IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FUEL AND MANURE, AND DEODORIZING AND DISINFECTING MATERIALS
Year: 1850

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
JAMES TARLING, of Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, Commission Agent,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Seventh day of March,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty, in the thirteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Henry James Tarling, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial license,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Henry James Tarling,
my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry James
Tarling, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FUEL AND MANURE, AND DEODORIZING
AND DISINFECTING MATERIALS;" in which said said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso that I, the said Henry James Tarling, shall cause a particular descrip-
tion of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be
inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters

page_text: Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry James Tarling, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner of performing the same, are fully described and ascertained in
and by the following description thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists, first, of improvements in the manufacture of fuel, by
the employment of the refuse tan and gas tar combined together as will be
afterwards described, and in the use of refuse tan and rosin oil, and peat and
resin oils, and also in the use of peat and gas tar. The mode of preparing the
fuel is as follows:-I take one bushel of refuse tan, having been previously
dried, and mix with it about one quart of gas tar in the state it comes
from the gas works. These materials are well combined together by stirring,
and in that state it may be burnt as fuel, or it may be pressed in moulds to
any required form. The same process is followed when using the peat and
gas tar, the peat being dried, and broken into smaller pieces, and when in that
state the tar is added, and the whole stirred and combined together as before.
In mixing these materials together, if the fuel is required to be more inflam-
mable, owing to the badness of draft of the furnace where it is to be burnt,
then an additional quantity of tar is be added. When manufacturing fuel
from refuse tar and rosin oil, or peat and rosin oil, I find the proportion most
suitable to be about one pint of oil to one bushel of peat or tan. I am aware
that peat and tan have been before employed, when combined with other
matters, for the manufacture of fuel; I do not therefore claim the same when
separately considered, nor do I confine myself to the precise proportions of the
materials given, as they may be varied; but what I claim is, the manufacture
of fuel by the employment of refuse tan when combined with gas tar, also peat
and gas tar, and peat and rósin oil, and refuse tan and rosin oil, as herein
described.
My improvements in the manufacture of manure consists of combining
highly carbonized refuse tan with night soil, which materials are to be mixed
together in about equal quantities, but I do not confine myself to the exact
proportions. I am aware that it has been before proposed to use refuse tan
with other matters as a manure; I do not therefore claim the use of refuse tan
generally. But what I claim as my Invention in the manufacture of manure
is, the employment of highly carbonised refuse tan when combined with night
soil, as herein described; and I also claim the employment of this highly
carbonated refuse tan, which is converted into a charcoal, for the purpose of
disinfecting or doodorizing night soil and other various matters, and I find

page_text: from experiments that the quantity sufficient for such purposes is about an
equal part in measure of this carbonized tan to the quantity of matter
operated upon.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry James Tarling, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty.