Specification of Emile Guenin : mustard and other plasters.

  • Guenin, Emile.
Date:
1870
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Emile Guenin : mustard and other plasters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Queuin's Impts. iu the Manufacture of Mustard and other Plasters. Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Emile Guenin, Her special licence that I, the said Emile Guenin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Emile Guenin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, 5 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 the Manufacture of Mustard and other 10 Plasters, and in Machinery for the same,” a communication to me from abroad by Paul Bigollot, of Paris, in the Empire of Eranee, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Emile Guenin, 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 15 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 months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent* NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Emile Guenin, do hereby declare 20 the 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, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say) :— 25 This Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of mustard plasters, such as those described in a Specification of a former Patent granted to me, and dated March 26th 1867, No. 1212* I there described the mustard flour (deprived of its oil) as being caused to adhere to the paper or other surface on which it is applied by the aid of a solution of 30 india-rubber and a mixture of equal parts of sulphuret of carbon and essence of petroleum. I have however found by experience that in some cases the viscous liquid obtained by the above means fails to ensure sufficient adhesion to suit the purposes of this manufacture. According to the present improvements I substitute benzine for the 35 sujphuret of carbon, the solution being prepared in the following maimer:—I place, for example, about \ lb. of Para india-rubber in