IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBINING MATERIALS TO BE EMPLOYED IN FULLING CLOTH
Year: 1846

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
SERAPHIN FAUCON, of Rouon, in the Kingdom of France, Banker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by
Her Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-
ninth day of June, in the tenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her
heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Seraphin
Fauçon, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Joseph Seraphin Fauçon, my
exors, adinors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Seraphin
Fauçon, my exors, adiñors, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBINING MATERIALS TO BE EMPLOYED IN FULLING CLOTH;"
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Joseph
Seraphin Fauçon, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Iler 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
annear

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Seraphin Fauçon do hereby declaic that the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in wluch the same is to be performed, are fully
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is
to say:-
To make this combination or composition two substances only are necessary,
caustic potash-water and tallow oil, which is a product largely obtained in
preparing fatty matters in the manufacture of candles. The quantity and
degree of the caustic potash-water vary as does also tho quantity of the
tallow oil.
In order that the combination or composition should be well made, it is
desireable the potash-water should be strong enough to absorb the tallow oil.
The potash-water and the tallow oil can be employed in the proportions and
degrees, as follow.-One hundred pounds of caustic potash-water at 1.16
degrees, and fifty pounds of tallow oil; one hundred pounds of potash-water
at 1.20 degrees, and sixty pounds of tallow oil, one hundred pounds of
potash-water at 1.24 degiees, and seventy-two pounds of tallow oil; one
hundred pounds of potash-water at 1-27 degrees, and eighty pounds of
tallow oil; one hundred pounds of potash-water at 1 30 degrees, and eighty-
seven pounds of tallow oil. The quantity of the combination made with one
hundred pounds of potash-water at 1 30 degrees to eighty-seven pounds of
tallow oil is far superior to that made with one hundred pounds of potash
water at 1.16 degices to fifty pounds of tallow oil; it is also superior to that
made of the potash-water of the other degrees before mentioned. Caustic
potash-water can be employed under 1.16 degrees, also above 1.80 The
quantity of tallow oil mentioned may be also diminished or augmented.
Should the quantity of tallow oil be doubled or even more, the combina-
tion would be capable of being employed for fulling cloth. In a word, with
caustic potash-water and tallow oil the combination can be made, but the
quality will be more or less good according to the proportious employed.
To mix these two substances the potash-water is to be put in a banel on tub,
or any other sufficiently large vessel The potash-water should be employed
in a cold state; the tallow oil should be added in a liquid state. As soon as
the tallow oil is added to the potash-water, the mixture should be stirred well
together. When it is well mixed it is to be left to repose from twelve to
eighteen hours, then it is to be stirred again if there is any separation, and
afterwards left for one or several days.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that the

page_text: combination or compound thus made is to be used in place of the soap, and
after the process of fulling is to be carried on therewith in the same manner
as heretofore when using soap
What I claim is, the application of a combination or composition of tallow
oil and potash-water in the process of fulling cloths.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Seraphin Fauçon, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of December, in the
rear of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and forty-six