IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPLICATION AND ADAPTATION OF WOOD FIBRE AND WOOD PULP TO THE MANUFACTURE OF VARIOUS USEFUL ARTICLES, AND FOR VARIOUS USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Noad at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 26th April 1876.
JAMES NOAD, of 19, Salisbury Street, Strand, and Plaistow, Essex, Engineer,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPLICATION AND ADAPTATION OF WOOD FIBRE AND
WOOD PULP TO THE MANUFACTURE OF VARIOUS USEFUL ARTICLES, AND FOR
VARIOUS USEFUL PURPOSES."
These improvements relate to the substitution for other materials and processes of
manufacture for producing various articles and things which have heretofore been
used or employed for various purposes, and also in the preparation of such materials
in combination with various other imaterials as berein-after mentioned or referred to,
that is to say I substitute a certain material or materials in the place of those
heretofore used or employed as and for the body of such articles, and for the pro-
duction of such manufactured and saleable materials and articles of commerce, for
example, in the production of coverings, and roofing and roof linings, and for tar-
paulings and their substitutes, for railway carriage coverings, for boat housings and
coverings, and for similar articles to be employed for such like and other purposes,
also for the production of certain materials to be employed as articles of dress, and
for numerous adaptations and applications to and for the like and allied purposes, as
also for the manufacture and production of steam packings, packing for steam engine
and other glands, and also for the coating and surrounding of metallic and other
surfaces for heat preserving and fuel economising, and generally for non-conducting
coatings or coverings for various purposes, and intended to be applied under various
conditions and circumstances.
In each and every such case I employ as the body material prepared wood fibre
or wood pulp, and for producing floor covering and such like materials & articles
as a substitute to kamptulicon, linoleum, cortecine, &c. I take the prepared wood fibre
or wood pulp as it comes from the machine and I mix with it fusil oil or mineral or
other solvent oil or oils in combination with gummy or resinous and other suitable
substances or matters, and I combine these with the wood fibre or pulp as body
material, I then knead them together and afterwards roll the mass into sheets of
suitable dimensions or into other suitable forms, according to the purpose for which
it is required, either in combination with canvas or other textile fabric or other
suitable material, either as a backing or as a layer or strengthener. Floor coverings
thus made may be so prepared as to be cured and stoved and the surface be colored,
printed upon, and otherwise suitably ornamented. In a similar manner, generally,
[Price 2d.]

page_text: I employ the wood fibre for the production of artificial leather for the production of
articles of dress, and for various other purposes.
For some purposes I combine with the wood fibre or pulp, silex or silecious
compounds, as for example (where heat resisting has to be effected) any argillaceous,
argillocalcareous or argilloarenaceous matter may also be mixed with the wood fibre
or wood pulp.