AN IMPROVED LIQUID COM- POSITION FOR CLEANSING, SCOURING, AND BLEACHING TEXTILE, ANIMAL
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Gustave Emile Rolland and Emile Leon Rolland,
of Paris, Merchants, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED LIQUID COM-
POSITION FOR CLEANSING, SCOURING, AND BLEACHING TEXTILE, ANIMAL,
"
Sealed the 12th January 1866, and dated the 23rd September 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Gustave Emile Rolland
and Emile Leon Rolland at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 23rd September 1865.
We, GUSTAVE EMILE ROLLAND and EMILE LEON ROLLAND, of Paris,
Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED LIQUID COMPOSITION FOR CLEANSING, SCOURING, AND BLEACHING TEXTILE,
ANIMAL, MINERAL, AND VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists of a liquid composition for cleaning, scouring,
bleaching, and removing stains from fabrics, wood, stone, marble, glass,
metal, pictures, and other substances. The composition is formed of the
following ingredients, and by preference in or about the proportions stated:-
Filtered or distilled water
80,00 parts.
500

page_text: The soap wort is boiled for about half an hour in water, allowed to cool,
after which the ammonia is added and the mixture well stirred. The com-
position, which we call eau rolland, is bottled and is to be used cold.
To clean, for example, lace, silk, woollen and cotton stuffs, mix in or about
the proportion of four spoonfuls of eau rollaud to half a pint of cold water,
stir up the liquid, and dip the article in the composition, soap and rinse it and
iron it before it becomes quite dry. Silks thus treated possess the brilliancy
and suppleness of new goods, and linen is whitened without being spoiled as
in the processes generally followed.
To clean glass, marble, and the like. In a pint of cold water place two
spoonsful of eau rolland, and agitate the liquid, then with a sponge dipped in
the liquid wash the article and wipe with a dry cloth. Should any spots or
stains remain, increase the quantity of eau rolland, even to using it pure.
The eau rolland may be applied as a scouring, cleansing, and bleaching
agent in the form of a bath, or by means of a cloth or brush, or otherwise,
and more or less diluted according to the article to which it is to be applied.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Gustave Emile Rolland and Emile Leon Rolland in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st March 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GUSTAVE
EMILE ROLLAND and EMILE LEON ROLLAND, of Paris, Merchants, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Gustave Emile Rolland and Emile Leon Rolland, Her special licence
that we, the said Gustave Emile Rolland and Emile Leon Rolland, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Gustave
Emile Rolland and Emile Leon Rolland, our 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 "AN IMPROVED LIQUID COMPOSITION FOR CLEANSING, SCOURING, AND

page_text: BLEACHING TEXTILE, ANIMAL, MINERAL, AND VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Gustave Emile Rolland and
Emile Leon Rolland, or one of us, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our, or one of our, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Gustave Emile Rolland and Emile
Leon Rolland, do hereby declare the nature of our 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 :-
Our Invention consists of a liquid composition for cleaning, scouring,
bleaching, and removing stains from fabrics, wood, stone, marble, glass, metal,
pictures, and other substances. The composition is formed of the following
ingredients, and by preference in or about the proportions stated :-
Filtered or distilled water -
Soap wort (saponaire)
Liquid ammonia of commerce
8000 parts.
500 parts.
86 parts.
The soap wort is boiled for about half an hour in water, allowed to cool,
after which the ammonia is added and the mixture well stirred, or the soap wort
may be distilled instead of boiled. The composition, which we call eau
rolland is bottled, and is to be used cold.
To clean, for example, lace, silk, woollen and cotton stuffs, mix in or about
the proportion of four spoonsful of eau rolland to half a pint of cold water,
stir up the liquid, and dip the article in the composition, soap and rince it,
and iron it before it becomes quite dry. Silks thus treated possess the brilliancy
and suppleness of new goods, and linen is whitened without being spoiled, as
in the processes generally followed.
To clean glass, marble, and the like.-In about half a pint to a pint of cold
water place two spoonsful of eau rolland, and agitate the liquid, then with
a sponge dipped in the liquid wash the article and wipe with a dry cloth.
Should any spots or stains remain, increase the quantity of eau rolland, even
to using it pure.
The eau rolland may be applied as a scouring, cleansing, and bleaching
agent in the form of a bath, or by means of a cloth or brush, or otherwise,
and more or less diluted, according to the article to which it is to be applied.
For cleaning copper it is preferable to substitute sulphuric acid for the

page_text: about the proportions stated:-
Filtered or distilled water.
Soap wort
Sulphuric acid
8000 parts.
500
1200
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim the improved
liquid composition formed as and for the purposes herein-before described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Gustave Emile Rolland and Emile Leon
Rolland, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this First day of
March, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
G. E. ROLLAND. (L.S.)
E. L. ROLLAND. (L.S.)