US581920A

US581920A - Soap article

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Publication number: US581920A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-05-04
Anticipated expiration: 1914-05-04

Description

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' L. S. SAMUEL.

SOAP ARTICLE.

No. 581,920. Patented May 4, 1897.

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LEOPOLD S. SAMUEL, OF NEWVARK, NEIV JERSEY.

SOAP ARTICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 581,920, dated May 4, 1897.

' Application filed May 2'7, 1896. Serial No. 593,199. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEOPOLD S. SAMUEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Soap Cakes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in that class of soap cakes represented by those shown in my prior patents, Nos. 393,928, 549,330, 549,687, and 555,668, the objects of the invention being to provide a soap cake of the composite or sectional nature described in the said prior patents, which will be of a more simple construction, to avoid the appearance of external joining means, and yet to provide such means in such a relation as that they will more firmly unite the soap sections, and to secure other advantages and results, some of which may be referred to hereinafter in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved soap cake and in the arrangements and combinations of parts, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the views, Figure 1 is a plan of the improved soap cake, the same being preferably of a ball shape, although the shape may be Varied at will. Fig. 2 is an inside view of one of the sections. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the soap cake, taken at line 00; and Fig. 4: is a section showing a concealed band and a variation in construction.

The said soap cake is made in sections a a, one section of which differs in appearance or composition from the other, the difference being preferably due to variations in the medici nal ingredients added 'to the saponaceous matter.

In the preferred construction the sections a comprise hemispheres, and the same are on their engaging sides hollowed out, as at b, so as to form coinciding interior chambers, in which I prefer to insert key-blocks c, by means of which the said hemispheres or sections are prevented from turning or otherwise loosely sliding one on another. The said key-blocks 0 may be of wood or other suitable material other than the soap itself; but Iprefer to employ a textile fabric at, such as felt or cotton cloth, which is inserted in a waxy or cementitious matter (1, such as paraffin or cerosin. The textile fabric preliminary to being in: serted in the cake is dipped in the waxy or cementitious substance and the pores thereof are filled, so as to prevent absorption after the fluid wax has been poured into the hollow chamber of the soap, and the fabric is inserted therein.

In joining the sections by means of the keyblock after dipping the cloth and filling the pores thereof, as described, I pour the cerosin into one receptacle of the soap and then insert the textile fabric, prepared as described. The waxy substance of the prepared fabric becomes integral with the wax poured within the receptacle, so that the fabric when the wax is hardened becomes firmly attached to the first soap section. I then fill the receptacle of the second section and bring the two sections together, so that the projecting keyblock with the projecting waxy textile fabric enters into the fluid wax of the said second soap sections, and when hardened the parts become firm and secure. The textile fabric prevents the key-block c from being broken by lateral pressure due to one cake sliding on the other, as will be understood.

To unite the sections more firmly, I form a Very narrow peripheral groove 6 around the cake in a plane at right angles to the plane of the joint between the sections, and into said grooves I insert a continuous rubber band f. The said rubber band prevents withdrawal of one section from the other. 1 then close the said joint by dampening the soap and filling or closing the groove over the rubber band with saponaceous matter, and the cake presents a smooth and unbroken surface, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 4C. The band is thus concealed from view without employing an exterior wrapper.

The meeting surfaces of the sections may be provided with receptacles g for medicaments, such as I have heretofore described in my former patents, or such-surfaces may be devoid of such receptacles.

The key-block may be, as before intimated, of other material than wax, and in this event it may be seated within suitable recesses within the soap sections, so as to break the joint formed between said sections. In this latter case I may dispense with the use of cerosin or other Waxy substance.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is 1. The improved soap cake, comprising sections of saponaceous matter, with grooves eX- tending around the outside thereof in which a band is arranged and holds said sections together, the said grooves being filled in over said band with saponaceous matter, covering said band and concealing it from view, substantially as set forth.

2; The improved soap cake comprising a plurality of saponaceous sections and a band holding said sections together, said band be ing embedded within said soap sections beneath the exposed surface thereof, substantially as set forth.

3. The improved soap cake, comprising differently-colored saponaceous sections and an elastic band joining said sections, said band being embedded within the sapon aceous body of the soap cake beneath the exposed surface thereof and concealed from view and from contact with the band in the earlier washing operations and permitting an easy removal after the overlying saponaceous matter is worn therefrom, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination with the saponaceous sections and means disposed around the periphery of the sections for holding said sections against withdrawal of a key substance arranged within the body of the soap, consisting of a textile fabric and a waxy substance, said parts being combined, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination with the soap sections each having a chamber or recess formed therein, the said chambers having a key-block, distinct from the body of said soap, extending across the joint formed between said sections, into each of the said chambers, and inclosed by said saponaceous sections, and holding said sections together, said parts bein g combined, substantially as set forth.

6. The combination with a sectional soap cake, the sections of which are provided with central recesses, of a key-block distinct from the body of saponaceous matter, arranged in each of said. central recesses and breaking the joint formed between said sections and embodyin g a hardened waxy or cementitio us material holding said sections in rigid relation, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 25th day of May, 1896.

LEOPOLD s. SAMUEL.

Witnesses:

CHARLES II. P LL, O. B. PITNEY.