Iм- PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, of Liverpool, in the
County of Lancaster, Soap Manufacturer, for the Invention of "Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Constantine Nicolaus
Kottula at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 27th July 1858.
I, CONSTANTINE NICOLAUS KOTTULA, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Soap Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP," to be as follows:-
My improvements consist in combining together what is known in the trade
under the name of "fitted soaps," with other descriptions of soaps known under
the name of neutral hydrated soaps, or the elements of such neutral soaps, that
is to say, with soaps made of cocoa-nut oil or tallow, or certain other descrip-
tions of fatty matters and soda leys, without separation of water or leys. The
modus operandi consists in putting into a pan a quantity of fitted soap, and
then adding thereto a quantity of cocoa-nut oil, tallow, or other oils, together
with the proper quantity of soda leys necessary for the saponification thereof,
and boiling the whole together until the combination of the two soaps has been
completely effected; or the hydrated neutral soap may be separately made in
one pan, and then added and boiled with the fitted soap until perfect com-
bination has taken place.

page_text: 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 27th January 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CONSTANTINE
NICOLAUS KOTTULA, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Soap Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord.
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second 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 executors, 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 SOAP," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
My improvements consist in combining together what is known in the trade
under the name of fitted soaps, with other descriptions of soaps known under
the name of neutral hydrated soaps, or the elements of such neutral soaps, that
is to say, with soaps made of cocoa-nut oil or tallow, or certain other
descriptions of fatty matters and soda leys, without separation of water or leys.
The modus operandi consists in putting into a pan a quantity of fitted soap, and
then adding thereto a quantity of cocoa-nut oil, tallow, or other oils, together
with the proper quantity of soda leys necessary for the saponification thereof,
and boiling the whole together until the combination of the two soaps has been
completely effected; or, the hydrated neutral soap may be separately made in

page_text: one pan, and then added and boiled with the fitted soap until perfect com-
bination has taken place.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the manufacture of
soap
in manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of January, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
CONST. N. KOTTULA. (L.S.)