PREPARING, APPLYING, AND ADAPTING CERTAIN ARTICLES OF VEGETABLE PRODUCTION CALLED EIKLONIA BUCCINALIS, PROTEACEE, JUNCUS SERRATUS, JUNCUS TRISTA, AND AMARYLLIDEA, TO FURTHER NEW PURPOSES OF MANUFACTURE
Year: 1860

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Goulston Ghislin at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
31st October 1860.
I, THOMAS GOULSTON GHISLIN, of 24, Southampton Row, Russell Square,
in the Parish of St. George the Martyr, London, and also of St. Africa, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "PREPARING, APPLYING,
AND ADAPTING CERTAIN ARTICLES OF VEGETABLE PRODUCTION CALLED EIKLONIA
BUCCINALIS, PROTEACEE, JUNCUS SERRATUS, JUNCUS TRISTA, AND AMARYLLIDEA, TO
FURTHER NEW PURPOSES OF MANUFACTURE," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to manipulating and manufacturing, by chemical and
other processes, certain vegetable productions found in and indigenous to South
Africa, and elsewhere. The first article, a marine plant, which on account of
its peculiarity of form I call the alga trumpata (eiklonia buccinalis of botanist).
embracing several varieties both solid and hollow, and to be applied as substi-
tutes for the following purposes, viz., shagreen; dogskin (fish); German stag,
buffalo, buck, and other horns; whalebone and other bones; razor and knife
handles of ewery description, either in scales, solid, or otherwise; sword, dagger,
and stilleto handles; bayonet, swords, and other sheathes; for inlaying, coating,
and veneering furniture, casket, caddywork, and other boxes; covering and
ornamenting canes and walking sticks, whip sockets and whip handles, both
riding and driving; for cowering telescops and opera glasses, umbrella and
parasol handles; for cowering and ornamenting horns (especially those known

page_text: as foresteers' horns) and other musical instruments; powder, shot, and other
flasks; cigar, pipe, and other tubes, either of glass, wood, or composit; mathe-
matical, aurist, surgical, optical, and other instruments, and combs of every
description; and for ornamenting books, portfolios, and writing cases, photo-
grafic and other picture frames, and ornamenting all kinds of fancy brushes.
The second article, which is known by botanists as the juncus trista, also
indigenous to South Africa and elsewhere, I apply to the purpose of making
bird cages, baskets, and basketwork, cradles, flower stands, and such other
ornamental devices as wire, reeds, canes, straw, and other products are gene-
rally used for, for making matting, carpet, street, stable, marine, and other
brooms and brushes, either alone or mixed with other material; seating chairs;
coach bodies; for making bonnet shapes and framework generally; for imitating
hair and bristles; and for making congrieves and other matches, tapers, pipe
lights, and flambeaux.
The third article, known as protea fibre, I apply for the purpose of making
flock hanging paper.
The forth and fifth articles are fibrous bulbs, viz., Josephina berglilly, etc.
(the amarillydeæ family) and a fibrous acquatic, known by botanist as the
juncus serratus or grass tree; the fibre of these plants I use separately or mix
with others fibres, as the case may be, and apply then for the purpose of insu-
lating electric wires, and for coating and manufacturing electric, submarine, and
other cables. I apply in conjunction with these fibres a solution composed of
zopissa, marine glue, Trinidad pitch, Egyptian asphalte, and Judean gum.
Protection has been already obtained in the year 1857 by Patent, 1049, for
these plants, and for certain uses and purposes; but the purposes herein men-
tioned are new discoveries made by me since that Patent was filed; I therefore
seek to protect them in my own right.