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of Middlesex, Manufacturing Chemist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
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Sealed the 14th April 1857, and dated the 17th October 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Napoleon Wilcox
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 17th October 1856.
I, CHARLES NAPOLEON WILCOX, of Islington, in the County of Middlesex,
Manufacturing Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION AND APPLICATION OF CERTAIN VEGE-
TABLE MATTERS TO BE USED IN TOILETTE SOAPS, POMADES, AND OTHER
PERFUMERY," to be as follows:-
My said improvements consist in first melting soap in the usual manner
adopted for preparing toilette soaps, and then combining the same with elder
flowers or elder leaves which have undergone the processes of pickling, boiling,
pressing, and grinding, or levigating, and in applying similar processes to
combine elder flowers or elder leaves with other oleaginous matters used in
perfumery.

page_text: I take muriate of soda, nitrate of potash or soda, bay salt, or other suitable
salts, and dissolve one or more of them in a sufficient quantity of water to afford
a weak pickle, in which I separately steep elder flowers and elder leaves, both
to prepare and also to preserve them for use. The pickled flowers or the leaves
I press, and then boil in fat, grease, or oil in a steam pan. When sufficiently
softened, I remove, and again press them, and by means of a mortar or suitable
stone mill, similar to a paint mill, grind or levigate the vegetable matter to a
fine pasty condition, that it may more readily and intimately mix with the
soaps, pomades, cosmetics, and other perfumery with which it may be desirable
to have it combined. I do not, however, limit myself to using the flowers and
leaves pickled, as they may sometimes be preferred in their natural state or
dried, and it may occasionally be requisite to add certain portions of caustic
alkalies, or alkaline earths. The oleagenous matters pressed from the boiled
elder. flowers or elder leaves are also available for like purposes in preparing
fancy soaps & perfumery when similarly combined therewith.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Napoleon Wilcox in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 16th April 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
NAPOLEON WILCOx, of Islington, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturing
Chemist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters-
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Charles Napoleon Wilcox, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
Napoleon Wilcox, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Charles Napoleon Wilcox, 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 PREPARATION AND APPLICATION OF CERTAIN
VEGETABLE MATTERS TO BE USED IN TOILETTE SOAPS, POMADES, AND OTHER LIKE
PERFUMERY," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles

page_text: Napoleon Wilcox, 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 Charles Napoleon Wilcox, 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:-
My said improvements consist in first melting soap in the usual manner
adopted for preparing toilette soaps, and then combining the same with a
mucilaginous extract of elder flowers or elder leaves, prepared by their under-
going the
processes of pickling, boiling, pressing, and grinding, or levigating;
and in applying similar processes to combine the mucilaginous extract of elder
flowers or elder leaves with other oleaginous matters used in perfumery.
And for the better understanding of my said Invention, I will now proceed
to detail the particulars thereof necessary for carrying the same into practical
operation.
I take muriate of soda, nitrate of potash or sola, bay salt, or other suitable
salts, and dissolve one or more of them in a sufficient quantity of water to afford
a weak pickle, in which I separately steep elder flowers and elder leaves, both
to prepare and also to preserve them for use. To obtain mucilaginous extracts
therefrom, I take the pickled flowers or the pickled leaves, and press and then
boil them separately in fat, grease, or oil in a steam pan of the ordinary con-
struction. When sufficiently softened by this process, the materials are to be
removed and again pressed, after which, by means of a mortar or suitable stone
mill, similar to a paint mill, the vegetable matter is to be ground or levigated
until it has acquired the condition of a fine paste or mucilaginous extract, that
it may more readily and intimately mix with the soaps, pomades, cosmetics,
and other perfumery with which it may be desirable to have it combined.
Ilaving thus fully described one mode of operating, I would observe, that my
said Invention may be variously conducted without affecting the principle of
the same; I therefore do not confine myself to any particular kind of vessels
or mills, or to using the flowers and leaves of the elder tree pickled, as they
may sometimes be preferred in their natural or in a dried state, and it may be
requisite to add certain portions of caustic alkalies, or alkaline earths. The.
oleaginous matters pressed from the boiled elder flowers or leaves are also

page_text: available for like purposes in preparing fancy soaps and perfumery when simi-
larly combined therewith; and I do declare that what I claim as my Invention
is, namely,
The peculiar preparations of elder-tree flowers and leaves, and their appli-
cation in the manufacture of toilette soaps, pomades, and other like perfumery,
as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Napoleon Wilcox, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord 1857.
CHARLES NAPOLEON WILCOX. (L.S.)
CHARLES NAPOLEON WILCOX. (L.S.)