A NEW OR IMPROVED OIL FOR LUBRICATING MACHINERY
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Edwin Piper, of Wilson Street, Finsbury,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED OIL FOR LUBRICATING MACHINERY."
Sealed the 6th November 1868, and dated the 14th May 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Edwin Piper at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 14th May 1868.
I, JOHN EDWIN PIPER, of Wilson Street, Finsbury, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A.
NEW OR IMPROVED OIL FOR LUBRICATING MACHINERY," to be as follows (that
is to say):
My Invention has reference to a new or improved oil for lubricating
the bearings of machinery or otherwise, and consists of a combination
of the following ingredients and proportions, viz. :-1 gallon of Italian
oil, 3 gallons of petro oil, 2 oz. of castor oil, 3 oz. of concentrated anti-
corrosive compound, the whole of which are mixed or incorporated
together, and thereby form a thin transparent oil of a slightly greenish

page_text: colour, suitable for maintaining the bearings aforesaid in uniform working
order.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Edwin Piper in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 13th November 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
EDWIN PIPER, of Wilson Street, Finsbury, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Edwin Piper, Her special
licence that I, the said John Edwin Piper, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Edwin Piper,
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 "A NEW
OR IMPROVED OIL FOR LUBRICATING MACHINERY," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Edwin Piper, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 John Edwin Piper, 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 (that is to say) :-
My Invention has reference to a new or improved oil for lubricating
the bearings of machinery or otherwise, and consists of a combination

page_text: of the following ingredients and proportions, viz. :-1 gallon Italian
oil, 3 gallons petroleum oil, 2 oz. castor oil, 3 oz. "concentrated anti-
corrosive compound," the whole of which are mixed or incorporated
together, and thereby form a thin transparent oil, suitable for main-
taining the bearings aforesaid in uniform working order.
In conclusion to the foregoing description I would here briefly note
that in manufacturing the "Patent machine oil" other vegetable or
mineral oils may be employed in combination with the castor oil and
anti-corrosive compound in lieu of the Italian or petroleum oils above
described, and mixed in like manner or in such other proportions as in
practice may be found necessary.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of this my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed
and carried into effect, I would have it clearly understood that I do not
intend to confine myself to the precise details herein-before described,
as the same may be otherwise varied without departing from the
general principle of this my said Invention, nor do I claim as new and
of my said Invention the exclusive use of the several substances, com-
binations, or processes above referred to, except when the same are
employed in and for the object of my said Invention, which I hereby
declare to consist in the combination, employment, and chemical
properties of the several above-mentioned ingredients for forming or
producing my "Patent machine oil" in the manner and for the purposes
herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Edwin Piper, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight
Witness,
THOMAS M. CORNOCK,
Clerk to Messrs. Weatherdon & Co.,
Law Chambers,
77, Chancery Lane.
J. E. PIPER. (L.S.)