THE APPLICATION AND: USE OF PARAFFINE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HAIR OILS, OINTMENTS, AND PLAISTERS FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Humfrey, of 14, the Terrace, Camberwell,.
in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "THE APPLICATION AND:
USE OF PARAFFINE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HAIR OILS, OINTMENTS, AND
PLAISTERS FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES."
Sealed the 9th June 1857, and dated the 11th December 1850.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Humfrey at the:
Offico of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th December 1856.
I, CHARLES IIUMFREY, of 14, the Terrace, Camberwell, in the County of
Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "THE APPLI-
CATION AND USE OF PARAPPINE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HAIR OILS, OINTMENTS,
AND PLAISTERS FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES," to be as follows:--
The well-known property of paraffine of being unchangeable, even when
acted upon by the most energetic chemical agents, fits it for the purposes
mentioned in the above title; it is, in fact, quite incorruptible.
For the manufacture of hair oil, it is sufficient to mix pure paraffine with
some liquid oil, and perfume it according to taste; for the preparation of
ointments, my Invention consists in using paraffine in the stead of spermacetti
or other fat or grease; and for the manufacture of plaisters, the paraffine must
be softened by combining it with some liquid balsam possessing antiseptic
qualities.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Humfrey in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th June 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
HUMFREY, of 14, the Terrace, Camberwell, in the County of Surrey, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred, and, fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Charles Humfrey, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
Humfrey, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Charles Humfrey, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should.at any timo
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 "THE APPLICATION, AND USE OF
PARAFFINE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HAIR OILS, OINTMENTS, AND PLAISTERS FOR
MEDICAL PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Charles Humfrey, my executors or administrators, 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 Charles Humfrey, do hereby declare the
nature of the 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:-
:
The well-known property of paraffine of being unchangeable, even when
acted upon by the most energetic chemical agents, fits it for the purposes
mentioned in the above title; it is, in fact, quite incorruptible. For the
manufacture of hair oil, it is sufficient to mix pure paraffine with some liquid
oil, and perfume it according to taste; for the preparation of ointments, my
Invention consists in using paraffine in the stead of spermacetti or other fat or
grease; and for the manufacture of plaisters, the paraffine must be softened by
combining it with some liquid balsam possessing antiseptic qualities.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the mode. in which

page_text: it is to be performed, I would have it understood, that I do not confine myself
to the precise details herein-before described; but what I claim is, the
"application and use of paraffine in the preparation of hair oils, ointments,
and plaisters."
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Humfrey, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
CHARLES HUMFREY. (L.B.)
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE, Patent Agent,
4, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross.