AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Basébé, of 2, Mayfield Place, High Street,
Kensington, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF PAPER."
Sealed the 7th December 1855, and dated the 21st June 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Basébé, at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 21st
June 1855.
I, WILLIAM BASÉBÉ, of 2, Mayfield Place, High Street, Kensington, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF PAPER" to be as follows:-
The Invention has for its object the manufacture of perfumed, or scented
paper, and consists in introducing perfumes or scents into the pulp from which
paper is made by any of the well-known processes; or, instead of introducing
the perfumes and scents into the pulp, the paper, by preference, in the green
state, may be immersed in liquid perfumes and scents.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Basébé in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st December 1855.
3.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BASEBE, of No. 2, Mayfield Place, High Street, Kensington, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors; give and grant unto me, the said
William Basébé, Her special licence that I, the said William Basébé, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Basébé, my 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said William Basébé, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
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 uext and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Basébé, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof (that is to say):-
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The Invention has for its object the manufacture of perfumed or scented
paper, and consists in introducing perfumes or scents into the pulp from which
paper is made by any of the well-known processes; or, instead of introducing
the perfumes and scents into the pulp, the paper, by preference, in the green
state, may be immersed in liquid perfumes or scents.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the process which I prefer
to employ.
P.
I make an alcoholic solution or extract of the perfume which I intend to
employ; for instance, when using oil of roses, I mix two drachms of the
essential oil with one ounce of alcohol, and I add this mixture to the pulp
(prepared ready for making paper) in the proportion of one ounce of mixture

page_text: to one pound of pulp, and of the pulp thus scented paper is made in the
ordinary manner. When employing other scents in place of oil of roses, I
make an alcoholic solution or extract of the same relative strength, and I add
it to the pulp in a similar manner; or, in place of the process above described,
I scent the paper, when in a green state and unsized, by immersing it in a bath
consisting of one-part of any alcoholic perfume (of the strength above indicated
for adding to the pulp) diluted with about ten parts of water.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Basébé, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
WILLIAM BASEBE. (L.S.)
JNO. ALCOCK.