New or Improved Sanitary Paper, Felt, or Analogous Material.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 23rd May, 1894-Accepted, 30th June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Sanitary Paper, Felt, or Analogous Material.
I, SAMUEL QUILLIAM, of 31, Peters Lane, Liverpool in the County of
Lancaster, Sack Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, to
be as follows:-
The new or improved sanitary material according to this invention, consists of a
specially prepared namely felt or felted paper produced by any of the ordinary
processes of manufacturing such goods from material composed wholly of wool, of
wool and cotton, or of sponge or any other absorbent material, and perforated,
and a sanitary matter or substance, such as disinfectants, antiseptics, or other
chemicals, as for instance carbolic acid, and other matters, "Izal," and others.
Beyond using the invention as a covering for floors or other surfaces, it may be
used as an under covering to carpets. It may also be used for pads or bandages
for medical and surgical purposes; as a dressing for cuts, wounds, bruises,
chilblains, &c.; in head or pillow pads to sleep upon; as linings for drawers, trunks,
or other receptacles for clothing; as disinfectants in sick chambers; and other
analogous sanitary purposes.
Dated this 22nd day of August 1893.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON, Fels. Chart. Inst. P.A.,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Sanitary Paper, Felt, or Analogous Material.
I, SAMUEL QUILLIAM, of 31 Peters Lane, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Sack Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
The new or improved sanitary material according to this invention, consists of a
*pecially prepared or manufactured paper or felt, or analogous material, and a
sanitary matter or substance, that is to say, felt or felted paper produced by any of
the ordinary processes of manufacturing such goods from material composed wholly
of wool, of wool and cotton, or of sponge or any other absorbent material, and
perforated, and a sanitary matter or substance, such as disinfectants, antiseptics, or
other chemicals, as for instance carbolic acid and other analogous matters, " Izal,"
and others.
Beyond using the invention as a covering for floor or other surfaces, it may be
used as an under covering to carpets. It may also be used for pads or bandages for
medical and surgical purposes; as a dressing for cuts, wounds, bruises, chilblains, &c.;
in head or pillow pads to sleep upon; as linings for drawers, trunks, or other
receptacles for clothing, or in clothing; as a disinfectant in sick chambers; and
other analogous sanitary purposes.
A felted paper is produced by any of the ordinary processes of manufacturing
Buch, out of material composed (a) wholly of wool (6) partly of wool and cotton
(c) or of sponge or any other absorbent material. In the course of manufacture it
is treated in any known suitable way, so as to disinfect and eliminate any
objectionable ingredients.

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When made or nearly made the felt is perforated the perforations varying in
size according to the purposes for which the felt is subsequently to be used.
is to make the felt more absorbent and more porous, pliable, lighter, and more
elastic.
The felt so produced is then throughly indurated with a disinfectant, by being
passed through a bath of warmed disinfectant fluid. This bath is, in some cases,
fitted with rollers revolving below the surface of the fluid-the rollers being
covered with thick flannel, or with woollen felt, and the paper felt is carried
through one or more series of these rollers, and then passed between drying
cylinders, thence on to the ordinary mechanical appliances for cutting, slitting, or
rolling.
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An alternative process of manufacture is to introduce the disinfectant whilst the
felt is in the pulp state, and just as it is passing from the beaters into the vats
preparatory to passing on to the paper making machine.
When the material acccording to this invention is used as a covering for floors,
say an undercovering for carpets or the like, it is made of say the usual thicknesses
which are at present used for paper felts, and is provided with perforations therein,
say from to inch, and from 1 to 2 inches apart.
The felt perforated material as made aud applied for floor coverings possesses
amongst others the following advantages over the ordinary paper felts which are
used for putting under carpets or other floor or stair coverings.
1st. The material being a combined covering and a suitable sanitary substance,
serves the double purpose of an ordinary covering and a preventative against the
intrusion of fleas, bugs, beetles, cockroaches and other similar pests.
2nd. Whilst the ordinary felts are not perforated, but homogeneous, and in
consequence, the dirt, grit, or dust which works through a carpet under which there
is a felt, being deposited on same, grinds the under surface of the carpet and the
upper surface of the felt, which rises as dust through the carpet upon the slightest
agitation, the perforated felt herein described provides for the dust, which passes
through the carpet, passing also to a very large extent, through the apertures of
the felt, for its deposit upon the floor, and thus saves wear and tear to both carpet
and felt, minimising at the same time the amount of dust rising through the
carpet.
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3rd. The felt is lighter and more elastic by reason of the perforations.
When the material is used for pads or bandages for medical and surgical work,
as a dressing for cuts wounds, bruises, and the like, the base should be made up
after the nature of blotting paper, but from about 2 to 4 times as thick as ordinary
blotting paper. In such applications the perforations would in most cases be
arranged more closely together, say from inch to 1 inch pitch and smaller in
diameter than those referred to above, viz. about 16 of an inch.
In applying the material, the manner of using it is as follows:-
A piece of the required size is placed in fluid (either water alone or medicated
water) and is so rendered limp. Upon being taken out, it is applied to the part
for which it is intended. In the case of a flesh wound it is simply placed over the
wound and tied round with a bandage. In consequence of its limpness, the felt
adapts itself exactly to the conformation of the wound and covers every part
efficiently and equally, and the disinfectant which it contains comes in due contact
with the wound.
Some of the advantages of its use in this manner, are
1. It is much handier and more quickly applied than the ordinary process of
putting cotton wool soaked in disinfectant, upon the wound and binding it
round.
2. It gives more readily to the conformation of the wound, and therefore covers
every part of it more effectively.
3. It is very much more convenient for transit, as it takes up much less space
than wool and bottles.
4. It provides a much more convenient form of conveying and using two

page_text: substances, than having the substances or articles, viz. carbolic or other disinfectant
in a bottle and cotton wool, separate.
5. It is very much more economical, because it saves the cost and room of bottles,
obviates risk of breakages, and where a number of bottles might be required to
serve several medical wards, this can be given out as required, and therefore saves
waste.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The new or improved sanitary material herein described, consisting of a base
of paper or felt or analogous material and a sanitary matter or substance, and having
perforations, the sanitary matter or substance being a disinfectant or antiseptic, as
Izal," carbolic acid, and the like: substantially as described.
Dated this 22nd day of May 1894.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON, Fels. Chart. Inst. P.A.,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.