Year: 1899

page_text: I, HENRY SCOTT, of 10, William Street, Dundee, in the County of Forfar, Scot-
land, Grocer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates to improvements in polishing paste, the object being to
provide a mixture which shall be cheap and efficient, and which is to a greater
or a lesser extent soluble in water. It is suitable for cleaning metals such as
silver or copper; or pots and pans; or glass, china and the like."
In carrying out my invention according to one modification, I mix together
whiting and soft soap in about equal proportions to form a paste.
In a second modification I mix whiting, soft soap and paraffin, or petroleum
together to form a paste.
In a third modification the ingredients of which the paste is composed consist
of whiting, soft soap and water.
In a fourth modification the paste consists of whiting, soft soap, paraffin or
retroleum and water.
Instead of or in addition to whiting I may use any other suitable finely pul-
verized material such as fine clay, French chalk, rotten-stone or the like.
The proportions in which the various materials may be compounded can be
varied, the main object being to form the whiting and other materials into a
moderately stiff paste.
The advantages of using a paste composed of the ingredients specified are as
follows:-
:- Each of such ingredients is more or less, in itself, a solvent or a cleans-
ing agent. The paste is light in colour and it can be washed off by means of
hot or cold water after having cleaned the article being treated.
Its chemical action on most materials is very slight and it is peculiarly suited
for cleaning and polishing fine metals or plated goods.
Dated this 25th d
1000

page_text: the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in polishing paste, the object being to
provide a mixture which shall be cheap and efficient, and which is to a greater
or a lesser extent soluble in water. It is suitable for cleaning metals such as
silver or copper; or pots and pans; or glass, china and the like.
In carrying out my invention according to one modification, I mix together
whiting and soft soap in about equal proportions to form a paste.
In a second modification I mix whiting, soft soap and paraffin, or petroleum
together to form a paste.
In a third modification the ingredients of which the paste is composed consist
of whiting, soft soap and water.
In a fourth modification the paste consist of whiting, soft soap, paraffin or
petroleum and water.
The proportions in which the various materials may be compounded can be
varied, the main object being to form the whiting and other materials into a
moderately stiff paste.
For example: A good and effective mixture may be compounded as
follows:-
About one of soft soap by weight, to two of whiting with sufficient water to
give the desired plasticity.
The advantages of using a paste composed of the ingredients specified are as
follows: - Each of such ingredients is more or less, in itself, a solvent or a cleans-
ing agent. The paste is light in colour and it can be washed off by means of
hot or cold water after having cleaned the article being treated.
Its chemical action on most materials is very slight and it is peculiarly suited
for cleaning and polishing fine metals or plated goods.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
(1) In polishing paste, the combination of whiting with soft soap in about
equal proportions, as described.
(2) In polishing paste, the combination of whiting with soft soap and paraffin,
or petroleum as described.
(3) In polishing paste, the combination of whiting with soft soap and water,
as described.
(4) In polishing paste, the combination of whiting with soft soap, paraffin or
petroleum and water, as described.
(5) In polishing paste, the combination of parts, as described.
Dated this 1st day of November 1899.
GEO. C. DOUGLAS & Co.,
Chartered Patent Agents, 41, Reform Street, Dundee,
Agents for Applicant.