A COMPOSITE SOAP
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Rowbotham, of Putney, in the County of
Surrey, Doctor of Medicine, and George Harrison Bolton, of Penketh,
near Warrington, in the County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "A
COMPOSITE SOAP."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Rowbotham and
George Harrison Bolton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 14th February 1860.
We, SAMUEL ROWBOTHAM, of Putney, in the County of Surrey, Doctor of
Medicine, and GEORGE HARRISON BOLTON, of Penketh, near Warrington, in
the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "A COMPOSITE SOAP," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to render the cleansing properties of soap of
every description more efficacious, absorbing all grease and other extraneous
matter, and is effected by making into a paste a solution of caustic potash or
ammonia, or other alkali, with pipe-clay or such like similar substance, and
then mixing the paste with any kind of soap according to the purpose for
which it is intended, and formed into bars or cakes as required.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Rowbotham and George Harrison Bolton in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th August 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, SAMUEL
ROWBOTHAM, of Putney, in the County of Surrey, Doctor of Medicine, and
GEORGE HARRISON BOLTON, of Penketh, near Warrington, in the County of
Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto us, the said Samuel Rowbotham and George Harrison Bolton, Her
special licence that we, the said Samuel Rowbotham and George Harrison
Bolton, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the
said Samuel Rowbotham and George Harrison Bolton, our executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "A COMPOSITE SOAP," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Samuel Rowbotham and George Harrison Bolton, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under 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 calender
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Samuel Rowbotham and George
Harrison Bolton, 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, that is to say :-
The object of this Invention is to render the cleansing properties of soap of
every description more efficacious.
In order to explain our said Invention as completely as possible we now
proceed to describe the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, as follows:-
We make into a paste a solution of caustic potash or ammonia or other alkali
with pipe-clay or such like similar substance, and then mix the paste with any
kind of soap according to the purpose for which it is intended, and formed

page_text: into bars or cakes as required. Thus the cleansing properties are much
increased by absorbing all grease and other extraneous matter.
Having now described the nature and object of our said Invention of "A
Composite Soap," together with the manner in which the same is to be
performed, we would remark in conclusion that we do not confine or restrict
ourselves to any proportions of the material used, as the same will have to be
varied according to the purpose for which the soap is intended; but what we
claim as our Invention intended to be secured to us by the herein in part
recited Letters Patent is, the manufacture of a composite soap in the manner
herein described for the purpose herein set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Samuel Rowbotham and George
Harrison Bolton, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Tenth
day of August, One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
ROWBOTHAM.
(L.S.)
SAMUEL
GEORGE HARRISON BOLTON. (L.S.)
Witness to the signature of Samuel
Rowbotham,
ALEX. PRINCE, Patent Agent,
4, Trafalgar Square, London.
Witness to the signature of George
Harrison Bolton,
MARY BOLTON,
Penketh.