An Improved Manufacture or Preparation' of Antiseptics.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Nov., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 9th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 14th Sept., 1888
An Improved Manufacture or Preparation' of Antiseptics.
We ARTHUR BOAKE, and FREDERICK GEORGE ADAIR ROBERTS, both of Warton
Road, Stratford, in the County of Essex, Manufacturing Chemists, ARTHUR SHEARER,
18 Hamfrith Road, Forest Gate, in the County of Essex, Analytical Chemist, and
WILLIAM BRANTINGHAM GILES, of 100 Warton Road, Stratford, aforesaid, Manu-
facturing Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in an improved manufacture or preparation of antiseptics by
dissolving Salicylic acid in a solution of an alkaline sulphite or other Salt of
Sulphurous acid preferably using Sulphite of Soda.
As the said salts or sulphites are powerful antiseptics a fluid is thus obtained
combining the antiseptic or preservative and disinfectant properties of Salicylic Acid
and of the Salt or Sulphite employed. To dissolve the Salicylic Acid we prefer to
employ a saturated solution of Sulphite of Soda in cold water. Such a solution will
readily dissolve one sixth or thereabouts of its weight of Salicylic Acid. The anti-
septics prepared according to this Invention may be employed in all cases where a
powerful antiseptic or preservative is required such for example as in the preservation
of beer, wine, milk, butter, and other articles of food or decomposible matter generally
and also for surgical purposes and for disinfecting sick rooms, urinals, and the like.
Dated this 14th day of November 1887
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agents for the said Arthur Boake,
Frederick George Adair Roberts, Arthur Shearer,
and William Brantingham Giles.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Manufacture or Preparation of Antiseptics.
We, ARTHUR BOAKE and FREDERICK GEORGE ADAIR ROBERTS both of Warton
Road Stratford in the County of Essex Manufacturing Chemists ARTHUR SHEARER
of 8 Hamfrith Road Forest Gate in the County of Essex Analytical Chemist and
WILLIAM BRANTINGHAM GILES of 100 Warton Road Stratford aforesaid Manu-
facturing Chemist do hereby declare the nature of this Invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
We have discovered that Salicylic acid is freely soluble in solutions of Sodium
Sulphite of Potassium Sulphite, or of ammonium Sulphite and this Invention consists
in the utilization of this solubility in the production of an improved manufacture or 1
preparation of antiseptics by dissolving Salicylic acid in a solution of sodium Sulphite,
of Potassium Sulphite or of ammonium Sulphite or mixtures of them preferably using
Sulphite of Soda. As the said Sulphites are powerful antiseptics a fluid is thus
obtained combining the antiseptic or preservative and disinfectant properties of
Salicylic acid and of the Sulphite or Sulphites employed. To dissolve the Salicylic 1
acid we prefer to employ a saturated solution of the Sulphite or Sulphites in cold
water. Such a solution will readily dissolve. Salicylic acid. Where for example
Sulphite of soda is used to make the solution it will readily dissolve one sixth or
thereabouts of its weight of Salicylic acid. The antiseptics prepared according to this
Invention may be employed in all cases where a powerful antiseptic or preservative is 2
required such for example as in the preservation of beer wine milk butter and other
articles of food or decomposible matter generally and also for surgical purposes and
for disinfecting sick rooms urinals and the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that what we 2
claim is
1. The manufacture of an antiseptic by dissolving Salicylic acid in a solution of
Sodium Sulphite of potassium Sulphite or of ammonium sulphite or mixtures of those
sulphites.
2. As a new article of manufacture the antiseptic prepared as herein before described 3
and claimed and its use for the purposes mentioned.
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