Treating Vegetable Fibrine in a Manner to Render it More Applicable for Sundry Useful Purposes.
Year: 1888

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Treating Vegetable Fibrine in a Manner to Render it More
Applicable for Sundry Useful Purposes.
I, VICTOR WALTER of Stuttgart in the Kingdom of Germany, Doctor 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 the present invention is to produce a material suitable for various
domestic and other purposes by treating vegetable fibrine [for instance the so called
Cellulose, which is a chemically treated wood pulp,] with fat or oil of any description
whether originating from a mineral, vegetable or animal source, such as say f. inst.
Paraffin, Vaseline, Ozokerit, Lard etc., or mixtures of them or other like materials,
thereby rendering the Cellulose thus treated more applicable to sundry useful
purposes.
According to this invention, the most suitable material is Cellulose, which is
commonly used for the manufacture of paper and is in reality wood pulp which has
been chemically, purified, but when in the following the word Cellulose is used it is
to be understood as referring to any description of vegetable cell or fibrous matter
or wood pulp. The Cellulose may be used either in Rolls or in pieces of any size,
thickness or shape, consequently also in pieces shaped and cut out ready for the
purpose for which it is intended to be used after treatment according to the present
invention.
According to my invention the Cellulose is placed in or passed through a reservoir,
containing the oily or fatty matter such as for inst. Paraffin, Vaseline, Woolgrease,
Ozokerit &c. or mixtures thereof, which are kept in a liquid state by means of heat
applied in any well known manner. The Cellulose after having been taken out of
the oil bath is squeezed or wrung between a pair of rollers or in any other usual
manner for pressing such substances. This squeezing or pressing has the object
of rendering the material more compact and close and also to wring away any surplus
fat or grease.

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The material thus produced possesses properties similar to oilcloth, Linoleum and
the like and is suitable for covering floors and stairs, for using as socks in boots,
as covers on toilet tables, as bat and cap lining, as packing for water pipo
joints etc. etc.
Cellulose does not lose its quality of absorbing fatty and oily matters even if it has
previously been saturated with organic or inorganic matters for instance deodorizing,
disinfecting or antiseptic matters. For purposes where it is desirable to give the
finished material any such special quality, I therefore first place the Cellulose in
solutions of the matter I want it saturated with, and afterwards, with or without
intermediate drying or pressing, treat it with the oily.matter as described above.
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 of a new material by the treatment of vegetable cell-matters
[Cellulose] with any oily or greasy substance whether from an animal, a mineral or
vegetable source [as Vaseline, Paraffin, Ozokerit etc. etc.] or mixtures of two or more
of these, as herein described.
2. The treatment of Cellulose with solutions of organic or inorganic matters as for
instance deodorizing, disinfecting or antiseptic matters, and the subsequent treatment
of the material with greasy or oily matters, as herein described.
Dated this 28th day of September 1888.
C. R. BONNE & Co.,
Agents to the Applicant.