An Improved Soap-powder.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 29th July, 1889-Accepted, 31st Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Soap-powder.
I, HERBERT CHESTER FOULSHAM, of 4 Lincoln Villas, Brondesbury, in the County.
of Middlesex, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
My invention relates to an improved composition of a soap powder to be used in
place of soap extract, dry soaps or soup mixture or soda or any other kind of washing
powders and it is designed to effect the cleansing of fabrics or other material capable
of being washed or cleaned in a prompt and efficient manner, whilst dispensing with
the greater part of the usual rubbing and scrubbing, the dirt being released by the
action of the petroleum amalgamated with the ingredients forming the composition of
the said soap powder.
The composition of the soap powder which I prefer as most effective is approximately
as follows:
This
In each hundredweight, I mix about 20 pounds of soap, 12 pounds of alkali,
10 pounds of carbonate of soda, and 70 pounds of soda crystals, and to each
hundredweight so formed, I add a gallon of petroleum or any other product
derived from petroleum such as kerosene, benzine, benzoline, naptha &c.
mixture may be readily effected by first grinding together the above mentioned solid.
materials, and by then adding to them the liquid petroleum in the proportion as above
stated. The petroleum is absorbed by the solid materials so as to leave the product
still in the form of a finely pulverised powder. For use about lb. of the powder
is added approximately to 6 or 8 gallons of water for the ordinary washing of
clothes and fabrics, and the effect on the water so treated is that it readily produces
à lather under manipulation, and at the same time the dirt in the fabrics is so
readily set free by a small amount of soaking, as to render the action of the bath
an almost automatically cleansing one, without the greater part of the scrubbing
and rubbing, requisite in the ordinary operations of washing with soap or washing
powders.
The above proportions of materials may be varied according to the strength of the
soap powder required, without departing from the essence of my invention, which
consists in the whole combination of the above constituents mentioned, and prepared
in the form of a finely triturated powder, ready for use.
Dated this 27th day of October 1888
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Soap Powder.
I, HERBERT CHESTER FOULSHAM, of 4 Lincoln Villas, Brondesbury, in the County
of Middlesex, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to an improved composition of a soap powder to be used in
place of soap extract, dry soaps, or soap mixture or soda, or any other kind of washing
powders, and it is designed to effect the cleansing of fabrics or other material
capable of being washed or cleaned in a prompt and efficient manner, whilst dispensing
with the greater part of the usual rubbing and scrubbing, the dirt being released by the
action of the petroleum amalgamated with the ingredients forming the composition of
the said soap powder.

page_text: The composition of the soap powder which I prefer as most effective is approximately
as follows:
In each hundredweight, I mix about 20 pounds of soap, 12 pounds of alkali,
10 pounds of carbonate of soda, and 70 pounds of soda crystals, and to each hundred-
weight so formed, I add a gallon of petroleum. The relative proportions of the
.constituents, making up the soap powder as above, may be varied according to
requirements and the price of the resulting product, the gallon of petroleum being
added to one hundredweight of the soap powder however constituted.
This mixture may be readily effected by first grinding together the above mentioned
solid materials, and by then adding to them the liquid petroleum in the proportion as
above stated. The petroleum is absorbed by the solid materials, so as to leave the
product still in the form of a finely pulverised powder, which may be further
pulverized if desired by treatment in a disentegrator.
For use, about Ib. of the powder is added approximately to 6 or 8 gallons of water
for the ordinary washing of clothes and fabrics, and the effect on the water
so treated is that it readily produces a lather under manipulation, and at the same time.
the dirt in the fabrics is so readily set free by a small amount of soaking, as to render
the action of the bath an almost automatically cleansing one, without the greater part
of the scrubbing and rubbing requisite in the ordinary operations of washing with
soap or washing powders.
The above proportions of materials may be varied according to the strength of the
soap powder required, without departing from the essence of my invention, which
consists in the combination of the constituents of a soap powder with a volume of
petroleum in about the proportions mentioned, and prepared in the form of a finely
triturated powder ready for use.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and the
method of carrying the same into effect, be it known that I am aware of a previous
invention for combining paraffin oil with an ordinary soap powder by a very
uneconomical process, but what I claim is :-
:―
The composition and preparation of a petroleum soap powder in which petroleum
is combined with the usual ingredients of a soap-powder and prepared in an economical
manner to produce a finely triturated powder, substantially as and for the purposes
described.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.