127,568

nrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE,

ROBERT A. OHESEBItOUGH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.
IMPROVEMENT IN PRODUCTS FROM PETROLEUM.
Speci?cation forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,568, dated June 4, 1872.
To all whom vit may concern: _

several colors varying somewhat, according

to the quality of the residuum, the quality,

Be it known that 1, ROBERT A. CHESE

New York, have invented a new and useful

and the skill of the manipulator in charging Product from Petroleum, which I have named the ?lters and properly heating them. Vaseline, and I do hereby declare that the Vaseline is a thick, oily, pasty substance;

BROUGII, of the city, county, and State of ?neness, and preparation of the bone-black,

is semi-solid in appearance, unobjectionable tion thereof, which will enable those skilled in odor, becomes ?uid at temperatures vary in the art to make and use the same. ing from 85 to 110 Fahrenheit, and, when The substance from which vaseline is made ?uid, is transparent. It will not saponify, is the residuum of petroleum left in the still does not crystallize, and does not contain par after the greater part of the petroleum has a?ine, and in this respect essentially differs been .distilled off. Distillation is now 0011 from the heavy products of petroleum which dncted in' two ways-?rst, by applying to the have been subjected to destructive distillation, still sui?cient heat to vaporize all the oil and which are known as paraf?ne-oils. When paraf?ne-oil is ?ltered by my process therein down to the residuum; and second, by distilling under a vacuum, according to the result is a better article of para?'ine-oil, what is known as the vacuum process, by and not Vaseline. It will, therefore, be seen which less heat is required than in the ordi that vaseline cannot be made from any of the nary way. The residuum left in the still by distilled products of petroleum, but only from

following is a full, clear, and exact descrip

the vacuum process is greater in amount and

the residuums of the still which have not been

better in quality than that produced by the vaporized; and hence it is a distinct substance

old method, owing to its havingbeen sub by itself, is a new article of manufacture, and '
jected to much less heat and to not having is useful for various purposes. Vaseline is especially useful in currying, been run down so low in the still. The resid uum produced by the vacuum process makes, stu?ing, and oiling all kinds of leather. It is therefore, a better quality of Vaseline than also a good lubricator, and may be used to that produced by the old process, and is more great advantage on all kinds of machinery. easily and cheaply re?ned by ?ltration through The ?nest grade of Vaseline is also adapted bone-black, but the products from both are to use as a pomade for the hair, and will be found excellent for that purpose, one of its identical in properties and appearance. My method of making Vaseline is by ?lter chief recommendations being that it does not

ing the aforesaid petroleum residuums through oxidize. It is also an excellent substance for bone-black, according to my process described glycerine-cream for'ohapped hands, &c., which in my Letters Patent dated August 22, 1865, it resembles closely in touch and somewhat in
and numbered 49,502, preferring to use in said appearance. Its gravity varies from 20 to process my steam-?lter patented by me August 34.0 Baum, according to the gravity of the > 8, 1865, numbered 49,230, and. preferring also crude vacuum or other residuum used in its to use bone-black, prepared as described in my production. patent dated July 10, 1866, numbered 56,179; Claim. although I do not con?ne myself to the use of the said improved ?lter or prepared bone What I claim as my invention, and desire black. to secure by Letters Patent, is The new article of manufacture named by Vaseline is the product of the ?ltration of the said residuums through bone-black, and me Vaseline, substantially as herein de varies in color as it comes from the ?lter. scribed. First it is a pure white at the beginning of the ROBT. A. OHESEBROUGH. Witnesses: operation, soon changing to a light straw, then
to a dark straw, and then to a deep claret at the close of the operation, the amounts of the

JOHN TREDWELL.

CHAS. DRAKE,