Improvements in or appertaining to Bars, Blocks, or Tablets of Soap or other like Soluble Substances.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 21st July, 1890-Accepted, 18th July, 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to Bars, Blocks, or Tablets of Soap
or other like Soluble Substances.
I, WALTER HENRY THEW of 47 Castle Street, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Merchant, 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 relates to certain improvements in bars, blocks or tablets of soap
or other detergents or substances requiring (in order to be used to the best
advantage) to be dissolved in a definite quantity of water.
The invention has for its object the marking or otherwise defining of said bars,
blocks, or tablets in such a manner that the user is enabled to readily and accurately
ascertain and secure the amount of soap or the like required for a given quantity
of water.
To enable the invention to be more readily understood, reference may be had to
the accompanying drawing which is an isometric view of one of my improved bars.
In order that the user may be enabled to cut or break a definite quantity from
the bar, I usually provide the latter (though as indicated below, this course is not
absolutely essential) with a series of marks, lines, ribs or grooves A, arranged at
regular or irregular intervals along it, and forming, as it were, a scale thereon,
which divides the bar into a series of sections.
In conjunction with the grooves A or their equivalent I also mark the bar on
each section with figures or words or both, indicating to the user the proper quantity
of water to employ with each section. In the example shown in the drawings, the
bar is divided into six equal sections, each of which is marked "2 gallons,"
indicating that one section must be employed for every two gallons of water used.
The said figures or words may, in some instances, themselves form the marks to
divide the sections, or to sufficiently indicate where the soap has to be divided. In
either of these cases the above named marks, lines, ribs or grooves may be.
dispensed with.
In some instances where the soap, or the like, is made in tablet form, I make
these of a size adapted for use with a given quantity of water and I mark on these
tablets the amount of such water required.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A bar or block of soap (or other like substance as described) having a series
of marks impressed or otherwise marked thereon in such manner as to divide it into
sections of either equal or unequal size, and bearing on each of said sections suitable
figures or words or both indicating to the user the amount of water to be used with
the quantity of soap contained in any given section, substantially as described.
2. A bar or block of soap, or the like, bearing figures or words in a form more
than once repeated thereon, showing that the soap beneath each individual form of
figure or words is requisite for proper use with the amount of water specified in that
particular form of figure or words substantially as described.
3. A bar, block or tablet of soap or the like having impressed or otherwise
marked thereon one or more figures or words, or a combination of figures and words
indicating to the user the proper amount of water required for dissolving said bar,
block or tablet, substantially as described.
Dated this 19th day of July 1890.