Improvements in the Manufacture of Paper from Vegetable Fibre.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 4th July, 1891-Accepted, 8th Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Paper from Vegetable Fibre.
I, ALFRED WESTIN HAYLES, of Hyde, Ifield, Crawley, in the County of
Sussex Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
My invention consists in the use or employment of marsh reeds, particularly
those known as Danube reeds, for producing paper pulp. The process, or processes
of manufacture may be carried out according to any known method, and chemicals,
or steam power may be utilised for the purpose.
Dated this 4th day of October 1890.
FREDK. WALKER,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Paper from Vegetable Fibre.
I, ALFRED WESTIN HAYLES, of Clyde, Ifield, near Crawley in the County
of Sussex, Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to the use and application of a vegetable fibre for the
manufacture of paper millboard, or the like, which is hitherto unknown as applicable
for the purpose, and is a material of common growth, and may readily be cheaply
obtained in large quantities and also is particularly effective as a fibre for producing
good pulp or stuff when properly washed bleached or disintegrated by the ordinary
method of procedure in producing stuff or pulp.
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In carrying out my said invention I use the reed known as phragmitis
communis," and subject the stalks thereof to the operations of breaking or converting
into what is generally as half-stuff, and afterwards bleaching said material. Then
passing said half stuff through the beating engines it is disintegrated sufficiently
to produce the requisite length of fibre for making continuous sheets of paper by
hand or by means of ordinary paper machines.
In importing or exporting the material, I may pass the fibrous material through
the boiling apparatus breaking engines and poachers or bleaching engines until
the fibrous mass assumes the state of half-stuff, and I may in certain cases add a
solution of boracic or salicylic acid or a mixture of these to prevent fermentation
of the mass during transit or under conditions of long storage, and may eliminate
said acids so as not to effect the addition of color in the beating engines by the
ordinary process of water washing before the roll or drum of the beating engine is
lowered upon the plates or knives.
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,
First In the manufacture of pulp for paper making the use or employment
of the fibrous stalks of the reed known as 66
phragmitis communis," as herein
described

page_text: Second-In preparing said fibre for transportation in bulk, the addition thereto
of boracic or salycylic acids in solution, separately or together, to be subsequently
eliminated by washing in the beating engine, substantially as described.
Dated this 3rd day of July 1891.
FREDK. WALKER,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.