AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION OF MATTER WHICH IS APPLICABLE AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR OIL TO THE LUBRICATION OF MACHINERY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1849

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
MUNKITTRICK, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by
Her Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the First day of May, in the twelfth year of Her reign,
and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Alexander Munkittrick, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Alexander Munkittrick, my exors, admors, and
assigns, and such others as I, the said Alexander Munkittrick, my exors,
admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England and
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in all the Islands of
Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, and also within all Her Majesty's
Colonies and Plantations abroad, an Invention of "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION
OF MATTER WHICH IS APPLICABLE AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR OIL TO THE LUBRICATION OF
MACHINERY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," which Invention having been communi-
cated to me by a foreigner residing abroad; in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso, that I, the said Alexander Munkittrick, shall cause a
particular description of the nature of this Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court

page_text: of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Alexander Munkittrick, do hereby declare that the nature of this Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following explanation thereof (that is to
say):
This improved composition, to be employed for lubricating machinery and
other purposes, consists in the admixture of caoutchouc dissolved in spirits of
turpentine or other solvent of that gum, carbonate of soda, glue, common
animal or vegetable oil, or other cheap fatty matter, and water, which may be
used in various proportions, as accordingly required. The following propor-
tions of the ingredients answer very well, are best suited for the manufacture
of the compound when required for lubricating purposes, namely:-Four
pounds of caoutchouc, with sufficient turpentine to dissolve it, ten pounds of
carbonate of soda, one pound of glue, ten gallons of common grease, and
about ten gallons of water. To prepare the compound, first heat the water
in any convenient vessel, then dissolve the glue and soda therein, keeping it in
agitation by stirring, that the matter may be equally diffused through the
water; the oil or grease is next added, and as soon as it has become well
mixed, add the dissolved caoutchouc, and continue the stirring until the
ingredients are all thoroughly incorporated; the mixture will now be found to
have assumed a homogeneous character, in its general appearance resembling
oil, is fit for use, and may be stored away in bottles, barrels, or other con-
venient vessels. Some of the materials employed in the above-described
composition may be replaced by others possessing similar properties, as, for
instance, instead of the glue, gelatinous matter in other forms may be used; in
place of the caoutchouc, gutta percha, or others of the soft gums, may be
employed; instead of carbonate of soda, some other carbonate will answer, and
the anti-attrition composition would not be essentially changed in its character
by such substitutions or replacements. It is not therefore intended to limit
the claim to the precise ingredients. above enumerated, but it is contemplated
and intended to vary the articles themselves, and the proportions in which they
are combined, as economy in their cost, or adaptation to particular purposes, or
other circumstances, may render expedient. In conclusion, I desire it to be
distinctly understood, this Invention consists essentially in the combination of
the oil and the elastic gum, the other ingredients being merely for the purpose
of facilitating their admixture and correcting their impurities when they are

page_text: used in a crude state. But if the oleaginous matter and gum employed are
refined, most of the other ingredients may be dispensed with. This compound
is a fluid, as oil, and is therefore applied as a lubricator in the same manner;
and as the modes in which oil is thus applied are numerous, and generally well
understood, it is not necessary here to make any further allusion to such
subject.
Having thus described the manner in which my improved anti-attrition
compound is to be manufactured and employed, I desire it to be understood
that what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by virtue of the above
recited Letters Patent, is the combination of ingredients bercin described, or
of others possessing similar properties, and forming an analogous compound,
whether the proportions be the same as herein set forth, or varied to any
extent that the same may admit of, without changing the peculiar character
of the compound to be employed as a substitute for oil to the lubrication of
machinery, and for other purposes.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Munkittrick, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.
ALEXANDER (L.S.) MUNKITTRICK.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighteenth day of October,
in the year of our Lord 1849, the aforesaid Alexander Munkittrick came
before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing. therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the First day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.