IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE (BY THE INTRO- DUCTION OF COCOA-NUT HUSK OR PART THEREOF) OF A SUBSTITUTE FOR ORDINARY FELT AND KAMPTULICON, AND IN UTILIZING SAID COCOA-NUT HUSK OR PART THEREOF FOR PACKING OF WINE COOLERS, REFRIGERATORS, AND ICE CHESTS, AND CAULKING OF SHIPS AND VESSELS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Reynell, of the City of Exeter, Gentleman,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE (BY THE INTRO-
DUCTION OF COCOA-NUT HUSK OR PART THEREOF) OF A SUBSTITUTE FOR ORDINARY
FELT AND KAMPTULICON, AND IN UTILIZING SAID COCOA-NUT HUSK OR PART
THEREOF FOR PACKING OF WINE COOLERS, REFRIGERATORS, AND ICE CHESTS,
AND CAULKING OF SHIPS AND VESSELS."
Sealed the 4th December 1863, and dated the 8th June 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Reynell at,
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th June 1863.
I, HENRY REYNELL, of the City of Exeter, Gentleman, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE (BY
THE INTRODUCTION OF COCOA-NUT HUSK OR PART THEREOF) OF A SUBSTITUTE FOR
ORDINARY FELT AND KAMPTULICON, AND IN UTILIZING SAID COCOA-NUT HUSK OR PART
THEREOF FOR PACKING OF WINE COOLERS, REFRIGERATORS, AND ICE CHESTS, AND
CAULKING OF SHIPS AND VESSELS," to be as follows:-
In preparing my substitute for ordinary felt and kamptulicon, the fibrous.
and the corky matter of which the cocoa-nut husk is composed must first be
separated from each other by cutting or stripping, then tearing to pieces or
otherwise removing the corky matter from the fibrous material, such corky
matter being afterwards pulverized or reduced to an analagous divided state,

page_text: when it is to be mixed with india-rubber, gums, or other substances, and the
whole amalgamated or caused to cohere. For wine coolers, refrigerators, and
ice chests, the corky matter, separated as aforesaid, is to be used as a non-
conducting packing for the same, and for caulking ships and vessels both the
corky matter and the fibrous material.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Reynell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th December 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
REYNELL, of the City of Exeter, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eight day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Henry Reynell, Her special licence that I, the said Henry
Reynell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Henry Reynell, 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE (BY THE INTRODUCTION OF COCOA-NUT HUSK
OR PART THEREOF) OF A SUBSTITUTE FOR ORDINARY FELT AND KAMPTULICON, AND IN
UTILISING SAID COCOA-NUT HUSK OR PART THEREOF FOR PACKING OF WINE COOLERS,
REFRIGERATORS, AND ICE CHESTS, AND CAULKING OF SHIPS AND VESSELS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Reynell, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, 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 next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Reynell, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say :-

page_text: In manufacturing (by the introduction of the cocoa-nut husk) my substi-
tute for ordinary felt and kamptulicon, the fibrous substance and the powdry
material resembling cork (as regards the lightness thereof) composing the
said cocoa-nut husk, I first separate one from the other. by cutting or
stripping asunder, then tearing to pieces or otherwise removing the said
powdery material from the said fibrous substance, which I effect by the same
methods and means as those practised by the manufacturers of cocoa-nut
fibre. The powdery material being thus brought to the divided state, I mix
the same with india-rubber and gutta percha or such like plastic and water-
proof materials, the proportions of which substances should be equal quanti-
ties of india-rubber and gutta percha, the same being in a liquified state,
which I mix with the said powdery material in the proportion of two-thirds or
thereabouts of the india-rubber and gutta percha compound, consolidating the
whole together by the addition of a sufficient quantity of gum arabic or other
cohesive gum, so as to give the entire mass the requisite cohesion. Also, for
the purpose of giving greater tenacity to the whole, I introduce threads or
fibres extracted from the cocoa-nut husk or from the plantain tree or leaf
(Manilla hemp) or aloe fibres, or other long fibres, and these I introduce
either by simply placing them crosswise, as thus
and incorporating
them with the compound substance aforesaid.
these threads or fibres in the form of a network previously constructed for
the purpose, and cover the same with the powdery material and the india-
rubber and gutta percha compound aforesaid. The whole to be submitted to
the pressure of rollers, as in the case of ordinary kamptulicon, to further the
completion of the article required.
Or I introduce
FOR PACKING PURPOSES the powdery material, separated and reduced as
aforesaid, is to be used, being first rendered damp or moist by water or liquid,
and will act as a non-conductor of heat or cold.
FOR CAULKING SHIPS AND VESSELS the fibrous substance is used spun or formed
into threads, and in order to facilitate such spinning I would sometimes use
a portion of other fibre of long staple, so as to strengthen such threads in the
bands of the caulker, and I can use a mixture of cocoa-nut fibre and other
fibre with suitable solutions, such, for instance, as india-rubber in solution
combined with tar liquidised by naptha, although other similar liquids may be
used in order to render the same more easily and usefully applied and worked.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I hereby declare
that although the above described means and methods are what I should

page_text: prefer to adopt, yet any equivalent methods and means, that is, such as will.
utilise the said fibre and powdery material from or of the cocoa-nut husk for
the purposes herein mentioned and referred to,) fall within the scope of my
said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Reynell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Witness,
T. A. H. DINNS.
HENRY REYNELL. (L.S.)