IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF A COMPOSITION TO BE USED CHIEFLY AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR WOOD IN PANELS AND OTHER FORMS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis James Odling, of No. 52, Devonshire
.Street, Portland Place, in the County of Middlesex, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF A COMPOSITION TO BE
USED CHIEFLY AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR WOOD IN PANELS AND OTHER
FORMS."
LIKE
.Scaled the 11th December 1874, and dated the 17th October 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis James Odling
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 17th October 1874.
I, FRANCIS JAMES ODLING, of No. 52, Devonshire Street, Portland
Place, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF A COMPOSITION TO
BE USED CHIEFLY AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR WOOD IN PANELS AND OTHER LIKE FORMS,"
to be as follows:-

page_text: board, or papier maché, or of fibre produced from the disintegration of
animal substances, such as leather, which composition can be moulded
into panels or other forms, and may be used instead of wood. Panels of
vegetable fibre are at present known and used, but have hitherto been
made by reducing the fibrous materials to a pulp in water, as in paper
making, straining and drying off the water, pressing and soaking in a
drying oil.
According to my Invention I dispense entirely with the use of water
in the process, and thus am enabled to save time and labour in the
manufacture and to produce a material of greater soundness and
uniformity and less liable to be affected by moisture. For this purpose
I disintegrate the materials, whether rags, paper, or other vegetable
fibre or animal fibrous matter, in the dry state by any known mechanism
for that purpose, and I saturate the dry fibrous mass with a drying oil,
such as boiled linseed oil, so as to produce an oil pulp. I place this
pulp in a suitable porous mould and subject it to considerable pressure
so as to squeeze out the greater part of the oil from it and render it
compact. The material after pressure is dried by baking to a stiff firm
condition, and may then be cut, faced, or shaped as desired.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Francis James Odling in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 7th April 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
JAMES ODLING, of No. 52, Devonshire Street, Portland Place, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Francis James Odling, Her
special license that I, the said Francis James Odling, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Francis James
Odling, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter

page_text: 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 A COMPOSITION TO BE USED CHIEFLY AS A
SUBSTITUTE FOR WOOD IN PANELS AND OTHER LIKE FORMS," upon the condition.
(amongst others) that I, the said Francis James Odling, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their 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 Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Francis James Odling, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention relates to the manufacture of a composition consisting
chiefly of fibre, such as is employed in the manufacture of paper, mill-
board, or papier maché, or of fibre produced from the disintegration of
animal substances, such as leather, which composition can be moulded
into panels or other forms, and may be used instead of wood. Panels
of vegetable fibre are at present known and used, but have hitherto been
made by reducing the fibrous materials to a pulp in water, as in paper
making, straining and drying off the water, pressing and soaking in a
drying oil.
According to my Invention I dispense entirely with the use of water
in the process, and thus am enabled to save time and labour in the manu-
facture, and to produce a material of greater soundness and uniformity
and less liable to be affected by moisture. For this purpose I disintegrate
the materials, whether rags, paper, or other vegetable fibre or animal
fibrous matter, in the dry state by any known mechanism for that
purpose, and I saturate the dry fibrous mass with a drying oil, such as
boiled linseed oil, so as to produce an oil pulp. I place this pulp in a
suitable porous mould and subject it to considerable pressure so as to
squeeze out the greater part of the oil from it and render it compact.
The material after pressure is dried by baking to a stiff firm condition,
and then be cut, faced, or shaped as desired.
may

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I claim the method substantially
as herein described of manufacturing composition for panels and like
articles by disintegrating fibrous matter, soaking the same in drying oil,
compressing the pulp so produced and drying the product.
In witness whereof, I, the said Francis James Odling, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.
FRANCIS JAMES ODLING. (L.S.)