MAKING SOAP OF A PECULIAR QUALITY
Year: 1801

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
WARING, of Buntingford, in the County of Herts, Minister of the Gospel, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, in and by
His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-eighth
day of April now last past, in the forty-first year of His reign, for Himself,
His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said George Waring,
His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
George Waring, my executors, administrators, or assigns, by myself or them-
selves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others
as I, the said George Waring, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion of Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention for "MAKING SOAP OF A PECULIAR
QUALITY;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging
me, the said George Waring, in and by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the
same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one
calendar month next immediately after the date of the said recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.
NOW THEREFORE KNOW YE, that in obedience and compliance with

page_text: the said proviso, I, the said George Waring, do hereby describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to
be performed, as follows (that is to say):
Instead of the usual process of soap making, hitherto universally adopted,
namely, of combining oils or the parts of animal substances, together or separate,
with alkaline salts, I have by many experiments discovered that most other
parts of vegetables, in a crude or unprepared state, or nearly so, properly
divided by mechanical or other means, are also capable of forming a product
highly useful in the composition of soaps. And I do hereby declare that
the soap of a peculiar quality for which His Majesty hath granted unto
me His said Letters Patent, is formed by the said combination of such
vegetable matter and alkali with a due proportion of fat, rosin, or other
of the usual ingredients of soap, as may be found necessary, according
to the use and employment of the manufactured article by the consumer.
It is therefore only necessary, in order to render this my Specification as
clear, definite, and precise as possible, that I should describe the means by
which the parts of vegetables which are best adapted to form my said newly
invented soap may be distinguished, and also the method of forming the
entire compound, or soap itself, from the materials so pointed out. I must
observe that there are scarcely any parts of vegetable bodies, which if ground,
pounded, or otherwise divided, and then brought into contact with the pure or
caustic fixed alkali, will not enter into combination therewith, and that having
described this act of combination of the said parts as the leading circumstance
or characteristic fact in my said new Invention, I must necessarily leave the
operator to determine, by the process herein-after described, what parts may
best suit his own peculiar views; I fiud, however, that the seeds, roots, fruits,
or grains, properly cleaned and separated from their husks, coats, or enveloping
parts, are for general purposes better adapted to form this my new soap than
the ligneous and other less tractable matters. I find the grains from the
breweries a cheap and valuable article for this purpose.
My method of manufacturing, considered merely with regard to the mani-
pulations thereof, does not differ from the usual processes of soap making,
excepting so far as the peculiar nature of the materials, newly discovered and.
-applied-by me in combination, as aforesaid, must require. I take the fixed
alkalies, which are scientifically distinguished by the means of potash and soda,
and convert the same into the caustic lees or lye of the soap makers by lime
in the usual manner. In this alkaline fluid, of such a density or strength as
the trials of the operator will easily shew to be proper, I immerse my vegetable
mass intire, or else divided by grinding or otherwise, and I promote the com-

page_text: bination by stirring and boiling if requisite; any kind of fat, resin, or other of
the usual ingredients of soaps, added in a proper quantity to the last-described
combination, and thoroughly united with it by maceration, boiling, or, digestion,
will form my said new invented soap.
Lastly, to prevent every misapprehension of the true intent and meaning of
these Presents, I must observe that though in preference I combine the alkali
with the vegetable matter previous to the addition of the fat, resin, or other
usual ingredients of soap, nevertheless, the order of mixing the several parts,
the proportions of the quantities, the forms of the vessels, the concentration
of the fluids, and the necessary trials from time to time of the qualities of pro-
ducts, together with other common well-known and usual subordinate opera-
tions in the manufacture of this, as well as other soaps, do admit of considerable
variations, which will very readily be seen and adopted by men of competent
skill to carry any manufacturing or chemical process into effect from written
instructions, for which reason it is altogether unnecessary to enlarge upon
the same.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Waring, have to theso Presents
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and one.
CHA JA BROOKS, Cursitor Street,
H. BLEWS, Baynes Row.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-seventh day of
May, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid George Waring came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year above written.