Manufacture of Woody Fibre from the Haulms, Stems, or Stalks of Potatoes, Hops, Beans, Peas, Bracken and similar Plants.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Oct., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 14th July, 1900-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1900
Manufacture of Woody Fibre from the Haulms, Stems, or Stalks of
Potatoes, Hops, Beans, Peas, Bracken and similar Plants.
ANATOLE TOLHAUSEN, of 3 and 4, MacDonald's Buildings, MacDonald's Lane,
Manchester, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
To enable these haulms, stalks, or stems to be applied to the manufacture of
paper, packing, matting and other fabrics, and as a substitute for hardware;
papier-maché terra-cotta, plaster and certain building materials, either in a half-
finished or fully finished state, and it relates to certain methods of treatment of
the said haulms, stalks or stems referred to, calculated to bring about that result.
The said haulms, stalks or stems as received from the fields are either first
washed and passed through a disintegrator, devil teazer, opener, or similar
machines, or this process can be dispensed with, preparatory to being placed in
a kier or similar vessel or these two operations may be reversed in their order
of manipulation. When placed in this kier, the haulms, stalks or stems are
either treated with quick-lime, or subjected to a boiling process in an alkaline or
acid lye, or both, after which the lye is drawn off, and the materials are next
washed by clear water and drained, and if need be, then bleached or dyed in the
said kier by ordinary well known methods, when the material is ready to be
removed as a half finished stuff in a more or less fibrous state, after which it can
be dried and baled, if required.
To further reduce this half finished stuff into fibres adapted to coarse-spun
materials, it is passed into the ordinary preparatory spinning machinery and then.
woven by the usual machines suited to more or less coarse fibres.
To reduce the said half-finished stuff into pulp or finished stuff, it is treated
in high pressure kiers in the usual way of wood pulp or by paper makers rag
engines, beaters, or other pulping machinery. after which it is adapted for paper
making or pressing into papier-maché and hardware articles, bricks, tiles,
briquettes, pipe-carvings, mouldings, and ordinary plaster-cast substitutes
which may or may not be rendered fire-, or water-, proof, or both by first treating
the pulp, by ordinary fire or water proofing liquids or solids or both.
.Rul 1
1900
Manufacture of Woody Fibre from the Haulms, Stems, or Stalks of
Potatoes, Hops, Beans, Peas, Bracken and similar Plants.
ANATOLE TOLIAUSEN, of 3 and 4. Macdonald's Lane, Manchester, Civil Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement:
This invention relates to the manufacture of woody fibre, and the extraction
of the useful products. contained in the haulms stems or stalks of potatoes hops,
beans, peas, bracken, and similar plants, by either a chemical process or mechani-
cal divices or by a combination of both. The object of this invention is to extract
the sap from these haulms stems or stalks, from the sap may be obtained certain
useful products by ordinary methods such as dyes pigments gums, starch, and
the like so as to enable these haulms stems or stalks to be applied singly or mixed
together to the manufacture of paper, packing materials, upholstery, stuff, mat-
ting, and other fabrics. This woody fibre may be used as a substitute for metal
in the manufacture of hardware also as a substitute for papier-mache terra, cotta
plaster and certain building and ornamental materials either in a half finished
or fully finished state and the invention relates to certain methods of treatment
of the said haulms, stems or stalks referred to calculated to bring about that
result. In this proposed manufacture the said haulms stems or stalks may be
received from the fields in a green or in a sapless state either loose but preferably.
in a'compressed truss state. If received in a green state they may be first dis
integrated by disintegrators, devils, teazers willows fearnoughts or chopped in
choppers and then subjected to pressure in rollers, mangles or presses or simply
pressed so as to obtain the sap therefrom which is then collected and treated by
ordinary and well known distillation or precipitation process or both so as to.
extract the useful products contained in this sap (such as dyes, pigments, gums,
starch and the like). The residual haulms, stems or stalks are then ready to be
treated as if received from the fields in a dry-that is sapless-state-and as here
follows. If these haulms stems or stalks are obtained from the fields in a sap-
less state they are either first cleaned and passed through a disintegrator, devil,
teazer, fearnought, opener, chopped in a chopper or bruised in a roller or similar
machines, or this process can be dispensed with preparatory to being placed &
boiled by steam for six or more hours in a kier or similar vessel. When placed
in this kier the haulms stems or stalks are either treated with quick-lime and
water or other alkaline lye, or an acid liquor may be used for the same purpose,,
the quantity of lye or liquor depending on the steam pressure while boiling in
this kier, after which the spent lye or liquor is drawn off and the materials first
washed by clear water and drained and if need be subsequently bleached or dyed
in the said or other kier by ordinary well known methods when the material is
ready to be removed as a half finished stuff after which it can be dried and baled
if required.
To further reduce this half finished stuff into fibres adapted to coarse spun
materials it is passed into the ordinary preparatory spinning machinery and then
woven by the usual machinery suited to more or less coarse fabrics.
To reduce the said half finished stuff into pulp it may be pulped by treatment
in high or low pressure kiers in the usual way of wood pulp or by paper-makers
rag engines, beaters or other pulping machinery, after which it is adapted for
paper making, packing or upholstery purposes, or pressing into papier-maché
articles. hardware articles, bricks, tiles, pipes, mouldings and ordinary plaster
cast substitutes which may or may not be rendered water-proof or fire-proof or
both by first treating the pulp by ordinary fire- and water-proof materials. The
chemicals or other useful products remaining in the spent liquor or lye may be
recovered by concentration or precipitation (if this be desired) by the usual well
known methods).
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
The transformation or utilisation of the haulms stems or stalks 'of

page_text: hops, beans, peas, bracken, and similar plants into woody fibre for the manufac-
ture of paper, papier-maché, packing and upholstery materials, hardware articles
textile fabrics, bricks, tiles, pipes, mouldings and plastic articles in general.
Dated this 13th day of July 1900.
ANATOLE TOLHAUSEN, C.E.