AN IMPROVED SUBSTITUTE FOR HORSEHAIR AND BRISTLES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Werner Stauf, of Gracechurch Street, in the
City of London, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED SUBSTITUTE FOR
HORSEHAIR AND BRISTLES."
Sealed the 20th February 1872, and dated the 31st August 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Werner Stauf at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
31st August 1871.
I, WERNER STAUF, of Gracechurch Street, in the City of London,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
SUBSTITUTE FOR HORSEHAIR AND BRISTLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention is designed as a substitute for horsehair and bristles,
and consists in manufacturing the same from the fibres of a plant known
as "Chlorogalum-pomeridianum kth or Scilla-pomerediane," in the
following manner:-I pass the material through an opening or dis-
integrating machine of the ordinary kind; I afterwards wash it in hot
or cold water, and if necessary add a small quantity of the soda of
commerce to the water to assist in cleansing the fibre. I then steep the

page_text: fibre in a vessel containing a mordaunt for coloring it, after which I
again wash it to remove any oxide therefrom and then dye it with dye
color of any desired tint or shade, after the manner at present practised
of dying vegetable fibres. The fibre thus treated and dyed I then
proceed to dry either in the open air or by a fan blast, after which I 5
again pass it through an opening machine and then spin it after the
manner commonly practised of spinning horsehair. I then steep tho
spun fibre in a bath of hot or cold water to soften it, and finally subject
it to the action of heat of about 120 degrees Fahrenheit to dry it and-
fix the curl. The material thus prepared is then ready for use and may
be employed as a substitute for horsehair.
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То prepare the aforesaid vegetable fibre to fit it as a substitute for
bristles I first pass the fibre through an opening machine, then wash it
and dry it, and if desired dye it as before described, and then subject it
to the action of a heckling machine to straighten the fibres. I then bind 1
it up in bundles ready for use for manufacturing into brushes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Werner Stauf in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 29th February 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WERNER
STAUF, of Gracechurch Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Iler heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Werner Stauf, Her special licence
that I, the said Werner Stauf, my executors, administrators, aud
assigns, or such others as I, tho said Werner Stauf, my executors,
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 "AN IMPROVED
SUBSTITUTE FOR HORSEHAIR AND BRISTLES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Werner Stauf, my executors or adminis-

page_text: Trators, by an instrum Wang. under my, or GH OF EUCH
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hands and seals, 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 Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patont.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Werner Stauf, do hereby declaro
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 :—
This Invention is designed as a substitute for horsehair and bristles,
and consists in manufacturing the same from the fibres of a plant
known as "Chlorogalum-pomeridianum kth or Scilla-pomerediane,” in
the following manner :-I pass the material through an opening or
disintegrating machine of the ordinary kind, I afterwards wash it in
hot or cold water, and if necessary add a small quantity of the soda of
commerce to the water to assist in cleansing the fibre. I then steep the
fibre in a vessel containing a mordaunt for coloring it, after which I
again wash it to remove any oxide therefrom and then dye it with dye
color of any desired tint or shade, after the manner at present practised
of dying vegetable fibres. The fibre thus treated and dyed I then
proceed to dry cither in the open air or by a fan blast, after which I
again pass it through an opening machine and then spin it after the
manner commonly practised of spinning horsehair. I then steep tho
spun fibre in a bath of of hot or cold water to soften it, and finally
subject it to the action of heat of about 120 degrees Fahrenheit to dry
it and fix the curl. The material thus prepared is then ready for use,
and may be employed as a substitute for horsehair.
To prepare the aforesaid vegetable fibre to fit it as a substitute for
bristles I first pass the fibre through an opening machine, then wash
it and dry it, and if desired dye it as before described, and then subject
it to the action of a heckling machine to straighten the fibres. I then
bind it up in bundles ready for use for manufacturing into brushes.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my
said Invention for "An Improved Substitute for Horsehair and Bristles,"
together with the mode of manufacture, I hereby declare my Invention
to consist in and I claim, manufacturing a substitute for horsehair

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and bristles from the fibres of a plant known and distinguished as
Chlorogalum-pomeridianum kth or Scilla-pomerediane, substantially as
above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Werner Stauf, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of February, in the 5
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.