AN IMPROVED WASHING POWDER
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 38, Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, in the County
of Middlesex, and 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of
France, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED WASHING
POWDER." A communication from Louis Lacalm and Barthelemy
Adolphe Guyot, Manufacturers, residing at Aubin, in the Empire of
France.
Sealed the 8th November 1867, and dated the 13th May 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th May 1867.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices,
38, Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex; and 24, Rue
du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, Patent Agent, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED WASHING POWDER,"
a communication from Louis Lacalm and Barthelemy Adolphe Guyot,
Manufacturers, two persons resident at Aubin, in the Empire of France,
to be as follows:-
The Invention communicated to me relates to a compound fit for washing
purposes, and consists in a mixture of maize flour, of the cakes of the arachis
or arachidna quadrifolia, of sesamum, or of poppy, and of sub-carbonate of soda,

page_text: or artificial soda, to which mixture is added for the washing of rough materials
a sixth of non-hydraulic lime. This powder is steeped in water when required
for use.
The proportions in which these substances must be used are as follows:-
About 50% of maize to 25% of cake, and 25% of sub-carbonate of soda 5
for a fine mixture, or of each a third for a grosser mixture, with addition of
lime.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters-Patent, filed
by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 9th November 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 38, Porchester
Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, and 24, Rue du Mont Thabor,
Paris, in the Empire of France, Patent Agent, send greeting.
at any
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her.reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Henri Adrien Bonneville, Her special licence that I, the said Henri Adrien
Bonneville, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 WASHING
POWDER," a communication from Louis Lacalm and Barthelemy Adolphe
Guyot, Manufacturers, two persons resident at Aubin, in the Empire of
France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henri
Adrien Bonneville, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The Invention communicated to me relates to a compound fit for washing
purposes, and consists in a mixture of maize flour, of the cakes of the arachis
or arachidna quadrifolia, of sesamum, or of poppy, and of sub-carbonate of
soda, or artificial soda, to which mixture is added for the washing of rough
materials a sixth of non-hydraulic lime. This powder is steeped in water when
required for use.
The proportions in which these substances must be used are as follow:-
About 50% of maize to 25% of cake, and 25% of sub-carbonate of soda
for a fine mixture, or of each a third for a grosser mixture, with addition of
lime.
The substances above indicated are well ground and mixed, and then passed
through the sieve in the above given proportions. These proportions are, for
the powder with which to wash the hands, face, body, and silver plate, 50%
of white or yellow maize flour, 25% of cakes of arachis, sesamum or poppy,
and 25% of sub-carbonate of soda at 26°, to which a perfume may added
when used for the person if preferred.
For grosser objects, such as greasy tables, the floor, the stairs, and such like,
the proportions are, maize flour, 33%; cakes of arachis, 33%; artificial
soda, 33%; this composition taken as unity a sixth of non-hydraulic lime
should be added.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters
Patent is, an economical powder composed of the substances and in the pro-
portions above given for washing purposes, substantially as herein-before fully
set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.8.)