IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COMPACT 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COMPACT NEUTRAL SOAP."
Sealed the 2nd July 1858, and dated the 24th March 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Constantine Nicolaus
Kottula, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 24th March 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 COMPACT NEUTRAL SOAP," to be as
follows:-
My said Invention consists in combining fatty matters with concentrated
soda leys and lime liquor, for the purpose of producing quickly cheap and
saleable compact neutral soap as hereafter explained. The fatty matters may
be any of those usually employed in soap making.
I make the leys strong and highly concentrated, and then purify them by
adding a certain quantity of alum, say to every cwt. of highly concentrated leys
about 6 or 7 lbs. of alum.
I make the lime liquor by combining water and lime and then adding to it
a certain quantity of salammoniac, say to every cwt. lime liquor about 1
to 1 lbs. salammoniac.

page_text: 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 24th September 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CONSTANTINE
NICOLAUS KOTTULA, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Soap Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of March, 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 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 MANU-
FACTURE OF COMPACT 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 combining fatty matters with concentrated
soda leys and lime liquor for the purpose of producing quickly cheap and
saleable compact neutral soap as hereafter explained. The fatty matters may
be any of those usually employed in soap making.
I make the leys strong and highly concentrated, and then purify them by

page_text: adding a certain quantity of alum, say to every cwt. of highly concentrated
leys about six or seven pounds of alum.
I prepare the lime liquor by combining water and lime, and then adding to
it a certain quantity of salammoniac, say to every cwt. of lime liquor about
1 to 1 lbs. of salammoniac. The materials are mixed and boiled together
so as to form a saleable compact neutral soap very quickly.
The precise manner in which I carry my Invention into effect is as
follows: In order to obtain the leys strong and highly concentrated, I boil
them until they attain the degree of concentration desired, concentration point
being about 28 degrees Beaumé. I add alum in the proportion of about
4 to 4 lbs. to every cwt. of leys, and boil together for half an hour, then
remove the vessel in which the mixture is contained from the fire, and again.
add alum in the proportion of about 2 to 2 lbs. to every cwt. of leys, and stir
until the alum is dissolved; I then cover the vessel and allow the whole to
settle and become clear.
I prepare the lime liquor by combining water and lime and then adding to
each cwt. of lime liquor about 1 to 12 lbs. of salammoniac. I boil both
together about half an hour, and allow the liquor to settle and become clear,
or I add the salammoniac to the lime liquor while hot and stir for about half
an hour.
Ten tons of fatty matter with or without resin, nine tons of leys prepared as
above, and thirteen tons of lime liquor prepared as above, or more or less of
these materials in about the same proportions, will produce superior compact'
neutral soap. The soap may be colored, mottled, or perfumed in the manner
well known to soap makers.
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 the manufacture
of compact neutral soap in the manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of September, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
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CONST. N. KOTTULA. (L.S.)