Iм- PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Maniere, of Bedford Row, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER."
Sealed the 5th December 1853, and dated the 9th June 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Maniere
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 9th June 1853.
I, EDWARD MANIERE, of Bedford Row, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of applying asbestos in the manufacture of
paper. For this purpose the asbestos is to be pulped, and made into
paper, in like manner to what is practised in making paper of other
materials, but by the employment of asbestos a fire-proof paper will be
produced.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
the said Edward Maniere in the Great Seal Patent
Office, on the 9th December 1853.
filed
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
EDWARD MANIERE, of Bedford Row, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said Edward Maniere, Her special
licence that I, the said Edward Maniere, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Maniere, my exe-
cutors, 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," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Edward Maniere, by an instru-
ment 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 Oflice within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Maniere, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
particularly described and ascertained
same is to be performed, to be
in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
This Invention consists of applying asbestos in the manufacture of
paper. For this purpose the asbestos is to be pulped and made into
paper, in like manner to what is practised in making paper of other
materials, but by the employment of asbestos a fire-proof paper will be
produced.

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed
to describe the best manner I am acquainted with for performing the
same.
In order to render the asbestos less brittle I find it desirable, before
reducing it into pulp, to boil it for about an hour in water. The
asbestos is then reduced into pulp, as when making paper of other
fibrous materials; and in order to get more adhesion in the reduced or
pulped asbestos I find it advantageous to dissolve alum in the pulp at
the rate of about one ounce troy to cach pint of water in the pulp.
The pulp is then made into paper in the ordinary manner of paper
making when using pulp of other materials.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim
is, the manufacture of paper of asbestos.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Maniere, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
EDW. MANIÈRE. (L.S.)