IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PRODUCTION OF COMPOUNDS CAPABLE OF BEING EMPLOYED FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF INSECTS UPON VEGETATION AS AN ANTISEPTIC AND FOR CLEANSING DISIN- FECTING AND LUBRICATING PURPOSES
Year: 1884

page_text: I WILLIAM GODSON LITTLE of Rock House Conisboro in the County of York
do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
PRODUCTION OF COMPOUNDS CAPABLE OF BEING EMPLOYED FOR THE DESTRUCTION
OF INSECTS UPON VEGETATION AS AN ANTISEPTIC AND FOR CLEANSING DISIN-
FECTING AND LUBRICATING PURPOSES" to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the production and use of compounds derived from
the distillation of resin and which are known as light and heavy resin oils in
conjunction with an alkali such as potash or soda so as to effect their saponification
and rendering them capable of being employed for the destruction of insects upon
vegetation and for antiseptic and disinfecting purposes and also for purposes of
lubrication and consists in effecting the saponification of either the light resin oil
or of the heavy resin oil or of mixtures of the same by means of a solution of
caustic potash or of caustic soda and the employment of such saponified product
either alone or in conjunction with water for the purpose of effecting the destruction
of insects upon vegetation or as an antiseptic or for cleansing or disinfecting
purposes or for purposes of lubrication.

page_text: I WILLIAM GODSON LITTLE of Rock House Conisboro' in the County of York
Esquire do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
PRODUCTION OF COMPOUNDS CAPABLE OF BEING EMPLOYED FOR THE DESTRUCTION
OF INSECTS UPON VEGETATION AS AN ANTISEPTIC AND FOR CLEANSING DISIN-
FECTING AND LUBRICATING PURPOSES," and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:—
This Invention relates to the production and use of compounds derived from
the distillation of resin and which are known as light and heavy resin oils in
conjunction with potash so as to effect the saponification of the said oils and
render them capable of being employed for the destruction of insects upon
vegetation and for antiseptic and disinfecting purposes and also for purposes of
lubrication and consists in effecting the saponification of either the light resin oil
or of the heavy resin oil or of mixtures of the same by means of a solution of
caustic potash and the employment of such saponified product either alone or in
conjunction with water for the purpose of effecting the destruction of insects upon
vegetation or as an antiseptic or for cleansing or disinfecting purposes or for
purposes of lubrication.
It will be found that this saponified compound possesses emulsifying properties
as oils and substances that are soluble in the said compound and insoluble in
water can through the agency of the said compound be caused to become suspended
in water.
As an example of the manner in which my Invention may be performed I give
the following:-
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I prepare a concentrated solution of caustic potash at 60° Fahrenheit. I then
pour into a suitable vessel the quantity of rosin oil which I wish to saponify and
pour upon it continuously sufficient caustic potash solution to effect its saponification
stirring the whole gently and testing samples with water from time to time to
ascertain whether sufficient alkali has been added. No heat is required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The production and use of a compound for the purposes hereinbefore described
the said compound being prepared by saponifying heavy or light resin oil by means
of potash.
Dated this 2nd day of September 1884,
W. G. LITTLE.
J. Henry Johnson,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the said William Godson Little.