IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING OR SEPARATING OILY, FATTY, GREASY, TARZY, WAXY, AND RESINOUS SUBSTANCES FROM OLEAGINOUS SEEDS, NUTS AND FRUITS, WOOL, SILK, HAIR, COTTON, FLAX. LINE, HEMP, FURS, SKINS, LEATHER, BONES, FISH. AND OTHER ANIMAL MATTERS AND REFUSE, WOOLLEN AND COTTON WASTE AND REFUSE, ALSO T FABRICS, AND REFUSE GREASE PRODUCED IN VARIOUS BRANCHES OF INDUSTRY, INDIGO LAC, LAC DYE, AND OTHER DYES
Year: 1859

page_text: ETTERS PATENT to Thomas Sykes, of Cleckheaton, in the County of
York, Manufacturing Chemist, and Benjamin Clifford Sykes, of the same
Place, M.D., for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING OR
SEPARATING OILY, FATTY, GREASY, TARZY, WAXY, AND RESINOUS SUBSTANCES
FROM OLEAGINOUS SEEDS, NUTS AND FRUITS, WOOL, SILK, HAIR, COTTON, FLAX.
LINE, HEMP, FURS, SKINS, LEATHER, BONES, FISH. AND OTHER ANIMAL
MATTERS AND REFUSE, WOOLLEN AND COTTON WASTE AND REFUSE, ALSO
T
FABRICS, AND REFUSE GREASE PRODUCED IN VARIOUS BRANCHES OF
INDUSTRY, INDIGO LAC, LAC DYE, AND OTHER DYES."
Sealed the 2nd August 1859, and dated the 5th February 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Sykes and
Benjamin Clifford Sykes at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 5th February 1859.
We, THOMAS SYKES, of Cleckheaton, in the County of York, Manufacturing
Chemist, and BENJAMIN CLIFFORD SYKES, of the same Place, M.D., do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING OR
SEPARATING OILY, FATTY, GREASY, TARRY, WAXY, AND RESINOUS SUBSTANCES FROM
OLEAGINOUS SEEDS, NUTS AND FRUITS, WOOL, SILK, HAIR, COTTON, FLAX, LINE,
HEMP, FURS, SKINS, LEATHER, BONES, FISH. AND OTHER ANIMAL MATTERS AND
REFUSE, WOOLLEN AND COTTON WASTE AND REFUSE, ALSO TEXTILE FABRICS, AND
REFUSE GREASE PRODUCED IN VARIOUS BRANCHES OF INDUSTRY. INDIGO. LAC, LAC
DYE, AND OTHER DYES," to be as follows:-
The improvements relate to obtaining or separating oily, fatty, greasy,
tarry, waxy, and resinous substances from oleaginous seeds, uuts
and fruit,
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page_text: wool, silk, hair, cotton, flax, line, hemp, furs, skins, leather, bones, fish, and
other animal matters and refuse, woollen and cotton waste and refuse, and
textile fabrics, refuse grease produced in many branches of industry, indigo
lac, lac dye, and other dyes, by means of bisulphide of carbon and hydrostatic
pressure, also from the above-named matters, except silk, hair, wool, and
textile fabrics, by means of naptha and hydrostatic pressure.
The improvements relate, first, to the use of bisulphide of carbon as a
solvent in extracting oily, fatty, greasy, tarry, waxy, and resinous substances,
which may be combined with the various bodies or substances to be treated;
and, secondly, the improvements relate to the use of hydrostatic pressure with
water or other fluid to facilitate the percolation of the solution of the oily,
fatty, greasy, tarry, waxy, or resinous substances, in the bisulphide of carbon
or naptha through the bodies or substances treated, and ultimately to
displace it.
In order to accomplish our object, we provide ourselves with a suitable
vessel having a perforated false bottom with holes, and in some cases a false
top, also perforated. Upon the false bottom we put the substances to be
treated, and run the naptha or bisulphide of carbon, as the case may be, into
the vessel until the substances to be treated with it are fully immersed therein.
