The Manufacture or Production of a New Mucilaginous Product, Applicable for use as a Cataplasm, Poultice, or the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 10th July, 1890-Accepted, 23rd Aug., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
The Manufacture or Production of a New Mucilaginous Product,
Applicable for use as a Cataplasm, Poultice, or the like.
I, PAUL BARUCH MARCHAL, of No. 23, Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris, in the
Republic of France, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture or production of a new or improved
mucilaginous product, chiefly applicable for use as a cataplasm, poultice or the like.
The shiny appearance of linseed is due to a natural layer of gum on the outer
surface of the seed. When put in contact with water the gum swells and produces
an abundant mucilage having the appearance of albumen or white of eggs. The husk
or skin of the seed, being separated from the pulp, or flour, contains all the mucilage
of the seeds and is about one sixth part of the weight thereof. It is neither
hygrometric nor oxidable when in contact with the air, so that it does not turn rancid
or sour and can be preserved for an indefinite time whereby it differs from its
congener the flour of flax.
Flax or linseed bran has hitherto had no existence as an article of commerce and
could not be obtained at druggists or apothecaries, even as the outcome of laboratory
experiments.
My invention consists in the preparation of this new product and its application to
the purposes above stated. I am aware that mustard bran exists as a residue of the
manufacture of mustard but flax bran is not a residue but is on the contrary a product
specially prepared for the purposes for which I intend to use it. I am also aware
that mustard flour from which the oil has been extracted exists.
:
Flax or linseed bran is not the four having the oil extracted therefrom its
properties are the opposite of those of mustard. Linseed cake is also a well known
product but is only suitable for manurial purposes and food for cattle.
According to my invention I obtain the linseed or flax bran by mechanically
dividing the seeds and by separating the skin from the pulp or fatty flour by means
of sifting strong pressure is then brought to bear on the bran for the purpose of
expressing therefrom the oil which it may have retained from contact with the
flour.
Among the purposes to which this linseed bran can be applied may be specially
mentioned, its employment for forming a ready prepared plaster or poultice.
In carrying my invention into practice I first extract the bran from the linseed or
flax seed as above stated.
The flax grain or linseed, like wheat, is submitted to as complete a grinding as
possible. The bran being thus separated is ground and reduced to an almost
impalpable powder for which purpose I preferably employ cylinders.
The bran powder is then submitted to great pressure to express the oil therefrom
and afterwards the resulting cake is reground and passed through a very fine
sieve.
The resulting product is mixed with water in some cases with the addition of about
per cent. of boracic acid or other antiseptic compound.
This mixture or pulp is then left to cool until the following day when it is spread on
a fabric of cotton swanskin by a roller, whereby an even or uniform layer of the
mucilaginous coating is obtained. The product is then dried, in a stove to obtain it
n the form in which I propose to use it in place of linseed, for the various purposes
for which the latter is at present employed.
To make use of the product as a cataplasm or poultice the necessary length is first

page_text: cut from a band coated with the mucilaginous bran and is then covered with boiling
water for about three minutes when a poultice will be obtained at once emollient, soft,
light, and clean, absorbing sufficient water to keep it moist for about 18 hours. It is
very supple and of so light a weight that it can be applied to the naked skin without
pressure.
It may he covered or backed with gutta-percha.
Dated the 10th at don't 1900
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
The Manufacture or Production of a New Mucilaginous Product,
Applicable for use as a Cataplasm, Poultice, or the like.
I, PAUL BARUCH MARCHAL of No. 23 Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris in the
Republic of France, 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
This invention relates to the manufacture or production of a new or improved
mucilaginous product chiefly applicable for use as a cataplasm poultice or the like.
The shiny appearance of linseed is due to a natural layer of gum on the outer
surface of the seed. When put in contact with water the gum swells and produces an
abundant mucilage having the appearance of albumen or white of eggs. The husk or
skin of the seed, being separated from the pulp or flour, contains all the mucilage of
the seeds and is about one sixth part of the weight thereof. It is neither hygrometric
nor oxidable when in contact with the air so that it does not turn rancid or sour and
can be preserved for an indefinite time whereby it differs from its congener the flour
of flax.
Flax or linseed bran has hitherto had no existence as an article of commerce and
could not be obtained at druggists, or apothecaries, even as the outcome of laboratory
experiments.
My invention consists in the preparation of this new product and its application to
the purposes above stated. I am aware that mustard bran exists as a residue of the
manufacture of mustard but flax bran is not a residue but is on the contrary a product
specially prepared for the purposes for which I intend to use it. I am also aware that
mustard flour from which the oil has been extracted exists.
Flax or linseed bran is not the flour having the oil extracted therefrom; its
properties are the opposite of those of mustard. Linseed cake is also a well known
product but is only suitable for manurial purposes and food for cattle.
According to my invention I obtain the linseed or flax bran by mechanically
dividing the seeds and by separating the skin from the pulp or fatty flour by means of
sifting strong pressure is then brought to bear on the bran for the purpose of
expressing therefrom the oil which it may have retained from contact with the
flour..
Among the purposes to which this linseed bran can be applied may be specially
mentioned its employment for forming a ready prepared plaister or poultice.
In carrying my invention into practice I first extract the bran from the linseed or
flax seed as above stated.
The flax grain or linseed like wheat is submitted to as complete a grinding as
possible. The bran being thus separated is ground and reduced to an almost
impalpable powder for which purpose I preferably employ cylinders.
The bran powder is then submitted to great pressure to express the oil therefrom
and afterwards the resulting cake is reground and passed through a very fine
sieve.
The resulting product is mixed with water in some cases with the addition of abou:
one per cent. of boracic acid or other antiseptic compound.

page_text: This mixture or pulp is then left to cool until the following day when it is spread on
a fabric of cotton swanskin by a roller whereby an even or uniform layer of the
mucilaginous coating is obtained. The product is then dried in a stove to obtain it in
the form in which I propose to use it in place of linseed for the various purposes for
which the latter is at present employed.
To make use of the product as a cataplasm or poultice the necessary length is first
cut from a band coated with the mucilaginous bran and is then covered with boiling
water for about three minutes when a poultice will be obtained at once emollient, soft,
light, and clean, absorbing sufficient water to keep it moist for about eighteen hours.
It is very supple and of so light a weight that it can be applied to the naked skin
without pressure. It may be covered or backed with gutta percha.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The manufacture or production of the new or improved mucilaginous product
hereinbefore described.
2. Cataplasms or poultices prepared from the improved mucilaginous product in the
manner substantially as hereinbefore described.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.