for Textile Purposes.
Year: 1884

page_text: for Textile Purposes.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, Fel. Inst. P.A., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, and
323 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of the said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION AND
UTILIZATION OF PEAT FIBRE FOR TEXTILE PURPOSES (a communication from
abroad by Georges Henri Béraud of Weert in the Kingdom of Holland Manu-
facturer) to be as follows:-
Peat or
"
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"turf" consists of a more or less fibrous material sometimes known as
"peat moss intermixed with non-fibrous vegetable matter and other substances.
This article has hitherto only been utilized in its natural state, as litter, manure,
or burning material, or in the manufacture of brown paper.
The invention which forms the subject of the present application for Letters
Patent has for its object the preparation of a textile material from the fibrous
material intermingled in the peat or turf producing therefrom fibre similar to wool
in softness and suppleness, capable of being dyed and adapted for use either alone
or mixed with cotton, linen, hemp, or other fibres for the production of textile
fabrics.
The preparation of the raw material is effected by scutching and carding the
peat by machines similar to those used in the preparation of other fibres, and the
dark colour of the material may be got rid of by the use of bleaching agents in the
usual way.

page_text: for Textile Purposes.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, Fel Inst P.A of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool in the county of Lancaster, and
323 High Holborn in the county of Middlesex, Civil Engineer do hereby declare
the nature of the said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION AND
UTILIZATION OF PEAT FIBRE FOR TEXTILE PURPOSES, (a communication from
abroad by Georges Henri Béraud of Weert, in the Kingdom of Holland, Manu-
facturer) and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
«
Peat or " turf" consists of a more or less fibrous material sometimes known as
'peat moss" intermixed with non-fibrous vegetable matter and other substances.
This article has hitherto only been utilized in its natural state, as litter, manure,
or burning material, or in the manufacture of brown paper.
The invention which forms the subject of the present application for Letters
Patent has for its object the preparation of a textile material from the fibrous
material intermingled in the peat or turf producing therefrom fibre similar to wool
in softness and suppleness, capable of being dyed and adapted for use either alone
or mixed with cotton linen, hemp, or other fibres for the production of textile
fabrics,
The preparation of the raw material is effected by scutching and carding the
peat by machines similar to those used in the preparation of other fibres and the
dark colour of the material may be got rid of by the use of bleaching agents in
the usual way.
The above described operations may be carried out in practice by means of the
usual machinery and appliances hitherto in use for converting natural fibres similar
to peat fibres into textile fabrics.
It should be clearly understood that the inventor does not claim broadly the use
of the above indicated natural product, obtained from peat, and which occurs
intercalated between the stratifications of peat which form a peat bed, but
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is
The new or improved process of preparing peat fibre for the purpose of rendering
the same suitable for use as a textile material, and capable of being spun or woven
or utilized in a similar manner, substantially as and for the purposes described.
Dated this 31st day of August 188k