Improvements in Soap and Washing Compounds.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 16th July. 1894-Accepted. 18th Aug.. 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Soap and Washing Compounds.
JOHN PENFOLD FRIEND FIELD 100 Gracechurch Street London E.C. do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An improved soap for cleansing linen & other fabrics consisting of the following
ingredients.
Yellow soap. Pipeclay.-Soda crystals.-Indigo or any ordinary blue as used by
laundresses or any substance which will supply the required coloring matter.
-Benzine-Water to the required consistency.
(2) An improved washing powder or compound consisting of pipe-clay & soda
crystals for use in washing linens &c.
(3) An improved scouring soap for silver plate & all kinds of metal goods,
paint &c., consisting of yellow soap, pipeclay & caustic soda & water.
Oatahon 16th 1902
J. PENFOLD F. FIELD.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Soaps and Washing Compounds.
I, JOHN PENFOLD FRIEND FIELD now residing at 41 Rochester Road,
Camden Town, London, N.W., late of 100 Gracechurch Street, in the City of
London E.C., Gentleman 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 :-
My invention relates to a new or improved composition of matter, or combination
of substances or materials, which I intend to use in the manner hereinafter
explained.
Firstly As an improved soap for the washing and cleansing of linen and other
fabrics, and laundry purposes generally, and as for its object, that such washing and
cleansing may, by its use, be effected without the need of scrubbing or rubbing the
linen or the like as obtains with the use of soaps as hitherto made, thereby
materially prolonging the life of the articles or materials being cleansed.
Second As a washing or cleansing compound, in powder, to be used for laundry
purposes generally, after the manner of the washing powders of commerce.
Third As an improved paste or powder for scouring and polishing silver plate,
and all kinds of other metal goods, paint, and the like, and which may be used for
other purposes.
In the preparation of soap for laundry purposes, 1 carry my invention into effect,
by taking as a base, any ordinary, preferably colorless soap of commerce, or the
ingredients of which such is made, and while in, or when brought to a liquid
condition by heat, I add to twenty parts thereof, three or thereabouts of soda
crystals or its equivalent, and when this is dissolved I add in varying quantities, but
generally one in twenty or thereabouts, benzine or its equivalent, and to this
compound I add ten per cent. or thereabouts of pipe clay, preferably pulverized, and
sufficient water to produce the required consistency, and the whole when thoroughly
mixed, may be made into bars, blocks, cakes or tablets in the usual way.
I may for certain laundry purposes add to the foregoing mass, at any convenient
or suitable time during its manufacture, a small quantity of indigo, ultramarine or
other blue, in order to dispense with the need of blue in the rinsing water used by
laundresses.

page_text: The linen or the like to be washed would be soaked overnight in the usual way,
and by simply placing the same in a copper of water, in which a sufficient quantity
of the soap compound had previously been thrown, and boiling the whole for
twenty minutes or thereabouts according to the more or less dirty condition of the
linen, the dirt and stains would thereby be entirely removed without the need of
scrubbing or rubbing, and when removed from the copper would only require to be
rinsed and wrung in the usual way.
In the preparation of the compound to be used as a washing or cleansing powder
for laundry and other purposes, I employ the same material as a base as described in
the preparation of soap, to which I add, in about the same proportions, soda
crystals and pipe clay, with or without the addition of water, and when these
ingredients are thoroughly mixed and solidified, I expose the whole, if necessary, to
a process of drying, and ultimately reduced the same to powder, and being then
perfectly soluable in water may be used in the same way as soap powders or cleansing
crystals as at present made and used.
In the preparation of the compound to be used for scouring and polishing metal
and metal goods, I employ the same base as in the previous preparations, and -add
thereto in or about the same proportions, pipe clay, and caustic soda, soda ash,
or the like, with or without the addition of water, and the whole may be finished
in paste form, or moulded into cakes or blocks, or subjected to a process of
drying when the same is to be pulverized, and may be used in the same
manner as scouring and polishing preparations generally, with the result that
metal goods cleansed and polished thereby will retain their brightness longer, and
tarnish less quickly than obtains with the use of any of the preparations hitherto
employed for such purposes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is.
1st. In the manufacture of soap or soap powder, for laundry and cleansing
purposes generally, or as a scouring and polishing medium of all kinds of metal
goods, the employment of the herein described ingredients or materials, in or
about the proportions stated, connected, combined and used substantially as, and
for the purposes herein specified.
2nd. In an improved soap for laundry and other like purposes, the combination
of any suitable soap of commerce, (or the ingredients of which the same is made,)
soda crystals or its equivalent, benzine or its equivalent, pipe clay and water, in
the proportions stated or thereabouts, with or without the addition of indigo,
ultramarine or other suitable blue substance, prepared, packed and used, substantially
as and for the purposes herein specified.
3rd. In an improved washing powder for laundry and other purposes, the
combination of any suitable soap of commerce, (or the ingredients of which the
same is made) soda crystals or its equivalent and pipe clay in or about the pro-
portions stated with or without the addition of water, prepared and used substantially
as and for the purposes herein specified.
4th. As an improved scouring and polishing medium for metal goods and other
purposes, the combination of any suitable soap of commerce (or the ingredients of
which the same is made,) pipe clay, and caustic soda, soda ash or the like, in the
proportions stated, or thereabouts, with or without the addition of water, prepared
and used, substantially as and for the purposes herein specified.
Dated this 16th day of July 1894.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.