IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MANURE
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Clark, of 58, Chancery Lane, in tho
County of Middlesex, Engineer and Patent Agent, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MANURE."-A communication
from abroad by Mr. Alfred François Mosselman, of 29, Boulevart St.
Martin, Paris, Manager of the Western Lime Burning Company.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Clark at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd
July 1862.
I, WILLIAM CLARK, of 58, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said
.Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MANURE," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of manure termed "animalized
lime," and consists in treating quicklime, which is slacked by sprinkling it
with urine, sewage water, or other fertilizing liquid, to which may be added
'pure water in certain proportions according to the state of the lime and the

page_text: matter to be treated. The lime is thus completely transformed into a kind of
meal, which is still capable of absorbing a certain amount of moisture. In
this state the lime is employed for the disinfection and desiccation of fecal
matters, blood, dregs, or other soft fermentable matters containing moro or
Jess liquid, and suitable for manure. This desiccation, which I term "burning,
dressing, or amalgamating," consists in forming beds of the slacked lime
meal prepared as above described, and spreading over them the fecal or other
matters, which are then stirred up with a shovel, and afterwards raked over
in order to subdivide the matters, and cause them to combine with the lime, so
as to form balls or cakes composed entirely of fecal or other matter, and lime
slacked, by preference, with an azoted liquid which is neither completely caustic
nor completely carbonated. This product, which I term "animalized lime,"
may be easily handled and stored, and at same time is not liable to ferment.
In the preliminary operation of slacking the quicklime, if I employ an azoted
fermented liquid one portion of the azote contained in the liquid in the state
of ammonia is disengaged, and may be collected and condensed as a salt or
liquor. If fresh urine is employed in which the azote has not become trans-
formed into animonia, I allow the lime to become gradually slaked while
imbibing the unfermented urine; I-thus obtain a composition containing all
the fertilizing properties of urine, which I employ as a manure, either alone
or in combination with the balls or cakes of "animalized lime."
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th January 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAMS
CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer and
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of
8
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said William Clark, Her special licence that I, the said William
Clark, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said William Clark, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all 8

page_text: 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MANURE," a communication to me
from abroad by Alfred François Mosselman, of 29, Boulevart St. Martin,
Paris, Manager of the Western Lime Burning Company, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Clark, 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 William Clark, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say): --
This Invention relates to the manufacture of manure termed "animalized
lime," and consists in treating quicklime, which is slaked by sprinkling it
with urine, sewage water, or other fertilizing liquid, to which may be added
pure water in certain proportions according to the state of the lime and the
matter to be treated. The lime is thus completely transformed into a kind of
meal, which is still capable of absorbing a certain amount of moisture. In
this state the lime is employed for the disinfection and desiccation of fecal
matters, blood, dregs, or other soft fermentable matters containing more or
less liquid, and suitable for manure. This desiccation, which I term burning,
dressing, or animalizing, consists in forming beds of the slaked lime meal
prepared as above described, and spreading over them the fecal or other
natters which are then stirred up with a shovel, and afterwards raked over
in order to subdivide the matters, and cause them to combine with the lime,
so as to form balls or cakes composed entirely of fecal or other matter, and
lime slaked, by preference, with an azoted liquid which is neither completely
caustic nor completely carbonized. The product, which I terni "animalized
lime," may be easily handled and stored, and at same time is not liable to
ferment. In the preliminary operation of slaking the lime, if I employ an
azoted fermented liquid one portion of the azote contained in the liquid in the
state of ammonia is disengaged, and may be collected and condensed as a salt
or liquid. If fresh urine is employed in which the azote has not become
transformed into ammonia, I allow the lime to become gradually slaked whilo
imbibing the unfermented urine. 1 thus obtain a compost-containing all the

page_text: fertilizing properties of urine, which I employ as a manure, either alone or in
combination with the balls or cakes of "animalized lime."
In witness whereof, I, the said William Clark, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of January, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three.
Witness,
JAMES DAISH,
53, Chancery Lane.
London.
W. CLARK. (L.S.)