Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 13th June, 1895-Accepted, 13th July, 1895
MAURICE EVANS, of 4 Church Road Wavertree in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Salesman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Up to the present time bar soap has been made and offered for sale in square or
oblong square bars. These, in use, on account of their extreme squareness are
uncomfortable to the hand and when cut in pieces for toilet purposes require
trimming both for comfort & appearance. Much waste is caused by dinging &
knocking off the sharp corners.
or
My invention is to improve upon these square or oblong square bars by making
& offering for sale circular and octagonal bar soap. The object of the
improvement is to provide a bar soap which shall, in use, combine the following
advantages-
(1.) A shape comfortable to the hand,
(2.) A shape that is equally suitable for toilet as for laundry purposes,
(3.) And a shape that is liable to little waste or dinge.
I would observe that I do not confine or limit myself to the precise shapes.
hereinbefore mentioned as they might obviously be varied in form & detail without.
in any way departing from the spirit of my invention.
Dated this Twelfth day of September 1894.
MAURICE EVANS of 4 Church Road Wavertree in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Salesman, 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 :-
Up to the present time bar soap has been made and offered for sale in square or
oblong square bars. These, in use, on account of their extreme squareness are
uncomfortable to the band and when used for toilet purposes require trimming
both for comfort and appearance.
Much waste is caused by damaging and
knocking off the sharp corners.
or
My invention is to improve upon these square or oblong square bars by making
& offering for sale circular (plain, crimped or fluted) and hexagonal and heptagonal
and polygonal bar soap or in other words bars of soap which when cut vertically
into parts or pieces would in each part or piece present these shapes. The object
of the improvement is to provide a bar soap which, in use, shall combine the
following advantages
or
1. A shape comfortable to the hand
2. A. shape that is equally suitable for toilet as for laundry purposes

page_text: I would observe that I do not confine or limit myself to the precise shapes
hereinbefore mentioned as they might obviously be varied in form & detail without
in any way departing from the spirit of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare what I
claim is
1. The introduction of bar soap of a less angular and of a more ornamental
shape than the square or oblong square bar soap hitherto manufactured or offered
for sale (two or more square tablets of soap joined or manufactured in one bar
have been in use but these are square and are quite distinct in character from my
invention).
2. The introduction of circular bar soap and of ornamental bar soap.
3. The introduction of a bar soap which can be cut to any thickness to suit users
for toilet purposes without destroying its ornamental appearance or complete
outline as cutting to any thickness does in the case of bar soap shaped in
tablets.
Dated this Twelfth day of June 1894
MAURICE EVANS.