An Improved Composition or Mixture for Dipping Sheep, and for analogous purposes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Jan., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 12th May, 1897-Accepted, 12th June, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Composition or Mixture for Dipping Sheep, and for
analogous purposes.
I, ROBERT MACKILL, of 29 Waterloo Street in the County of Glasgow North
Britain Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
that is to say :-
This invention has for its object to produce a composition or mixture for dipping
sheep and for analogous purposes, which will have various practical advantages
over and be without certain defects which have accompanied, some compositions
hitherto in use for the same purposes.
The distinguishing feature of this invention is the use of nicotine extracted from
tobacco instead of powdered or other form of tobacco. Compositions containing
powdered or other tobacco have been found efficacious when the tobacco has been
of suitable quality and when the proportions of the ingredients have happened to
be exactly adapted to the quality of the tobacco and to other circumstances. It
has however been found that tobaccos vary extremely in quality and especially in
the proportions they contain of available nicotine which is their useful and effectual
constituent and it is practically impossible to apportion the quantities of tobacco
and of other ingredients so as to obtain good and uniform results with different lots
of tobacco.
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By the present invention nicotine is extracted from any tobacco, and the extracts
are made so as to have a uniform strength of nicotine, or the strengths of different
extracts are ascertained to serve as guides in forming the dipping composition. In
the compositions the proportions of the nicotine and of other ingredients may be
varied in different cases, but the strength of each such composition being known it
can be applied in practice with the certainty of obtaining the desired result.
example of such a composition is here given as a guide. For this composition
which is suitable for 1000 sheep, 1 pound of nicotine extract of a strength of 80 per
cent. is mixed with 5 gallons of cresol (sometimes also known as cresylic acid) and
with 50 gallons of water and after thorough intermixture 450 gallons of water are
added. There may be other ingredients instead of or in addition to the cresol, but
the nicotine is an essential and the most efficacious constituent.
Dated this Sixth day of January 1897.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
An. Improved Composition or Mixture for Dipping Sheep, and for
analogous purposes.
I, ROBERT MACKILL, of 29, Waterloo Street, in the County of Glasgow, North
Britain, Merchant, 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, that is to say :-
This invention has for its object to produce a composition or mixture for dipping

page_text: sheep and for analogous purposes, which will have various practical advantages over,
and be without certain defects which have accompanied some compositions hitherto in
use for the same purpose.
The distinguishing feature of this invention is the use of nicotine extracted from
tobacco instead of powdered or other form of tobacco. Compositions containing
powdered or other tobacco have been found efficacious when the tobacco has been of
suitable quality and when the proportions of the ingredients have happened to be
exactly adapted to the quality of the tobacco and to other circumstances. It has
however been found that tobaccos vary extremely in quality and especially in the
proportions they contain of available nicotine which is their useful and effectual
constituent, and it is practically impossible to apportion the quantities of tobacco and
of other ingredients so as to obtain good and uniform results with different lots, of
tobacco.
By the present invention nicotine is extracted from any tobacco, and the extracts
are made so as to have a uniform strength of nicotine, or the strengths of different
extracts are ascertained to serve as guides in forming the dipping composition. In
the compositions the proportions of the nicotine and of other ingredients may be
varied in different cases, but the strength of each such composition being known it
can be applied in practice with the certainty of obtaining the desired result. An
example of such a composition is here given as a guide. For this composition which
is suitable for 1,000 sheep, 1 pound of nicotine extract of a strength of 80 per cent. is
mixed with 5 gallons of cresol (sometimes also known as cresylic acid) and with
50 gallons of water; and after thorough intermixture 450 gallons of water are added.
There may be other ingredients instead of or in addition to the cresol, but the nicotine
is an essential and the most efficacious constituent.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The employment of nicotine extracted from tobacco as an ingredient of a
composition or mixture for dipping sheep and for analogous purposes, substantially as
hereinbefore described.
Dalth
CML 1007
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.