AN IMPROVED SOAP, TO WHICH I GIVE THE NAME OF SAPONITOLINE
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Armand Gilbee, of 4, South Street, Finsbury,
London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, Gentleman, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVED SOAP, TO WHICH I GIVE THE NAME OF SAPONITOLINE."―A
communication.
Sealed the 10th July 1855, and dated the 27th February 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Armand Gilbee
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th February 1855.
I, WILLIAM ARMAND GILBEE, of 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, and
39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED SOAP, TO WHICH I GIVE THE NAME OF SAPONITOLINE,"
to be as follows, that is to say :-
The Invention communicated to me consists in combining the following
ingredients for the manufacture of soap, viz. :-
Ordinary soap
Carbonate of soda
about 10 oz.
13
"
"
Lime
Boiled linseed
Grey salts
Sulphate of ammonia
5
Rain water
"
75
"
5
"
"
1
"
"
37
"
187
7 lbs.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Armand Gilbee in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 27th August 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ARMAND GILBEE, of 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, and 89, Rue do
l'Echiquier, Paris, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Armand Gilbee, Her special license that I, the said William
Armand Gilbee, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said William Armand Gilbec, 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 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 of
"AN IMPROVED SOAP, TO WHICH I GIVE THE NAME OF SAPONITOLINE," upon the
condition (amongst others) that J, the said William Armand Gilbee, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Armand Gilbee, do hereby
declare 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 thereof, that is to say :-
The Invention communicated to me consists in the manufacture of a gela-
tinous soap (to which I give the name of saponitoline) in the following
manner:-
Supposing that I wish to manufacture one thousand five hundred pounds
of the said soap I proceed as follows:--I first pour in a copper boiler about
eighty-eight gallons of soft water, and mix with it about one hundred and
twelve pounds of crystal soda, or about seventy-nine pounds of salts of soda.
Two or three hours after the soda has been in contact with the water I agitate
the mixture, and add to it about one hundred and twelve pounds of common
hard or soft soap. The fire being placed under the furnace, I leave the

page_text: mixture to be heated until the temperature attains forty or forty-five degrees
centigrade, when I add to the liquid about seventeen pounds of Russian or
American pearlash; I well mix the whole, and, when the soap is nearly
dissolved I suspend in the middle of the copper a white linen bag containing
about seventeen pounds of pounded quick lime. This linen bag, strongly tied
at its upper extremity to avoid any of the matters escaping, must be immersed
in the liquid to a depth of about 8 inches.
When ebullition has commenced in the copper, I slowly agitate the liquid
mass and pour therein about five gallons of mucilage of linseed, marshmallow,
or pysllium seed, after which I add seven and a half pounds of borax, or about
two and a half pounds of calcined alum. When the whole is well mixed in
the copper, and the liquid presents the appearance of being perfectly homoge-
neous, I leave it to boil on a slow fire during three quarters of an hour. The
fire should then be extinguished and the copper covered over. When the
temperature falls to fifty-five degrees or sixty degrees I pour the liquid into
barrels, where it becomes solidified in about twenty-four hours (supposing that
hard soap has been used), if otherwise it will remain in a gelatinous state.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine
myself to the precise details herein laid down; but what I claim is, the com-
bination of the ingredients herein-before described for the manufacture of
saponitoline or gelatinous soap.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Armand Gilbee, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
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