IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER AND PASTE- BOARD, AND IN THE PRODUCTION OF A SUBSTANCE APPLICABLE FOR VENEERS, PANNELS, AND TO MANY PURPOSES TO WHICH GUTTA PERCHA AND PAPIER MACHE ARE APPLICABLE
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Wilkinson, of the Town and County
of the Town of Nottingham, Framework Knitter, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER AND PASTE-
BOARD, AND IN THE PRODUCTION OF A SUBSTANCE APPLICABLE FOR
VENEERS, PANNELS, AND TO MANY PURPOSES TO WHICH GUTTA PERCHA
AND PAPIER MACHE ARE APPLICABLE."
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Sealed the 17th May 1858, and dated the 20th December 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Wilkinson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 20th December 1852.
I, WILLIAM WILKINSON, of the Town and County of the Town of
Nottingham, Framework Knitter, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER AND
PASTEBOARD, AND IN THE PRODUCTION OF A SUBSTANCE APPLICABLE FOR
VENEERS, PANNELS, AND TO MANY PURPOSES TO WHICH GUTTA PERCHA AND
PAPIER MACHE ARE APPLICABLE," to be as follows:-
I take the beards of barley, rye, and other grain which grows with

page_text: a similar beard, and steep the beards, and mix them with bone size or
other like glutinous matters, and pass the whole through rollers. The
paper thus produced may be used, after being dried, as it comes from
the rollers, or it may be bleached at any part of the process. In the
manufacture of pasteboard I add a portion of bone dust and saw dust.
For veneers, pannels, &c., I take saw dust of various colored woods,
which, mixed with glutinous matters, forms an artificial board of various
colors; and being passed between engraved rollers, or being submitted
to pressure under an engraved or figured die, produces an embossed
surface applicable as a vencer, and also as mouldings, cornices, picture
frames, book covers, &c., &c. If pressed between plain rollers, a flat
surface only will be produced.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Wilkinson in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th June 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
WILLIAM WILKINSON, of the Town and County of the Town of Not-
tingham, Framework Knitter, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by ler
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Wilkinson, Her special
licence that I, the said William Wilkinson, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Wilkinson,
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 MANUFACTURE OF PAPER AND PASTEBOARD, AND IN
THE PRODUCTION OF A SUBSTANCE APPLICABLE TO VENEERS, PANELS, AND
TO MANY PURPOSES TO WHICH GUTTA PERCHA AND PAPIER MACHE ARE

page_text: APPLICABLE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Wilkinson, 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 William Wilkinson, 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:
For the purpose of manufacturing paper I take the beards of
barley, rye, and other grain which grows with a similar beard, and
steep the beards in warm or cold water for the purpose of cleansing
and preparing the same, after which I mix them with bone size or
other like glutinous matters, or I employ the bone size or glutinous
matters dissolved in the steeping water. I then pass the whole through
rollers, from which it issues in the form of sheets or webs. The paper
thus produced may be used, after being dried, as it comes from the
rollers, or it may be bleached at any stage of the manufacture accord-
ing to any of the processes now followed in the bleaching of In
paper.
the manufacture of pasteboard I add a portion of bone dust and saw
dust to the other materials employed, and roll it into sheets, as before
described. For the purpose of producing a material applicable for
veneers, panels, and other like purposes, I take the beards of barley,
rye, and other like grain, and saw dust of various colored woods, and
mix therewith some glutinous matter, such as the gluten obtained from
the steeping of the roots of twitch or couch grass, using a sufficient
I then roll or
quantity of saw dust to give the material consistence.
spread it into sheets, and afterwards pass it between engraved rollers,
or otherwise submit it to pressure under an engraved or figured die, so
as to produce an embossed or ornamental surface applicable as a
1 also make mouldings, cornices, picture frames, book covers,
and other like articles, from the same material, in a similar manner, by
submitting it to pressure between figured rollers or in suitable moulds
veneer.

page_text: When a plain flat surface is required I pass the material only between
flat rollers,.or submit it to pressure between flat surfaces. If the board
or other article is not required to be of more than one color, then I
only take the saw dust of the particular color required.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim
is, the manufacture of paper from the beards of barley, rye, and other
liko grain. I also claim the manufacture of pasteboard, and sub-
stances applicable as veneers, mouldings, and for other like purposes.
from the beards of barley, ryc, and other like grain, mixed with saw
dust, bone dust, and other glutinous matters.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Wilkinson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of Junc, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
W. WILKINSON. (L.S.)