Year: 1888

page_text: I JAMES MEEK, of 31 Hanover Street, Glasgow Lanarkshire, Clerk, do hereby
declare the nature of my Invention to be as follows:-
This Invention has reference to improvements in and relating to soap tablets, cakes,
or other solidified soap shapes, and has for its object to prevent the present waste of
the residue of soap tablets, by combining it with new tablets, which will be suitable
for shaving, washing, or toilet, domestic, and other useful purposes.
And the nature and novelty of my invention consist in forming in one or more sides
or edges of solidified soap tablets a concave or indented surface or cavity. When a
soap tablet previously in use, becomes worn too much to be used with effect, it is
inserted preferably in a moist state into the aforesaid cavity of the new tablet, where
it will stick readily to it, and become part of the new tablet, by pressure and rubbing
the edges of the indentation over it. The lower surface of the cavity in the soap
tablet would preferably be formed with corrugations or other indented shapes and
may have grooved or under cut edges and be formed by means of convex dies or
stamps of a contour to suit the precise shape of indentation desired to be formed in
the tablet.
Printed directions as to the use of the tablet could be formed on the plain side of
the tablet or on a piece of paper supplied with it so as to indicate its utility to hotel
and other servants or users.

page_text: Improvements in and relating to Soap Tablets or Oakes.
I JAMES MEEK, of 31 Hanover Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Clerk, do hereby
declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement in writing, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
This Invention has reference to improvements in and relating to soap tablets,
cakes, or other solidified soap shapes, and has for its object to prevent the present
waste of the residues of soap tablets, by combining these with new tablets
which will be suitable for shaving, washing, toilet, domestic, and other useful
purposes.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing or carrying
the same into effect or practice may be properly understood, I have hereunto
appended an explanatory Sheet of Drawings in which Figure 1 represents a front
plan view of my new soap tablet or cake A; while Figure 2 is an under plan view
of the same tablet or cake A, that is, looking at the opposite side to Figure 1, and
showing the new concave indented surface a shown corrugated at a¹ in this case.
And Figure 3 is a transverse section as taken through the centre of, and at right
angles to, Figures 1 and 2, and showing the residual part 6 as placed ready for
being compressed into the cavity a in the new tablet A. While Figure 4 shows a
diagram sectional view of a portable band compressing mould, suitable for pressing
in the residual parts 6 of used soap cakes in the cavity a in the new tablet A.
Referring to these Drawings, the nature and novelty of my invention consist in
forming in one, or more sides or edges of solidified soap tablets A, a concave or
indented surface or cavity a, this being made on the under surface a a¹ in the
example shown in Figure 2. When a soap tablet previously in use, becomes worn
too much to be used with effect, it is inserted preferably in a moist state into the
aforesaid new cavity a a' of the improved soap tablet, where it will stick readily to it,
and become part of the new tablet, by pressure and rubbing the edges a* of the
indented tablet A over it. Or, as shown in Figure 4, this would preferably be done
in a portable hand mould made in two parts B B¹, hinged together at the outer end B³,
with compressing_handles B³ at the other end, and having a cavity A¹ in the centre
of the lower part B, for the new tablet to be inserted, and the residue soap 6 placed
on the top, and be compressed into the cavity a by pressing down the lid or upper
half B of the mould by the two handles B³, a slight cavity 6' being formed in the
upper half B of the compressing mould to retain the soap residue b in position over
the main cavity A' in the new tablet A, while being compressed. The cavity a of the
tablet A into which the residual part 6 is compressed is shown as dotted-in in
Figure 4. The lower surface of the new cavity a in the improved soap tablets is
preferably formed with corrugations a¹ or other indented or roughened shapes for
b

page_text: the better retaining of the residual part b, and may have grooved or under cut edges;
and be formed by means of convex dies or stamps of a contour to suit the precise
shape of indentation desired to be formed in the tablet.
Printed directions as to the use of the tablet A could be formed on the plain side
of the tablet, Figure 1, or on a piece of paper supplied with it, so as to indicate its
utility to hotel and other servants or users.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what
I claim is :-
The forming of soap tablets or cakes with a concave or indented surface or cavity
on a side or edge, for the purpose of receiving and retaining the residue or unworn
parts of soap tablets previously in use, substantially as herein described, in reference
to and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Dated this 15th November 1888.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow,
Agents.