Specification of William Glass : obtaining a deodorizing and disinfecting material.

  • Bill Glass
Date:
1856
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Credit: Specification of William Glass : obtaining a deodorizing and disinfecting material. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Specification. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said William Glass in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th April 1856. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PEESENTS SHALL COME. I, William Glass, Analytical Chemist, formerly of 2, Dahlia Cottages, now of 4, Ingelheim 5 Terrace, Millwall, Poplar, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her successors, give and grant unto me, the 10 said William Gl^s, Her special licence that I, the said William Glass, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Glass, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time ao-ree 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 15 vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel slands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improvements in Obtaining a Deodorizing and Disinfecting Material,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Glass, my executors or administrators, by an instru¬ ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should 20 particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed m the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme- diately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Glass, do hereby declare the 25 nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement’ that is to say:— o » My objects are the disinfection and deodorization of organic and inorganic substances, that is, the removal of the causes of infection and any injurious 30 taint. I thus prevent animal and vegetal or other matter being decomposed and interrupt such decomposition when it has begun, or destroy hurtful emana¬ tions when formed. I effect those objects more perfectly and economically than by chloride of zinc, by using acetate and sulphate of zinc separately or in combination, and thereby obtain a material free from the acid,, caustic, and 85 deliquescent properties of the former, besides having the superior advantage of eing in the state of powder, and therefore more safe and easy of carriacre, as no bottles are necessary to transport it. °