IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING WOOL AND FABRICS COMPOSED OF WOOL
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont;
Vauxhall, Managing Director of Price's Patent Candle Company,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING WOOL AND
FABRICS COMPOSED OF WOOL."
Sealed the 7th December 1853, and dated the 10th October 1853..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Fergusson
Wilson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 10th October 1853...
I, 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 AND
FABRICS COMPOSED OF WOOL" to be as follows:-
It is well known in processes of treating wool in the manufacture of
fabrics composed of, or containing wool that oils are used, and various
oils have before been employed in these processes. Now my Invention
consists of applying in such processes a combination of castor oil with
oleic acid, or, with the oleine of palm oil, such combined oils being
employed in like manner to what olive and other oils have heretofore
been used in such processes.

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 10th April 1854.
:
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 Tenth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said George Fergusson Wilson, Her special
licence that I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, my executors, ad-
ministrators, 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 there-
after 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING WOOL AND FABRICS COMPOSED OF
WOOL," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George
Fergusson Wilson, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said In-
vention, 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 ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
It is well known in processes of treating wool in the manufacture of
fabrics composed of .or containing wool that oils are used, and various
oils have before been employed in these processes. Now my Invention
consists of applying in such procesies a combination of castor oil with
oleic acid, or with the oleine of palm oil, such combined oils being

page_text: employed in like manner to what olive and other oils have heretofore
been used in such processes.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner of performing the same, and in doing so I would
state that the above-mentioned products may be combined in different
proportions, but I believe that the combination best suited for the pur-
poses of the Invention is at the rate of ten per cent. of castor oil and
ninety per cent. of oleic acid, or of the oleine of palm oil, and in order to
blend or combine these matters well and intimately together I prefer to
boil them up by means of free steam for about half an hour. This
compound oil when cold and allowed to settle is used in the manner in
which olive and other oils have heretofore been employed in treating
wool, and which is well understood. I remark, that although I have
been thus particular in giving the precise proportions which I prefer, I
do not confine myself thereto.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not claim
to use either of the above-named matters separately; but what I claim
is, the combining castor oil with oleic acid, or with oleine of palm oil,
and using them in the preparation and treatment of wool and fabrics
composed of wool.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of April, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
four.
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Witness,
B. GOBEY,
4, Old Square,
Lincoln's Inn.
GEO. F. WILSON. (L.S.)