Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 11th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 12th Oct., 1888
RESERVE CO
WILLIAM WHITE 2 Church Fields Cheshunt Hertfordshire, Journalist ADOLPH
RICKMANN 114 Queen Victoria Street City of London, Merchant do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:
For the packing of Acids so that they can be conveyed from place to place with
safety and without spilling, we mix the Acid with a salt to which it is neutral and
preferably a salt which crystallises with much water. Thus for the package of
Sulphuric Acid, we employ dry Sulphate of Sodium or Magnesium; for Hydro-
chloric Acid we employ dry Chloride of Calcium or Magnesium; for Nitric Acid we
employ dry Sulphate of Sodium or Nitrate of Calcium; and so on.
The salt with which the Acid is associated does not in many cases interfere with the
use of the Acid ; as for example Sulphuric Acid mixed with Sulphate of Magnesium
or Sodium acts as energetically on Carbonate of Lime with water as when used
alone and when Acid is desired apart from the salt with which it is packed, separa-
tion is readily effected by distillation.
may be
When a cheap acid is to be packed it may be convenient to produce the requisite
salt by the addition to the Acid of the proper quantity of Alkali. Thus Chalk
added to Hydrochloric Acid, or Nitric Acid, or Soda to Sulphuric Acid; and the
production of the Salt and the sopping up of the Acid effected in one operation.
Some Acids, such as Sulphuric and Hydrochloric may with advantage be evaporated
and concentrated on their respective salts.
Dated this Twelfth dass of December 1887
WILLIAM WHITE.
ADOLPH RICKMANN.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Packing of Acids.
WILLIAM WHITE Journalist 2 Church Fields Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, ADOLPH
RICKMANN, Merchant 59 Knightrider Street (formerly 114 Queen Victoria Street).
City of London do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
For the packing of acids so that they can be conveyed from place to place with
safety & without spilling. We mix with the acid a dry salt to which it is neutral,
& preferably a salt which crystallises with much water. Thus for the package of
Sulphuric Acid, we employ dry Sulphate of Sodium, Calcium or Magnesium; for
Hydrochloric Acid, we employ dry Chloride of Calcium or Magnesium; for Nitric
Acid we employ dry Sulphate of Sodium or Nitrate of Calcium & so on.
As an illustration of our procedure we take the Sulphuric Acid, the most important
of acids. Having ascertained the quantity of water associated with it, we add thereto
as much dry Sulphate of Sodium as will crystallise with the water. To assist com-
bination, we heat the acid, & as soon as complete solution is effected we leave the
mixture to cool & solidify.
The salt with which an acid is combined does not in many cases interfere with the
uses of the acid. For instance, Sulphuric Acid with Sulphate of Sodium acts as
energetically on Carbonate of Calcium & water as when used alone.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said invention
& in what matter the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is,
The consolidation of acids by means of salts to which they are neutral for package
& carriage as described.
Dated this Eleventh day of September 1888.