IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING WOOL IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF WOOLLEN AND OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont, Vaux-
hall, Managing Director of Price's Patent Candle Company, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING WOOL IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF WOOLLEN AND OTHER FABRICS."
Sealed the 17th January 1858, and dated the 2nd November 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Fergussoni
Wilson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 2nd November 1852.
1, GEORGE FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, Managing
Director of Price's Patent Candle Company, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING WOOL IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF WOOLLEN AND OTHER FABRICS" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of applying the celine expressed from palmi
oil, and of purifying and preparing such oil to deprive it of smell, and
combining it with olive and other oils or oleic acids, in order that the
same may be used in the treatment of wool in the manufacture of
woollen and other fabrics.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Fergusson Wilson in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 2nd May 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
GEORGE FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, Managing Director
of Price's Patent Candle Company, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said George Fergusson Wilson,
Her special licence that I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
George Fergusson Wilson, 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 King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING WOOL IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF WOOLLEN AND OTHER FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and scal, 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 George Fergusson Wilson, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:
This Invention consists of applying the oleine expressed from palin
oil, and of purifying and preparing such oil to deprive it of smell, and
combining it with olive and other oils or oleic acids, in order that the
same may be used in the treatment of wool in the manufacture of woollen

page_text: and other fabrics. And in order that my said Invention may be more
fully understood, and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe
the means pursued by me. I mix the oleine of palm oil with the oloic
acid of palm or other oils or fats, and with olive and other oils; and in
order to free the oleine from smell before mixing it with the oleic acid,
and with other oils, I place the oleine of palm oil in a vessel from which
the air is excluded by means of heated steam, and thereby raise the
temperature to about 400° of Fahrenheit, and retain it at that tempe-
rature for about two hours, and I find that a mixture of about one half
of oleine of palm oil, and one half of oleic acid of palm oil, makes an
excellent preparation or combination; or, in place of the oleic acid of
palm oil, I can use the oleic acid of other oils or fats, and such coni-
pound oils may be used alone, if preferred, or mixed with olive or rape
oil; and such prepared oils are to be sprinkled and used on wool in like
manner to what olive and rape oils have heretofore been used. I would
remark that I am aware that oleic acid of palm oil has before been
used with wool, and a Patent was granted for its use and application to
my brother, James Pillans Wilson, and myself. I do not, therefore, claim
the same. But what I claim is, the purifying, preparing, and applying of
the oleine of palm oil in combination with oleic acid of palm or of other
oils or fats, with or without olive or rape oil, as above explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, have
hereunto set my hand and scal, this Twenty-ninth day of April,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
throo
Witness,
JNO. G. ALCOCK.
GEO. F. WILSON. (L.S.)