A New Or IMPROVED MEANS OR PROCESS OF TREATING (OR PREPARING DRY SOAP OR OTHER WASHING PREPARATIONS IN A DRY STATE READY FOR DOMESTIC OR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Shaw and William Blackburn, both of
Marsh Corner, Huddersfield, in the County of York, Dry Soap and
Washing Liquid Manufacturers, for the Invention of "A New Or
IMPROVED MEANS OR PROCESS OF TREATING (OR PREPARING DRY SOAP OR
OTHER WASHING PREPARATIONS IN A DRY STATE READY FOR DOMESTIC OR
OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 9th May 1876, and dated the 13th November 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Shaw and
William Blackburn at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 13th November 1875.
We, THOMAS SHAW and WILLIAM BLACKBURN, both of Marsh Corner,
Huddersfield, in the County of York, Dry Soap and Washing Liquid
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A NEW OR IMPROVED MEANS OR PROCESS OF TREATING OR PREPARING DRY SOAP
OR OTHER WASHING PREPARATIONS IN A DRY STATE READY FOR DOMESTIC OR OTHER
PURPOSES," to be as follows:-

page_text: been ground into powder after they have gone through the solidifying
process, but it is also applicable to all other kinds which are manu-
factured and sold in a dry state, and which are technically termed dry
soap, and which will upon contact with water readily or immediately
dissolve. And our improvement consists in preparing the aforesaid dry
soap or other soluble washing preparations of a dry nature in a
pyramidical or other suitable form in a solidified state in separate parts
or a number attached or joined together in such a manner that- one
piece can be easily separated from the other ready for use for domestic
or other purposes. To effect this we employ one or more moulds of
suitable design, form, and size, into which the washing preparation in
its liquid state is poured; when it has become solidified it is then in a
dry hard state and ready for use.
By means of our improved process we are enabled to effect a great
saving in the manufacture both in labour and the expense of certain
machinery which has heretofore been emploved.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Shaw and William Blackburn in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th May 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
SHAW and WILLIAM BLACKBURN, both of Marsh Corner, Huddersfield,
in the County of York, Dry Soap and Washing Liquid Manufacturers,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Thomas Shaw and William
Blackburn, Her special license that we, the said Thomas Shaw and
William Blackburn, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Thomas Shaw and William Blackburn, our
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,

page_text: exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A
NEW OR IMPROVED MEANS OR PROCESS OF TREATING OR PREPARING DRY SOAP OR
OTHER WASHING PREPARATIONS IN A DRY STATE READY FOR DOMESTIC OR
OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Thomas Shaw and William Blackburn, our executors or admini-
strators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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 per-
formed; 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 we, the said Thomas Shaw and William
Blackburn, do hereby declare the nature of our 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 :-
Our Invention relates more particularly to that class of dry soaps
composed of various kinds of washing preparations which have heretofore
been ground into powder after they have gone through the solidifying
process, but it is also applicable to all other kinds which are technically
termed "dry soap," and which will upon contact with water readily or
immediately dissolve. And our improvement consists in preparing the
aforesaid dry soap or other soluble washing preparations of a dry nature
in a pyramidical, round, square, or other suitable form in a solidified
state in separate parts, or a number attached or joined together in such
manner that one piece can be easily separated from the other ready for
use for domestic or other purposes. To effect this we employ one or
more moulds of suitable design and form, also of suitable size into
which the washing preparation in its liquid state is poured; when it has
become solidified it is then in a dry hard state; we then divide the
blocks so formed into suitable portions or quantities and cut them in the
divisions by either knives, saws, or any well known cutting appliances
in such manner that one portion can be readily broken from the other
as required when used.
By means of our improved process we are enabled to effect a great
saving in the manufacture, both in labour and the expense of certain
machinany which has bad to ha berstofore emploved

page_text: Signed, sealed, and delivered
by the within-named Thomas
Shaw and William Blackburn
in the presence of
WM. WHITEHEAD,
Patent Agent,
THOMAS SHAW. .
(L.S.)
WILLIAM BLACKBURN. (L.S.)
Halifax & Sheffield.