US103115A - Improvement in the preparation of fibrous material - Google Patents
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- 239000002657 fibrous material Substances 0.000 title description 12
- 238000002360 preparation method Methods 0.000 title description 6
- 239000000835 fiber Substances 0.000 description 14
- 238000000034 method Methods 0.000 description 10
- 241000196324 Embryophyta Species 0.000 description 8
- ODINCKMPIJJUCX-UHFFFAOYSA-N calcium monoxide Chemical compound [Ca]=O ODINCKMPIJJUCX-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 8
- 240000000218 Cannabis sativa Species 0.000 description 6
- 241000746413 Spartina Species 0.000 description 6
- 238000009835 boiling Methods 0.000 description 4
- 235000012255 calcium oxide Nutrition 0.000 description 4
- 239000000292 calcium oxide Substances 0.000 description 4
- 239000004744 fabric Substances 0.000 description 4
- 238000004519 manufacturing process Methods 0.000 description 4
- 239000004753 textile Substances 0.000 description 4
- 235000010751 Asperula odorata Nutrition 0.000 description 2
- 235000008733 Citrus aurantifolia Nutrition 0.000 description 2
- 244000086616 Echinochloa colonum Species 0.000 description 2
- 235000008526 Galium odoratum Nutrition 0.000 description 2
- 240000005071 Galium odoratum Species 0.000 description 2
- 241001050820 Sporobolus cynosuroides Species 0.000 description 2
- 235000015450 Tilia cordata Nutrition 0.000 description 2
- 235000011941 Tilia x europaea Nutrition 0.000 description 2
- 238000007906 compression Methods 0.000 description 2
- 239000004571 lime Substances 0.000 description 2
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- XLYOFNOQVPJJNP-UHFFFAOYSA-N water Substances O XLYOFNOQVPJJNP-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
- D21C—PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE BY REMOVING NON-CELLULOSE SUBSTANCES FROM CELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS; REGENERATION OF PULPING LIQUORS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
- D21C5/00—Other processes for obtaining cellulose, e.g. cooking cotton linters ; Processes characterised by the choice of cellulose-containing starting materials
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- This fibrous material is produced by separating the fibrous from the other portion of the Spartina cynosuroides, which is a native grass of North America, and is especially abundant on the low prairie lands bordering on the Mississippi river, particularly in the States of lllinois and Missouri, where it is commonly called cord-grass or marsh-grass.
- Spartc'na cynosuroides It is well known to botanists by its true name, Spartc'na cynosuroides, and grows from a strong and branching root. Each stalk commences its growth annually from a sharp-pointed protuberance on the root. When full grown it varies from two to seven feet in height. It has no pith or capitaous stem, and each stalk is formed by the circular overlapping and compression of theleaf, thus forming a succession of cylinders, one within another. The stalks andleaves contain a great quantity of excellent fiber.
- the best method known to us of obtaining the fibrous material is as follows: At that time in the summer or fall when the plant has obtained its full growth it should be cut and placed in a tank or boiler containing water mixed with quicklime, and boiled in that mixture from five to seven hours. We use about five bushels of lime to every ten of the grass. This boiling with quicklime causes the fibers to separate, and thus makes amass of fibers, which, when washed, is ready without further preparation for use, either as paper-stock or to be submitted to any of the well-known processes for forming crude fibers into threads or yarn for cordage or textile fabrics, or to be prepared for the upholsterer.
- This fibrous material is especially useful as paper-stock, and is easily made into either white or colored paper by suitable processes now well known to paper-makers.
- This fiber is strong and tenacious, can be obtained at a very small expense, and it is admirably adapted to a great variety of uses, as we have satisfied our at a great outlay. both of time and money.
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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JAMES WOODRUFF AND FREDERICK BOYD, OF QUINCY, ILLINOIS.
IMPROVEMENT IN THE PREPARATION 'OF FI'BROUS MATERIAL.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 103,115, dated May 17, 1870.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we,JA1vr s WOODRUFF and FREDERICK 130311), of Quincy, Adams county, in the State of Illinois, have invented or discovered a new Manufacture of a Fibrous Material suitable for use in the manufacture of paper, cordage, textile fabrics, and in upholstering, of which the following is a specification: v
This fibrous material is produced by separating the fibrous from the other portion of the Spartina cynosuroides, which is a native grass of North America, and is especially abundant on the low prairie lands bordering on the Mississippi river, particularly in the States of lllinois and Missouri, where it is commonly called cord-grass or marsh-grass. It is well known to botanists by its true name, Spartc'na cynosuroides, and grows from a strong and branching root. Each stalk commences its growth annually from a sharp-pointed protuberance on the root. When full grown it varies from two to seven feet in height. It has no pith or ligneous stem, and each stalk is formed by the circular overlapping and compression of theleaf, thus forming a succession of cylinders, one within another. The stalks andleaves contain a great quantity of excellent fiber.
Heretofore this grass has been deemed worthless, except when out young, when it formed a very inferior grade of hay. We have discovered that its fiber is very valuable and capable of being easily separated from the other matter composing the plant.
The best method known to us of obtaining the fibrous material is as follows: At that time in the summer or fall when the plant has obtained its full growth it should be cut and placed in a tank or boiler containing water mixed with quicklime, and boiled in that mixture from five to seven hours. We use about five bushels of lime to every ten of the grass. This boiling with quicklime causes the fibers to separate, and thus makes amass of fibers, which, when washed, is ready without further preparation for use, either as paper-stock or to be submitted to any of the well-known processes for forming crude fibers into threads or yarn for cordage or textile fabrics, or to be prepared for the upholsterer. This fibrous material is especially useful as paper-stock, and is easily made into either white or colored paper by suitable processes now well known to paper-makers. This fiber is strong and tenacious, can be obtained at a very small expense, and it is admirably adapted to a great variety of uses, as we have satisfied ourselves at a great outlay. both of time and money.
We do not claim the process above described for reducing this plant to a fibrous mass, as we are aware that that process is not new; nor do we claim any new process for separating the fibrous and other portions of plants.
What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-
A prepared fibrous material formed of the stalk or fiber of the Spartina cynoswoides, (or cord-grass,) substantially as and for the purposes herein described.
JAMES woonnunn. FREDK. BOYD.
Witnesses E. A. DUDLEY, JOSEPH ARrUs.
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