Undertaker, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED DEODO-
RIZING COMPOUND TO BE EMPLOYED IN CHAMBERS OR RECEPTACLES CONTAINING
DEAD BODIES OR BODIES AFFECTED WITH A CONTAGEOUS DISEASE."
Sealed the 17th May 1870, and dated the 18th November 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Kirby Ogden at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 18th November 1869.
I, KIRBY OGDEN, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Under-
taker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IM-
PROVED DEODORIZING COMPOUND TO BE EMPLOYED IN CHAMBERS OR RECEPTACLES.
CONTAINING DEAD BODIES OR BODIES AFFECTED WITH A CONTAGEOUS DISEASE," to be
as follows:-
The Invention is designed for the purpose of neutralizing and
destroying the exhalations of foul and poisonous gases arising from and
created by persons infected with contageous diseases or from dead bodies
contained in chambers, receptacles, or repositories, such as vaults,

page_text: graves, sarcophagi, or coffins, and the improvements consist in the
peculiar amalgamation or compound of the following ingredients, that
is to say: Take of vegetable or of vegetable and animal charcoal
mixed about one cwt., to which add a similar quantity of spent lime
dust, sand, and pure sawdust; the components when well commingled
are added to and mixed with equal quantities of earth, soil, and clay
previously impregnated with sulphuric acid; the whole of these com-
pounds when thoroughly blended form a substance, which is enclosed
in vessels and left to stand until required for use.
The manner of using the above compound when it is required for
deodorizing receptacles containing dead bodies is to let it down with
water until it partakes of a semi-fluid consistency, in which state it is
placed along the interior surfaces or in other places of the coffin or
receptacle containing the dead body from whence the infectious or
noxious gases exude, and which are thus absorbed or neutralized by the
compound as rapidly as they are generated, but when used for deodorizing
in sick rooms it is placed in grooves or spaces formed in the mattresses
or pillows upon which the person infected lies, thus absorbing and
neutralizing the foul gases as they are generated; the compound may
also be moulded into ornamental shapes for placing in vaults or sick
rooms.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Kirby Ogden in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th May 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, KIRBY 2
OGDEN, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Undertaker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty- 3
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Kirby Ogden, Her special license that I, the
said Kirby Ogden, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Kirby Ogden, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time 3

page_text: 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 "As IMPROVED DEODORIZING COMPOUND TO BE EM-
PLOYED IN CHAMBERS OR RECEPTACLES CONTAINING DEAD BODIES OR BODIES AFFECTED
WITH A CONTAGIOUS DISEASE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Kirby Ogden, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 Kirby Ogden, 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, that is to say:-
The Invention is designed for the purpose of neutralizing and
destroying the exhalations of foul and poisonous gasses arising from
and created by persons infected with contagious diseases or from dead
bodies contained in chambers, receptacles, or repositories, such as
hospitals, bedding, mattrass, vaults, graves, sarcophagi, or coffins, and
the improvements consist in the peculiar amalgamation or compound of
the following ingredients, that is to say:- Take of vegetable or of
vegetable and animal charcoal mixed about one hundred weight, to
which add a similar quantity of spent limo dust, sand, and pure sawdust;
these components well commingled are added to and mixed with equal
quantities of earth, soil, and clay previously impregnated with sulphuric
acid; the whole of these compounds when thoroughly blended form a
substance, which is enclosed in vessels and left to stand until required
for use.
The manner of using the above compound when it is required for
deodorizing receptacles containing dead bodies is to let it down with
water until it partakes of a semi-fluid consistency or in its dry state, in
which state it is placed along the interior surfaces or in other places
of the coffin or receptacle containing the dead body from whence the
infectious or noxious gasses exhude, and which are thus absorbed or
neutralized by the compound as rapidly as they are generated. The
deodorizer when designed for employment in sick rooms or hospitals,.

page_text: about bedding, pillows, or. mattrasses upon which sick patients are laid
I prefer to use in the following manner:-The mattrass is constructed
so as to form longitudinal bags or recesses, which are filled in with
the deodorizing compound, after which the corrugation may be covered
over with wadding, the whole being closed in so as to form a bedding, or
the mattrass may be used without any covering, the corrugations forming
channels that will convey liquid passing from the body infected to a
receiver outside the room. The disinfectant compound can also be
moulded into ornamental figures or placed in ornamental receptacles,
which when placed in hospitals or sick rooms will attract and absorbe
foul gasses, thereby maintaining a pure atmosphere.
In witness whercof, I, the said Kirby Ogden, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this the Seventeenth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.