THE MANUFACTURE OF PULP FROM LYGEUM SPARTUM
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street;
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "THE
MANUFACTURE OF PULP FROM LYGEUM SPARTUM."-A communication from
Sealed the 8th June 1866, and dated the 13th December 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 18th December 1865.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "THE MANUFACTURE OF PULP FROM LYGEUM SPARTUM," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in employing the lygeum spartum plant for the
manufacture of pulp suitable to be made into paper and other articles. The
lygeum spartum grows with a cylindrical stem, in which there is only one knot;
the leaves are very long and possess great tenacity. I prepare the lygeum
spartum by preference as follows:-I first boil it in a solution of caustic alkali,
then wash and triturate it by means of the vats and rollers usually employed

page_text: by paper makers, or by other convenient apparatus. I next dry it in the open
air, or by steam, or otherwise, and bleach it by any of the well-known means
for bleaching vegetable fibres.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Amelia Susannah Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th June 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AMELIA
SUSANNAH BROOMAN, of Twickenham, in the County of Middlesex, Widow,
and sole Executrix of Richard Archibald Brooman, late of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, deceased, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Amelia Susannah Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said
Amelia Susannah Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Amelia Susannah Brooman, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "THE MANUFACTURE OF PULP FROM LYGEUM SPARTUM,"
(communicated to the said Richard Archibald Brooman, from abroad, by
Antonio Escubos, of Barcelona, Spain), upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Amelia Susannah Brooman, 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 Amelia Susannah Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
'
This Invention consists in employing the lygeum spartum plant for the
manufacture of pulp suitable to be made into paper and other articles. The

page_text: lygeum spartum grows with a cylindrical stem in which there is only one knot ;
the leaves are very long and possess great tenacity. I prepare the lygeum
spartum by preference as follows:-I first boil it in a solution of caustic
alkali, then wash and triturate it by means of the vats and rollers usually
employed by paper makers or by other convenient apparatus. I next dry it
in the open air, or by steam, or otherwise, and bleach it by any of the well-
known means for bleaching vegetable fibres.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the manu-
facture of pulp from lygeum spartum substantially in the manner herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Amelia Susannah Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of June, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-six.