Iм- PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert George Smith, of Harford House, Chew-
Magna, in the County of Somerset, for the Invention of "Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER."
Sealed the 11th July 1871, and dated the 12th January 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert George Smith
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 12th January 1871.
I, ROBERT GEORGE SMITH, of Harford House, Chew-Magna, in the
County of Somerset, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in manufacturing paper from the stems or
stalks of the mustard and rape plants, either separately or combined
with any other vegetable fibrous substance. The aforesaid stems or
stalks are to be softened and rendered pulpy and afterwards bleached,

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Robert George Smith in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 12th July 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
GEORGE SMITH, of Harford House, Chew-Magna, in the County of
Somerset, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of January, in the year of 1
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Robert George Smith, Her special licence
that I, the said Robert George Smith, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert George Smith, my executors,
administrators, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF PAPER," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Robert George Smith, 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 Robert George Smith, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in manufacturing paper from the stems or
stalks of the mustard and rape plants, either separately or combined

page_text: with any other vegetable fibrous substance. The aforesaid stems or
stalks are to be softened and rendered pulpy and afterwards bleached,
which may be effected by any of the known means for pulping and
bleaching vegetable fibres used in the manufacture of paper.
Having now described my Invention for " Improvements in the Manu-
facture of Paper," and the means by which it may be effected, I hereby
declare this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily
believe I am the true and first Inventor thereof, and that the same
was not in use by any other person or persons prior to the date of
application for a Patent for my said Invention for "Improvements in the
Manufacture of Paper."
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert George Smith, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
ROBERT GEORGE SMITH. (L.S.)
ROBERT GEORGE SMITH. (L.S.)