Soap Cakes and Bars.
Year: 1894

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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Soap Cakes and Bars.
I, HAROLD RIMMER, of Sandside, Ulverston, in the County of Lancaster,
Manufacturing Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:
This invention has for its object to obviate the very material waste or loss of
soap which is constantly taking place in respect of the residues of cakes or pieces
of soap after they have become nearly used up--riz. when they have become so
thin that they cannot be handled, or used without great difficulty-by rendering it
possible to make such pieces adhere permanently (until used up) to a new piece or
cake with facility and practical certainty.
According to my invention a soap cake or bar has one or more of its surfaces
(preferably only one). provided with projections, so shaped or formed as to present
points or edges, and to provide recesses or spaces between them, which points or
edges will, upon the residual piece in its ordinary soft condition being pressed onto
them, enter such waste" piece or residue, a large proportion of which residue will
enter and fill more or less. the said spaces or recesses between the said
projections.
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The invention, the chief characteristics of which are above described, is
illustrated in the drawings hereto annexed, which shew examples of cakes or pieces
of soap provided with my improvements.
In the drawings,
Figure 1 is a plan, and Figure 2 is cross section of a cake of soap according to
this invention.
Figure 3 is a plan of another cake according to my invention shewing it in a
modified form.
Figure 4 is a plan of a cake shewing another modification; and Figure 5 is a
plan and Figure 6 a cross section shewing further modifications.
Referring in the first instance to Figures 1 and 2, a designates the body of the
cake, and pare the projections.
In the cakes or pieces shewn in Figures 1 to 3, the projections are pointed in
form, they being broad at their bases and brought up to a point; whilst in
Figures 4 to 6 they are in the form of ribs broad at their base and brought up to
an edge at the top.
In the cake or piece of soap shewn in Figures 1 and 2, the projections are
pyramid in form, while in that shewn in Figure 3 they are conical in shape.
The surface of the cake or piece having the projections may have an edging
piece c all round it as in Figures 1 to 4, or without as in Figures 3 and 6.
The cake or piece of soap shewn in Figure 6 has its ribs running longitudinally;
while in that shewn in Figure 5 the ribs are arranged transversely.
The cakes, bars, or pieces of soap shewn are of the ordinary sizes, and the
projections and the spaces or recesses between them are, as will be seen, of sub-
stantial size, so that on the one hand the projections are of considerable substance,
by which they will, when force is applied, enter the residual piece of soap which is
to be made to adhere to them, while the spaces or recesses between them will hold a
very considerable quantity of such soap. The projections also present a large
surface to, and between them form holding means for, the soap when applied to the
new cake or piece.
In the act of making a residual piece of soap adhere to a new cake or piece
according to this invention, while in the usual soft state, it is pressed onto the

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entered as far as possible or as far as may be deemed necessary, and the spaces or
recesses between said projections filled or partly filled with such residual soap, when
the operation is complete.
It is to be understood that the forms of cakes or pieces shewn in the drawings
hereto annexed constitute so many examples illustrative of my invention and that
it is not confined to the specified forms and arrangements or projections shewn,
as these may be varied in many ways without departing from its essential
characteristics. As for example, as to the arrangement of the projections, these may
be disposed on the cake, bar, or piece, or shaped in the form of letters, figures,
-designs, or representations of things, and so forth, or so as to produce same upon
the cakes, bars, or pieces.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be perforined, I declare that what I
claim is
The herein described improvement connected with cake and bar soap, consisting
in having one or more of its surfaces provided with projections arranged or formed
thereon, or in forms; substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 19th dev of March 1894
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON, Fels. Chart. Inst. P.A.,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.