Specification of Pierre Alexis Francisse Bobœuf : preserving and otherwise treating animal and vegetable substances, &c.

  • Bobœuf, Pierre Alexis Francisse.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Specification of Pierre Alexis Francisse Bobœuf : preserving and otherwise treating animal and vegetable substances, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Boboeuf s Impts. in Preserving, $c. Animal and Vegetable Substances, Qc. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date tbe Twenty-eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the 5 said Pierre Alexis Francisse Boboeuf, Her special licence that I, the said Pierre Alexis Francisse Boboeuf, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Pierre Alexis Francisse Boboeuf, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein 10 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 Alan, an Invention for “ Improvements in Preserving and otherwise Treating Animal and Vegetable Substances, and in the Purification op Oils employed therein, and which may be used for other Purposes,” upon the 15 condition (amongst others) that I, the said Pierre Alexis Francisse Boboeuf, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should 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 in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar 20 months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Pierre Alexis Francisse Boboeuf, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:— 25 The object of my Invention is, first, the preservation, the concretion, the hardening, and the coloring in various shades of inert animal substances (or substances of animal origin), the embalming of bodies, the treatment of skins, and the coloring of silk, wool, leather, bone, ivory, feathers, &c. ; second, the destruction of insects, such as ants, fleas, bugs, &c., and the 30 preservation of animal and vegetable life from insects, the curing of disease in vegetable life generated or produced by or from insects or animalculae, such as oidium, potato disease, &c., the preservation of substances from destructive insects, the preservation of wood and of ships, the purification of all crowded habitations and places, such as hospitals, schools, barracks, See. I employ for 35 the above purposes vegetable and mineral oils containing saponifiable acid oils capable of forming soluble salts in water, and of acids derived by substi¬ tution obtained from saponifiable acids contained in essential, vegetable, or mineral oils. And my Invention includes the purification of vegetable and mineral 40 essential oils containing saponifiable oils, without distillation, by separation.