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Application filed July 29,1892. Serial No. 441,565. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Nathan Jewett, of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement 5 in Soap Cakes, of which the following is a specification.

The aim of my invention isto combine with toilet soap an abrasive material in such manner that it will be retained in operative posiio tion until the entire cake of soap is consumed, or practically so, and so that the material may be held or retained so that it will not find its way into the pipes or drains of the building.

To this end it consists in attaching fibrous 15 material such as hair, bristles or vegetable fiber to a spool or other holder, which is embedded or incorporated within the block of soap. Theholder thus incorporated in or surrounded by the soap serves to hold the fibers 20 firmly in position, while at the same time their ends are permitted to protrude beyond the surface of the soap to co-operate therewith after the manner of a brush to assist in the cleansing action.

Referring to the drawings:—Figure 1 repre- sents a perspective view of a partly consumed cake of soap in accordance with myinvention. Fig. 2 a cross section of the same on the line 2—2 and Fig. 3 a perspective view of the 30 spool or holder and the fiber attached thereto as it appears before it is introduced into the soap.

Referring to the drawings:—A represents a peripherally grooved spool of wood or other 35 suitable material, and B a series of bristles or other long fibers grouped around and extending outward in all directions from the spool, and secured firmly thereto by a binding-wire C. or equivalent fastening device.

As shown in the drawings, the bristles are doubled or bent at the mjddle, and the wire applied in the bight or fold at the middle. The only essential requirement is that the holder should be adapted to retain firmly a 45 mass of fiber and prevent its separation, and it is to be understood that it may be made in any form, and the fibers arranged in any manner and secured thereto by any fastening which will secure the end named.

D represents a cake of^soap in which the 50 holder is embedded or inclosed so that the fibers extend upward in various directions to the outer surface. The ordinary practice is to mold the soap in a press around theholder. The cake may be formed of such size that it 55 will in the first instance extend slightly beyond the fibers in order to completely inclose them, and thus admit of the soap being more conveniently handled and packed for transportation. As soon as the consumption re- 60 duces the size of the cake the ends of the fibers will become exposed for use.

An essential feature of my invention is the uniting of all the fibers incorporated in the cake so that they may be, one and all, retained 65 until the cake is consumed or discarded. The advantage of this connection lying in the fact that the fibers are thus pre vented from escaping individually as the consumption of the cake progresses, and finding their way into 70 the drain pipes, and into other objectionable places as they would be liable to do if incorporated loosely or unconnectedly in the soap.