US103275A - Improvement in preparing the fiber of ramie and other plants - Google Patents
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- D21C—PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE BY REMOVING NON-CELLULOSE SUBSTANCES FROM CELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS; REGENERATION OF PULPING LIQUORS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
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- This scutching or cleaning process by keeping the point of resistance in the fiber-holding rollers so near the scutching or scraping rollers, preserves the fiber long-line, so that the same can be bleached and colored and spun on anylong-line machinery, or may be stranded and spun on short machinery, either pure or.
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STEPHEN M. ALLEN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.
IMPROVEMENT IN PREPARING THE FIBER OFVRAMIE AND OTHER PLANTS.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 103,275, dated May 24, 1870.
To whom it may concern: I
Be it known that I, STEPHEN M. ALLEN, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and improved method of preparing long-lined fiber, where the woody substance of the stalk is more hard, stiff, and unyielding than hemp or flax, and where a different mechanical and chemical process may be necessary to render the separation of the same easy from the parent stalk or Woody substance that supports the fiber, as in the case of the stalk and fibrous ,bark of the common milk-weed and other like fibers, and particularly of the ramie or rheea and China grass, which-latter fibers, when properly prepared, prove valuable substitutesfor silk; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.
. I find that in the preparation of the ramie fiber for either long or short staple manufacture, great care is necessary to separate the same from the stalk in a continuous and unbroken condition, and to accomplish this end a chemical and mechanical action should be combined suited to the purpose.
I first take the stalks of the fibers before named, either when firstseparated from theroot or after the same have been dried, and submit them to a bath in some fermenting-liquor, in
' which I keep them submerged for about twelve hours, or until the albuminous or glutinous properties or coloring-matter in the fibers have become decomposed and separated, and the nitrogeniferous properties of the same are so changed that the fibers will readily peel from the Woody substance of the stalk when crushed or scraped by machineryfor peeled by hand.
In the preparation of the fermenting-liquor I do not confine myself to any particular method or substance to establish aputrid condition, though usually I start the first bath by the admission of a bag of wheat bran, which soon ferments and impregnates the whole liquor of the bath. After the liquor is thus once prepared, being kept in atepid condition, the albuminous properties in the fiber will usually be sufficient to keep up a proper fermentation for the purpose. After the fermenting process is sufficiently advanced I remove the fiberfrom the bath, and usually wash, rinse, and dry the samefor the scutching-brake, though sometimes, before or after drying, I
mainder of the stalk and fiber to a scutchingbrake made on the same principle as that patented by me for breaking and scutching flax, 011 the 30th of June, 1863, there being a necessity for scutching or scraping rollers following the breaking-rollers used for that purpose, so that by a regulation of gears every succeeding set of rollers shall revolve faster than the preceding set, so that while one set is revolving lightly over the fiber and scraping off the shives from the same, the preceding set, revolving slower, and geared closer, holds the fiber against the increased velocity of the succeedin g set of rollers, rubbing or scraping the same. This scutching or cleaning process, by keeping the point of resistance in the fiber-holding rollers so near the scutching or scraping rollers, preserves the fiber long-line, so that the same can be bleached and colored and spun on anylong-line machinery, or may be stranded and spun on short machinery, either pure or.
mixed with cotton, silk, wool, or any other fiber.
Having thus described my invention, I claim as follows:
1. The loosening or separating long-line fiber, like the rheea or ramie, from its hard woody stalk by means of a fermenting-bath,
substantially as before described.
2. The separating and oleaningof long-line fibers in the manner before named, in combination with the use of fermenting process before named.
3. The breaking, scutching, and cleaning process before named, in combination with the fermenting, crushing, and squeezing process before named.
4. The method of treating ramie or rheea,
China grass, or other like fibers to produce a long-line fiber, substantially in the manner herein described.
In witness whereof I have signed my name to this specification before two subscribing witnesses. I
STEPHEN M. ALLEN.
Witnesses Gno. WM. JENKINS, SAML. J ENNISON.
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Cited By (4)
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US4481355A (en) * | 1983-11-22 | 1984-11-06 | Helmic, Inc. | Method for degumming decorticated plant bast fiber |
US4568739A (en) * | 1983-11-22 | 1986-02-04 | Helmic, Inc. | Method for degumming decorticated plant bast fiber |
US4617383A (en) * | 1983-11-22 | 1986-10-14 | Helmic, Inc. | Method for degumming and bleaching decorticated plant bast fiber |
US20170031533A1 (en) * | 2015-07-29 | 2017-02-02 | Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc | Containing an application in an immersive non-windowed environment |
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US4481355A (en) * | 1983-11-22 | 1984-11-06 | Helmic, Inc. | Method for degumming decorticated plant bast fiber |
US4568739A (en) * | 1983-11-22 | 1986-02-04 | Helmic, Inc. | Method for degumming decorticated plant bast fiber |
US4617383A (en) * | 1983-11-22 | 1986-10-14 | Helmic, Inc. | Method for degumming and bleaching decorticated plant bast fiber |
US20170031533A1 (en) * | 2015-07-29 | 2017-02-02 | Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc | Containing an application in an immersive non-windowed environment |
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