An Improved System for Manufacturing Soaps by the Direct Employment of Oleaginous Seeds.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Oct., 1897-Accepted, 20th Nov., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved System for Manufacturing Soaps by the Direct
Employment of Oleaginous Seeds.
I, JUAN MONTERRUBIO, of 1173, Calle de Salta, Buenos Aires, Argentine
Republic, Professor, 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:-
In the manufacture of soaps the following substances have heretofore been
employed: fats, tallows and vegetable oils of different kinds and classes, treating
the same by means of alkalies.
These preparations are manufactured at a great expense, some of them not
being very hygienic or healthy, and the fact that they require an artificial pro-
cess of aromatization makes their production quite difficult and increases the cost
of manufacture.
For large consumption, I have sought to produce a soap with a vegetable
base, using the oleaginious seeds which are plentiful and cost very little in all
countries; for it is sufficient for my purposes to use any kind of seeds, provided
they possess the aforementioned quality, that is to say, provided they are
oleaginious.
In the production of soaps having a vegetable oil base, it has been the custom
hitherto to first manufacture the oils, treating the latter afterwards in order to
obtain the soaps.
This double and costly operation increases the working expenses and wastes,
in the manufacture of the oils, a great portion of the raw materials, which can
be thoroughly utilized in the process of saponification.
Thus, in the production of the pea-nut oils, for instance, about one-half of the
seeds employed are wasted in the residue or cakes, whereas, by directly manu-
facturing the soaps, the seeds are thoroughly utilized.
In my new system, the pea-nut, Palma Christi, and many other seeds of great
oleaginous richness, suitably crushed and converted into paste, are saponified by
the alkali, thus producing a soap which is superior in hygienic properties to those
which are made from fats, tallows, fish and horse oils, while the price is very
moderate, owing to the thorough utilization of the seeds, there being no residue.
In order to attain this result, the following general process should be employed;
1. Cleaning of the seeds which are to be saponified. 2. Crushing of the seeds
until they are converted into fine paste. 3. Combination of this paste with a
similar quantity of alkali, caustic lixivium, hot or cold. 4. Thorough beating
of both ingredients and a complete stirring of the mixture, whereby the required
saponification is obtained. For each of these operations, the several well-known
means may be employed.
By this system a very economical, hygienic, and pleasant soap is secured,
realizing at the same time the complete separation or independence of the soap
industry and the manufacture of oils.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of (my said In-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
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The manufacture of soaps obtained through the direct treatment of the
oleaginous seeds, and a process to obtain the desired end.
Dated this 8th day of October
1897.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4 Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.