AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Higham and George David Bellamy, of.
Plymouth, in the County of Devon, Soap Manufacturers, for the Inven-.
Sealed the 25th May 1858, and dated the 26th November 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Higham and:
George David Bellamy at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 26th November 1857.
We, JAMES HIGHAM and GEORGE DAVID BELLAMY, of Plymouth, in the
County of Devon, Soap Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP," to be as
follows:-
Our Invention consists in the addition of sulphate of lime to the other usual
ingredients employed in the manufacture of soap. Soap made with the
addition of sulphate of lime becomes hardened, keeps dry, and is not liable to
shrink while in water; its durability is encreased and it does not wear or
waste away before its cleansing properties are brought into action.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Eligham and George David Bellamy in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 26th May 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
HIGHAM and GEORGE DAVID BELLAMY, of Plymouth, in the County of Devon,
Soap Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said James Higham and George David Bellamy. Her special licence
that we, the said James Higham and George David Bellamy, our executors.
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said James Higham
and George David Bellamy, our 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 for "As
IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP," upon the condition (amongst
others) that wo, the said James Higham and George David Bellamy, or one
of us, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing, under
our or their, or one of our or their hands and seals, 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 Offico within six, calendar, months next, and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said James Higham and George David
Bellamy, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
Our Invention consists in the addition of sulphate of lime to the other usual
ingredients employed in the manufacture of soap. Soap made with the
addition of sulphate of lime becomes hardened, keeps dry, and is not liable to
shrink while in water its durability is increased, and it does not wear or
waste away before its cleansing properties are brought into action.
;
The sulphate may be added to the soap in a dry powder, or in admixture
with any of the usual ingredients employed in the manufacture of soap. The
proportions of the sulphate which it is best to employ we find to vary accord-

page_text: ing to the article manipulated upon, and to the quality of soap to be produced.
Thus, about twelve ounces of dry sulphate is sufficient for one ton of best
soap; whereas in common, or highly liquored soap, six or even eight pounds
may be used with advantage. We do not therefore confine ourselves to any
definite proportions, nor do we limit ourselves to any particular manner of
mixing the sulphate of lime with the other materials.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim the employment
of sulphate of lime in addition to the other ingredients usually employed in
the manufacture of soap.
In witness whereof, we, the said James Higham and George David
Bellamy, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-fourth
day of May, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
JAMES
GHA.
(LS.)
GEO. D. BELLAMY. (L.S.)
JAMES
(LS.)
GEO. D. BELLAMY. (LS.)