Improved Composition for Use in Cleaning such Textile Fabrics or Furs that can be Cleaned by the Dry Method.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Apr.. 1887
Complete Left, 25th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1888
Improved Composition for Use in Cleaning such Textile Fabrics
or Furs that can be Cleaned by the Dry Method.
1. EDWARD JOHNSON BATES, of 10 Cranbourne Street, Liverpool, in the county of
Lancaster, Dyer and Cleaner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My improved composition has for its object to supply an agent that will, with the
least possible cost and best possible result, effect a thorough cleaning of the goods
under treatment when applied thereto in any suitable manner.
My improved composition consists of sand (ordinary sea shore sand, for instance)
washed with chloride of lime and rinsed with water, it may be found preferable to now
add some salt to the sand, and the superfluous moisture is then dried off. To the sand
so treated soap solution (soap that has been boiled down) is added.
This composition is now thoroughly dried off, and when wanted for use benzoline or
other cleaning spirit is added.
EDWARD J. BATES.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Composition for Use in Cleaning such Textile Fabrios
or Furs that can be Cleaned by the Dry Method.
I, EDWARD JOHNSON BATES, of 10 Cranbourne Street, Liverpool, in the county of
Lancaster, Dyer and Cleaner, lo 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 improved composition has for its object to supply an agent that will with the
least possible cost and best possible result, effect a thorough cleaning of the goods
under treatment when applied thereto in any suitable manner.
My improved composition consists of sand (ordinary sea shore sand, for instance)
washed with chloride of lime, which is of the strength generally supplied by drysalters,
and rinsed with water till all traces of the chloride of lime and any impurities are
removed. The sand is preferably of not too fine a grain, though that may be regulated
by the coarseness or the fineness of the fabrics or furs under treatment, with a fine
class of goods the sand need not be so coarse as for a coarser sort. The quantity of
chloride of lime used is not material, its only office being to make the sand as clean or
purified as possible; I myself have used about half a pound, by weight, of the chloride
of lime with an ordinary navvy's barrow full of sand.
After the sand had been washed and rinsed, as above, I had thought it would be
advantageous to add to it some common ordinary salt which would tend to revivify,
in conjunction, with the cleaning spirit as below, any colours in the goods; I now,
however, find it not necessary to use the salt, but in caso it should be used about two
- pounds, by weight, of salt to an ordinary navvy's barrow full of the washed and rinsed
sand will, I believe, be a good proportion.
To the washed and rinsed sand, and either with or without the addition of salt, soap
solution (soap of any kind, though preferably oil soap, that has been boiled down with
or without alkali,-such as soda, Lorax, et cetera) is added, and a good proportion
will be two ordinary dyers' scoops full of the soap solution, to an ordinary navvy's
barrow full of the sand; the amount of the soap solution may, however, bo very well
regulated by the condition in which the article to be cleaned is, if very dirty a larger
amount may be used.
This composition (consisting of the washed and rinsed sand, with or without the
addition of salt, and the soap solution) is now thoroughly dried off, a good way for
effecting this is by employing drying trays where a large surface can be exposed, and
it will be best to prevent any dirt or impurities from becoming mixed with the
composition.
When wanted for use benzoline or other cleaning spirit is added to the composition
by being mixed therewith in any suitable way. The quantity of cleaning spirit
employed is regulated by the condition in which the article to be cleaned is; on the
average two gallons of the cleaning spirit may be added to an ordinary navvy's barrow

page_text: full of the composition. If the fabrics or furs to be treated are of a light colour and,
therefore, in addition to the cleaning require the use of fullers' earth or whiting such
should be added to the composition as above and before the latter has been mixed
with the cleaning spirit.
My composition may be applied to the goods to be cleaned in any suitable manner in
which such cleaning compositions are generally used; with carpets or such like goods
they can be stretched out on the floor and the composition be well rubbed over their
surface, with furs et cetera they can be placed in a box with some of the composition
and be well shaken.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
First. A composition for use in cleaning such textile fabrics or furs that can be
cleaned by the dry method, one of the constituents of which (preferably the principal
one) is sand treated substantially as above described.
Second. A composition for use in cleaning such textile fabrics or furs that can be
cleaned by the dry method, the constituents of which may be soap solution, as above,
with sand, as above, and benzoline or other cleaning spirit.
Third. A composition for use in cleaning such textile fabrics or furs that can be
cleaned by the dry method, the constituents and manufacture of which are and is
substantially as specified and described in my provisional, and more particularly so in
my complete, specification.
Dated this Twenty third day of January 1888.
JOHN HAYES,
Agent.