IMPROVE- MENTS IN PURIFYING SODA LEYS, WHEREBY THEY ARE RENDERED CAPABLE OF SAPONIFYING ALL FATTY MATTERS OR RESINS USED 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PURIFYING SODA LEYS, WHEREBY THEY ARE RENDERED CAPABLE OF
SAPONIFYING ALL FATTY MATTERS OR RESINS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF SOAP."
Sealed the 6th July 1858, and dated the 24th March 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Constantine Nicolaus
Kottula at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 24th March 1858.
I, CONSTANTINE NICOLAUS KOTTULA, of Liverpool, in the County of Lan-
caster, Soap Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PURIFYING SODA LEYS, WHEREBY THEY ARE RENDERED
CAPABLE OF SAPONIFYING ALL FATTY MATTERS OR RESINS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF SOAP," to be as follows:-
My said Invention consists in adding to soda leys made in any way a certain
quantity of alum for the purpose of producing purified leys, which purified
leys are capable of saponifying all fatty matters and resins used for soap
making at one operation, and with better result than heretofore, as by their
employment full or perfect saponification is obtained.

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 24th September 1858..
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-fourth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first 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 PURIFYING SODA LEYS, WHEREBY THEY ARE
RENDERED CAPABLE OF SAPONIFYING ALL FATTY MATTERS OR RESINS USED IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF SOAP," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 imme-
diately 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 said Invention consists in adding to soda leys made in any way a
certain quantity of alum for the purpose of producing purified leys, which
purified leys are capable of saponifying all fatty matters and resins used for
soap making at one operation, and with better result than heretofore, as by
their employment full or perfect saponification is obtained.
I first heat the soda leys, and to every hundredweight of leys, marking
10 degrees Beaumé, I add about 12 ounces of alum; to every hundredweight
of leys, marking 15 degrees Beaumé, I add about 18 ounces of alum; to

page_text: every hundredweight of leys, marking 20 degrees Beaumé, I add about
24 ounces of alum; to every hundredweight of leys, marking 25 degrees
Beaumé, I add about 30 ounces of alum; that is to say, I add for every degree
of strength in each hundredweight of leys about 1 ounce of alum. I then
agitate the leys for about half an hour, until the alum is well dissolved, and
leave the mixture to settle and become clear.
It will be found that by the employment of soda leys purified and treated
as above perfect saponification of the fatty matters and resins used in the
manufacture of soap will be the result.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the purifying of
soda leys used in the manufacture of soap by the mixing therewith of alum
in or about the proportions herein-before mentioned.
In witness whereof, I, the said Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of September,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
CONST. N. KOTTULA. (L.S.)