A NEW MATERIAL FO PACKING AND OTHER PURPOSES. TOGETHER WITH THE APPARATUS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Stevens, Manager of the British & Foreign
Office for Patents, No. 1", Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "A NEW MATERIAL FO
PACKING AND OTHER PURPOSES. TOGETHER WITH THE APPARATUS USED IN THE
MANUFACTURE THEREOF." A communication from abroad by Jean Pezieux
Balthazar Masson and Antoine Meillard, of Lyons, in the Empire
of France.
Sealed the 9th November 1860, and dated the 6th June 1860.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
filed by the said Charles Stevens at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and Declara-
tion on the 6th June 1860, pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent
Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
STEVENS, Manager of the British & Foreign Office for Patents, 1, Welbeck
Street, Cavendish Square, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "A NEW MATERIAL
FOR PACKING AND OTHER PURPOSES, TOGETHER WITH THE APPARATUS USED IN THE
MANUFACTURE THEREOF," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the
same, and have made solemn declaration that it has been communicated to me
[Price 8d.]

page_text: Lyons, in the Empire of France.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Stevens, do hereby declare the
following Complete Specification under my hand and scal fully describes and
ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in which the
same is to be performed (reference being had to the accompanying Drawings),
that is to say:-
My Invention consists in combining paper with canvas or any other suitable
tissue of a durable nature, in such a manner as to form a material which can
be advantageously employed for packing and other similar purposes.
This
result may be obtained by coating canvas or tissue, whether cotton, linen, or
otherwise, with the pulp used in the manufacture of paper. To effect this the
canvas is rolled on a cylinder, which is adjusted to an ordinary paper-making
apparatus, and the pulp is made into paper on the tissue, which unrolls itself
by degrees as the paper is formed. A similar and equally satisfactory result
may be obtained in the following manner, by aid of a machine (represented in
the accompanying Drawings) consisting of two rollers A, A, placed parallel to
each other, round each of which an endless band of paper is rolled. Below
them is placed a 3rd roller B, round which a piece of canvas or tissue is
wound. Below the latter a basin or receptacle C filled with paste or glue is
placed. On the upper part D, D, of the frame two pressing cylinders E, E,
are arranged. Finally, a roller O is arranged over all to wind up the cloth
paper as it is finished.
The manner of working the machine is as follows:-The two ends of the
pieces of paper P, P, are brought together by passing them between the two
pressing cylinders; they are then raised as far as the upper wheel; the
cloth H is then unrolled and made to descend into the basin, where it passes
under the rod F fixed inside, & being impregnated with the paste, it again
ascends and passes between the two pressing cylinders and the two pieces of
paper, as above mentioned, as far as the upper wheel, to which all three are
attached by the ordinary method of a groove with rod. These preparations
made, there only remains to put the upper wheel in motion by means of the
handle M, when the whole machine is set in movement. The two pieces of
paper, as they unwind, become united to the cloth forming the cloth paper.
This is dried in the usual manner, then coloured and put in a press according
to the various purposes for which it is to be employed. A second handle
may be added to one of the two cylinders to facilitate the movement and
lessen the strain.
Having thus described my Invention, and the manner in which the same

page_text: may be carried into effect, I wish it to be distinctly understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise details herein enumerated, as they may be varied
or modified; what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,---
1st, the combination of paper or paper pulp with canvas or any other
suitable tissue, for the purpose and in the manner above named.
2nd, the apparatus used in the manufacture, as above described, and
represented in the accompanying Drawings.
i In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Stevens, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this 6th day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty.
CHARLES STEVENS. (L.S.)