US126293A - Improvement in the processes of treating sugar-cane leaves - Google Patents
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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
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- THEOPHILE HARANG OF BANANA GROVE PLANTATION, LOUISIANA.
- the object of this invention is to devise a practical plan whereby the refuse leaves and bagasse ofthe sugar-cane and sorghum plants may be put into shape for convenient transportation and final conversion into textile fabric of suitable kind.
- the leaves must be operated upon while green.
- the disintegration of the textile being difficult, and the leaves being brittle, they should be submitted to the action of hot water or steam and boiled before coming in contact with the rollers, as otherwise they will be cut or chopped up and yield nothing but dust or powder, or a finelygranulated substance resembling hominy or corn-meal.
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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
THEOPHILE HARANG, OF BANANA GROVE PLANTATION, LOUISIANA.
IMPROVEMENT IN THE PROCESSES 0F TREATING SUGAR-CANE LEAVES, &c-| FOR OBTAINING FIBROUS MATERIALS.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,293, dated April 30, 1872.
Specification describing a new and Improved Process of Treating Sugar-Cane Leaf, Bagasse, and Sorghum for obtaining the Fiber, invented by THEOPHILE HARANG, of Banana Grove Plantation, in the parish of La Fourche and State of Louisiana.
The object of this invention is to devise a practical plan whereby the refuse leaves and bagasse ofthe sugar-cane and sorghum plants may be put into shape for convenient transportation and final conversion into textile fabric of suitable kind.
The great bulk of such leaves or bagasse, and the consequent expense and difliculty of transporting the same to mills where the fibrous material may be extracted for use, make the same at present an unprofitable burden to planters, which it is most economical to destroy. In this manner enormous quantities of valuable material are utterly lost to the people and the Government.
By the use of my invention planters will be enabled cheaply and conveniently to extract the fiber fromtheir refuse sorghum or sugarcane plant, and then transport the valuable matter to cities or places where it can be worked into paper or woven fabric. The fabric alone is not bulky, and comparatively inexpensive to transport.
The following is a description of my mode of preparation and manufacture:
The leaves must be operated upon while green. The disintegration of the textile being difficult, and the leaves being brittle, they should be submitted to the action of hot water or steam and boiled before coming in contact with the rollers, as otherwise they will be cut or chopped up and yield nothing but dust or powder, or a finelygranulated substance resembling hominy or corn-meal.
The leaves, duly saturated with hot water or steam which is impregnated with lime, are next passed between a certain number of rollers-say three, more or less, sets-which gradually crush them, with intermediate combs or teeth to separate and disintegrate the fibers. They are then placed into large reservoirs or tanks, and suffered to remain there several days, until the non-fibrous matter has been satisfactorily dissolved. The fiber must then be washed, passed through wringers, allowed to dry, and finally submitted to the action of a gin, or of any machine that will properly clean and separate them.
The same operation is performed with regard to the bagasse and sorghum refuse.
Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The process of converting sugar-cane leaves, bagasse, and sorghum refuse into fiber, herein specified.
THEOPHILE HARANG.
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HURBAIN PHiLocLEs P00111 3, LOUIS AMEDE'E BABIN.
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| US3036949A (en) * | 1959-08-21 | 1962-05-29 | Patent & Licensing Corp | Method of preparing pulp for the production of insulating board and the like |
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| US3036949A (en) * | 1959-08-21 | 1962-05-29 | Patent & Licensing Corp | Method of preparing pulp for the production of insulating board and the like |
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