IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Payne, of the Belmont Works, Battersea,
in the County of Surrey, Chemist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP."
Sealed the 21st May 1867, and dated the 29th December 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Payne at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th December 1866.
I, GEORGE PAYNE, of the Belmont Works, Battersea, in the County of
Surrey, Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of soap.
Heretofore in order to manufacture soaps containing glycerine, and having a
more or less transparent character, ordinary soaps have been shredded and
dried and then dissolved in alcohol. With these alcoholic solutions com-
paratively small proportions of glycerine have been mixed or combined, and
then the alcohol has been distilled or driven off by heat.
Now my Invention consists in a mode of manufacturing what are termed
transparent soaps by which comparatively large proportions of glycerine may
be combined with the soaps employed and at the same time the costly process
of dissolving dry soaps in alcohol dispensed with. For these purposes common

page_text: soaps are shredded, and are then introduced into or immersed in glycerine
and subjected to heat for several hours, by which the soaps are dissolved.
The ingredients are stirred from time to time in order that the mixture or
combination may be complete.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Payne in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th
June 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
PAYNE, of the Belmont Works, Battersea, in the County of Surrey, Chemist,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Payne, Her special licence that I, the said George Payne, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Payne, 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 for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF SOAP," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said George Payne, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands ands 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 Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Payne, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of soap.
Heretofore in order to manufacture soaps containing glycerine and having
a more or less transparent character ordinary soaps have been shredded and
dried and then dissolved in alcohol. With these alcoholic solutions com-

page_text: paratively small proportions of glycerine have been mixed or combined, and
then the alcohol has been distilled or driven off by heat.
Now my Invention consists in a mode of manufacturing what are termed
transparent soaps by which comparatively large proportions of glycerine
may be combined with the soaps employed, and at the same time the costly
process of dissolving dry soaps in alcohol dispensed with. For these purposes
common soaps are shredded and are then introduced into or immersed in
glycerine and subjected to heat for several hours, by which the soaps are
dissolved. The ingredients are stirred from time to time in order that the
mixture or combination may be complete.
In carrying out my Invention I use by preference what are known as
fitted soaps; they may be taken either in the fluid state as they come hot
from the coppers, or the soaps may be shredded after being framed, but other
soaps however made and in whatever condition may be used in place of fitted
soap. I place 5 cwts. by weight of the soap in a copper heated by a steam
jacket which surrounds it, and mix therewith an equal part by weight of
glycerine, preferably distilled glycerine, the ingredients are kept heated and
are stirred from time to time until the whole of the soap is dissolved, which
usually takes from 8 to 10 hours; the clear solution is then run off and
framed in the usual manner, and may afterwards be cut up into bars and
squares and stamped to any suitable shapes. Soaps thus dissolved in glycerine
I call by the name of "Price's solidified glycerine."
In witness whereof, I, the said George Payne, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.