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

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

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    3 Glass Improvements in Obtaming a Deodorizing and Dinnfectmg Matenal. Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will now proceed to describe the manner of performing the same. By sprinkling with the material m powder, or by rinsing, steeping, or injecting with its solution in water or otherwise, the antiseptic or preservative and the deodorizing or purifying 6 powers of this disinfectant may be fully taken advantage of, and thus the decay of a ship’s or other timber or stores, and the production of stinking bilge water and other bad odors, may be alike prevented or arrested. For the disinfection or preservation of timber, canvas, wool, skins, bodies of animals, &c., and for the deodorization or purification of urinals, privies, drains, 10 cesspools, stables, piggeries, cow-houses, slaughter-houses, dissecting rooms, wards of hospitals, dust-bins, cellars, market places, factories, &c., I employ a solution, one pound to ten gallons of water, of the acetate of zinc, or of the sulpho-acetate of zinc, that is, the mixture of the sulphate and acetate, but I prefer to use the acetate alone where expense is not an object; & for obtaining ]5 the most economical results from the sulpho-acetate, I mix (8.5) eighty-five parts by weight of the sulphate with (15) fifteen parts by weight of the acetate. I do not, however, confine myself to these proportions, as they may be varied in some cases with advantage. For deodorizing offensive gases from gas works, or other factories or places, 20 I employ charcoal, sawdust, or other fibrous substances imbued with a solution of the acetate or sulpho-acetate, or mixed with it in fine powder. I do not claim the use of suljihate of zinc alone for the purposes of dis¬ infection, or for the use of salts of zinc in preserving seeds, potatoes, and other roots from decay, &c., but I claim the use of acetate of zinc alone, or in 2u combination with sulphate of zinc, whether they are kept separate previous to use, or combined together in a powder or solution as a sulpho-acetate, for the purposes of disinfection and deodorization. In witness whereof, I, the said William Glass, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord 30 One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. WILLIAM GLASS. (l.s.) LONDON: Printed by George Edward Etre and William Spottiswoode xriutcrs to the (Queens most Excellent IVIajesty. 1856.