PATENTS

2132. ------. [MÄRKISCHE SEIFEN-INDUSTRIE.] [Soap From Hydrocarbons.] German Patent 706,951, May 8, 1941 (Cl. 23d-4). Chem. Abs., vol. 36, 1942, p. 2174.

An improvement in the process wherein the 2 successive evaporations are conducted in 2 separate vessels. The preheated mixture is sprayed into the 1st vessel. Here, the volatile components volatilize and the soap falls into a 2d vessel, whence it is picked up on a heated conveyor on which the remaining unsaponified constituents are removed. Addition to German Patent 704,428 (abs. 2131).