A NEW OR IMPROVED DEODORISING AND DISINFECTING AGENT, AND ITS MANUFACTURE AND USE IN VARIOUS FORMS
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Edward Goolden and Angus Mackay, both of
Southwark, in the County of Surrey, for an Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED DEODORISING AND DISINFECTING AGENT, AND ITS MANUFACTURE
AND USE IN VARIOUS FORMS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Edward Goolden
and Angus Mackay at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
27th July 1881:
RICHARD EDWARD GOOLDEN and ANGUS MACKAY, both of Southwark, in the
County of Surrey. "A NEW OR IMPROVED DEODORISING AND DISINFECTING
AGENT, AND ITS MANUFACTURE AND USE IN VARIOUS FORMS."
Our Invention relates to the use in various forms and combinations of gum
kauri as a disinfectant and deodoriser, which as such we find to be very powerful
and effective, whether heated in a powdered state or triturated state, or in a state
of solution.
Our Invention consists as follows:-
I. We dissolve a certain quantity of the gum, such quantity being determined
by the use or purpose to which the solution is to be applied, in water, spirit, or any
solvent capable of acting on the gum so as to make the solution, and we thus
apply the said solution:We saturate therewith any textile or raw material, such
as cotton, wool, lint, paper, or lime, or any inorganic matter that is capable of
taking up or absorbing the said solution. The saturated substance or material is
then ready for use in the place or position where it is required to be used as a
disinfectant and deodoriser.
II. Our Invention consists further in the use of the aqueous solution (by suitable
well known arrangements therefor) in the form of a spray, or in the burning of the
alcoholic or spirituous solution in a spirit lamp, by both of which plans the
deodorising and disinfecting power of the solution is materially developed.
III. We combine also with gum kauri wax, fat or oils, and rosin or gum, so as

page_text: to mould or otherwise form candles or tapers, by the burning of which the
disinfecting and deodorising powers of the gum are fully developed in the fumes
therefrom.
IV. We also extract the essential principle of the gum kauri by distillation, and
combine the extract thus obtained with animal or other oils suitable for burning in
lamps..
V. Our Invention consists further in saponifying, the gum kauri, so as thereby to
make a valuable disinfecting soap. In making this soap we take of the following
ingredients in or about the following proportions:-Of some oil, by preference
castor oil, sixteen ounces avordupoise; of rosin, four ounces; and of gum kauri,
eight ounces. These ingredients being intimately mixed so as to form one homo-
geneous mass or mixture, we then saponify in the manner known to and practised
by soap makers with caustic soda or caustic potash. We then combine the soap
thus produced with ordinary soap in the proportion of about one fourth of the
former to three fourths of the latter.
VI. With the powdered gum kauri, or with any of the combinations herein
above alluded to, we may use iodine, chlorine, or bromine in quantities varying
according to the exact use or purpose for which it is to be applied, and we may use
the triturated powder by placing it on metal or other plates, stone, or other heated
surfaces.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Richard Edward Goolden and Angus Mackay in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 26th January 1882.
RICHARD EDWARD GOOLDEN and ANGUS MACKAY, both of Southwark, in the
County of Surrey. "A NEW OR IMPROVED DEODORISING AND, DISINFECTING
AGENT, AND ITS MANUFACTURE AND USE IN VARIOUS FORMS."
Our Invention relates to the use in various forms and combinations of gum
kauri as a disinfectant and deodoriser, which as such we find to be very powerful
and effective, whether treated in a powdered state, a triturated state, or in a state
of solution.
Our Invention consists as follows:-
I. We dissolve a certain quantity of the gum, such quantity being determined
by the use or purpose to which the solution is to be applied, in water, spirit, or any
solvent capable of acting on the gum so as to make the solution, and we apply the
said solution as follows:-We saturate there with any textile or raw material, such
as cotton, wool, lint, paper, or lime, or any inorganic matter that is capable of
taking up or absorbing the said solution. The saturated substance or material is
then ready for use in the place or position where it is required to be used as a
disinfectant and deodoriser.
II. Our Invention consists further in the use of the aqueous solution (by suitable
well known arrangements therefor) in the form of a spray or in the burning of the
alcoholic or spirituous solution in a spirit lamp, by both of which plans the
deodorising and disinfecting power of the solution is materially developed.
III. We combine also with gum kauri wax, fat or oil, and rosin or other suitable
gum, so as to produce a material from which to mould or otherwise form candles or
tapers, by the burning of which the disinfecting and deodorising powers of the gum
are fully developed in the fumes therefrom.
IV. We also extract the essential principle of the gum kauri by distillation, and
combine the extract thus obtained with animal or other oils suitable for burning
in lamps.
V. Our Invention consists further in saponifying the gum kauri, so as thereby to
make a valuable disinfecting soap. In making this soap we take of the following
ingredients in or about the following proportions:-Of some oil, by preference
castor oil, sixteen ounces avoirdupois; of rosin, four ounces; and of gum kauri,
eight ounces. These ingredients being intimately mixed so as to form one homo-
geneous mass or mixture, we then saponify in the manner known to and practised
by soap makers with caustic soda or caustic potash. We then combine the soap
thus produced with the ordinary soap in the proportion of about one fourth of the
former to three fourths of the latter.
VI. With the powdered gum kauri or with any of the combinations berein
above alluded to, we may use iodine, chlorine, or bromine in quantities varying
according to the exact use or purpose for which it is to be applied, and we may use
the triturated powder by placing it on metal or other plates, stone, or other heated
surfaces.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention and the best means we
are acquainted with for carrying the same into effect, we would have it understood
that we do not confine ourselves to the precise details herein laid down, as the
same may be varied without departing from the peculiar character of our Invention,
but what we claim is,-
Firstly. The manufacture and use of the herein before described aqueous or
sprituous solution, substantially as and for the purposes and in the manner hercin-
before described in sections I. and II. of this Specification.

page_text: Secondly. The use of gum kauri in combination with the materials named in
sections III, and IV. of this Specification, which allows it to be burned in candles,
tapers, and lamps, as and for the purposes described.
Thirdly. We claim the saponification of the gum kauri, as and for the purpose
herein before described in section V. of this Specification; and
Lastly. The combination of gum kauri with iodine, chlorine, or bromine, and
the use of the same, as described in section VI. of this Specification.
In witness whereof; we, the said Richard Edward Goolden and Angus
Mackay, have hereto set our hands and seals, this Twenty sixth day of
January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty
two.
RICHARD E. GOOLDEN, (L.S.)
ANGUS MACKAY.
(L.S.)