Improvements in the manufacture of scented, antiseptic, medicinal or multi-coloured, or variegated soap, and in machinery or apparatus thereof / [Paul Villain].

  • Villain, P. (Paul)
Date:
1898
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Credit: Improvements in the manufacture of scented, antiseptic, medicinal or multi-coloured, or variegated soap, and in machinery or apparatus thereof / [Paul Villain]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N° 7228 A.D. 1897 Date of Application, 19th Mar., 1897 Complete Specification Left, 20th Dec., 1897—Accepted, 5th Feb., 1898 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. Improvements in the Manufacture of Scented, Antiseptic, Medicinal or Multi-coloured, or Variegated Soap, and in Machinery or Apparatus therefor. I, Paul Villain, of 24, Lovely Lane, Warrington, in the County of Lancaster, Chemist, Soap Maker, and Perfumer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows : —• This invention has for its object a method of forming scented antiseptic and 5 medicinal soaps, whereby the scent antiseptic or chemical is more completely held in the soap and allowed to more gradually exude from it than has heretofore been possible. My invention also gives the advantage of enabling the soap to be more bulky right down to the very last piece than heretofore. In the manufacture of scented soaps at the present time they are mixed with the scent in a plodder or 10 boudoneuse. Now soap made in this machine will after a short time lose its scent owing to the scent evaporating, and the principal part of my invention consists essentially in placing this scent antiseptic or medicinal matter in the centre of the soap and in machinery for accomplishing this object, whereby the chemical or scent has to pass through a deep layer of soap and consequently is longer in ] 5 exuding from it, I use the ordinary plodder, but with a different nozzle or delivery portion. At the end of the helical screw I place a transverse plate perforated with very numerous small holes. This acts as an impediment to the soap and enables the pulverulent soap to coalesce and form numerous strings or bars which proceed 20 towards the nozzle. To the centre of this plate I fix a long spike projecting out through the centre of the nozzle and at the nozzle reduce the area so that all these separate bars coining from the perforated plate are again forcibly united into a tube round the spike. This tube is cut transversely into pieces of the requisite size and a little boat or box of cedar wood or other suitable material filled with 25 the scent antiseptic or medicinal matter is placed in the centre of the tube. The ends are now pinched up and the whole pressed into a cake, thus forming a solid cake with the wooden nucleus in the centre containing the scent. The scent now gradually percolates through. Instead of the boat of scent or the like a different coloured soap can be placed inside the tube and the tube can be formed of any suit- 30 able contour inside or out by changing the spike or nozzle and placing a spike or nozzle of equivalent contour. In this way several concentric tubes and a solid rod of soap of different colours can be formed into one solid bar the smaller thick¬ nesses being pressed into the larger ones preferably after being cut up or cut into pieces afterwards transversely and these stamped into shape. By tfliis means 35 stars and other forms can be made of one colour in a soap of another colour and the star or other form will go right through. Dated the 18th day of March 1897. WM. P. THOMPSON & Go., Of G, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant. [Price 8d.]