Year: 1888

page_text: A communication from abroad by ANTOINE MAGGIORANI, O Nocera Omoreg
Kingdom of Italy, Doctor of Medicine.
1, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street Manchester, both in
the County of Lancaster, and 323, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engineer, 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 :-
The present invention relates to the manufacture of toilet requisites such as powders,
tablets, pastilles, pomades, and soaps, and has for its object the employment, for that
purpose, of the alkaline earth of Nocera Umbra. The manner of proceeding being
as follows:
:
For powders The Nocera Umbra earth is first deprived of all the water it contains
and reduced into an impalpable powder. Five per cent. of very finely pulverized talc
is then added, and the whole is aromatized. This powder is used for the same purposes
as those for which rice powder is usually employed.
For tablets After the Nocera Umbra earth has been deprived of the water it
contains, it is amalgamated with a certain quantity of Kaolin (about 5 per cent.) and
tale (about 5 per cent.) and briquettes or tablets are made thereof for toilet and
bathing purposes, the body being rubbed therewith just as would be done with
soap.
These briquettes or tablets may either be aromatized or made scentless.
For pastilles: These are made of the same compositions as the tablets but a greater
proportion of talc is used. They may be aromatized or scentless; they are likewise
neal fan machine

page_text: For pomades: These are prepared in the following manner :-
The Nocera Umbra earth is deprived of all the water it contains, reduced to an
impalpable powder, dried in a stove and amalgamated with vaseline in the proportion
Wax in the proportion of 4 or 5 per cent., and cochineal or
per cent.
of 10 to 20
carmine are added.
obtained.
The whole is then aromatized and a pomade or a cosmetic
For soaps The soap is manufactured as follows:
The Nocera Umbra earth is deprived of its water and reduced into an impalpable
powder, which is amalgamated either by a cold or hot process with 5 per cent. of
Kaolin, and with soap paste in the proportion of 10 to 20 per cent. of earth mixed
with the Kaolin, and-of-80-to-90 of soap paste. The whole is well mixed and then
aromatized.
The quality of the soap made with Nocera earth depends upon the quality of the
paste. Soaps of various qualities can therefore be manufactured from the hardest
soaps for the teeth, to the softest and powder soaps for the beard.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In the manufacture of toilet requisites such as powders, tablets, pastilles, pomades,
and soaps, the employment of Nocera Umbra earth as an element in the composition
of such requisites.
2. The manufacture of toilet requisites, such as powders, tablets, pastilles, pomades,
and soaps, substantially as herein set forth.