IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alphonse René le Mire de Normandy, of Judd
Street, Brunswick Square, in the County of Middlesex, Analytical
Chemist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
SOAP."
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Sealed the 5th March 1858, and dated the 9th November 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alphonse René le Mire
de Normandy at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 9th November 1857.
I, ALPHONSE RENÉ LE MIRE DE NORMANDY, of Judd Street, Brunswick
Square, in the County of Middlesex, Analytical Chemist, do hereby declare
the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of soap,
and consists in applying sulphate, sulphite, and hyposulphites of soda, or one
or more of these matters in combination with a rock or clay found in Surrey,
and which may be hereafter found in other places, and is now well known by
reason of its containing a large quantity of silica, soluble in a boiling alkaline
solution, but it has not yet, it is believed, had any distinguishing name
given to it.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alphonse René le Mire de Normandy in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 7th May 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALPHONSE
RENE LE MIRE DE NORMANDY, of Judd Street, Brunswick Square, in the
County of Middlesex, Analytical Chemist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Alphonse René le Mire de Normandy, Her special licence, that I, the
said Alphonse René le Mire de Normandy, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Alphonse René le Mire de Normandy, 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,"
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alphonse René le
Mire de Normandy, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
upon
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alphonse René le Mire de Normandy,
do hereby declare the nature of the 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:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of soap,
and consists in applying sulphate, sulphite, and hyposulphite of soda, or one
or more of these matters in combination with a rock or clay found in Surrey,
and which may be hereafter found in other places, and is now well known by
reason of its containing a large quantity of silica, soluble in a boiling alkaline
solution, but it has not yet, it is believed, had any distinguishing name given
to it.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed more fully
to describe the manner of performing the same.

page_text: My improvements consist in introducing into, mixing, or blending with
silicated soap, made according to the Invention described in the Specification
of a Patent granted to John Thomas Way, on the 23rd day of April 1857,
which consisted in the application of a natural soluble silicate, as therein
described, sulphate of soda, or sulphite of soda, or hyposulphite of soda, which
may be done in various ways; but the manner I prefer is, that when the
said silicated soap is finished and ready to be cleansed, I add to each frame
full of such soap, either in the frame itself or in an intermediate vessel, of
suitable dimensions, 1 cwt. or 1½ cwt. of either of the salts of soda above
mentioned, taking care to crutch or stir the whole together until it is hardly
possible to continue longer to do so, as is well understood by soap makers.
The proportions above given may however be increased or diminished according
to the quality of the soap to be produced.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is, the
application of the salts of soda above mentioned in combination with the
natural soluble silicate rock or earth above-mentioned in the manufacture of
soap.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alphonse René le Mire de Normandy,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
GEO. PITT.
A. NORMANDY. (L.S.)