IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, of Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, Soap Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Constantine Nicolaus
Kottula at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
.. on the 18th March 1861:
I, CONSTANTINE NICOLAUS KOTTULA, of Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
Soap Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in combining with or introducing into soap any one,
two, or more of the following substances :-Japan wax, bees-wax, or other wax
or waxy mass, stearine, sperm, and other similar hard and elastic substances.
My Invention also consists in combining with or introducing into soap resin
by itself, or together with one or more of the substances before named." The
substances to be combined with the soap should by preference be dissolved
before being mixed with it.
By the term soap I mean soap howsoever manufactured, whether finished
soap and thoroughly saponified, or simply a soapy mass or soap consisting of

page_text: two or more soaps or soapy masses or elements producing a soap or soapy mass,
neutral soap, or or soap adulterated in any way with solutions of any kind, and
with or without resin, also soap manufactured in any manner by cold process.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Constantine Nicolaus Kottula in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th September 1861:
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CONSTANTINE
NICOLAUS KOTTULA, of Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Soap Manufac-
turer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, Her special licence that I, the said Con-
stantine Nicolaus Kottula, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, my executors, administra-
tors, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the na-
ture 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 calen-
dar months, next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:
.
My Invention consists in combining with or introducing into soap any one,
two, or more of the following substances:-Japan wax, bees-wax, or other
wax or waxy mass, stearine, sperm, and other similar, hard and elastic sub-
stances.

page_text: My Invention also consists in combining with or introducing into soap
resin by itself, or together with one or more of the substances before named.
The substances to be combined with the soap should by preference be dissolved
before being mixed with it.
By the term soap, I mean soap howsoever manufactured, whether finished soap
and thoroughly saponified, or simply a soapy mass or soap consisting of two or
more soaps or soapy masses, or of elements producing a soap or soapy mass,
neutral soap, or soap adulterated in any way with solutions of any kind, and
with or without resin, also soap manufactured in any manner by cold
process.
In witness whereof, I, the said Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of September, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
CONST. N. KOTTULA. (L.S.)
CONST. N. KOTTULA. (L.S.)