Specification of John Gamgee and William Henry Maitland : medicating cotton and other fibres.

  • Gamgee, John.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Specification of John Gamgee and William Henry Maitland : medicating cotton and other fibres. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Medicating Cotton and other Fibres. LETTERS PATENT to John Gamgee, of Great Winchester Street Buildings, in the City of London, and William Henry Maitland, of Thurloe Square, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of “ Improvements in Medicating Cotton and other Fibres for Sanitary and Surgical Purposes, and in Machinery employed therein.” Sealed the 23rd June 1871, and dated the 24th December 1870. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Gamgee and William Henry Maitland at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 24th December 1870. We, John Gamgee, of Great Winchester Street Buildings, in the 5 City of London, and William Henry Maitland, of Thurloe Square, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improvements in Medicating Cotton and other Fibres for Sanitary and Surgical Purposes, and in Machinery employed therein,” to be as follows :— ri>r» r ' \ 10 This Invention consists in the careful impregnation of cotton and other fibres with chloralum or chloride of aluminium, carbolic acid,