Improvements in the manufacture of antiseptic and medicated soaps, ointments and the like / [Thomas George Fermor Hesketh].

  • Hesketh, Thomas George Fermor.
Date:
1899
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Improvements in the manufacture of antiseptic and medicated soaps, ointments and the like / [Thomas George Fermor Hesketh]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    1/4
    N° 7J69 A.D.1898 Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1898 Complete Specification Left, 16th Dec., 1898—Accepted, 18th Mar., 1899 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. Improvements in the Manufacture of Antiseptic and Medicated Soaps, Ointments^ and the like. I, Thomas George Fermor Hesketii, Baronet, of Easton Neston, Towcester, Northamptonshire, do hereby declare the nature of tliis invention to be as follows: — This invention relates to the production of soaps, ointments, embrocations and 5 similar preparations having* antiseptic and medicinal properties, and depends upon the propeily possessed by formaldehyde of forming condensation-products. In carrying out this invention, oily or fatty substances are treated at various tem])eratures with formaldehyde or its solutions under a reflux condenser. For example, lanolin or wool fat may be treated in the above manner with an acpieous 10 solution of formaldehvde for some time on a water-bath. t/ The resulting compound which possesses a higher melting point than lanolin may be used directly or incorporated with various substances to render* its applica¬ tion easy and pleasant, or to produce an embrocation. AVhen soap is required a condensation-product produced as above described may 1.) be incorporated with the soap mass before pouring into the frames. Or, part of tho tallow or fatty substance to form the fatty acid of the soap may be treated with formaldehyde as described and the condensation-product added towards the end of the saponification—the manufacture then being proceeded with in the usual wav. * 20 Dated this 19th dav of March 1898. t/ THOMAS GEORGE FERMOR HESKETII. COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Improvements iu the Manufacture of Antiseptic and Medicated Soaps, Ointments, and the like. 2o I, Sir Thomas George F^ermor Hesketii, Baronet, of Easton Neston, Towcester, in the County of Northampton, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement: — Tliis invention relates to the production of soaps, ointments, embrocations and 30 similar preparations having antiseptic and medicinal properties, and depends upon the jiroperty possessed by formaldehyde of forming condensation-products. In carrvinir out mv invention, oilv or fattv substances are treated at suitable \_Price 8t/.]