IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PROVISIONALFICATION
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Denny Ruck, of Toppings Wharf, and
Victor Touche, of 14, Rathbone Place, Oxford Street, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Denny Ruck
and Victor Touche at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 7th May 1856.
We, WILLIAM DENNY RUCK, of Toppings Wharf, and VICTOR TOUCHE, of
14, Rathbone Place, Oxford Street, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF PAPER FROM FIBRES NOT HITHERTO APPLIED TO SUCH PURPOSE," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in the manufacture of paper from the fibre of the
stem and leaves of sugar cane, the stem and leaves of the Indian corn, the
stem and leaves of bulrushes, and the material called bass or bast. And we
prefer to obtain the fibre from these matters by first crushing and then boiling.
them, first in water and then in alkali, and the fibre thus obtained is bleached
and made into paper in the ordinary manner.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of tlie conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Denny Ruck and Victor Touche in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 6th December 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
DENNY RUCK, of Toppings Wharf, and Victor Touche, of 14, Rathbone Place,
Oxford Street, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting,
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty, Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of June, -in-the- year.. of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
William Denny Ruck and Victor Touclic, Her special licence that we, the
said William Denny Ruck and-Victor-Touche, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said William Denny Ruck and Victor
Touche, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF PAPER FROM FIORES NOT HITHERTO APPLIED TO SUCH PURPOSE,"
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said William Denny Ruck and
Victor Touche, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us
or them, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
upon
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Victor Touche, on behalf of myself and
the said William Denny Ruck, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is
to say:
This Invention consists in the manufacture of paper from the fibre of the
stem and leaves of sugar cane, the stem and leaves of the Indian corn, the
stem and leaves of bulrushes, and the material called bass or bast. And we
prefer to obtain the fibre from these matters by first crushing and then boiling
them first in water and then in alkali, and the fibre thus obtained is bleached
and made into paper in the ordinary manner.

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of our said Invention, we will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
In manufacturing paper from the stems and leaves of the sugar cane, also
from the stems and leaves of Indian corn, also from the stems and leaves
of bulrushes, and also from the material called bass, such materials or fibrous
substances are cut into short lengths (say about two inches); they are then
subjected to pressure between crushing rollers or crushing surfaces, the juice,
in the case of the sugar cane, having been first pressed out in the ordinary
manner. The crushed fibrous substances, above mentioned, are boiled in water
and then in a solution of caustic alkali for about one hour, or the boiling in
water may be omitted, and the boiling in alkaline solution only resorted to;
the strength of the alkaline solution may vary, but we prefer to employ 1 lb.
of caustic soda to each gallon of water. The fibres after boiling in the
alkaline solution are then well washed in water. In using bass, the boiling in
alkaline solution may be omitted, and the fibres used after being well crushed
or mechanically separated and washed. The process of making paper from
the fibrous substances, prepared as above explained, is carried on in the
ordinary manner of making paper from other fibrous materials...
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, we would state that the fibrous materials above
named may be crushed or mechanically separated by other means than rollers.
What we claim is, the manufacture of paper in the manner herein described
from the fibrous substances above mentioned.
In witness whereof, I, the said Victor Touche, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
YOB TOUCHE. (L.S.)