IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF STAINS AND MATERIALS FOR POLISHING
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Max Sombart, of the Firm of Buss, Sombart,
and Company, Engineers and Patent Agents, of Magdeburg, in the Empire of
Germany, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF
STAINS AND MATERIALS FOR POLISHING." A communication from Gottlob
Glafey, of Nürnberg, Bavaria.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Max Sombart at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th June 1881.
CHARLES MAX SOMBART, of the Firm of Buss, Sombart, and Company,
Engineers and Patent Agents, of Magdeburg, in the Empire of Germany.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF STAINS AND MATERIALS FOR POLISHING."
A communication from Gottlob Glafey, of Nürnberg, Bavaria.
My Invention consists in the use of carnauba wax in a hydrated state combined
with metallic and other oxides and colouring matters for preparing stains,
polishing, and scouring matters.
I dissolve 1 part of soap in 30 parts of boiling water, to this I add an equal
quantity of carnauba-wax, and make the whole boil until the wax is dissolved and
looks like white milk.
After this I pour in a quantity of caustic ammonia until the milky solution of
wax has become clearer, and then I let it cool.
According to what the polishing matter is intended for, I precipitate this solution
of wax with a solution of alum, sulphate of magnesia, iron, or zinc, etc.
By this I obtain precipitates of combinations of sebacics and carnuaba-wax acids
with the oxides of the above mentioned salts.
After washing out these precipitates I mix the compounds thus obtained with
a small quantity of caustic ammonia and the precipitates of the desired colour.
To get for instance, a black colour I use a decoction of campeachy wood and acid
chromate of potassa.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles Max Soobart in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
Sth December 1881.
CHARLES MAX SOMBART, of the Firm of Buss, Sombart, and Company,
Engineers and Patent Agents, of Magdeburg, in the Empire of Germany.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF STAINS AND MATERIALS FOR POLISHING."
A communication from Gottlob Glafey, of Nürnberg, Bavaria.
This Invention consists in the use of carnauba-wax in a hydrated state combined
with metallic and other oxydes and colouring matters for preparing stains.
polishing, and scouring matters. The carnauba-wax being the product of a plant
surpasses all other kinds of wax by its hardness, and that it smelts only at
97° Celsius. Between the teeth it breaks into pieces without mollifying, and when
applied in a hydrated state in connection with other substances to the above
mentioned articles, it effects an excellent durable lustre and protects against the
penetration of humidity.
I prepare this polishing material in the following manner :-
I dissolve 1 part of soap in 30 parts of boiling water, to this I add an equal
quantity of carnauba-wax and boil the whole until the wax is dissolved and looks
like white milk. After this 1 pour in a quantity of caustic ammonia until the
milky solution of wax has become clearer, and then I let it cool.
According to what the polishing matter is intended for, I precipitate this
solution of wax with a solution of alum, sulphate of magnesia, iron, or zinc, etc.
By this I obtain precipitates of combinations of sebacics and carnauba-wax acids
with the bases of the above mentioned salts.
After washing out these precipitates I mix the compounds thus obtained with a
small quantity of caustic ammonia and the precipitates of the desired colour. To
get for instance, a black colour I use a decoction of campeachy wood and acid
chromate of potash.
It is to be understood that my polishing matters differ from those generally used
by their not being composed of a mixture bees-wax and soap-solution, soluble in
water like the latter, but of chemical combinations of sebacic, and especially carnauba-
wax acid with the oxydes of the above mentioned salts and colouring matters.
CLAIM.
The preparation of impenetrable stains, polishing and scouring material, con-
sisting of carnauba-wax acid, and sebacics combined with the above mentioned 3
bases in a hydrated state and with colouring matters.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Max Sombart, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifth day of December, A.D. 1881.
CHARLES MAX SOMBART. (L.S.)