The vessel is provided with a close fitting cover at the top, fastened down by
means of screws or other suitable means; it is also provided with pipes and
taps at the bottom and near the top, or at such other parts as may be found
most convenient for the purpose of transmitting hydrostatic pressure to the
contents of the vessel by communicating with water or other fluid contained
in a vessel in an elevated position, and these pipes, or some of them, also serve
for the purpose of running off the dissolved matters into suitable receivers.
We apply the hydrostatic pressure either at the bottom or at the top,
according to the relative specific gravities of the hydrostatic medium and
the solution of fats, oils, greases, tars, waxy and resinous bodies to be
obtained.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Sykes and Benjamin Clifford Sykes in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 4th August 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
SYKES, of Cleckheaton, in the County of York, Manufacturing Chemist, and
BENJAMIN CLIFFORD SYKES, of the same Place, M.D., send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto us, the said Thomas Sykes and Benjamin Clifford Sykes, Her special
licence that we, the said Thomas Sykes and Benjamin Clifford Sykes, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Thomas
Sykes and Benjamin Clifford Sykes, our 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 Chanuel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE.
MENTS IN OBTAINING OR SEPARATING OILY, FATTY, GREASY, TARRY, WAXY, AND
RESINOUS SUBSTANCES FROM OLEAGINOUS SEEDS, NUTS AND FRUITS, WOOL, SILK,
HAIR, COTTON. FLAX, LINE, HEMP, FURS, SKINS, LEATHER, BONES, FISH, AND
OTHER ANIMAL MATTERS AND REFUSE, WOOLLEN AND COTTON WASTE AND REFUSE,
ALSO TEXTILE FABRICS, AND REFUSE GREASE PRODUCED IN VARIOUS BRANCHES OF
INDUSTRY, INDIGO LAC, LAC DYE, AND OTHER DYES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Thomas Sykes and Benjamin lifford Sykes, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their
hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 we, the said Thomas Sykes and Benjamin Clifford
Sykes, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The improvements relate to obtaining or separating oily, fatty, greasy,
tarry, waxy, and resinous substances, from oleaginous seeds, nuts and fruits,
wool, silk, hair, cotton, flax, line, hemp, furs, skins, leather, bones, fish, and
other animal matters, and refuse woollen and cotton waste and refuse, and
textile fabrics refuse, grease produced in many branches of industry, indigo
lac, lac dye, and other dyes, by means of bisulphide of carbon and hydrostatic
pressure, also from the above-named matters, except silk, hair, wool, and
textile fabric, by means of naptha and hydrostatic pressure.
The improvements relate, first, to the use of bisulphide of carbon as a
solvent in extracting oily, fatty, greasy, tarry, waxy, and resinous substances,

page_text: which ɩ may be combined with the various bodies or substances to be treated:
and, secondly, the improvements relate to the use of hydrostatic pressure with
water or other fluid to facilitate the percolation of the solution of the oily,
fatty, greasy, tarry, waxy, or resinous substances in the bisulphide of carbon
or naptha through the bodies or substances treated, and ultimately to
displace it.
In order to accomplish our object, we provide ourselves with a suitable
vessel having a false bottom perforated with holes, and in some cases a false
top, also perforated. Upon this false bottom we put the substances to be
treated, and run the naptha or bisulphide of carbon, as the case may be, into
the vessel until the substances to be treated with it are fully immersed therein.
.The vessel is provided with a close fitting cover at the top, fastened down by
means of screws or other suitable means; it is also provided with pipes and
taps at the bottom and near the top, or at such other parts as may be found
most convenient for the purpose of transmitting hydrostatic pressure to the
contents of the vessel by communicating with water or other fluid contained in
a vessel in an elevated position; and these pipes, or some of them, also serve
for the purpose of running off the dissolved matters into suitable receivers.
We apply the hydrostatic pressure either at the bottom or at the top,
according to the relative specific gravities of the hydrostatic medium, and
the solution of fats, oils, greases, tars, waxy and resinous bodies to be
obtained.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Sykes and Benjamin Clifford
Sykes, have hereunto set our hand and seal, this First day of August,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Witness,
JOHN LAW,
Cleckheaton.
L.S.
BENJN. CLIFFORD SYKES. (L.S.)