Specification of William Edward Newton : preserving and disinfecting organic substances.

  • Newton, William Edward.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Specification of William Edward Newton : preserving and disinfecting organic substances. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Specification. Newtons Improvements in Preserving and Disinfecting Organic Substances. The dense hydrocarbons or heavy oils, as they are termed, are preferred for the purpose of the present Invention, and as the cost of the different hydrocarbons varies, the choice of the particular one to be employed must depend upon the substance to be operated upon, as the heavy and coarser hydrocarbons may be suitable for rough processes, such as making manures, whereas a purer and 5 uncolored hydrocarbon will be preferable for operating upon substances which would be liable to be discolored by using the coarser substance. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said William Edward Newton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th April 1860. 10 TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord 15 One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Edward Newton, Her special license that I, the said William Edward Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Edward Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, 20 should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter 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 Invention for “ Improvements in Preserving and Disinfecting Organic Substances,” being a 25 communication from abroad, by Vincent Marie Feraud, Leonard Laureau, and Felix Richard, all of Paris, in the Empire of France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Newton, by an instru¬ ment in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was 30 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 William Edward Newton, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is 35 to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say) :—