PREPARING, APPLYING, AND ADAPTING CERTAIN VEGETABLE PRODUC- TIONS CALLED EIKLONIA BUCCINALIS, PROTEACEE, JUNCUS SERRATUS, JUNCUS TRISTA, AND ARMYLLIDEE TO FURTHER NEW PURPOSES OF MANUFACTURE, AND. CERTAIN MODES TO EFFECT THE SAME
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Goulston Ghislin, of 72, Hatton Garden, in
the Parish of St. Andrews, Holborn, London, Importer, for the Inven-
tion of "PREPARING, APPLYING, AND ADAPTING CERTAIN VEGETABLE PRODUC-
TIONS CALLED EIKLONIA BUCCINALIS, PROTEACEE, JUNCUS SERRATUS, JUNCUS
TRISTA, AND ARMYLLIDEE TO FURTHER NEW PURPOSES OF MANUFACTURE, AND.
CERTAIN MODES TO EFFECT THE SAME."
Sealed the 19th September 1861, and dated the 6th April 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Goulston Ghislin at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 6th
April 1861.
I, JAMES GOULSTON GHISLIN, of 72, Hatton Garden, in the Parish of
St. Andrews, Holborn, London, Importer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "PREPARING, APPLYING, AND ADAPTING CERTAIN VEGETABLE
FRODUCTIONS CALLED EIKLONIA BUCCINALIS, PROTEACEE, JUNCUS SERRATUS, JUNCUB

page_text: TRISTA, AND ARMYLLIDEE, TO FURTHER NEW PURPOSES OF MANUFACTURE, AND
CERTAIN MODES TO EFFECT THE SAME," 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 or fungi, known to botanists as the eiklonia
buccinalis, I apply embracing their several varieties, both solid and hollow, to
veneering, coating, mounting, inlaying, and ornamenting purposes, whether
used bleached or coloured, plain or worked into fancy designs, by reducing and
mixing it with other material, or by stamping, embossing or moulding pro-
cesses as a substitute for leather, shagreens, fish dogskin, German staghorn,
buffalo, buck, and other horns, whale and other bones; for the purposes of
razor and knife handles of every description, either in scales, solid, hollow, or
otherwise, sword, dagger, stelleto handles, mountings for guns & pistol stocks,
bajonet, sword and other sheaths; for inlaying, veneering, or ornamenting
furniture and cabinetwork of all description, caddy, casketwork, dressing,
snuff, cigar, and tobacco boxes and cases; for manufacturing, coating, or orna-
menting walking canes and sticks, whip sockets and whip handles, (riding and
driving,) telescopes and opera glasses, umbrella and parasol handles, musical
instruments and cases (especially that known as the forresters horn), shot,
powder, and other flasks, cigar, pipe, and other tubes, mathematical, aurists,
surgical, optical, and other instruments and cases, combs, cap peaks, pen
and other trays, door finger plates and tablets, watch, clock, and dial stands,
and card racks, picture, mirror, chimney glass, and other frames, book covers,
portfolios, writing cases, and brushes, medalions, and artificial flowers; and to
be used in imitation of cameos, bogwood, ebony, ivory, and coral, and such other
materials as are used in the manufacture of buttons, bracelets, breast pins,
brooches, eardrops, studs, beads, and armlets; the second article, known as the
juncus trista, I apply to the purposes of making bird cages, basket and
basketswork, cradles, flower stands, and such other ornamental devices as
wire, reeds, canes, straw, and other product are generally used for.
For making matting, carpet, street, stable, marine, and other brooms and
brushes, either alone or mixed with other material, seating chairs and coach
bodies; for making bonnet shapes and framework generally; for imitation hair
and bristles; and for making congrieves and other matches, tapers, pipelight,
and flambeaux.
The third article, known as proteacæ, I apply the fibre of to the purposes of
making flock hanging paper and artificial flowers.
The fourth and fifth articles, viz., juncus serratus (an aquatic), and certain

page_text: members of armyllideæ, I apply the fibres of and use either separately or mix
with other materials, as the case may be, for the purposes of making mats and
matting, insulating electric wires, coating and manufacturing electric, sub-
marine and other cables, and also for other marine purposes.
Protection has already been given to me by Patent, No. 1049, in the year
1857, for these plants and for certain uses; but the uses herein mention are
new discoveries made by me since that Patent was filed. I therefore seek to
protect them in my own right.