A Seamless Soap Pad.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 22nd June, 1892-Accepted, 23rd July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Seamless Soap Pad.
THOMAS MARSDEN COCKROFT of 170 Burley Road Leeds Machine Depot
Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
My invention relates to a seamless pad or envelope applicable to washing,
domestic and toilet soaps.
The said pad has qualities of whiteness, softness, and also possesses the property
of buoyancy, when immersed in water, and gradually shrinks by continual use.
The gradual shrinkage of the pad effectually imprisons the tablet, until the last
fragment of soap is completely used, thus effecting a saving in soap.
In carrying out my invention; 1 take first a tablet of soap of any ordinary
shape; I lay the said tablet upon a thin sheet of carded wool (preferably taken
direct from the carding engine in the form of a "sliver ") leaving sufficient margin
in the width thereof, to make up the ends of the tablet.
I now roll or wrap said tablet lengthways in the sheet of carded wool, over-
lapping the ends by the margin left in width, until the desired thickness of wool is
rolled round the tablet, which for ordinary purposes, may be five complete wrapps,
taking care that an equal layer of carded wool is wrapped around the entire surface
of the beforementioned tablet.
I thereupon wind around the herein before described wool covered tablet, a cotton
or other suitable. felting cloth; immerse the same in hot water, and subject the
felting cloth and its contents, successively, to pressure and friction for a period of
four minutes, by manual pressure and rubbing. On the removal of the felting cloth
and its contents from the water, it will be found, that the carded wool envelope is
partially felted or "hardened" and only now, needs a slight manual rubbing over
all its surface, to remove any inequalities in the enveloping felt, to be ready for
use, as a soft, smooth, and freely lathering pad.
The above process is also applicable to polishing soaps or soaps containing
granulated substances but such soaps do not possess the property of buoyancy, and
moreover require to be reduced to a powder within the pad before they can be
used, by pressure exerted from outside the aforesaid pad.
Dated this the Twenty-first day of September 1891.
THOMAS MARSDEN COCKROFT.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Seamless Soap Pad.
THOMAS MARSDEN COCKROFT of 67 Burley Lodge Terrace Leeds in the
County of York, Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to a seamless pad or envelope applicable to washing,
domestic, and toilet soaps.
The said pad has qualities of whiteness, softness, and also possesses the
property of buoyancy when immersed in water, and moreover, the gradual
shrinkage of the pad, effectually imprisons the tablet of soap, until the whole
of the soap is completely used, thus effecting a saving in soap.
In carrying out my invention, I take first a tablet of soap of any ordinary
shape; lay the said tablet upon a thin sheet of carded wool, (preferably taken
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page_text: direct from the carding engine in the form of a "sliver") leaving sufficient
margin in the width thereof, to make up the ends of the tablet.
I now roll or wrap said tablet lengthways of the sheet of carded wool, until
the desired thickness of wool is rolled round the tablet, which for ordinary purposes
may be, five complete wrapps, taking care that an equal layer of carded wool is
wrapped around the entire surface of the beforementioned tablet.
I now wind around the hereinbefore described wool covered tablet, a cotton or
other suitable felting cloth, immerse the same in hot water, until the wool covering
is completely saturated, then withdraw, and subject the felting cloth and its
contents, to pressure and friction successively, from two to four minutes, by manual
pressure and rubbing.
On removal of the felting cloth it will be found that the carded wool envelope
is partially felted or "hardened" and only now needs a slight manual rubbing
over all its surface to remove any inequalities in the enveloping felt, to be ready
for use as a soft, smoothe, and freely "lathering" pad.
The above process is also applicable to soft and polishing soaps; in the case of
soft soap I enclose and seal up the soap in a paper, canvass, or calico bag, and then
proceed to wrapp and "harden" in the manner hereinbefore described.
Polishing soaps in tablet form, require to be reduced to powder by pressure after
they have been submitted to the herein before described process.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
Firstly. A seamless soap pad, having a partially "hardened" envelope of wool,
as a new article of manufacture.
Secondly. The process or method of manufacturing seamless soap pads; by
enveloping soaps in carded wool, and subsequently "hardening" said envelope in
the manner herein set forth.
Dated this the Twenty-first day of June 1892.
THOMAS MARSDEN COCKROFT.