Improvements in the Treatment and Utilization of Peat, Sawdust, and other Fibrous and Vegetable Materials and Substances.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left 3rd Oct., 1890-Accepted, 8th Nov., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Treatment and Utilization of Peat, Sawdust,
and other Fibrous and Vegetable Materials and Substances.
I ROBERT STONE, of 8 Talbot Court in the City of London, Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to effect improvements in the treatment and
utilization of peat, sawdust, and other fibrous and vegetable materials and substances;
(all hereinafter included in the words "materials" and "substances").
In carrying out my invention I mix silicate of soda or silicious compounds, in
solution or otherwise, with the aforesaid materials or substances.
I also sometimes add glue, resin, or cement to the materials.
The mixture may be made in the following proportions (more or less):
The whole is well mixed, and, while in a stiff plastic state, is run or pressed into
moulds or dies of any required form, or rolled out in sheets, slabs, or other suitable
forms.
The articles thus manipulated are then dried, baked, or otherwise subjected to a
sufficient degree of heat, to render them suitable for their intended uses.
My invention is applicable to the manufacture of casks, barrels, tanks, boxes, pipes,
railway sleepers, roofing, flooring and surfacing of all kinds; also for coating boilers
and steam pipes and for use as a substitute for wood and stone and for coating
canvas.
Dated 15th January 1890
GEO. DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Treatment and Utilization of Peat, Sawdust,
and other Fibrous and Vegetable Materials and Substances.
I, ROBERT STONE, of 8 Talbot Court, in the City of London, Engineer, 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:-
The object of my invention is to effect improvements in the treatment and
utilization of peat, sawdust, and other fibrous and vegetable materials and substances,
(all hereinafter included in the words "materials" and "substances ").
In carrying out my invention I mix silicate of soda or silicious compounds, in
solution or otherwise, with the aforesaid materials or substances.
I also sometimes add glue, resin, or cement to the materials or a solution of
lime.

page_text: nature of the materials selected.
The whole is well mixed, and, while in a stiff plastic state, run or pressed into
moulds or dies of any required form, or rolled out in sheets, slabs, or other suitable
form.
The articles thus manipulated are then dried, baked or otherwise subjected to a
sufficient degree of heat, to render them suitable for their intended uses.
:
My invention is applicable to the manufacture of casks, barrels, tanks, boxes, pipes,
railway sleepers, roofing, flooring and surfacing of all kinds; also for coating boilers
and steam pipes and for use as a substitute for wood and stone and for coating
canvas.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The treatment and utilization of peat sawdust and other fibrous and vegetable
materials and substances, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
Dated oru Oct.
GEO. DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.