IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESERVING ANIMAL, WOOLLEN, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES FROM DECAY
Year: 1840

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Sir WILLIAM
BURNETT, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, of
Somerset House, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Nineteenth day of March, in the third year of Her reign, did, for Herself,
Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Sir William Burnett,
Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
Sir William Burnett, my exors, admors, and assigns, and every of them, by
myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as I, the said Sir William Burnett, my exors, adiñiors,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, exercise, and vend, within that part of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in Her Islands of Jersey,
Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, and also in all Her said Majesty's
Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such manner as to me, the said Sir
William Burnett, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or any of them, should in
my or their discretion seem meet, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESERVING
ANIMAL, WOOLLEN, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES FROM DECAY," and that I, the
said Sir William Burnett, my exñors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully
might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage
from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the
said Invention, for and during the term of years, therein mentioned; in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that I, the said Sir William

page_text: Burnett, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said in part recited Letters Patent (reference being thereunto had, may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Sir William Burnett, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following description thereof (that is to say) :-
My Invention consists in preserving animal, woollen, and other fibrous
substances, by submitting them to the action of chloride of zinc, in the manner
herein-after mentioned. In preparing animal, woollen, and other fibrous
substances, or articles made thereof, I provide a tank or other vessel of wood
or other suitable material. I then fill it about two thirds full of chloride of
zinc, dissolved in cold water, in the proportion of one pound of chloride of
zine to five gallons of water. This I allow to remain for ten or twelve hours,
when the solution is ready. I then place the material which is to be
prepared in the solution, keeping it completely covered by the liquid, for from
forty-eight hours to ninety-six, according to its density, and then dry them
under cover. And I claim as my Improvements in Preserving Animal,
Woollen, and other Fibrous Substances from Decay, the use of the solution
above described, in the manner herein set forth.
In witness whereof I, the said Sir William Burnett, have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Thirty-first day of August in the year of our Lord