AN IMPROVED BLASTING POWDER
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arnold Budenberg, of the Firm of Schäffer and
Budenberg, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, for the Inven-
tion of "AN IMPROVED BLASTING POWDER."-A communication from
abroad by Bernhard August Schäffer and Christian Friedrich Baden-
berg. of Buckau, Magdeburg, in the Kingdom of Prussia.
Sealed the 8th June 1866, and dated the 12th December 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arnold Budenberg at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, ou the 12th
December 1865.
I, ARNOLD BUDENBERG, of the Firm of Schäffer and Budenberg, of Man-
chester; in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVED BLASTING POWDER," a communication to
me from abroad by Bernhard August Schäffer and Christian Friedrich
Budenberg, of Buckau, Magdeburg, in the Kingdom of Prussia, to be as
follows:-
In the Specification of a former Patent granted to me, dated the 19th of
October 1868, No. 2555, I have described a new blasting powder obtained
by the admixture of nitrate of potash, nitrate of soda, sulphur, wood
charcoal, common cual, and potassio tartrate of soda; but it has been found

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Arnold Budenberg in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
12th June 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARNOLD
BUDENBERG, of the Firm of Schäffermand Budenberg, of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Arnold Budenberg, Her special licence that I, the said Arnold Budenberg,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as 1, the said Arnold
Budenberg, 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 "AN IMPROVED BLASTING POWDER,"
a communication to ime from abroad by Bernhard August Schäffer and
Christian Friedrich Budenberg, of Buckau, Magdeburg, in the Kingdom of
Prussia, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Arnold Buden-
berg, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
'ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same-was

page_text: 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 Arnold Budenberg, 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:-
In the Specification of a former Patent granted to me, dated the 19th of
October 1863, No. 2555, I have described a new blasting powder obtained
by the admixture of nitrate of potash, nitrate of soda, sulphur, wood charcoal,
common coal, and potassio tartrate of soda; but it has been found that a
greatly improved blasting powder is obtained by the combination alone of the
potassio tartrate of soda with the nitrate of potash, the sulphur, and the
wood charcoal in certain proportions. The matters being mixed together or
granulated may be used in cartridges or otherwise.
The proportions found to answer well are,-
4 parts of potassio tartrate of soda,
78
8
10
39
"
nitrate of potash,
sulphur,
wood charcoal,
but I do not confine myself to the proportions stated, as they may be
varied.
By the combination of potassio tartrate of soda with other matters, as
stated, a combustible composition is obtained particularly applicable to
blasting purposes by giving better results in combustion and effect.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arnold Budenberg, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
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ARNOLD BUBENBERG. (...)