IM- PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COMBINED SOAPS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, of Belle Isle, in the
. County of Middlesex, Soap Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COMBINED SOAPS."
Sealed the 12th September 1862, and dated the 15th March 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Constantine Nicolaus
Kottula at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 15th March 1862.
I, CONSTANTINE NICOLAUS KOTTULA, of Belle Isle, in the County of Middle-
sex, Soap Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COMBINED SOAPS," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in the combination of pearlash with combined soaps,
whether with such soaps as result from the combination of a curd with a
bydrated soap, according to the Invention patented by James Blake and Francis
Maxwell, No. 2016, the 30th August 1856, or with such combined soaps as:
result from the combination of a curd soap with elements producing a hydrated.
soap, no matter in what manner they may be manipulated, combined, and.
finished, or with such combined soaps as result from the combination of any..
ordinary finished soap with a hydrated soap or with the elements producing
a hydrated soap, mottled or not, and with or without resin. The proportion.

page_text: of pearlash varies according to the excess of spent leys (salts) contained in
the curd and ordinary soaps, also according to the quality of the leys used in
the combination. I have found 1 cwt. of pearlash to 3 tons of combined soap
to answer well, I have also used three times the quantity of pearlash, to that
quantity of combined soap. I use pearlash to effect the neutralization of spent
leys (salts) contained in the said soaps as well as to effect the neutralization of
leys used in the combination, consequently the proportions of pearlash vary
according to the evils remedied.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Constantine Nicolaus Kottula in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 15th September 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CONSTANTINE
NICOLAUS KOTTULA, of Belle Isle, in the County of Middlesex, Soap Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, Her special licence, that I,
the said Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF. COMBINED SOAPS," upon the condition. (amongst others) that I, the said
Constantine, Nicolaus. Kottula, 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 Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, do
hereby declare the nature of any said Invention, and in what manner the same is

page_text: to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :—
My Invention consists in the combination of pearlash with combined soaps,
whether with such combined soaps as result from the combination of a curd
with a hydrated soap, according to the Invention patented by James Blake and
Francis Maxwell, No. 2016, the 30th August 1856, or with such combined
soaps as result from the combination of a curd soap with elements producing
a hydrated soap, no matter in what manner they may be manipulated, combined,
and finished, or with such combined soaps as result from the combination of
any ordinary finished soap with a hydrated soap, or with the elements producing
a hydrated soap, mottled or not, and with or without resin. The proportion of
pearlash varies according to the excess of spent leys (salts) contained in the
curd and ordinary soaps, also according to the quality of the leys used in the
combination. I have found one cwt. of pearlash to three tons of combined soap
to answer well, I have also used three times the quantity of pearlash to that
quantity of combined soap; I use pearlash to effect the neutralisation of spent
leys (salts) contained in the said soaps as well as to effect the neutralisation
of leys used in the combination, consequently the proportions of pearlash vary
according to the evils remedied.
In witness whereof, I, the said Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of September,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
CONST. N. KOTTULA. (L.s.)