IMPROVE- THE MANUFACTURE OF BORAX
Year: 1843

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES.
MAURICE ELIZEE SAUTTER, of Austin Friars, in the City of London, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-.
minster, the Twenty-second day of May, in the sixth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles
Maurice Elizee Sautter, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Charles Maurice Elizee Sautter, my exors, admors,
and assigns, and such others as I, the said Charles Maurice Elizee Sautter,.
my exors, adñiors, 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 "IMPROVE-
THE MANUFACTURE OF BORAX;" in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso, that I, the said Charles Maurice Elizee Sautter, shall
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, 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 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
Charles Maurice Elizee Sautter, do hereby declare the nature of my said

page_text: Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof (that is to
say) -
The object of the Invention is to avoid the use of water in the manufacture
of borax, and to produce an article thereby possessing the same properties as
the crystallized borax manufuctured by the usual process, but of a quite
different appearance, being in a granular state, and of a dull white color when
quite pure.
The advantage of this Invention is to produce an article endowed with the
same chemical properties, and of precisely the same composition, at a con-
siderably less cost, than the borax now in use; it may be added, that its being
in a granular state makes it more convenient for the making of glass,
enamel, &c.
This new borax is made in the following way :-I take about thirty-eight
parts in weight of boracic acid, quite pure, crystallized, and dry, and sift it; I
then add about forty-five parts in weight of fine carbonate of soda, crystallized,
reduced to a powder. These two powders are to be thoroughly mixed together
by any convenient means; the mixture is then to be placed in a room, the
temperature of which is heated to about ninety to one hundred and fifteen
degrees of Fahrenheit; it is placed in layers or beds of about one inch thick
upon wooden planks. The action of the heat upon the mixture causes the
boracic acid to take to the soda, and the carbonic acid is driven off from the
carbonate of soda, together with the superabundant water contained in it,
forming thereby without the aid of water a perfect borax or borate of soda,
possessing all the chemical properties of the borax now obtained by means of
crystallization. The layers should be left during from twenty-four to thirty-six
hours, being stirred now and then, after which the operation is completed,
and the new borax is found in the state described, ready for the market.
This description applies more particularly to where both substances are used
in their purest state. Impure acid can, however, be also used, and the reaction
will take place just in the same way, and offer proportionally the same advan-
tages over the actual mode of manufacturing borax by crystallization; but an
impure borax will then be obtained, which, however, not being objectionable
for certain purposes, might also be used.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Maurice Elizee Sautter, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-three.
MAURICE (L.S.) SAUTTER.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twentieth day of November, in
the year of our Lord 1843, the aforesaid Charles Maurice Elizee Sautter came
before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-second day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-three.