Year: 1886

page_text: - Date of Application, 25th May, 1886.
Complete Left, 25th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 25th Mar., 1887.
I ROBERT JAQUES of King Street, in the City and County of Newcastle-on-Tyne,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention is intended to obviate the loss and inconvenience arising in the use of
toilet soap Tablets, as at present made.
If a soap tablet be made of uniform material throughout when the tablet wears thin
it is both inconvenient and disagreeable to use and it often breaks up altogether and is
lost. Now I by my invention form the tablet over a core of some cheap material such
as wood, metal, pottery, glass, a pad of flannel or other inert matter so that the whole
of the soap may be washed from it without inconvenience and the core may then be
thrown away.
I prefer to make a very distinct contrast between the color of the soap and the color
of the core so that the progress of wear may be conspicuously seen and I form
the shape of the core so, as that as nearly as possible the soap shall wear off all paris
equally.
JAMESON & SCHAEFFER,
Agents for Robert Jaques.

page_text: I, ROBERT JAQUES, of King Street, in the City and County of Newcastle-on-Tyne
Merchant do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN TOILET
SOAP TABLETS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention is intended to obviate the loss and inconvenience arising in the use of
toilet
soap tablets as at present made.
If a soap tablet be made of uniform material throughout when the tablet wears thin
it is both inconvenient and disagreeable to use and it often breaks up altogether and
is lost. Now I by my invention form the tablet over a core of some cheap material
such as wood, metal, pottery, glass, a pad of flannel or other inert matter so that the
whole of the soap may be washed from it without inconvenience and the core may then
be thrown away.
I prefer to make a very distinct contrast between the color of the soap and the color
of the core so that the progress of wear may be conspicuously seen and I form the
shape of the core so, as that as nearly as possible the soap shall wear off all parts
equally. For the insertion of the core described 1 prefer to cut the cake of soap
intended to be formed into fablets, into pieces of half the usual thickness; so as 'con-
veniently to arrange the core inside, and I then by pressure unite the two thicknesses
into one tablet with the core inside the middle. If the core be of porous material I
prefer to saturate it before its insertion in the tablet, in a strong bath of hot liquid
soap. I may also use with my invention if the core be of hard material, perforations
in the core so that a string may be passed through the core and the soap may be hung
up, or if the core be of soft material I may employ an eyelet for this purpose or
y be perforated without eyelet and hung up above one side of the wash basin so
as to provide that after use the tablet of soap be not left in the water.
it may
My experience leads me to think that the core may best be made of knitted woollen
material, or flannel, or towelling, the tendency of such material to absorb moisture
keeping the soap in an agreeable condition for use especially when the tablet is nearly
washed away.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :
The insertion of cores within soap tablets for the purpose substantially as described.
Dated this Twenty fourth day of Wahwa 1007