Laundry Glaze.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 11th May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 12th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 17th Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Laundry Glaze.
I, JOHN CONROY, of Port Sunlight, Bebington, in the County of Chester,
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
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This invention has for its object to provide a substance or material which when
applied to linen and worked over or pressed with a hot iron, will produce with ease
and rapidity a glaze or glossy surface. The material or substance is preferably
applied to and used on or in connection with linen which is or has been
starched.
The material or substance, which in one form is made up as and sold in the form
of a paste, comprises French chalk (or equivalent substance), and a small portion of
soap, or constituents thereof, and borax (or equivalent substance). In compounding
the materials, the soap and borax, or their equivalents, may be boiled with water,
and the French chalk added and worked up into a paste.
In using the material or substance in the form of paste, it may be applied to the
surface which it is required to glaze, by a flannel, sponge, brush, or the like, after
having made or reduced it to say the consistency of cream.
In the practice of my invention I may use in combination with the French chalk
(or equivalent substance) and soap and borax (or their equivalents), or in lieu of
such soap and borax (or their equivalents) I may use other materials to serve their
purpose.
Dated this 10th day of May 1893.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON, Fels. Chart. Inst. P.A.,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.
Laundry Glaze.
1, JOHN CONROY, of Port Sunlight, Bebington, in the County of Chester,
Manager, 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 :-
This invention has for its object to provide a material or substance which when
applied to linen and worked over or pressed with a hot iron or the like, will produce
with ease and rapidity a glazed or glossy surface. The material or substance is
preferably applied to and used on or in connection with linen which is or has been
starched; but where desired it can be mixed with the starch, or otherwise as may
be deemed expedient.
The material or substance in one form is made up as and sold in the form of, a
paste, whilst in another form it is made up and sold in the form of a dry powder.
In the material there is comprised French chalk (or equivalent substance), soap (or
constituents thereof or their equivalents), and borax (or equivalent substance); to
these may also be added with advantage a small proportion of resin.
In the manufacture of material or substance-laundry glaze-under this
invention, it is found that the following special ingredients, and in about the

page_text: To make a dry powder from these materials, the soap, borax, and resin are boiled
in the water until they are dissolved. The French chalk is then added and well
mixed while the solution is hot. This compound is then cooled, and spread out and
dried in a suitable drying chamber or apparatus. When dry, it is reduced to a
powder by any suitable known means, and in that state is ready for use.
It is to be stated that the essential ingredients constituting a laundry glaze under
this invention are French chalk (or equivalent substance) and soap (or its
equivalent or equivalents); whilst the borax or resin, or both, when used with
these, add to or improve the effect of such ingredients in the surface got up upon
the linen.
When using the material or substance as a paste, the materials, after being
mixed as above described, are worked up into that consistency, in any suitable
known way.
In applying the material as a powder, in glazing linen or getting it up with hot
irons or the like, it is dusted, sprinkled, or equivalently spread over the surface; or
as above stated, if desired, it may be added to the starch with which the linen is
treated.
When in the form of paste, the material may be applied to the surface it is
required to glaze, by a flannel, sponge, brush, or the like, after having brought it to
the consistency of cream.
By the term "linen" used herein, is meant all textile materials "got up" in
laundry work, and analogous businesses.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Laundry glaze comprising ingredients as herein described, and adapted to be
used as and for the purposes specified.
2. The herein described laundry glaze comprising French chalk, barilla ash
soap, resin, and borax in about the proportions hereinabove particularly specified.
Dated this 9th day of February 1894.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON, Fels. Chart. Inst. P.A.,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.