AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION TO BE USED AS A PRESERVATIVE AND PROTECTIVE DIP' FOR SHEEP AND OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Gilbert Aitkin Reid, of Leith, in the County
of Mid Lothian, North Britain, Wool Broker, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION TO BE USED AS A PRESERVATIVE AND
PROTECTIVE DIP' FOR SHEEP AND OTHER ANIMALS."
Sealed the 10th March 1871, and dated the 19th January 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Gilbert Aitkin Reid
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 19th January 1871.
I, GILBERT AITKIN REID, of Leith, in the County of Mid Lothian,
North Britain, Wool Broker, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION TO BE USED AS A PRESER-
VATIVE AND PROTECTIVE 'DIP' FOR SHEEP AND OTHER ANIMALS," to be as
follows:
This Invention relates to the compounding of certain ingredients to
form an improved preservative and protective "dip" for sheep and
other animals; and in carrying it out twenty parts by weight of a

page_text: mixture of equal parts of staveacre sceds -(delphinium staphisagria),
tobacco, hemlock, and hellebore, all in fine powder or as an infusion or
infusions, are mixed with solutions of one part bluestone (copper,
sulphate), two parts arsenic, one part sulphur, and four parts soda ash,
after which two parts alum arc added, and, finally, twenty parts of any
one or more of the following oils, namely, castor, gallipoli, lard, tallow,
whale, seal, or other vegetable or fish oil, the oil being well mixed with
the other ingredients.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Gilbert Aitkin Reid in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 18th July 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GILBERT
AITKIN REID, of Leith, in the County of Mid Lothian, North Britain,
Wool Broker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One' thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Gilbert Aitkin Reid, Her special licence
that I, the said Gilbert Aitkin Reid, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Gilbert Aitkin Reid, 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
COMPOSITION TO BE USED AS A PRESERVATIVE AND PROTECTIVE 'DIP' FOR SHEEP
AND OTHER ANIMALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Gilbert Aitkin Reid, 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

page_text: 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 Gilbert Aitkin Reid, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement in writing, reference being had to the
accompanying Drawings, that is to say:-
My said Invention relates to the compounding of certain ingredients
to form an improved preservative and protective "dip" for sheep and
other animals.
And in practically carrying out my said Invention I take twenty parts
by weight of a mixture of equal parts of staveacre seeds (delphinium
staphisagria), tobacco, hemlock, and hellebore, all in fine powder, or
as an infusion or infusions; and I mix the same with solutions of onc
part of bluestone (copper sulphate), two parts arsenic, one part sulphur,
and four parts soda ash. I prefer that the tobacco should be in fine
powder even when the rest of the ingredients are infused or dissolved.
To the mixture so made I add two parts of alum in solution, and finally a
mixture, of twenty parts of any one or more of the following oils, namely,
castor, gallipoli, lard, tallow, whale, seal, or fish oil, with three parts
each rough turpentine and soft soap, or with six parts of either of the
two last-named substances which are added to induce a better amal-
gamation of the oils with the other ingredients.
Having thus particularly described my said Invention and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I have to state, that whilst the
herein-before specified proportions of the various ingredients are what
I prefer and find best, it is not essential to adhere very precisely to them
in practice; also that I do not claim the application of every separate
ingredient herein-before mentioned apart from the other ingredients;
but that what I believe to be novel and original and claim as the
Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent is,
1. The making of "dips" for sheep and other animals by com-
binations of ingredients, substantially, such as are herein-before
described.

page_text: 2. The using of tobacco in a finely powdered state as herein-before
described.
3. The using of alum as herein-before described.
In witness wlicreof, I, the said Gilbert Aitkin Reid, have herc-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of July, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.
3. The using of alum as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Gilbert Aitkin Reid, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of July, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.
Witness,
EDMUND HUNT,
Patent Agent,
Glasgow.
.
G. A. REID. (L.S.)