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US 10,113,142 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for making soap
AssigneeDesigned By M.E., LLC
InventorsChérie Liana Schaible, Tami Deanna Lamp, Stephen John Gaynes
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Abstract
The present invention is directed towards a method and apparatus for making soap. According to one embodiment, a soap making apparatus comprises a water vessel that holds water, an oil vessel that holds an oil mixture, a lye container that accepts enclosed lye capsules and a microcontroller that controls a mixture of ingredients that is discharged from the water vessel, oil vessel and lye vessel to produce one or more soap bars made.
Claims16
A method for making soap comprising:
- piercing, upon closure of a lid of an apparatus, a lye capsule in a lye container;
- combining, in a first mixing vessel, a portion of water from a water vessel with a portion of lye from the lye capsule to form a first mixture;
- cooling, in the first mixing vessel, the first mixture to a first predetermined temperature;
- combining, in an oil vessel, two or more oils to dissolve into a second mixture;
- heating, in the oil vessel, the second mixture to a second predetermined temperature to produce a heated second mixture;
- adding, in the oil vessel, a third oil to the heated second mixture;
- cooling, in the oil vessel, the heated second mixture to a third predetermined temperature to produce a cooled second mixture;
- combining, in a second mixing vessel, the first mixture and the cooled second mixture to form a third mixture;
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- discharging the third mixture from the second mixing vessel into one or more soap molds to form one or more bars of soap.
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