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Soap-frame.

A box to hold soap and retain it till it acquires a certain degree of solidity.

It consists of a series of rectangular frames, which are built upon each other to the required hight, and clamped together by screw-rods, so as to make water-fight joints; or of a box whose sides are locked together and to the bottom. In either case the sides or sections are removable from the body of hardened soap, so as to leave it standing, in order to be cut into bars by a wire. See soap-cutting machine.

In Fig. 5269, the base is mounted on wheels, and has a rabbet around its upper edge containing a rubber packing, against which the sides are clamped. The frame is formed of plates bent at right angles and joined together at diagonal corners by hinged clamps.

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