IMPROVED WASHING AND CLEANSING COM- POUND OR SOAP
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Waller, of Fish Street Hill, in the City of London,
Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVED WASHING AND CLEANSING COM-
POUND OR SOAP"
Sealed the 21st August 1877, and dated the 28th March 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Waller at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th March 1877.
THOMAS WALLER, of Fish Street Hill, in the City of London, Engineer. "IMPROVED
WASHING AND CLEANSING COMPOUND OR SOAP."
My improved washing and cleansing compound or soap consists of a mixture of
the usual or suitable soap making materials, and of the dust or small fragments
of wood, commonly known as "sawdust," and I mix the sawdust with soap already
manufactured, melting down the soap, and whilst it is sufficiently fluid putting in
the sawdust and mixing the whole well together by stirring or otherwise.
The sawdust can, however, be introduced during the process of manufacture of
the soap in a similar way to that in which the other ingredients thereof are mixed
together and manufactured into soap.
This soap will possess great advantages in facility of detaching dirt from the
skin, and from foul linen or other substances requiring to be washed, and is applicable
to scented as well as other soaps.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas Waller in the Great Scal Patent Office on the 28th
September 1877.
THOMAS WALLER, of Fish Street Hill, in the City of London, Engineer. " IMPROVED
WASHING AND CLEANSING COMPOUND OR SOAP."
The object of this Invention is to produce soap or cleansing compound, which
when duly applied, shall effectually cleanse the skiu or articles requiring cleansing,
without the necessity of resorting to so much rubbing action as is usually necessary,
[Price 2d1

page_text: such soap or cleansing compound being at the same time as little injurious to the
texture to which it is applied as ordinary soap is.
My improved washing or cleansing compound or soap consists of a mixture of
the usual or suitable soap making materials, and of the dust or small fragments of
wood, commonly known as "sawdust."
The sawdust is introduced during the process of manufacture of the soap in a
similar way to that in which the other ingredients thereof are mixed together and
manufactured; but the sawdust may be mixed with soap already manufactured,
melting down the soap, and whilst it is sufficiently fluid, putting in the sawdust
and mixing the whole well together by stirring or otherwise.
The proportion of sawdust to be mixed will vary, but I prefer one twenty-eight
part of the compound or soap to be of sawdust, but I do not bind myself to the
exact proportion, but regulate samne according to requirements.
This soap will possess great advantages in facility of detaching dirt from the
skin and from foul linen or other substances requiring to be washed, and is
applicable to scented as well as other soaps.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and object of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed or put in practice,
I hereby declare that I claim the Invention of "Improved Washing and Cleansing
Compound or Soap," substantially as tho same is herein-before set forth and
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Waller, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
Witness,
T. MORGAN,
Secretary,
Inventors' Patent-right Assn., Ld.,
21, Cockspur Street,
S.W.
THOMAS WALLER. (L.S.)