IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP, APPLICABLE ALSO IN THE PREPARATION OF POMADES AND COSMETICS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jonathan Brandon, of No. 12, Fenchurch Street,
in the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF SOAP, APPLICABLE ALSO IN THE PREPARATION OF POMADES
AND COSMETICS."-A communication from abroad by Adolphe
Lavandier of the Rue Richelieu Paris France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jonathan Brandon
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 16th September 1874.
I, JONATHAN BRANDON, of No. 12, Fenchurch Street, in the City of
London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP, APPLICABLE ALSO IN THE
PREPARATION OF POMADES AND COSMETICS," to be as follows :—
This Invention consists in admixing with the ingredients usually
employed in the manufacture of soap from 50 to 100 per cent. of kaolin
or pipe clay, which has detergent properties analogous to those of soap.
This substance may be incorporated with the soap when it is in a liquid

page_text: condition by thoroughly mixing it therewith, and allowing the mixture
to set; or it may be added to the soap after it has set by cutting
the soap into shreds, and passing them with the required proportion of
kaolin or nine clay through a nuccing or other suitable mill
condition by thoroughly mixing it therewith, and allowing the mixture
to set; or it may be added to the soap after it has set by cutting
the soap into shreds, and passing them with the required proportion of
kaolin or pipe clay through a pugging or other suitable mill
A. like method may be adopted in the preparation of pomades and
Office on the 10th March 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JONATHAN
BRANDON, of No. 12, Fenchurch Street, in the City of London, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
cighth year of her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Jonathan Brandon, Her special license
that I, the said Jonathan Brandon, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Jonathan Brandon, 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, APPLICABLE ALSO IN THE PREPARATION OF POMADES
AND COSMETICS,' a communication to me from abroad by Adolphe
Lavandier, of the Rue Richelieu, Paris, France, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Jonathan Brandon, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and 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.

page_text: cosmetics.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, I claim, the use of kaolin or pipe clay in the
manufacture of soap, pomades, and cosmetics.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jonathan Brandon, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Second day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
JONATHAN BRANDON. (L.S.)