A practical treatise on the manufacture of soap and candles .. (1888)
Brannt, William T. (William Theodore), b. 1844, Deite, C. (Carl), 1838-1921, Engelhardt, Alwin, Schaedler, Karl, 1843-1891 · Philadelphia, H. C. Baird & co.; [etc., etc.] · leaf 283
e frames,according to their construction, are either lifted off, or taken apartand removed, so as to leave the solid block of soap resting uponthe bottom. The block is then divisioned off by means of a 264 MANUFACTURE OF SOAP AND CANDLES. scribe, an instrument of hard wood smoothly planed and… … thus divided into slabs. When the whole is thus divided, theslabs are removed and reduced in their turn to bars and lumps ofsmaller dimensions. The usual size of the bars wTas formerly 12to 14 inches long by 3 inches every other way, but at presentthey are mostly cut into one pound and one-half…
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