IMPROVED COMBINATIONS OF INGREDIENTS FOR PRODUCING EXPLOSIVES FOR BLASTING AND MINING PURPOSES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Blanch Brain, of St. Annals, Cinderford,
in the County of Gloucester, Mining Engineer, for the Invention
of "IMPROVED COMBINATIONS OF INGREDIENTS FOR PRODUCING EXPLOSIVES FOR
BLASTING AND MINING PURPOSES."
Sealed the 17th February 1874, and dated the 11th September 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Blanch
Brain at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 11th September 1873.
I, WILLIAM BLANCH BRAIN, of St. Annals, Cinderford, in the County
of Gloucester, Mining Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVED COMBINATIONS OF INGREDIENTS FOR PRODUCING
EXPLOSIVES FOR BLASTING AND MINING PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to special combinations of ingredients in
certain proportions for the production of explosives or compounds for
blasting purposes, for firing torpedoes, for mining purposes, and for
blowing up or destroying sunken vessels.
The ingredients employed are nitro-glycerine, chlorate of potash,
sugar, charcoal, ground coal, sawdust, dextrine, starch, and shumach;

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Blanch Brain in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 11th March 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BLANCH BRAIN, of St. Annals, Cinderford, in the County of Gloucester,
Mining Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by. Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Blanch Brain, Her special
licence that I, the said William Blanch Brain, my executors,. admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Blanch
Brain, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVED COMBINATIONS OF INGREDIENTS FOR PRODUCING EXPLOSIVES FOR
BLASTING AND MINING PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Blanch Brain, my executors or admini-
strators, 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 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 William Blanch Brain, 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 thereof, that is to say :—.
This Invention relates to special combinations of ingredients in
certain proportions for the production of explosives or compounds for
blasting purposes, for firing torpedoes, for mining purposes, and for
5 blowing up. or destroying sunken vessels.

page_text: Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,―
First. The combination of the ingredients in the proportions men-
tioned in example A, as and for the purposes set forth.
Secondly. The combination of the ingredients in the proportions
mentioned in example B, as and for the purposes set forth.
Thirdly. The combination of the ingredients in the proportions
mentioned in example C, as and for the purposes set forth.
Fourthly. The combination of the ingredients in the proportions
mentioned in example D, as and for the purposes set forth.
Fifthly. The combination of the ingredients in the proportions
mentioned in example E, as and for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Blanch Brain, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of March,
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
W. BLANCH BRAIN. (L.S.)