CERTAIN NEW COMPOSITIONS TO BE USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Constantine Nicolaus Kottula, of Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, Soap Manufacturer, for the Invention of "CERTAIN
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FABR WW MAWARE OF SOAP"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Constantine Nicolaus
Kottula at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 22nd July 1861.
I, CONSTANTINE NICOLAUS KOTTULA, of Holborn, in the County of Middle-
sex, Soap Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "CERTAIN NEW COMPOSITIONS TO BE USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP," to be
as follows:-
My Invention consists in forming new compositions by mixing alum with
caustic soda or with soda ash. When the caustic soda composition is
dissolved in water and the soda ash composition in water to which lime has
been added in the usual manner in making ley, purified leys are produced
superior to any hitherto obtained for the manufacture of soap. The pro-
portions which I have found best are, to 1 cwt. of caustic soda about 62 per
cent. alkali (natron strength) add nine pounds of alum. To 1 cwt. of soda
ash, about 50 per cent. alkali (natron strength) add 13 pounds of alum. I
prefer potash alum to ammonia alum.

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 22nd January 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CON-
STANTINE NICOLAUS KOTTULA, of Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Soap
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth 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 "CERTAIN NEW COMPOSITIONS TO BE USED IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF 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 parti-
cularly 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 imme-
diately 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 forming new compositions by mixing alum with
caustic soda or with soda ash. When the caustic soda composition is
dissolved in water and the soda ash composition in water to which lime has
been added in the usual manner in making ley, purified leys are produced
superior to any hitherto obtained for the manufacture of soap. The pro-
portions which I have found best are, to 1 cwt. of caustic soda about 62 per
cent. alkali (natron strength) add nine pounds of alum; to 1 cwt. of soda
ash about 50 per cent. alkali (natron strength) add 13 pounds of alum. I
prefer potash alum to ammonia alum.

page_text: 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 new compo-
sitions to be used in the manufacture of soap, 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 January, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
CONST. N. KOTTULA. (L.S.)