US1182027A - Washing compound and process of making the same. - Google Patents

Description

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CLARA E. MARTIN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

wAsHING ooMPoUND AND rnoonss or MAKING HE SAME.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARA E; MARTIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county'of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in VVashin g Compounds and Processes of Making the Same, of which the following is a description.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and effective washingcompound which shall be capable of cleansing the most delicate fabrics without injury thereto while eliminating the necessity for rubbing or otherwise agitating or manipulating the fabric to cause undue wear thereof.

To these ends, my invention consists in the process by which the ingredients are compounded to producethe desired effect as well as in the resulting product, which consists in a solid cake or block ofparaffin wax uniformly charged or impregnated with minute globules of liquid detergent materials, all of which is hereinafter more particularly described and definitely pointed out in the claims.

The compound consists in the following specified ingredients preferably combined in about the following proportions:

Oil of bergamot, about 5parts The parafiin should first be melted and kept at a sufficiently high temperature to maintain it in that condition while the other ingredients are added one by one in successive order and thoroughly commingled therewith. In view of the difierent characteristics of the component parts and of their different specific gravities, the tendency is for them to separate if left to themselves. Inasmuch as the mixture is strictly a mechanical one, it is essential that it should be conducted with the utmost care. I would recommend that the paraffin be brought to and maintained at a tem erature of from about 200 to 212 Fahren eit, more or less, during the incorporation therewith of the first two ingredients. when so heated, the turpentine is added and the mass thoroughly agitated until an even distribution is obtained. This is followed by the addition of the liquid ammonia while vigorous agitation Specification of Letterslatent.

Patented hIzty 91, 1916.

Application filed October 4, 1915. Serial N 0. 54,013.

is kept up. When it is apparent that the mlxture is complete the agitation should be continued and the mass allowed to cool. Upon reaching a point in the cooling process at which the paraflin is almost solidified but yet in a sufliciently plastic state to permit agitation, the bergamot is added and the agitation continued until the bergamot is completely and evenly incorporated in the mass when it may be molded into tablets, or allowed to solidify in a single mass to be cut up into blocks of any predetermined size. c

As a result of the above described process the liquid constituents are imprisoned in fine globules throughout the mass of paraflin which is solid, white and clean and practically without odor.

One or more tablets may be dissolved in boiling water containing the requisite quantity of soap in solution. The articles to be cleansed should be well soaked in the hot solution after which but little, if any, rubbing will be required.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

v1. The process of preparing a detergent compound from parafiin wax, turpentine and a solution of ammonia, which consists in melting to a thin fluid a quantity of paraffin wax in excess of that of the other ingredients, maintaining the same under heat,

adding the turpentine, agitating the mass until evenly distributed, adding the ammonia while still continuing the agitation, cooling the mass and continuing the agitation until the wax becomes sufliciently solidified to insure and maintain a separation of the imprisoned liquid globules.

2. The process of preparing a washing compound from parafiin wax, turpentine, a solution of ammonia and oil of bergamot, which consists in melting a quantity of wax in excess of that of the other ingredients, to a thin fluid, maintaining it under heat, adding the turpentine while agitating the mass until an even distribution is obtained, adding the ammonia solution while maintaining the temperature, continuing the agitation to insure an even distribution of the globules of the added liquids, allowing the mass to cool and while yet in a sufiiciently plastic state to permit such agitation, adding the bergamot and permitting the mass to, harden.

3. The process of preparing a washing compound from paraffin Wax, turpentine, a solution of ammonia and oil of bergamot in about the proportions specified, which con-.t sists in melting the Wax, maintaining the same at a temperature of from about 200 to 212 Fahrenheit, adding the turpentine While agitating the mass until an even distribution is obtained, adding the ammonia solution While maintaining the temperature and continuing the agitation to insure uneven distribution, allowing the mass to cool and While partially cooled but yet in a suff ciently plastic state to permit agitation or stirring, adding the bergamot While continuing the agitation and finally allowing the mass tov solidify. r

at. A detergent compound comprising, in

parafiin being in excess of that of the other ingredients.

5. A detergent compound, comprising, in combination, paraffin Wax impregnated with fine liquid globules of turpentine, liquid ammonia and oil ofbergamot in about the proportions specified.

In testimony whereof, I have. signed this specification in the presence of tWo subscribing itnesses, this first day of October, 1915.

CLARA E. MAR-TIN.

Witnesses:

AV D E HER, JENNIE L. F ISKE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

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