IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LAUKA
LAUGHTON, late of Plymouth Grove Road, Manchester, but now of Everton,
in the County of Nottingham, the Wife of Edmund Laughton, of the same
Place, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixth day of November, in the ninth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Laura
Laughton, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Laura Laughton, my exors,
adiňors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Laura Laughton, my exors,
admors, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP;" in which said Letters Patent is contained
a proviso, that I, the said Laura Laughton, should cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in
part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto
had, will nore fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Laura Laughton, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists of combining with soap which has been made in the
ordinary manner a solution prepared from quicklime, fullers' earth, and
water.
And in order that my Invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me in
performing the same.
I pour on every pound of quicklime used two gallons of cold rain, water,
letting them stand for about twelve hours, then drawing off the clear lime water;
and on four ounces of fullers' earth I pour two gallons of boiling rain water, and
I mix the two solutions together, and I then mix one pint of such combined
solutions with each pound of soap when in a melted state, and I stir these
matters well together, and let the mixture cool, when the novel manufacture is
fit for use as soap.
I would remark, that although I have thus been particular in giving the
quantities of the matters combined, I do not confine myself thereto, so long as
the use of lime, fullers' earth, and water are combined with soap, as herein
described.
In witness whereof; I, the said Laura Laughton,. have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-six
LAUGHTON, Extra.
LAURA (L.s.) LAUGHTON.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Ninth day of February, in the
year of our Lord 1846, the aforesaid Laura Laughton came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her 'Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose..
Enrolled the Twenty-sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-six..