IrDATENENTS IN TUT MANTRACTURE OR MANUDE
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Toynbee, of London, Engineer, now at
present residing in the City of Antwerp, in the Kingdom of Belgium, for
the Invention of "IrDATENENTS IN TUT MANTRACTURE OR MANUDE "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Toynbee at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd February 1858..
I, EDWARD TOYNBEE, of London, Engineer, now at present residing in
the City of Antwerp, in the Kingdom of Belgium, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
MANURE," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in a new method of dissolving and disintegrating
wool, horsehair or bristles, leather, flesh, and other organic matters, anima!
or vegetable, and likewise woollen rags, yarns, &c. of all kinds, for the purpose;
of converting them into manure by means of sulphuric acid.
The dissolution and disintegration is effected by boiling in leaden or any
other suitable vessels or utensils, open or closed, and by means of steam applied
direct or otherwise, or even by an open fire, the various matters or substances
herein-before mentioned with a solution of sulphuric acid concentrated or,
otherwise as the case may require, and in the proportions. which I vary.
according to the matters I operate upon, preferring for general use one ton of
sulphuric acid at 50° to from 4 to 5. tons of matter. It follows, that the
substances such as wool, horsehair or bristles, leather, flesh, and others herein
above named, although dissolved and disintegrated, retain all their fertilizing
properties, and by the minute subdivision of their particles in the liquid, which
is the product of the operation, produce on the land to which it is applied an

page_text: immediate effect; whereas, if the same matters were applied in their raw state,
such effect would only develop itself after the lapse of some years, their
decomposition taking place but slowly and gradually.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Toynbee in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
23rd August 1858..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS. SHALL COME,, I, EDWARD
TOYNBEE, of London, Engineer, now at present residing in the City of Antwerp,
in the Kingdom of Belgium, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Ier heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edward Toynbee, Her special licence that I, the said Edward Toynbee,.
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward
Toynbee, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF MANURE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Edward Toynbee, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their bands and seals, 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 Edward Toynbee, 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 :-
This Invention consists of a new method of manufacturing manure from
wool, horsehair, flesh, and other organic matters. In order to explain my
said Invention as completely as possible, I now proceed to describe the best
means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect in the
manner following, namely:-
:

page_text: My Invention relates to a new method of dissolving and disintegrating
wool, horsehair or bristles, leather, flesh, and other organic matters, animal or
vegetable, and likewise woollen rags and yarns of all kinds for the purpose of
converting them into manure, by treating the same with sulphuric acid.
The dissolution and disintegration is effected by boiling in leaden or any other.
suitable vessels or utensils open or closed, and by means of steam applied direct
or otherwise, or even by an open fire, the various matters or substances berein-
before mentioned with a solution of sulphuric acid concentrated or otherwise,
as the case may require, and in the proportions which I vary according to the
matters I operate upon, preferring for general use one ton of sulphuric acid at
50° to from 4 to 5 tons of matter. It follows that the substances such as wool,
horsehair or bristles, leather, flesh, and others herein above-named, although
dissolved and disintegrated, retain all their fertilizing properties, and by the
minute subdivision of their particles in the liquid which is the product of the
operation, produce on the land to which it is applied an immediate effect,
whereas if the same matters were applied in their raw state, such effect
would only develop itself after the lapse of some years, their decomposition
taking place but slowly and gradually.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my said
Invention of "Improvements in the Manufacture of Manure," together with
the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into practical
effect, I would remark in conclusion, that I do not confine myself to the sub-
stances herein mentioned, as many others might and would have the same
effect when treated in the manner described. What I claim, therefore, as my
Invention intended to be secured by the in part recited Letters Patent, is the
mode of treating such like substances for the purpose herein set forth and
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Toynbee, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
GEORGE D. MEHRTENS,
Antwerp.
EDWARD TOYNBEE. (L.S.)