AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF SOAD
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Clayton, of Watling Street, in the City of
London, Perfumer and Soap Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF SOAD"
Sealed the 26th September 1856, and dated the 26th March 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Clayton at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th March 1856.
I, WILLIAM CLAYTON, of Watling Street, in the City of London, Perfumer
and Soap Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF SOAP, to be as follows:-
My Invention of an improved manufacture of soap consists in tho addition
of bees or other wax to the ingredients of which soap is usually made. The
wax may be added to the other matters during the process of manufacture, or
it may be added afterwards, which latter plan is, perhaps, preferable for tho
manufacture of toilet soaps. For which purpose it will only be necessary to
take crude soap as it comes from the frame and remelt it, and then add the
wax thereto; and after the whole mass has been well stirred, so as perfectly to
incorporate the wax with the other ingredients, the soap may be made up into
cakes or pieces of the required form, the scents having been previously added
in the ordinary way.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Clayton, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th September 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
CLAYTON, of Watling Street, in the City of London, Perfumer and Soap
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Iler most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Clayton, Her special license that I, the said William
Clayton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Clayton, 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
"AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF SOAP," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Clayton, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, 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 William Clayton, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):-
The chief object of this Invention is so to modify the character of toilet
soap as to render it an emollient of the skin, and thereby to prevent or
remove the tendency of the skin to crack when exposed to extremes of tem-
perature. To this end, I propose to add to soap made in the ordinary manner,
or by any of the recently patented plans, bees-wax, or what is known in the
market as vegetable wax, in the proportion of from one to two parts by
weight for
every sixteen parts of soap. The amount of wax added to the soap
may be varied, but I prefer an approximation to the above-named proportion.
The wax may be mixed with the ingredients composing the soap during the
process of manufacture, or it may be added afterwards; this latter plan I
prefer when preparing toilet soaps according to my Invention. In this case I

page_text: take the soap as it comes from the frame and remelt it, and then add the
wax thereto, keeping the fluid body well stirred until a thorough incorporation
of the wax is effected. The soap may then be made up into cakes or blocks
of any required form, to suit the varying taste of purchasers; or if the soap
is required to be scented, that operation may be performed in the ordinary
manner.
By the use of soap prepared with an admixture of wax, as above described,
I find that, besides the advantage mentioned above, it is capable of producing
a good result in the getting up or finishing of lace, muslins, and other fine
goods, as the improved soap is calculated to impart an amount of stiffness
thereto, sufficient to give a good appearance to the fabrics, thus rendering it
unnecessary to employ starch in preparing the fabrics for the market.
Having now set forth the nature and object of my Invention of "An Im-
proved Manufacture of Soap," and explained the manner of carrying the same
into effect, I wish it to be understood that under the above in part recited
Letters Patent I claim the application to soap of bees-wax or vegetable wax
in the manner and for the purpose above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Clayton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-fifth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lanc.
WILLIAM CLAYTON. (L.S.)