Improvements in Methods and Processes for Treating 66 Bauhinia Vahlii and other Fibrous Materials, and in the Application thereof to the Manufacture of Fibrous Sheets, Panels, Slabs, or Blocks, Suitable for Various Useful and Ornamental Purposes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Improvements in Methods and Processes for Treating
66 Bauhinia
Vahlii and other Fibrous Materials, and in the Application
thereof to the Manufacture of Fibrous Sheets, Panels, Slabs, or
Blocks, Suitable for Various Useful and Ornamental Purposes.
I EDWARD BRASIER of Bastable House New Cross in the County of Surrey Engineer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object the improved methods and processes for treating
"Bauhinia Vahlii" and other like fibrous materials so as to render the same fit and
suitable for being applied to the manufacture of fibrous sheets of any desired length
or into fibrous slabs or blocks of various sizes suitable for being applied to various
useful and ornamental purposes.
For this purpose I first prepare the fibrous materials such as Bauhinia Vallii":
and other like fibrous materials by operating thereon by machinery such as described
in the provisional specification of Letters Patent now being applied for by me dated
4th May 18SS No. 6679 or by other suitable breaking and decorticating machinery
preparatory to converting the same into pulp in the manner well known in the
manufacture of paper pulp. The pulp thus prepared is made into continuous sheets
by ordinary paper making machines and wound upon rollers as is well understood. A
series of these rollers are then mounted in a frame the fibrous sheets being drawn
therefrom and laid together so as to make a compound fibrous sheet of the thickness
required.
When desired the sheets thus laid together are conducted over a roller and descend
into a tank (containing a suitable fire and water proof solution) passing under a roller
at the bottom then upwards out of the tank between a pair of pressing rollers which
press the superfluous solution out of the compound sheet thus treated and saturated.
The sheet is conducted from the pressing rollers over a table and any required lengtlí
is cut off by a knife mounted over the table. The sheets or slabs thus made are then
hung up in a drying room to dry ready for being applied to any purpose for which
they may be required.

page_text: For some purposes a sheet or sheets of wire gauze are introduced between the single
fibrous sheets as they are being laid together as previously described thus imparting
great strength to the fibrous slabs and rendering them suitable for partitions for
railway carriages and other like purposes or for floors ceilings and other structural
purposes.
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The pulp may also be formed into slabs or blocks by means of a frame having
wire gauze or perforated bottom arranged in combination with the tank containing
the pulp so that when raised out of the tank a quantity of the pulp will be raised in it
and after being drained may be placed in suitable moulds and be subjected to hydraulic
or other pressure to form plain or ornamental panels blocks or slabs according to the
character of the mould into which the pulp is pressed.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Methods and Processes for Treating "Bauhinia
Vahlii and other like Fibrous Materials, and in the Application
thereof to the Manufacture of Fibrous Sheets, Panels, Slabs, or
Blocks, Suitable for Various Useful and Ornamental Purposes.
I EDWARD BRASIER of Bastable House New Cross in the County of Surrey Engineer
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:
My invention has for its object improved methods and processes for treating
Bauhinia Vahlii" and other like fibrous materials so as to render the same fit and
suitable for being applied to the manufacture of fibrous sheets of any desired length
or into fibrous slabs or blocks of various sizes suitable for being applied to various
useful and ornamental purposes.
Bauhinia Vahlii
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For this purpose I first prepare the fibrous materials such as
and other like fibrous materials by operating thereon by machinery such as described
in the provisional and complete Specifications of Letters Patent now being applied for
by me dated 4th May 1888 No. 6679 or by other suitable breaking and decorticating
machinery preparatory to converting the same into pulp in the manner well known in
the manufacture of paper pulp. The pulp thus prepared is made into continuous
sheets by ordinary paper making machines and wound upon rollers as is well under-
stood. A series of these rollers are then mounted in a frame the fibrous sheets being
drawn therefrom and laid together so as to make a compound fibrous sheet of the
thickness required.
When desired the sheets thus laid together are conducted over a roller and descend
into a tank (containing a suitable fire and water proof solution) passing under a roller
at the bottom then upwards out of the tank between a pair of pressing rollers which
press the superfluous solution out of the compound sheet thus treated and saturated.
The sheet is conducted from the pressing rollers over a table and any required length
is cut off by a knife mounted over the table. The sheets or slabs thus made are then
hung up in a drying room to dry ready for being applied to any purpose for which
they may be required.
For some purposes a sheet or sheets of wire gauze are introduced between the single
fibrous sheets as they are being laid together as previously described thus imparting
great strength to the fibrous slabs and rendering them suitable for partitions for
railway carriages and other like purposes or for doors floors ceilings colonial houses
and other structural purposes and for organ and other pipes and articles.
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The pulp may also be formed into slabs or blocks by means of a frame having
wire gauze or perforated bottom arranged in combination with the tank containing
the pulp so that when raised out of the tank a quantity of the pulp will be raised in it
and after being drained may be placed in suitable moulds and be subjected to hydraulic
or other pressure to form plain or ornamental panels blocks or slabs according to the
character of the mould into which the pulp is pressed.

page_text: 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 methods and processes for treating "Bauhinia Vahlii" and other like fibrous
materials by operating thereon by suitable breaking and decorticating machinery
preparatory to converting the same into pulp suitable for the manufacture of con-
tinuous sheets of paper substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein before
described.
2. The laying of a suitable number or series of such sheets of paper together by
drawing them from rollers mounted in a frame so as to make a compound fibrous
sheet of the thickness required substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described.
3. The treatment and saturating of such fibrous sheets or slabs by subjecting them
to a suitable fire and water proofing solution to render the same fire and water proof
and fit for being applied to various useful purposes substantially as herein before
described.
4. The introduction of sheets of wire gauze between the fibrous sheets in forming
compound fibrous sheets or slabs to impart strength thereto applicable to various useful
purposes substantially as herein before described.
5. The forming of fibrous slabs by draining the pulp contained in a suitable frame
having a perforated bottom then subjecting such fibrous slabs or blacks to hydraulic
or other pressure in plain or ornamented moulds for forming plain or ornamental
slabs or blocks applicable to various useful purposes substantially as described.
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6. The improved methods and processes for treating Bauhinia Vahlii" and other
like fibrous materials and in the application thereof to the manufacture of fibrous sheets
panels slabs or blocks suitable for various useful and ornamental purposes substantially
as hereinbefore described.
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of Wahu1000
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Patentee.