IMPROVE MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP AND SAPONACEOUS COMPOUNDS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of the firm of
Robertson, Brooman, and Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the
City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVE
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP AND SAPONACEOUS COMPOUNDS."
Sealed the 11th March 1854, and dated the 17th September 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 17th September 1853.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of the firm of Robertson, Brooman,
and Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for " Ix-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP AND SAPONACEOUS COMPOUNDS"
to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the employment of a new material in the
manufacture of soaps and saponaceous compounds, the said new
material being the bran or husks of cereal grains, such as wheat, &c.,.
taken after the bran is separated from the flour, as found commonly in

page_text: all grain mills. The bran is treated with an alkaline solution of proper
strength, and is thereby completely dissolved, with the exception only
of the woody particles which may chance to be mixed therein, and it
forms in this condition, without any other preparation or manipulation,
a superior soft soap which is at once ready for use. This soft soap is
also capable of being used as an ingredient in the manufacture of hard
soans generally and for other sononaceous.compounds
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 16th March 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of the firm of Robertson, Brooman,
and Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said Richard Archibald Brooman,
Her special licence that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, 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 makė, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP
AND SAPONACEOUS COMPOUNDS," (communicated to me by a foreigner
residing abroad,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, should particularly describe. and ascertain the nature

page_text: of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the.
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
This Invention consists in the employment of a new material in the
manufacture of soaps and saponaceous compounds, the said new
material being the bran or husks of cereal grains, such as wheat, &c.,
taken after the bran is separated from the flour, as found commonly in
all grain mills. The bran is treated with an alkaline solution of proper
strength, and is thereby completely dissolved, with the exception only
of the woody particles which may chance to be mixed therein, and it
forms in this condition, without any other preparation or manipulation,
a superior soft soap which is at once ready for use. This soft soap is
also capable of being used as an ingredient in the manufacture of
hard soaps generally, and for other saponaceous compounds.
In preparing the alkaline solutions aforesaid various alkalies may be
advantageously employed, but those commonly used by soap manufac-
turers will be generally available. Different strengths of the alkaline
solutions may also be used. The following mode of carrying out the In-
vention is a convenient one, but the proportions given may be varied :-
Prepare an alkaline solution having a specific gravity of about 1·08,
and in quantity sufficient for making any desired amount of soap;
then throw in the bran, in the proportion of one measure of bran to
two of the alkali, stirring occasionally until the whole is dissolved; then
strain out the woody fibres and other foreign matters, and the com-
pound will be ready for use in any of the various ways in which it may
be applicable.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to performed, I declare that what I claim as
the said Invention is, the employment of the bran or husks of cereals

page_text: in the manufacture of soap and saponaceous compounds, as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of March,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.B.)