IMPROVEMENTS IN MARI
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Clegg, of Islington, in the County of Middle-
sex, Frederick Angerstein, of Kennington, in the County of Surrey, and
John William Page, of Walworth Road, in the County of Surrey, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MARI
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Clegg, Frederick
Angerstein, and John William Page, at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 14th February 1859.
We, ROBERT CLEGG, of Islington, in the County of Middlesex, FREDERICK
ANGERSTEIN, of Kennington, in the County of Surrey, and JOHN WILLIAM
PAGE, of Walworth, in the said County of Surrey, severally do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for " IMPROVEMENTS IN MAKING SOAP," to be
as follows:-
We take one hundredweight of the silicate of alumina and half a hundred-
weight of carbonate of soda, in crystals, boil in the water of the crystals only
(or with as little water as possible) till on dropping a test quantity on a cool
slab, it shall appear quite hard: call this A.
Then we take one hundredweight of the silicate of alumina, one hundred-
weight of carbonate of soda, and ten gallons of water, boil them together for
half an hour, when they will become amalgamated; then add of brown rosin
one hundredweight, and continue the boiling, when the whole will become a
homogenous mass, then add fifty-six pounds of the first process, called A, and
when sufficiently stiff (of sufficient consistence) pour into moulds and cut into
bars call this B.
Take of tallow, fourteen pounds, caustic soda, or potash, fourteen poun's

page_text: (if necessary render the alkali of commerce more caustic by the usual process
with lime), boil together, adding fresh alkali from time to time till the soap is
perfected; of this add as much as the quality or character of the soap
requires, while hot incorporate and pour into moulds: call this C.
The above quantities are increased in proportion or decreased according to
the quantity required to be made. The soap may be made with or without the
addition of the third process C, or any grease whatever.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Clegg, Frederick Angerstein, and John William Page
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th August 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
CLEGG, of Islington, in the County of Middlesex, FREDERICK ANGERSTEIN, of
Kennington, in the County of Surrey, and JOHN WILLIAM PAGE, of Walworth
Road, in the County of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Robert Clegg, Frederick Angerstein, and John William Page,
Her special licence that we, the said Robert Clegg, Frederick Angerstein,
and John William Page, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Robert Clegg, Frederick Angerstein, and John
William Page, our 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MAKING SOAP," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said Robert Clegg, Frederick Angerstein, and John William
Page, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, or one of our or their, or one of their hands and seals,
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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Clegg, on behalf of my-
self and the said Frederick Angerstein and John William Page, do hereby
declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
We take one hundredweight of the silicate of alumina, and half a hundred-
weight of carbonate of soda, in crystals, boil in the water of crystals; only
(or with as little water as possible) till on dropping a test quantity on a cool
slab, it shall appear quite hard: call this A.
Then we take one hundredweight of the silicate of alumina, one hundred-
of carbonate of soda, and ten gallons of water, boil them together for half an
hour, when they will become amalgamated, then add of brown resin one
hundredweight, and continue the boiling, when the whole will become a
homogenous mass, then add fifty-six pounds of the first process, called A, and
when sufficiently stiff (of sufficient consistence) pour into moulds, and cut
into bars: call this B.
Take of tallow, fourteen pounds, caustic soda, or potash, fourteen pounds,
(if necessary, render the alkali of commerce more caustic by the usual process
with lime), boil together, adding fresh alkali from time to time, till the soap
is perfected, or of this add as much as the quality or character of the soap
requires, while hot incorporate and pour into moulds: call this C.
The above quantities are increased in proportion or decreased according to
the quantity required to be made. The soap may be made with or without
the addition of the third process C.
Having now described the nature of our Invention, we declare that the
ingredients so amalgamated will produce a soap of a more useful and efficient
nature than that ordinarily now made.
In witness whereof, I the said Robert Clegg, on behalf of myself, and of
the said Frederick Angerstein, and John William Page, have hereunto
set my hand and seal this Thirteenth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
RODERT CLEGG. (L.S.)