A NEW MATERIAL FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Gustave Hermann Lilie, of Amelia Villas, De
Beauvoir Grove, Kingsland, in the County of Middlesex, Merchant, for
the Invention of "A NEW MATERIAL FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER
"
Sealed the 27th April 1855, and dated the 30th October 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Gustave Hermann Lilie
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th October 1854.
I, GUSTAVE HERMANN LILIE, of Amelia Villas, De Beauvoir Grove,
Kingsland, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "A NEW MATERIAL FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER " to be
as follows:
This Invention consists in the use and employment of the fibrous portions of
the thistle plant, or any of the varieties thereof, in and for the manufacture
of paper; and it should here be observed that as the process of manufacturing
paper according to this Invention forms no'part thereof, but simply the new
material or substance which is employed, and as such process is well known,
it is unnecessary, therefore, to enter into any explanation thereof, for the
purpose of setting forth more fully the nature of this Invention, further than
to state that the fibrous portions of the above-named plant, or any of the
varieties thereof, have to be reduced to a pulpy consistence, which is then used"
in the manner commonly practised by paper makers when manufacturing paper
from rags.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Gustave Hermann Lilie in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 30th April 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GUSTAVE
HERMANN LILIE, of Amelia Villas, De Beauvoir Grove, Kingsland, in the
County of Middlesex, Merchant, send greeting:
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Gustave Hermann Lilie, Hér special licence that I, the said Gustave
Herinann Lilie, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Gustave Hermann Lilie, 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
"A NEW MATERIAL FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Gustave Hermann Lilie, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Gustave Hermann Lilie, 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 :-
My Invention consists in substituting the thistle plant in lieu of rags in the
manufacture of paper, and use the following short process of bleaching,
1st, I take the dry thistles, and clean and soften them by soaking them
several times in hot river water; take the water off three times, and then
again let the thistles stand in clean hot water for half an hour.
2nd, I take a mixture of hot water and muriatic acid, or of hot water and
nitric acid, say, of the former, to every twenty gallons of water, ten pounds
of muriatic acid; of the latter, to every twenty gallons of water, five pounds of
nitric acid, and put so much thistles in that the same are well saturated, and
stir them up from time to time, say, for two hours.

page_text: 3rd, after four hours soaking, I take the mixture off, and then cover the
thistles with chloride of lime, say, five pound to every hundredweight of
thistles; I then cover the whole with boiling river water, and let it so remain
for three or four hours, occasionally stirring it.
4th, I then drain the liquor off, and clean the thistles of all chloride of lime
by frequently washing; in which state they are manufactured into paper by the
usual process.
In witness whereof, I, the said Gustave Hermann Lilie, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
F. A. STEVENS.
GUSTAVE HERMANN LILIE. (L.S.)