THE USE OF A NEW MATERIAL IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Simon Eugene Gabriel Simon, of Paris, France; and
of 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Gentleman, for the Invention of
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Simon Eugene Gabriel
Simon at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 22nd June 1855.
I, SIMON EUGENE GABRIEL SIMON, of Paris, France, and 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of my said In-
vention for "THE USE OF A NEW MATERIAL IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER " to
be as follows, that is to say:-
The Invention consists in the substitution wholly or in part of the plants of
the different species of the family sparganium, particularly that known as the
"sparganium erectum" (Linn.), or sparganium ramosum, Huolss, for rags,
the manufacture of paper by the ordinary processes.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Simon Eugene Gabriel Simon in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 22nd December 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SIMON
EUGENE GABRIEL SIMON, of Paris, France, and of 4, South Street, Finsbury,
London, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty, by Her Letters Patent,
bearing date the Twenty-second day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Simon Eugene Gabriel Simon, Her special license that I, the said
Simon Eugene Gabriel Simon, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Simon Eugene Gabriel Simon, 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 of "THE USE OF A NEW MATERIAL IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF PAPER," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Simon
Eugene Gabriel Simon, 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 Simon Eugene Gabriel Simon, 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 thereof, that is to say:-
The Invention consists in the substitution wholly or in part of the plants of
the different species of the family sparganium, particularly that known as the
sparganium erectum (Linn.), or sparganium ramosum (Huolss), for rags, in
the manufacture of paper.
The usual processes of steeping and reducing to pulp, &c. of the above-
named plants being the same as at present employed in the manufacture of
paper, it is unnecessary to enter into any description.

page_text: What I claim is, the application of the above-named plants as a substitute
for rags in the manufacture of paper.
In witness whereof, I, the said Simon Eugene Gabriel Simon, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
SIMON GABRIEL EUGENE SIMON. (L.S.)
J. W. F. MENNONS.