A New Glaze for Laundry and other Purposes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Aug., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 18th May, 1897-Accepted, 19th June, 1897
A New Glaze for Laundry and other Purposes.
I ALBERT EDWARD HAWKER of No. 1 Francis Terrace Lansdown Road
Easton Bristol do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to enable laundresses and others to glaze shirt-
fronts collars cuffs and other linen goods with less trouble than heretofore and
without injuring the fabric.
Now according to this invention I make a glaze for laundry purposes by mixing
together in suitable proportions
Tallow, leys, salt, borax, turpentine, French chalk and glycorine.
This glaze may be formed into a paste or other suitable form.
starched article has been ironed the glaze is rubbed on the surface
iron passed quickly over it.
Dated this Eighteenth day of August 1896.
When the
and a hot
I ALBERT EDWARD HAWKER of 1 Francis Terrace Lansdowne Road Easton
Bristol do hereby declare the naturo of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in aud by
the following statement :-
The object of this invention is to enable laundresses and others to glaze shirt
fronts cuffs and collars and other linen goods with less trouble than heretofore and
without injuring the fabrio.
Now according to this invention I make a glaze for laundry purposes by mixing
together in suitable proportions tallow, leys, salt, borax, turpentine, French chalk,
and glycerine and I may add thereto beeswax and gum arabic.
When preparing the glaze I take the following proportions of the ingredients
by weight.

page_text: and boil the whole for one hour until it forms a paste on cooling.
Or according to another formula I take the following proportions, of the
ingredients by weight.
Tallow
Soap leys
Beeswax-
Gum arabic
Turpentine
Borax
French chalk
Glycerine
Cloride of sodium
and proceed as follows.
- 6 parts
2 parts
-
-
I part
-
1 part
2 parts
1 part
- 1 part
1 part
I part
I mix the 6 paris tallow 2 parts soap leys and 1 part of beeswax with 16 parts
of water and boil them together till the solids are totally dissolved.
I then add the oue part gum arabic and 2 parts of turpentine to the mixture and
again boil I then adil the equal proportions of the borax French chalk glycerine
and chloride of sodium and boil the whole for one hour when the resulting product
takes the form of a paste.
The finished glaze may be put up in collapsible tubes, tins or in any other
:suitable way.
After the article to be glazed has been starched and ironed a little of the glaze
is rubbed on the surface and a hot iron passed quickly over it.
Or the glaze may be mixed with the starch in the usual way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
.claim is:-
1. A glaze for laundry and other purposes consisting of turpentine, tallow, soap
leys, chloride of sodium, borax, French chalk, and glycerine combined substantially
in the manner hereinbefore specified and in about the proportions stated.
2. A glaze for laundry and other purposes consisting of turpentine, tallow, soap
leys, chloride of sodium, borax, French chalk, glycerine, beeswax, and gum
arabic combined substantially in the manner hereinbefore specified and in about the
proportions stated.
3. Glaze for laundry and other purposes as hereinbefore specified.'
Dated this 18th day of May 1897.
T. E. HALFORD,
11 Furnival Street, London, E.C., Agent for Applicant.