An Improved Cream or Paste for Cleaning and Polishing Furniture and other Bright Surfaces, such as American Cloth, Patent Leather, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 20th May, 1893-Accepted, 24th June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
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An Improved Cream or Paste for Cleaning and Polishing Furniture
and other Bright Surfaces, such as American Cloth, Patent
Leather, and the like.
We, JAMES OWEN, Boot and Shoe Dressing Manufacturer of 13 School Lane,
Heaton Chapel, near Stockport, EDWARD PIKE, Watch Maker, of 18 King.
Street, Manchester, and CHARLES MOSELEY WILLIAMS, Solicitor, of Guardian
Buildings, Cross Street, Manchester aforesaid, all in the County of Lancaster, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved cream or paste for cleaning and polishing
varnished and polished wood work and furniture, American cloth, patent leather,
and other similar bright surfaces.
The chief object of the invention is to dispense with the use of turpentine,
benzine, or any of the solvents usually employed and which impart to the ordinary
polishing creams a strong and disagreeable odour.
In preparing the improved cream or paste we proceed in the usual way by
heating say 20 gallons of water and dissolving therein about 60 lbs. of potash or
pearl ashes, and 40 lbs. of .bees wax or other suitable wax, boiling the whole for
an hour or more, then allowing the mixture to cool when the wax will float on the
surface.
The wax is then taken away from the liquid, and according to our invention is
placed in say 20 gallons of boiling water in which say from two to eight pounds
of borax has been dissolved--the quantity of borax depending in some measure on
the nature of the wax employed. We then add to the boiling liquid a small
quantity of any suitable deoxidiser or drying agent such as sulphate of zinc,
hydrated protoxide of manganese, litharge, acetate of lead and the like, and boil
briskly for say two or three hours agitating the mixture the while. We then filter
the mixture whilst hot and allow the filtrate to partly cool, and then commence and
continue to agitate it until quite cold. To the product which takes the form of a
cream or paste we may add any colouring perfume and colouring matter or use the
same without either perfume or colouring matter.
Dated this 1st day of September 1892.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cream or Paste for Cleaning and Polishing Furniture
and other Bright Surfaces, such as American Cloth, Patent
Leather, and the like.
We, JAMES OWEN, Boot and Shoe Dressing Manufacturer of 13 School Lane,
Heaton Chapel, near Stockport, EDWARD PIKE, Watch Maker, of 18 King
Street, Manchester, and CHARLES MOSELEY WILLIAMS, Solicitor, of Guardian
Buildings, Cross Street, Manchester aforesaid, all in the County of Lancaster, 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:-
This invention relates to an improved cream or paste for cleaning and polishing
varnished and polished wood work and furniture, American cloth, patent leather,
and other similar bright surfaces

page_text: The chief object of the invention is to dispense with the use of turpentine,
benzine, or any of the solvents usually employed and which impart to the ordinary
polishing creams a strong and disagreeable odour.
In preparing the improved cream or paste we proceed in the usual way by
heating say 20 gallons of water and dissolving therein about 60 lbs. of potash or
pearl ashes, and 40 lbs. of bees wax or other suitable wax, boiling the whole for
an hour or more, then allowing the mixture to cool when the wax will float on the
surface.
The wax is then taken away from the liquid, and according to our invention is
placed in say 20 gallons of boiling water in which say from two to eight pounds of
borax has been dissolved-the quantity of borax depending in some measure on the
nature of the wax employed. We then add to the boiling liquid a small quantity
of any suitable deoxidiser or drying agent such as sulphate of zinc, hydrated
protoxide of manganese, litharge, acetate of lead and the like, and boil briskly for
say two or three hours agitating the mixture the while.
When a tinted cream or paste is desired we prefer to employ as a deoxidiser
hydrated protoxide of manganese say three-quarters of a pound to a hundred weight
of the cream or paste or if a white cream or paste is desired then sulphate of zinc
or acetate of lead the same proportion.
We then filter the mixture whilst hot and allow the filtrate to partly cool, and
then commence and continue to agitate it until quite cold. To the product which
takes the form of a cream or paste we may add any perfume and colouring matter
or use the same without either perfume or colouring matter.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
A polishing cream or paste composed of prepared wax, borax, and a deoxidiser
or drying agent substantially in the manner and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 19th day of May 1893.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicants.