AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION TO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR OF WOOL FOR SPINNING AND OTHER MANU- OIL IN THE PREPARATION FACTURING PURPOSES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jonathan Scharr, of Bradford, in the County of York, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION TO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR
OF WOOL FOR SPINNING AND OTHER MANU-
OIL IN THE PREPARATION
FACTURING PURPOSES."
Sealed the 28th April 1876, and dated the 12th February 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jonathan Scharr at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th February 1876.
JONATHAN SCHARR, of Bradford, in the County of York.
"AN IMPROVED
COMPOSITION TO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR OIL IN THE PREPARATION OF
WOOL FOR SPINNING AND OTHER MANUFACTURING PURPOSES."
I take for one gallon of the composition the following ingredients and about the
quantities as under-mentioned :-
One ounce,
Gum arabic
Virgin resin
Linseed
Hempseed
Olive oil
Olein oil
Borax
-
Liquid ammonia
Castille soap
Pearlash
Potato flour starch
-
One ounce,
- Three ounces,
Two ounces,
Five ounces,
Five ounces,
One and a half ounces,
Half an ounce,
Twelve ounces,
-
One ounce,
Two and a half ounces.
The composition is prepared in the following manner :-I take the gum arabic,
virgin resin, linseed, hempseed, and pearlash in about the above-named proportions,
and boil them together for about an hour.
I mix the olive oil and olein oil together, and after bringing the liquid ammonia
to a suitable strength by a mixture of water I mix it amongst the olive and olein
oils; after having stirred them well together the mixture becomes bleached, after
which it is thrown in amongst the first-mentioned ingredients. The Castille soap is
then thrown into the boiler, also the borax, and the whole allowed to buil together
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page_text: for about half an hour. The potato flour starch is then thrown in, care being taken
that there are no lumps in it.
After potato flour starch has been put into the herein-before mentioned ingredients
it is allowed to boil for five minutes; after this the material is ready for use, and is
applied in a similar manner to oil which is ordinarily used.
I find it better for some purposes to vary the above ingredients. Sometimes I
cimploy sal ammoniac and gum tragacanth,
The quantities of the above-named ingredients are sometimes altered or varied to
suit the nature of the material to be operated upon,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Jonathan Scharr in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th July
1876.
JONATHAN SCHARR, of Bradford, in the County of York. "AN IMPROVED
COMPOSITION TO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR OIL IN THE PREPARATION OF
WOOL FOR SPINNING AND OTHER MANUFACTURING PURPOSES."
I take for one gallon of the composition the following ingredients in or about the
quantities as under-mentioned :-
Gum arabic
Virgin resin
Linseed
Hempseed
Olive oil
Oleine oil
Borax
Liquid ammonia
Castille soap -
Pearlash
Potato flour starch
One ounce,
One ounce,
Three ounces,
Two ounces,
Five ounces,
Five ounces,
One and a half ounces,
Half an ounce,
Twelve ounces,
One ounce,
Two and a half ounces.
The composition is prepared in the following manner-I take the gum arabic,
virgin resin, linseed, hempseed, and pearlash in about the named proportions, and
boil them together for about an hour.
I mix the olive oil and oleine oil together, and after bringing the liquid ammonia
to a suitable strength by a mixture of water I mix it amongst the olive and oleine
oils; after having stirred them well together the mixture becomes bleached, after
which it is thrown in amongst the first-mentioned ingredients. The Castille soap is
then thrown into the boiler, also the borax, and the whole allowed to boil together
for about half an hour. The potato flour starch is then thrown in, care being taken
that there are no lumps in it.
After potato flour starch has been put into the herein-before mentioned ingredients
it is allowed to boil for five minutes; after this the material is ready for use, and is
applied in a similar manner to oil which is ordinarily used.
I find it better for some purposes to vary the above ingredients. Sometimes I
employ sal aminoniae and gum tragacanth.
The quantities of the above-named ingredients are sometimes altered or varied to
suit the nature of the material to be operated upon.
In some cases I employ the under-mentioned modified prescription to make one
hundred gallons of the composition
Linseed
Virgin resin
Gum arabic
Pearlash
Carbonate of soda
Nine and a half pounds,
Three and a quarter pounds,
Three and a half pounds,
Three and a half pounds,
Three and a quarter pounds.

page_text: The gum arabic should be put in one gallon of water the day before it is required
in the composition.
Boil the above-named ingredients together for about half an hour, and then
add,―
Olive oil
Oleine oil
Castille soap
Borax -
Sal ammoniac
Potato flour starch
-
Six and a half gallons,
One and a half gallons,
Fifty-two pounds,
Two and three-quarters pounds,
-
Two and three-quarters pounds,
Nine pounds.
The whole of the ingredients should then be allowed to boil for about an hour
and a half, after which the material is ready for use, and is applied in a similar
manner to oil which is ordinarily used.
Other kinds of oil and soap may when preferred be employed, but from experi-
ment I find that they do not answer the purpose so well as the herein-before
mentioned oils and soap.
I would here remark that the quantities of the above-named ingredients are
sometimes altered or varied to suit the nature and quality of the material to be
operated upon.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that what I do claim and desire to be secured to
ne by Letters Patent is, the combination of the herein-before mentioned ingredients
forming an improved composition to be used as a substitute for oil in the prepara-
tion of wool for spinning and other manufacturing purposes.
In witness whereof I, the said Jonathan Scharr, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
JONATHAN SCHARR, (L.S.)