IM- BRAUTMEYED IN MUD MANTRACTURE OF NEUTRAL SOAP
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, of Liverpool, in the
County of Lancaster, Soap Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IM-
BRAUTMEYED IN MUD MANTRACTURE OF NEUTRAL SOAP"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Constantine Nicolaus
Kottula at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 28th January 1858.
I, CONSTANTINE NICOLAUS KOTTULA, of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Soap Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NEUTRAL SOAP," to be as
follows:-
My said Invention consists in adding to or combining with curd soap or any
other ordinary neutral soap, fatty matters, soda leys, and lime liquor, for the
purpose of producing a cheaper neutral soap. The fatty matters may be
any of those usually employed in soap making.
The leys I make strong and highly concentrated and then purify by adding
a little alum.
The lime liquor I make by combining water and lime, and then adding to
it a small quantity of salammoniac. The materials are. mixed and boiled
together, so as to form a soap.
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 28th July 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CONSTANTINE
NICOLAUS KOTTULA, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Soap Mañu-
facturer, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first 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 Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, 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 ex-
pressed, 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 NEUTRAL
Soap," upon the condition (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 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 calendar 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 said Invention consists in adding to or combining with curd or any
other ordinary neutral soap, (such as are known in the trade as extra pale,
crown, brown, mottled, tallow, palm oil, and other like soaps, with or without
resin,) fatty matters, lime liquor, and concentrated soda leys, as herein-after
described, for the purpose of producing a cheaper neutral soap than has
heretofore been produced; and my. Invention also includes the methods of
treating the soda leys, and of producing the lime liquor, which are herein-
after described. The fatty matters employed for the purposes of my Invention
may be any of those usually used for soap making.
T
I boil the soda leys employed for the purposes of my Invention until they
have attained such a degree of concentration that they indicate, at least,
about 30° of Baumé's areometer; I then add to them alum in the proportion
of about 3 lbs. of alum to each 1 cwt. of the concentrated leys.
I prepare the lime liquor employed for the purposes of my Invention, as
follows: I dissolve in any suitable quantity of water as much lime as it will
absorb or take up, and then add to the solution thus obtained salammoniac

page_text: in the proportion of about lb. of salammoniac to each 1 cwt. of the said
solution; or, I use simply lime liquor without the addition of salammoniac.
The neutral soap to be treated, whether curd, extra pale, crown, brown,
mottled, tallow, palm oil, or any other ordinary neutral soap, with or without
resin, is placed in a suitable vessel, and has added to it the fatty matter or
matters which may have been selected, together with the concentrated soda
leys and lime liquor, in such proportions that the fatty matters may become
duly saponified, and that the soap produced may be of the required description;
the mixture is then boiled as long as may be found necessary, as is well known
to soap makers. The proportions of the fatty matters, the soda leys, and the
lime liquor, employed to the neutral soap to be treated, should be varied ac-
cording to the descriptions of soap required. I have found that a very good
result is obtained by boiling together until perfect combination has taken
place, the following materials in the following proportions, viz. :-Ordinary
fitted soap or ordinary curd soap, 10 tons; fatty matters, 4 tous; soda leys
prepared as before described, 4 tons; and lime liquor, prepared as before
described, 6 tons; but these proportions may be varied as above mentioned.
In order to produce a mottled soap I add to the neutral soap, manufactured
in the way described, a certain quantity of ultramarine, oxyde of manganese
or other pigment of an analogous nature previously mixed with water; I then.
boil the whole together for about half an hour, and cleanse the soap while
boiling hot.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my improve-
ments in the manufacture of neutral soap, the manufacture of neutral soap by
the combining of curd or any other ordinary neutral soap with fatty matters,
concentrated soda leys, as above described, and lime liquor; I also claim the
addition of alum to the concentrated soda leys, and of salammoniac to the
lime liquor.
In witness whereof, I, the said Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of July, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
CONST. .N. KOTTULA. (L.S.)