A New or Improved Cleaning or Polishing Compound or Emulsion.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1893—Accepted, 6th Jan., 1900
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION..
A New or Improved Cleaning or Polishing Compound or Emulsion.
I, REGINALD HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co., of 18, Bucking-
ham Street, Strand, W.C., London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention a communication to me from abroad by Arthur Manning Waitt,
of New York, in the County of New York and State of New York, United States
of America, Superintendent, 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 emulsion-forming compound, more especially
adapted for cleaning and polishing varnished surfaces.
The object of the invention is to provide a compound, of the character indi-
cated, that is a powerful dirt-remover that is not liable to injure the varnish,
nor harmful in any other manner, and that does not require care and skill in
its application.
The compound consists, essentially of refined petroleum whose specific gravity
is 320 Baumé or about 32° Baumé and diluted muriatic or hydrochloric acid
mixed in the proportions of about one part of the petroleum to two parts of the
diluted acid.
The diluted acid consists, preferably, of about one part of acid and two parts
of water, and is consequently not injurious to varnish.
The compound having the aforesaid ingredients in the aforesaid proportion is
capable of cleaning and polishing any varnished surface, and a varnished surface
having the most obstinate coat of dirt is readily cleaned upon the application
of the compound thereto.
The compound, when the same is designed for use in cleaning and polishing
the varnished surfaces of furniture, may contain less acid, or more water, than
indicated by the proportion herein before specified.
The two ingredients, the petroleum and the diluted acid, are mixed by suitable
agitation, and the agitation, that is preferably employed, is effected by the
introduction of compressed air in the manufacture of a large quantity of the
compound, because the use of compressed air facilitates the mixture of the
ingredients and renders the mixture of the acid with the petroleum gradual.
The petroleum is very effective in preventing the corrosive action of the acid,
and refined petroleum of 32° Baumé mixed with the diluted acid, forms a
permanent emulsion. That is, the emulsive character of the compound does
not disappear by allowing the compound to stand an indefinite time."
The distinctive and essential characteristic of the compound, that constitutes
the subject-matter of this application, is the formation of a permanent emulsion
composed of refined petroleum and the diluted acid, and this characteristic can
only be attained by using refined petroleum of 32° or approximately 320 Baumé
and by mixing the petroleum and the diluted acid in about one part of the
petroleum to two parts of the diluted acid. In fact, the use of refined petroleum
of 32° Baumé gives the best results.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
A liquid compound for cleaning and polishing varnished surfaces, consisting
of a permanent emulsion composed of a refined petroleum having a specific
gravity of thirty-two or about thirty-two degrees Baumé, and diluted acid that
is not injurious to varnish, and having the said ingredients mixed in the pro-
portion of about one part of the petroleum to two parts of the diluted acid, sub-
stantially as set forth.