Improvements in the Treatment or Preparation for Consumption of Soft Soaps and other like Materials.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Treatment or Preparation for Consumption of
Soft Soaps and other like Materials.
I, JAMES YATE JOHNSON of 47 Lincolns Inn Fields in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this Invention which has been com-
municated to me from abroad by Louis Genevois of Naples in the Kingdom of Italy,
Soap Manufacturer and Perfumer 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 improvements in the preparation or treatment of soft
soaps for Toilet and other purposes and is also applicable to other like materials such
as mixtures of powders for example and it consists essentially in the employment of
an envelope or covering of woven fabric or other porous or pervious material as
hereinafter described. The most important of the advantages obtained by means of
this Invention are as follows.―
The exact quantity of a soft soap necessary for any particular purpose is enabled to
be readily provided and applied.
The portions or cakes of soap when in use are effectually protected against
waste.
Any mixtures of materials capable of being used in the composition of soft or
other soaps are enabled to be employed without it being necessary to take their
effect on the appearance of the soap into consideration this being of especial
importance in the manufacture of certain antiseptic and medicinal soaps for
example.
According to this Invention the required quantity of soft soap is wrapped or placed
in an envelope or covering of a filtering material such for example as a woven or
analogous fabric the size of the meshes or interstices of which are regulated according
to the thickness or fluidity of the soap. This covering may be in the form of a bag
which when filled with soft soap is closed up and is sold or used in this condition.
In the case of Toilet soap for example the bag may be caused to assume the
shape of an ordinary cake of solid soap being used in the same manner as the .
latter.
By these means certain soft soaps notwithstanding their relatively high price are
enabled to be employed under much more advantageous conditions as regards
economy than has heretofore been possible.
The covering or envelope containing the soap which may be more or less soft can
be composed of any suitable materials according to the nature of the domestic or
other purpose to which the soap is to be applied being composed of a silken woollen,
cotton or even metallic fabric or a fine metallic fabric combined with other materials
for example. The invention is not limited to the employment of woven fabrics or
tissues as any other natural or artificial material can be employed that is capable of
forming a casing or envelope adapted to retain the pasty matter and of allowing it
to escape or exude when required.
This Invention although more especially applicable to naples soap is evidently
applicable with advantage to all descriptions of soaps for the purpose of regulating
their consumption and preventing waste and is also applicable to other substances or
materials which to a certain extent perform the same part as soap consisting of
mixtures of powders such as resin and an alkali or the like mixtures.
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 1
claim is.-
The treatment or preparation for consumption of soft and other soaps and other
materials consisting in the employment of an envelope or covering of fabric or

page_text: analogous product forming a filtering or pervious casing with pores which are open
to an extent regulated according to the degree of fluidity of the soap or the like and
allow the said soap or other like material to exude or escape in suitable quantities
when required substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 20th day of November 1889.