APPLICATION OF THE FIBROUS PART OF THE PALM TREE AND LEAF TO ARTS AND MANU- FACTURES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Warner, of 84, Dorset Place, Dorset
Square, London, for the Invention of THE APPLICATION OF THE
FIBROUS PART OF THE PALM TREE AND LEAF TO ARTS AND MANU-
FACTURES."
Sealed the 10th March 1854, and dated the 10th September 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Warner at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 10th September 1853.
I, ARTHUR WARNER, of 34, Dorset Place, Dorset Sqr., London,
Midx., do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "THE
APPLICATION OF THE FIBROUS PART OF THE PALM TREE & LEAF TO ARTS
AND MANUFACTURES" to be as follows:--
This Invention has for its object the application (either in its natural
state or after preparation by any process known or to be known,
patented or that may be patented,) of the fibrous part of the palm
tree and leaf in the manufacture (either partially, as mixed with other
substances, or entirely) of ropes, string, and all cordage, carpets, matting,
mattresses, bedding, & for any arts or manufactures in which hemp,
cotton, flax, silk, hair, wool, or any other fibrous matter is or may be

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Arthur Warner in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 10th March 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
ARTHUR WARNER, of 34, Dorset Place, Dorset Square, London, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Arthur Warner, Her special licence that
I, the said Arthur Warner, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Arthur Warner, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "THE APPLICATION OF THE
FIBROUS PART OF THE PALM TREE AND LEAF TO ARTS AND MANUFACTURES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Arthur Warner,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should par-
ticularly 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 Arthur Warner do hereby
declare that the following is the Specification of my Invention for
the application of the fibrous part of the palm tree and leaf to arts and
manufactures, and which I confine to those arts and manufactures in
which fibres are used:

page_text: From various portions of the palm tree and its leaves fibres have
been and can be drawn of varying lengths.
These fibres, by means of hackling, mascerating, or other suitable
processes, such as are employed to hemp, flax, and other fibrous mate-
rials, may be brought to various degrees of fineness, and adapted to be
spun into threads in the usual manner that threads are formed, such
threads being entirely composed of the said fibre, or partly of such
fibres and partly of other fibrous or other materials, according to the
will of the operator or manufacturer.
With the threads constructed wholly or partly with the said fibre
woven fabrics may be manufactured in the usual manner by power
loons or other looms. The process of preparing fibres of raw mate-
rial to be fitted for spinning, and also the operations of spinning and of
weaving, are so well known that they need not be further described.
These fibres from the palm tree and its leaves may be also, by suit-
able treatment analogous to that pursued with other similar fibres when
used for the art of paper making, be brought to a pulpy state and
used in the fabrication of paper, pasteboard, cards, and other like
matted substances.
I claim as my Invention, and as new, the application of the fibres
drawn from the palm tree and its leaves to the manufactures of threads
and woven fabrics, and to the arts of paper, pasteboard, and card
making.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Warner, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
ARTHUR WARNER. (L.S.)