A CERTAIN COMPOSITION OR MATERIAL TO BE USED AS SOAP, OR AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR SOAP
Year: 1835

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
FENTON, of Sydenham, in the County of Kent, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Third day of April, in the fifth year of His reign, did, for
Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Fenton, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the
said John Fenton, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Fenton, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"A CERTAIN COMPOSITION OR MATERIAL TO BE USED AS SOAP, OR AS A SUBSTITUTE
FOR SOAP;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said
John Fenton, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in
His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as
in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Fenton, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascer-
tained in and by the following description thereof (that is to say) :-
My Invention consists in making a certain addition, as hereafter described,
to the ordinary process of soap making, whereby I produce a valuable compo-
sition or material to be used as or as a substitute for soap. I proceed with
the manufacture of soap in the same manner in all respects as that at
present employed up to that point where the soap is poured or "cleansed"
into the frames; I then add a liquid saponaceous compound formed from the
following materials :--I dissolve a sufficient quantity of the common soda of
commerce in an equal quantity by weight of water, and pour the solution upon
fresh burnt lime put into an ordinary ley pan in the proportion of one hundred-
weight of lime for every hundredweight of soda used. The ley thus produced
is put into a boiler, and made to boil; at the same time a quantity of alum,
equal to one half the quantity of soda, is also dissolved in its own weight of
water in another boiler. When the alum is well dissolved, and the caustic soda
ley begins to boil, both are run off into a receiver in the proportion of two
parts of the ley to one part of the solution of alum. The mixture must be
allowed to cool until the temperature is only just sufficiently high, which will
soon be ascertained by practice, to enable it to combine easily with the soap to
which it is to be added in the proportion of about one once to every pound of
soap in the frame. The soap must be well stirred until the mixture has entirely
The effect of this addition is a great improvement in the
quality of the soap, arising from the more than ordinary quantity of strong
caustic ley it is caused to absorb.
combined with it.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of earry-
ing the same into effect, I would have it understood, that although I have
given precise quantities it will be evident that these will in some degree vary,
depending on the strength or qualities of ingredients; I do not therefore
confine myself to the precise quantities. But I do claim the carrying on the
process of soap making by the addition or combination of the ingredients herein-
before stated, for producing the composition which constitutes my Invention
as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Fenton, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.
JOHN (L.S.) FENTON.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of September,
in the year of our Lord 1835, the aforesaid John Fenton came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
5 written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Second day of October, in the year of our Lord Oue thou-
sand eight hundred and thirty-five.