IMPROVEMENTS IN SOLID AND LIQUID DISINFECTANTS AND DEODORIZERS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Harry Langston Jones, of Webster's Hotel, Ely. Place,
Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SOLID AND LIQUID DISINFECTANTS AND DEODORIZERS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Harry Langston Jones at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st April 1876.
HARRY LANGSTON JONES, of Webster's Hotel, Ely Place, Holborn, in the County
of Middlesex, Civil Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN SOLID AND LIQUID DISIN-
FECTANTS AND DEODORIZERS."
The object of this Invention is to produce a cheap, efficient, non-poisonous, per-
fectly soluble and inodorous disinfectant, all its elements being strongly antiseptic,
disinfectant, and deodorent. Its perfect solubility obviates any possibility of
choking or clogging pipes or traps, or the formation of concretions on metal or
stone work.
The disinfectant being manufactured in a solid form is readily transformed into
a solution by the addition of water, thus rendering it easy of transport, as a large
quantity can be stored in a small space and diluted as required.
On account of its non-poisonous nature it is admirably suited for use in lunatic
asylums, schools, or where it is liable to careless handling.
It is most effective in purifying the vitiated atmosphere or effluvia of crowded.
places of public resort, of hospitals, public buildings, sick or private rooms; in
cleansing urinals, water-closets, sinks, or drains, and of freeing them of the noxious
vapours and foul odours by attacking both solid and gaseous impurities, and
destroying and rendering them inert.
The ingredients forming the powder consist of a combination of boracic acid or
of the borates of line or of soda, with chloride of sodium or with any alkaline
earthy salt, or with an inert substance, such as sawdust; these being previously
pulverized are then intimately mixed in the proportions, say for 100 parts, as
follow:-
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Boracic acid or borates of lime or soda
Chloride of sodium, or any alkaline carthy salt.
or en inert substance auch so sarduot
10 parts.
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page_text: These ingredients, although maintaining their relative proportions, would vary in
quantity in accordance with the strength of the powder or solution desired. Say,
for instance, for a strong disinfectant 20 per cent. of the acid or of the borates, and
for a weaker one 10 per cent. of these matters, added respectively to 80 and 90 per
cent. of any of the alkaline earthy salts or an inert substance.
The disinfectant therefore consists of the admixture of boracic acid or of the
borates of lime or soda with chloride of sodium or with any alkaline earthy salt or
an inert matter in the proportions specified, and for which combination I claim the
exclusive privilege.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Harry Langston Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th
October 1876.
HARRY LANGSTON JONES, of Webster's Hotel, Ely Place, Holborn, in the County
of Middlesex, Civil Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN SOLID AND LIQUID DISIN-
FECTANTS AND DEODORIZERS."
The object of this Invention is to produce a cheap, efficient, non-poisonous,
perfectly soluble and odourless disinfectant, which acts powerfully in arresting the
ill effects resulting from the changes in organic matter which give rise to decom-
position and disease, and is a desideratum in cases of infectious complaints, all its
elements being strongly antiseptic, disinfectant, and deodorent.
Being of a perfectly harmless nature as far as regards poison it is admirably
suited for use in lunatic asylums, schools, or where it is likely to meet with careless
handling.
Its perfect solubility obviates any possibility of choking or clogging pipes or
traps, or the formation of concretions on metal or stonework. It is in every way
serviceable in purifying the vitiated atmosphere or effluvia of crowded places of
public resort, of hospitals, public buildings, sick or private rooms, in cleansing
urinals, water-closets, sinks, or drains, and of freeing them of the noxious vapours
and foul odours, the concomitants of sickness, by attacking both solid and gaseous
impurities, and destroying and rendering them inert.
The disinfectant being manufactured in a solid form is readily transformed into
a solution by the addition of water, thus rendering it easy of transport, as a large
quantity can be stored in a small space and diluted as required.
The ingredients forming the powder consist of a combination of boracic acid or
of the borates of lime or soda with chloride of sodium, or with any alkaline carthy
salt, or with an inert substance, sawdust for example; these matters being pre-
viously pulverized are then intimately mixed in the proportions, say for 100 parts,
as follows:
These ingredients, although maintaining their relative proportions, would vary
in quantity in accordance with the strength of the powder or solution desired, say
for instance for a strong disinfectant 20 per cent. of the acid or of the borates, and
for a weaker one 10 per cent. of these matters added respectively to 80 and 90
per cent. of any of the alkaline earthy salts or an inert-substance.
Having thus described my Invention, what I claim and desire to secure by
Letters Patent is the solid or liquid disinfectant consisting of the admixture of

page_text: boracic acid or of the borates of lime or soda with chloride of sodium, or with any
alkaline earthy salt or an inert matter in the proportions specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Harry Langston Jones, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
Witness,
A. C. HENDERSON,
HARRY LANGSTON JONES. (LS.)
6, Southampton Buildings, Holborn.