AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER, THREADS, AND YARNS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Jeyes, of Northampton, in the County of
Northampton, Seed Merchant, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER, THREADS, AND YARNS."
Sealed the 27th March 1855, and dated the 3rd October 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Jeyes at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 3rd October
1854.
I, JOHN JEYES, of Northampton, in the County of Northampton, Seed
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IM-
PROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER, THREADS, AND YARNS," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in the employment of the stalk or stem of the mustard
and other plants of the same class for the manufacture of paper, threads, and
yarns. The stalks are boiled in a strong alkaline solution, and when to be
used for the manufacture of paper are cut, torn, or broken previous to the
boiling. After the boiling, the fibres are washed and placed into a pulping
engine, and are made into paper by any process ordinarily followed for con-
verting pulp into paper. For the purpose of making threads or yarns, the
stalks or stems are submitted to any of the processes which flax undergoes for
such purpose.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Jeyes in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
.31st March 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
JEYES, of Northampton, in the County of Northampton, Seed Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third 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 John Jeyes, Her special licence that I, the said John Jeyes,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Jeyes, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER THREADS, AND YARNS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Jeyes, 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 John Jeyes, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in the employment of the stalk or stem of the sinapis
alba, or mustard, and other plants of the same class, for the manufacture of
paper, threads, and yarns. When for the manufacture of paper, I first tear,
cut, or break the stems or stalks, and boil them in an alkaline solution, the
strength of which varies according to the quality of the plant, in a boiler made
to revolve vertically, and in which the stems are subjected to high pressure
steam for about two hours, more or less, according to the strength of the alka-
line solution, when the fibres will have become separated. By the employment
of a rotary boiler a smaller quantity of solution will be found sufficient than
if any other form of boiler were used. On being removed from the boiler,

page_text: the fibres are washed, next submitted to an ordinary pulping machine and
reduced to pulp, after which the pulp is made into paper by any of the
processes ordinarily followed for such purpose. For the manufacture of
threads and yarns, the stalks or stems are submitted to any of the processes
which flax undergoes for being manufactured into threads and yarns.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my improve-
ment in the manufacture of paper, threads, and yarns, the making of the same
from the stalk or stem of the mustard and other plants of the same class, in
the manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Jeyes, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirtieth day of March, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-five.
JOHN JEYES: (L.S.)