Improvements in soap and plaisters / [Edith Emily Gillam].

  • Gillam, Edith Emily.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Improvements in soap and plaisters / [Edith Emily Gillam]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N° 10,294 A.D. 1888 Date of Application, 16th July, 1883 Complete Specification Left, 16th Apr,, 1889—Accepted, 15th June, 1889 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. Improvements in Soap and Plaisters. Mrs. Edith Emily Gillam 45 Penywern Road South Kensington S.W. do hereby declare the nature of this invention to he as follows :— For improvements in Soap and Plaisters. The object of my invention is the production of a disinfecting, antiseptic, anti- spasmodic, and antifebrile soap, and plaister. In carrying this invention into effect I combine with the soap while in its liqui i shite the essential oil known as “cajput” or “ cajuput,” either with or without a preparation of leaf, bark, or root of the “ Melaleuca Leucadendron or I remelt the soap and combine the cajuput oil therewith, so that when combined a new disinfectant, antiseptic, antispasmodic, and antifebrile soap 10 shall be produced. The Plaister is similarly produced. These productions I call respectively u Oajuputi Soap,” and “ Cajuputi Plaister. Dated this 14th day of July 1888. EDITH EMILY GILLAM, 15 45, Penywern Road, South Kensington, London, S.W. COMPLETE S PEOIFK ATION. Improvements in Soap and Plaisters, I Edith Emily Gillam of 45 Penywern Road, South Kensington, London, S.W., do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is 20 to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :— The chief object of my invention is the production of a disinfecting, antiseptic, anti-rheumatic, and antifebrile soap, suitable for use as a detergent of the skin. It is applicable also in the production of plaisters for the removal of acute pain. 25 In the manufacture of a soap suitable for toilet use, I take, say, 100 parts, by weight, of curd or pure soap, and this 1 steep in an essential oil known as cajuput or cajeput oil prepared from the plant Mellaleuca Leucadendron. The proportion of oil which I desire that the soap shall absorb, in the first instance, is some 10 °/Q. When the soap is thus saturated, I submit it to a milling operation, 30 by passing it through a roller mill composed of, say, two, three, or more pairs of rollers, the action of which will be to amalgamate or thoroughly mix together the soap and the essential oil. As some of the latter substance is, owing to its volatility, likely to be lost, it is desirable that the soap shall contain not less than 10°/Q ot the oil when submitted to the roller mill. 35 The mixture thus obtained may be moulded by pressure into slabs or other forms suited for the market, and, if desired, these moulded pieces may be wrapt in tin foil to prevent the loss of essential oil by evaporation. For the production of a bath soap, 1 proceed, in the first instance, as already explained, and subsequently increase the proportion of the essential oil to, say, 20 °/0. 40 This increased proportion of oil produces a compound more or less soft or viscid, and therefore renders it desirable to introduce tin* manufactured soap into a metallic com¬ pressible tube, when preparing it for the market, which covering will preserve it from deterioration, and allow of its being expressed therefrom in the manner ot artists colours. 45 In some cases, I may mix the leaves or bark of the Mellaleuca Leucadendron, reduced to a pulverized state, with the more highly medicated soap, before submitting the same to the roller mill. \Price 4J.]