A Washing Jelly.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 4th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 17th Oct.. 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Washing Jelly.
I, ARTHUR ROBERT WADDELL, Doctor of Medicine, Rosemount Airdrie, in
the County of Lanark do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
A washing jelly which is prepared as follows, viz.-To one pound of a hot
solution of hard soap in water in the proportion of one part of the former to
four parts of the latter, one ounce of oil of turpentine is added and stirred
well in.
This mixture is allowed partly to cool when one ounce of liquor
ammonia is added stirred well in, and the whole is allowed to cool thoroughly and
set. The compound is now melted by heating it and is allowed a second time to
cool and set when it forms the jelly required. The proportion of any or all of the
ingredients may be varied from that given above, but it has been found that that
given produces the most satisfactory compound. The effect of the second heating
is to render the compound more homogeneous, but it may be dispensed with.
Dated this Third day of December 1890.
ARTHUR R. WADDELL, M.D.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
A Washing Jelly.
I, ARTHUR ROBERT WADDELL, Doctor of Medicine, Rosemount, Airdrie, in
the County of Lanark do hereby declare the nature of this invention for
A WASHING JELLY and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The chief object of my invention is (to produce) a more or less homogeneous
compound described as "A Washing Jelly," consisting of soap, turpentine and
ammonia, in combination with water, to be used, the said compound or jelly, for
washing cleansing or detergent purposes or such like.
To effect this I employ the above-described ingredients as follows-
I dissolve one quarter of a pound of soap in one pound of water and to the
boiling or hot solution of this, I add one ounce of oil of turpentine and stir it well
in. To the resulting mixture, at any time before it has become set from the
liquid state by cooling, I add and similarly stir in, one ounce of strong liquid
ammonia.
The compound thus formed is a more or less gelatinous fluid, which is the
compound desired, and this, on being allowed to cool and set, forms a jelly.
I have found that this jelly can be rendered somewhat more homogeneous by
re-heating and melting it and allowing it to cool a second time, but this part
of the process is not essential.
Although I have described the particulars and proportions which I have found
in practice to answer well, yet I do not limit myself to the particulars berein-
before given us to proportions of ingredients. These may be varied to some
extent. More or less water may be used in proportion to the other ingredients,
and these latter may be varied in proportion according to the degree of cleansing
or detergent quality required, the essential point being, that the compound, on
cooling, will set into a more or less homogeneous jelly.
For the purpose of this invention, hard soap, commonly known as soda soap
has been found by me to answer well, but any ordinary soap, hard, soft, soda,
potash, or otherwise will suffice.

page_text: Although I have found that chemically pure, turpentine and ammonia answer
well, I have also found that ordinary commercial qualities of these ingredients will
suffice. I have also found that water chemically pure answers well, but I have
found that ordinarily pure water will suffice.
In applying the compound to use, it is not necessary that it should have cooled
and set. It may be applied for the purposes for which it is intended as herein-
before described while still in the uncooled and more or less liquid or gelatinous
condition.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. A more
or less homogeneous compound hereinbefore described as "A
Washing Jelly" consisting of a combination as herein substantially set forth
of soap, turpentine and ammonia, with water, by the methods and for the
purposes specified.
Dated this Third day of September 1891.
ARTHUR ROBERT WADDELL, M.D.