An Improved Composition of or from which may be Manufactured Billiard Balls, Handles for Umbrellas or Sticks, Electric Buttons, and other Articles of a like nature and general utility, and as a Substitute for Mica.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Sept., 1899
1000
4000
Date of Application, ou supty 1000
Complete Specification Left, 2nd June, 1000 Accepted, 21st July, 1000
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Composition of or from which may be Manufactured
Billiard Balls, Handles for Umbrellas or Sticks, Electric Buttons,
and other Articles of a like nature and general utility, and as a
Substitute for Mica.
I, GEORGE BESTWICK, of 192, Green Lané, Patricroft, in the County of Lan-
caster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improvement which forms the subject of this invention relates to a com-
position of or from which may be manufactured or produced hard or inflexible
articles of general commercial utility such as billiard balls, handles for umbrellas,
and sticks, electric buttons, and other articles of a like nature.
For the purpose of this invention I employ the interior hard substance of
carrozo pippin which is obtained after the rind and fruit has been taken therefrom.
I steep said substance in a solution of chloride of lime for several hours when it
is ground and mixed with a solution or gelatenous substance obtained by boiling
buffalo hide, calves hoof and pig skin in equal proportions.
The composition thus produced is rolled into sheets of suitable thickness of
pressed into blocks, and dried from which articles such as herein before named
may be formed.
The herein before described material or composition may be employed as a sub-
stitute for mica.
Dated this 4th day of September 1899.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicant, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.
An Improved Composition of or from which may be Manufactured
Billiard Balls, Handles for Umbrellas or Sticks, Electric Buttons,
and other Articles of a like nature and general utility, and as a
Substitute for Mica.
I, GEORGE BESTWICK, of 192, Green Lane, l'atricroft, in the County of Lan-
caster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what man-
ner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-
The improvement which forms the subject of this invention relates to a com-
posifion of or from which may be manufactured or produced hard or inflexible
articles of general commercial utility such as billiard balls, handles for umbrellas,

page_text: and sticks, stoppers for bottles, electric buttons, and other articles of a like nature
or as a substitute for mica.
For the purpose of this invention I employ the nut or interior hard substance
of the corozo pippin which is obtained after the rind and fruit has been taken
therefrom; I steep said substance in a solution of chloride of lime for several
hours in order to destroy the acid therein when it is dried, ground and mixed
with a solution or gelatinous substance obtained by boiling together equal quan-
tities of buffalo hide, calves hoof and pig skin, the proportion of said solution or
gelatinous substance employed being one or thereabouts to two of the aforesaid
powdered ivory or corozo nut.
or
The compound thus produced is rolled into Sheets of suitable thickness
pressed into blocks and dried from which articles such as herein before named
may be formed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is --
1. The manufacture or production of articles of utility such as the handles of
umbrellas, stoppers for bottles, billiard balls, electric buttons and the like, or as
a substitute for mica, from a composition obtained by the combination of the
corozo nut with a gelatinous substance substantially as and in the manner herein-
before described.
2. A composition that is obtained by the treatment and mixture of substances
hereinbefore named and in the manner indicated by which the articles herein-
before named are produced substantially as and for the purposes herein before
named.
Dated this 21st day of You 1000
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicant, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.