Improved Cleansing Compound for Textiles and other Delicate Articles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Nov., 1898 Accepted, 28th Jan., 1899
Improved Cleansing Compound for Textiles and other Delicate
Articles.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 322, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, 6, Lord Street,
Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, and
Lower Temple Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Civil Engineer,
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;-
This invention relates to an improved preparation for cleaning carpets and other
delicate goods and fabrics. The preparation is applicable for cleaning many other
descriptions of articles, especially household goods, but it is found to be of special
value for cleansing textile fabrics, which by reason of their colour or texture are
liable to be injured by washing or other usual cleansing processes.
The composition consists of the following ingredients, combined in the pro-
portions stated, or approximately thus, according to the strength or purity of the
several ingredients used, viz. ;-
Water
Soap
-
Sal soda (soda carbonate)
Liquid ammonia
Methyl alcohol
(12) twelve quarts.
(6) six and a half pounds.
(3) three pounds
(1) one quart
(1) one pint
The foregoing materials are compounded as follows;-
The water, soap, and soda are boiled together until the whole of the soap is
dissolved; the vessel is then removed from the fire, and the ammonia is mixed with
the solution; finally the alcohol is added and stirred thoroughly into the mixture;
the whole is then poured into vessels or cans, and left uncovered until it has set
firm.
In using this composition for cleansing carpets it should be dissolved by
stirring into boiling water in the proportion of one pound of composition to one
quart of water then take a small scrubbing brush, not too hard, and rub with
O the grain of the carpet and afterwards wipe clean with a damp sponge; finer fabrics
require more gentle treatment. After treatment it will be found that the pattern
and colours of the carpet or other fabric will appear almost as when new.
aware that most or all of the ingredients named have been individually used in
cleansing processes, but I am not aware of their having been used in combination
5 according to the above formula, or with similar good results to those obtained by
this combination thereof.
I am

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, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is:-
:-
1. Improved cleansing compound containing, water, soap, carbonate of soda,
ammonia, and methyl alcohol, combined substantially as described.
2. Improved cleansing compound for carpets and the like compounded of the
ingredients above set forth substantially in the manner and proportions specified.
Dated this 30th day of November 1898
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicant.