AN IMPROVED PREPARATION OF MATERIALS FOR CLEANSING WOOL, COTTON, LINEN, AND OTHER LIKE FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Leopold Goetz, of Leith, in the County of Mid
Lothian, North Britain, Merchant, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED PREPARATION OF MATERIALS FOR CLEANSING WOOL, COTTON, LINEN,
AND OTHER LIKE FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."-A communication from abroad
by Georg Müller, of Neustadt-on-the-Haardt, in the Kingdom of
Bavaria, Soap Manufacturer.
Sealed the 15th October 1869, and dated the 20th April 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Leopold Goetz at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
20th April 1869.
I, LEOPOLD GOETZ, of Leith, in the County of Mid Lothian, North
Britain, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED PREPARATION OF MATERIALS FOR CLEANSING WOOL, COTTON,
LINEN, AND OTHER LIKE FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," a communication to me from
abroad by Georg Müller, of Neustadt-on-the-Haardt, in the Kingdom of
Bavaria, Soap Manufacturer, to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a peculiar liquid preparation for washing or
cleansing wool whether in the fleece or in a manufactured state, also

page_text: cotton, linen, and other like fibrous substances, and consists essentially in
boiling together for about three to four hours in water the following ingre-
dients in or about the proportions given :-The water employed should
be first purified by boiling it for about five minutes with farina in the
proportion of about 10 to 15 lbs. of farina to 264 gallons of water. To
this water so purified there are to be added about one hundredweight
of linseed, 45 lbs. of caustic soda of a strength of 90°, 72 lbs. of potash,
200 lbs. of calcined soda or soda ash of a strength of 90° and free from
salt, 18 lbs. of sal-ammoniac, 72 lbs. of rosin, 3 lbs. of butter free from
salt, 3 lbs. of spirits of ammonia, 2 lbs. of refined benzole, 2 lbs. of
borax, 100 lbs. of sulphate of soda or Glauber's salt, 10 lbs. of glycerine.
The mixture should be kept constantly stirred during the addition of
the above-mentioned ingredients, and also during the time of boiling
the same, after which it may be poured into casks or other receptacles
for the market.
In using this cleansing liquid it is simply requisite to mix it with the
water employed in washing the wool or other substances in greater or
less proportions according to the nature of the substances to be operated
upon. For white goods about one gallon of
16 gallons of water will give a good result.
proportion of prepared liquid to the water will
and will vary according to the more or less
wool.
the prepared liquid to
For wool washing the
be considerably greater,
greasy nature of the
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Leopold Goetz in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 15th October 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LEOPOLD
GOETZ, of Leith, in the County of Mid Lothian, North Britain,
Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the 32nd year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Leopold Goetz, Her special license that I, the said
Leopold Goetz, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such

page_text: others as I, the said Leopold Goetz, my executors, administrators, or
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 "AN IMPROVED PREPARATION OF MATERIALS FOR
CLEANSING WOOL, COTTON, LINEN, AND OTHER LIKE FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," a
communication to him from abroad by George Müller, of Neustadt-on-
the-Haardt, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, Soap Manufacturer, upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Leopold Goetz, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Leopold Goetz, 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, that is to say:-
My said Invention relates to the production of a peculiar liquid
preparation to be used for washing or cleansing wool either in the
fleece or in a manufactured state, and also cotton, linen, or other
fibrous substances. It consists essentially in boiling together for about
three hours in water the following ingredients in or about the propor-
tions given, namely:- The water, about two hundred and fifty gallons, is
first purified by boiling it with ten to fifteen pounds of farina for about
five minutes. To these two hundred and fifty gallons of purified water
are then added two hundred pounds of calcined soda or soda ash of a
strength of about ninety degrees and free from salt, one hundred pounds
of linseed, seventy-two pounds of potash, seventy-two pounds of rosin,
and forty pounds of caustic soda of a strength of about ninety degrees;
from forty to forty-five pounds of olein oil may also be added to increase
the washing or cleansing power. The mixture must be carefully effected
by stirring constantly during the time the ingredients are being put in
5 or separately added to the boiling pan or vessel, and after boiling and
stirring the mixture slowly for about three hours it is carefully
strained and poured or run into casks or other vessels ready for the
Tarket

page_text: It is to be understood that the proportions of the ingredients herein-
before mentioned may under certain circumstances be modified or varied,
but I prefer the proportions given.
In using this cleansing liquid it is simply requisite to mix it with the
water to be employed in washing the wool or other substances in
greater or less proportion according to the nature or condition of such
substances to be operated upon, but for white goods about one gallon of
the prepared liquid to sixteen gallons of water gives a good result,
whilst for wool washing the proportion of prepared liquid to the water
requires to be considerably greater, and varies according to the more or
less greasy texture of the wool.
I wish to explain that certain of the materials mentioned in my
Provisional Specification, namely, sal-ammonia, butter, spirits of
ammonia, benzole, borax, sulphate of soda or Glauber's salt, and
glycerine are found in practice not to be absolutely essential in the
formation of a good washing compound, I therefore consider it unnecessary
to claim these under the present Invention.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
system or manner in which the same is or may be carried out in
practice, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider novel and
original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the preparation or
combination of materials forming the liquid compound for washing and
cleansing wool, cotton, linen, or other fibrous substances, as herein-before
described, or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Eleventh day of October One thousand eight hundred and sixty-