An Improved Product for Removing Stains from the Human Body.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 21st July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 5th May, 1891-Accepted, 6th June, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Product for Removing Stains from the Human Body.
I, MARIE LIZOT (née Lecomte), of 23 Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris, in the
Republic of France, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to a product adapted to rapidly remove stains of all kinds,.
which are difficult to efface with soap, from the face, hands and other parts of the
body, by simply rubbing the said parts with the said product.
In carrying out my invention I make use of a piece of felt, wool or other suitable
permeable and absorbent material, which I impregnate with a liquid composed of
about 400 grammes of citric acid with or without the addition of a small quantity
of oxalic acid dissolved in about a litre of water. The felt is immersed in the bath
so prepared and when thoroughly saturated it is withdrawn and immediately dried.
The two acids become crystallized through evaporation and so to speak incorporated
with the fibres of the fabric.
From the felt thus impregnated, small rectangular or other shaped pieces are cut,
which constitute a kind of small flexible and ductile plugs.
To remove a stain from the skin of the face, neck or hands for example it is only
necessary to slightly moisten one of the said plugs and to rub it two or three times
over the stained part. The mordant of the combined acids suffices with the aid of.
the moisture to remove the stain, however obstinately it may adhere to the skin.
The felt may be unbleached or bleached, or formed of wool of its natural colour
or of some other colour capable of resisting the action of the acids with which it is
to be saturated.
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The felt thus treated with acid can be perfumed by sprinkling it with a suitable
essence.
Moreover can if required, by powdering or sprinkling or otherwise treating
the fibres of the felt before immersion in the acid bath, incorporate therewith
pumice-stone, emery or other suitable finely pulverized substance, in order to
increase the roughness of the rubbing surface and consequently the stain-
removing quality of the product.
Instead of using the product in the form of small plugs as hiereinbefore described
it can obviously be employed in other forms in combination with brushes or other
toilet articles.
Dated the 21st day of July 1890
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Product for Removing Stains from the Human Body.
I, MARIE LIZOT (née Lecomte), of 23, Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris, in
the Republic of France, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the saine is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to a product adapted to rapidly remove stains of all kinds
which are difficult to efface with soap from the face hands and other parts of the
body by simply rubbing the said parts with the said product.
In carrying out my invention I make use of a piece of felt, wool or other suitable
permeable and absorbent material which I impregnate with a liquid composed of
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page_text: about 400 grammes of citric acid, with or without the addition of a few gramme
of oxalic acid dissolved in about a litre of water, although these proportions can be
The felt is immersed in the bath so prepared and when
varied to a limited extent.
thoroughly saturated it is withdrawn and immediately dried. The two acids
become crystallized through evaporation and so to speak incorporated with the 5
fibres of the fabric.
From the felt, thus impregnated, small rectangular or other shaped pieces are
cut which constitute a kind of small flexible and ductile plugs.
To remove a stain from the skin of the face, neck or hands for example it is only
necessary to slightly moisten one of the said plugs and to rub it two or three times
over the stained part. The mordant of the combined acids suffices with the aid of
the moisture to remove the stain, however obstinately it may adhere to the skin.
The felt may be unbleached or bleached, or formed of wool of its natural colour
or of some other colour capable of resisting the action of the acids with which it is
to be saturated.
The felt thus treated with acid can be perfumed by sprinkling it with a suitable
essence.
Moreover I can if required by powdering or sprinkling or otherwise treating the
fibres of the felt after or before immersion in the acid bath incorporate therewith
pumicestone, emery or other suitable finely pulverized substance, in order to
increase the roughness of the rubbing surface and consequently the stain-removing
quality of the product.
Instead of using the product in the form of small plugs as herein before described
it can obviously be employed in other forms in combination with brushes or other
toilet articles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
The manufacture and use of the hereindescribed product for removing stain
from the human body such product consisting of felt or other suitable absorben
material impregnated with citric acid with or without the addition of a smal
quantity of oxalic acid, substantially as set forth.
1001
Dated the 4th day or
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4. South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.