A CERTAIN MIXTURE TO BE USED IN THE PREPARATION OF SHEEP OR LAMB'S WOOL FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES, BY WHICH A CONSIDERABLE SAVING WILL BE MADE IN THE ARTICLE OF OIL
Year: 1803

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WALTER
BEAUMONT, of South Crossland, near Huddersfield, in the County of York,
Manufacturer of Woollen Goods, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Seventeenth day of
May, in the forty-third year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
Walter Beaumont and George Beaumont, of South Crossland aforesaid,
Manufacturer of Woolen Goods, His special licence that we, the said Walter
Beaumont and George Beaumont, during the term of years therein mentioned,
should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Invention or Discovery of
"A CERTAIN MIXTURE TO BE USED IN THE PREPARATION OF SHEEP OR LAMB'S WOOL
FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES, BY WHICH A CONSIDERABLE SAVING WILL BE MADE IN THE
ARTICLE OF OIL;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso obliging us, the said George Beaumont and Walter Beaumont,
or one of us, by an Instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or
under the hand and seal of one of us, to cause a particular description of
the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
one calendar month next after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at
large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Walter Beaumont, do hereby declare that our said Invention is described in
manner following; (that is to say,)
Our said mixture consists of oil united with or diffused in water by means
of an alkaline substance, namely, potash or pearlash or soda, or the volatile
alkali called ammonia, but we give a decided preference to potash or pearl-
ash. The proportions and manner of making the said mixture are the follow-
ing:-Dissolve the best potash or alkali in the water in the quantity of about
twelve ounces of alkali in each gallon of water, and when the solution is com-
pleted two measures of the same or thereabout are to be added to one measure
of the oil and united by stirring or agitation, and the three measures of com-
pound liquor thus produced do constitute and form our said mixture, and will
be found to produce the effect of oil when applied in the same manner as oil
is commonly used in manufacturing cloths, coatings, cassimeres, blankets, and
every other description of woollen goods. No instructions are necessary to be
given with regard to the oils, or the method of applying the mixture, or the
quantity of the same to be used with wools of various qualities and colours,
because the oils may be of any kinds suitable to be used with wool, and the
operations must be governed by the usual skill and judgment of the workman,
in the same manner. as oil is now used; and further,. I do. hereby state and
declare, that tho' the description. here given is a true and full specification of
the practice or method of making. or using our said. mixture, I do, never-
theless, apprehend that it may be of some advantage to the public to state our
notions with regard to the nature of the said mixture as far as concerns the
effects thereof; (viz'), in all the operations upon wool the manufacturer en-
deavours either, (first) to extend it by carding or spinning or similar practices;
or (secondly) to unite, condense, and connect the same by weaving,. fulling,.
felting, and the like. In the first of these two distinct purposes it is necessary
that the fibres of the wool should, by means of some lubricating matter,
be made to slide easily over each other, instead of fixing, knotting,, and
entangling themselves together; and no material hath been heretofore known
which, was, adequate to. the effect, except oil in a pure state, or nearly. so.
Water, itself, is too...harsh a,fluid and soon, evaporates, and the perfect combi-
nation, of oil and alkali,. called soap, (if dissolved,in, water in the large, propor-
tion requisite,. is found; to, become stiff, and cloggs. the staple or fibre of; the.
wool: But our mixture being;, in fact, a diluted solution, of the best potash.
or alkali of commerce, not in the caustic or chemically, pure state, (tho' in
this degree of dilution the caustic alkali may be used in forming our. said
mixture,) but naturally combined in part with carbonic acid, and this solution

page_text: being mixed by agitation with a large proportion of oil, the result must consist
of oil minutely divided, slightly alkalized, and capable of being applied over
the extensive surface of the fibres, together with a solution of mild or partly
saturated alkali, which is well known does not become perfectly dry, but
disposed to remain in the state of deliquescence. This last fluid is (as I
apprehend from the facts) well adapted to assist in the lubrication along with
the oil, and even to produce an effect by their joint action superior to that
which either fluid singly could have done.
In witness whereof, I, the said Walter Beaumont, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and three.
disposed to remain in the state of deliquescence. This last fluid is (as I
apprehend from the facts) well adapted to assist in the lubrication along with
the oil, and even to produce an effect by their joint action superior to that
which either fluid singly could have done.
In witness whereof, I, the said Walter Beaumont, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and three.
WALTER BEAUMONT. (L.s.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-first day of May, in the
forty-third year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the
said Walter Beaumont came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes made
in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and
Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth, twenty-third, and
thirty-seventh years of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twenty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and three.