A NEW METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SOAP
Year: 1847

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JONATHAN
ATKINSON, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Soap Boiler, 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 Twenty-seventh day of April, in the tenth year of Her reign, and
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Jonathan
Atkinson, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that
I, the said Jonathan Atkinson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and
such others as I, the said Jonathan Atkinson, my executors, administrators,
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 and Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF
MANUFACTURING SOAP;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that I, the said Jonathan Atkinson, shall cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part

page_text: 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
Jonathan Atkinson, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following explanation thereof (that is to say):-
The principal feature of novelty in my Invention of a new method of manu-
facturing soap consists in the application, employment, or use of steam in the
process of boiling materials from which soap is or may be made, instead of
employing fires or furnaces placed underneath the soap pan, as hitherto commonly
practised in the ordinary method of manufacturing soap. The object of my
Invention is to effect a great saving of time and labor in the above process, as
it is much more expeditious and effective than the method now in use; and
also to effect a considerable economy in the said process, as the necessity of
frequent and expensive repairs, owing to the injury to the pan bottoms arising
from the use of fire, as experienced under the present mode of operation, is
entirely superseded by my improved method of manufacturing soap. Tho
method of carrying my Invention into practical effect will be readily under-
stood by referring to the accompanying Sketch, in which Figure 1 represents a
top view of a soap pan, showing a simple and effective mode of applying my
Invention; and Figure 2 is a vertical section of the same. a, a, represents
the pan in which the materials of which soap is to be made is placed; steam
is admitted from a boiler (placed in any convenient situation) by the stop
valve b, b, and passing along the pipe c, c, issues into the pan through the small
perforations in the curved pipe d, d, causing the said materials to dissolve and
unite more rapidly, and with much less waste than by the ordinary method of
employing fires underneath the pans. I would here remark that I do not
confine myself to the above method of applying steam to the said process, as it
will be evident that the pan might be enclosed in a steam casing, or various
other methods adopted. But what I claim as my Invention is, the application,
employment, or use of steam for boiling the materials used in the manufacture
of soap.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jonathan Atkinson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal this Twenty-sixth day of October. One thousand

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-sixth day of
October, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Jonathan Atkinson
came before our Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form
5 above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Twenty-seventh day of October, in the year above written.