IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF A SOAP OR COMPOSITION APPLICABLE TO THE FELTING AND OTHER PROCESSES EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOOLLEN CLOTHS, AND OTHER PURPOSES FOR WHICH SOAP IS USUALLY EMPLOYED
Year: 1838

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE.
HADEN, of Trowbridge, in the County of Wilts, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Eighth day of October, in the second year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said George
Haden, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said George Haden, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said George Haden, my exors, adñors, or 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 A SOAP OR COMPOSITION
APPLICABLE TO THE FELTING AND OTHER PROCESSES EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF WOOLLEN CLOTHS, AND OTHER PURPOSES FOR WHICH SOAP IS USUALLY EMPLOYED;"
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said George
Haden, shall 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 more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Haden, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention, and the:
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):-
My Invention relates to the application of caster oil in substitution of the

page_text: oils and other fatty matters heretofore used in soap making, whether for the
processes of manufacturing woollen cloth or other purposes; the various modes
of manufacturing soap being well known. And as my improvements, by
the application of caster oil, does not interfere with such processes, it will not
be necessary to enter into a particular description thereof; and the soap
maker will, has heretofore, vary the materials compounded with the caster oil,
according to the object he desires to attain.
I have found that the mixing at the rate of five hundredweight of caster
oil with the caustic leys produced from one hundredweight of salts of soda,
produces a very good quality of soap, when boiled and treated in the usual
manner of soap boiling. I would, however, remark that I do not confine
myself to any particular quantities, nor to any particular matters which are to
be mixed with caster oil in the making of soap, as they will necessarily vary
as heretofore in making soap from oil or other fatty matters.
The plant which produces the caster bean is well known to be very pro-
ductive, and will grow freely in the colonies of the British crown, particularly
in the West Indies, and will become extensively in demand when soap is
made therefrom, and may be produced and brought to England at a very low
cost, and render this country independent of foreign produce.
And I would have it understood that what I claim as my Invention is, the
application of caster oil in substitution of the oils and other fatty matters
heretofore employed in soap making.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Haden, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand night hundred a