Improvement in bar soap / [Maurice Evans].

  • Evans, Maurice.
Date:
1895
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Improvement in bar soap / [Maurice Evans]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1894 N° 17,396 Date of Application, 13th Sept,, 1894 Complete Specification Left, 13th June, 1895—Accepted, 13th July, 1895 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. Improvement in Bar Soap. Maurice Evans, of 4 Cliurcli Road Wavertree in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Salesman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :— Up to the present time bar soap has been made and offered for sale in square or 5 oblong square bars. These, in use, on account of their extreme squareness are uncomfortable to the hand and when cut in pieces for toilet purposes require trimming both for comfort & appearance. Much waste is caused by dinging & knocking off the sharp corners. My invention is to improve upon these square or oblong square bars by making 10 & offering for sale circular ^ octagonal bar soap. The object of the improvement is to provide a bar soap which shall, in use, combine the following advantages— (1.) A shape comfortable to the hand, (2.) A shape that is equally suitable for toilet as for laundry purposes, 15 (3.) And a shape that is liable to little waste or dinge. I would observe that I do not confine or limit myself to the precise shapes hereinbefore mentioned as they might obviously be varied in form & detail without in any way departing from the spirit of my invention. Dated this Twelfth day of September 1894. 20 MAURICE EVANS. COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Improvement in Bar Soap. Maurice Evans of 4 Church Road Wavertree in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Salesman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in -what 25 manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:— Up to the present time bar soap has been made and offered for sale in square or oblong square bars. These, in use, on account of their extreme squareness are uncomfortable to the hand and when used for toilet purposes require trimming 30 both for comfort and appearance. Much waste is caused by damaging and knocking off the sharp corners. My invention is to improve upon these square or oblong square bars by making & offering for sale circular (plain, crimped or fluted) hexagonal ^ heptagonal polygonal bar soap or in other words bars of soap which when cut vertically 35 into parts or pieces would in each part or piece present these shapes. The object of the improvement is to provide a bar soap which, in use, shall combine the following advantages 1. A shape comfortable to the hand 2. A shape that is equally suitable for toilet as for laundry purposes 3. And a shape that is liable to little waste or dinge. \Vnce Sd. | 49