Improved Paper for Toilet and other Purposes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Sept., 1887
Complete Left, 22nd May, 1888
Complete Accepted, 6th July, 1888
Improved Paper for Toilet and other Purposes.
I ALFRED BUCKLEY WARHURST of Urmston in the County of Lancaster Com-
mercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is chiefly to provide a medicated paper for toilet
purposes which shall on use emit a pleasant odour.
It consists essentially of a paper composed of or prepared with medicinal and
antiseptic materials forming part of the pulp or incorporated with the pulp or paper
during manufacture of such a nature that when the paper is dry they remain quiescent
or inactive but on its being wet or immersed in water it emits a pleasant odour and
the medicinal and antiseptic properties of the materials or components of the paper
come into play.
In carrying out the invention I purpose to prepare the pulp from which the paper
is manufactured chiefly of pine wood though other materials now well known for the
making of paper pulp may be partially or wholly employed. The pulp so formed is
manufactured into paper in the usual manner the sheets being passed through a bath
containing a spirituous solution of Pine-oil or Terebene and Galls. They may then
be passed between rollers and afterwards, if necessary, passed through a further bath
of Terebene or Pine-oil to perfect and strengthen the antiseptic properties of the
paper after which they may be treated with a small portion of opium if required and
dried and finished in the usual way.
Such a paper in a dry state differs but little in physical properties from an ordinary
paper of the same consistency but on being wet an odour or perfume resembling pine
wood is emitted from it and the action of the ingredients on the water in which it is
immersed is that of a disinfectant.

page_text: The main properties of a paper prepared as herein described are anti-haemorrhoidal
and antiseptic but the invention is not necessarily limited to the exact ingredients
mentioned or method of incorporating or applying them to the paper as other barks,
gums, tinctures, oils, essences or powders readily acted upon by water and which do
not emit any dangerous or obnoxious fumes or odour, may be employed and incor-
porated with the paper in any suitable way so as to produce the required result.
It is obvious that though mainly intended for toilet purposes the use of such a
paper is not necessarily limited thereto as it may be prepared and used as a deodorant
or disinfectant in vessels contained in sick rooms and other places.
Dated this 29th day of September 1887.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester,
Patent Agents.

page_text: I, ALFRED BUCKley Warhurst, of Urmston, in the County of Lancaster, Com-
mercial Traveller, 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 object of this invention is to provide a paper chiefly for toilet purposes which
shall on being damped, or brought into contact with water, emit a pleasant odour and
act as a disinfectant.
It consists essentially of a paper which is impregnated with, or with which is
incorporated during the process of manufacture, medicinal antiseptic or other materials
of such a nature that, when the paper is dry they remain quiescent or inactive but,
on being brought into contact with water a pleasant odour is emitted therefrom, and
the medicinal and antiseptic properties of one or more of the materials incorporated
with the paper come into play.
In carrying out the invention I prefer to prepare the pulp from which the paper is
manufactured, chiefly of pine wood, though other materials now well known for tho
making of paper pulp may be partially or wholly employed; the pulp being manu-
factured into sheets or rolls of paper in the usual manner. When fully or partially
finished the paper is treated in a bath containing a solution of the several ingredients,
and saturated to the required degree therewith.
The solution which I prefer is prepared from the following constituents in the
proportions stated. Tinctures of Hamamelis, Gall and opium, Eucalyptus Oil (pre-
ferably prepared from the Eucalyptus globulus) and Pine Oil (preferably prepared
from the Sylvestris Pine) with or without the addition of turpentine, mixed with and
dissolved in methylated or rectified spirit, finish, or other spirituous liquid.
(1) I intimately mix together the tinctures which are of British Pharmacopoca
standard strength, in the following proportions :·

page_text: This solution is placed in a suitable trough or other receptacle, preferably in con-
nection with the paper machine. The paper is either passed through the solution or the
solution is applied to the surface of the paper by means of a brush or roller revolving
in it, or in any other suitable way, after which the paper is dried and finished in any
ordinary way the spirit evaporating and leaving the other ingredients of the solution
as a constituent part of the paper.
It will be obvious that the several ingredients may be incorporated with the pulp
or applied separately to the paper if desired but I prefer the above mentioned methed
of applying them.
Such a paper when finished in a dry state differs but little in physical properties
from ordinary paper of the same consistency but on being brought into contact with
water an odour or perfume resembling pine wood is emitted from it and the action
of the ingredients on the water in which it is immersed is that of a disinfectant.
The main properties of a paper prepared as herein described in addition to its quality
of emitting an odour are antihemorrhoidal and antiseptic.
The invention is not limited to the use of the exact materials mentioned or the
proportions specified, in the preparation of the paper, as other herbs, barks, guns,
vegetable oils, or essences soluble in spirit or other volatile liquids and capable of
omitting a pleasant odour when acted upon by water, may be employed.
It is obvious that though mainly intended for toilet purposes the use of such a
paper is not necessarily limited thereto as it may be prepared and used as a deodorant.
or disinfectant in vessels placed in sick rooms and for other purposes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I wish it to be understood that I do'
not claim broadly a medicated or perfumed paper but that what I claim is
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1. A paper for toilet or other purposes which in a dry state is free or comparatively
free from smell, and which on being brought into contact with water emits the odour
or perfume of one or more of the materials with which it is impregnated, substantially
as described.
2. A paper for toilet or other purposes impregnated with or with which is incor-
porated one or more of the materials hereinbefore mentioned possessing disinfecting
properties which remain quiescent when the paper is dry and the properties of which
are liberated or come into play when the paper is brought into contact with water
substantially as described.
3. A paper for toilet or other purposes in part composed of or impregnated with
Hamamelis, Gall, Opium, Eucalyptus Oil and Pine Oil with or without the addition
of turpentine substantially as and for the purposes described.
4. A paper impregnated with one or more vegetable Oils, Essences, Tinctures, or
Balsams which emits an odour or acts as a disinfectant on being brought into contact
with water substantially as and for the purposes described.
Dated this 18th day of May 1888.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester,
Patent Agents.