Manufacture of collagen fiber material

Claim 1

THE PROCESS OF FORMING A TOUGH, FLEXIBLE MATERIAL WHICH COMPRISES THE STEPS OF APPLYING TO INTERMESHED OPEN FIBER MASS IN PENETRATING RELATION AN AQUEOUS SUSPENSION CONTAINING FROM ABOUT 1% TO ABOUT 5% BY WEIGHT BASED ON THE WEIGHT OF THE SUSPENSION OF SWOLLEN, DISTINCT, FINE, COLLAGEN FIBERS OF MICROSCOPIC SIZE TO CARRY SAID COLLAGEN FIBERS INTO THE INTERSTITAL SPACES OF SAID INTERMESHED FIBER MASS, SAID SUSPENSION CONTAINING AT LEAST ABOUT 1% BY WEIGHT OF DEACETYLATED KARAYA GUM BASED ON THE WEIGHT OF COLLAGEN FIBERS IN SAID SUSPENSION, SAID DEACETYLATED KARAYA GUM COOPERATING WITH SAID COLLAGEN FIBERS TO RESIST PACKING TOGETHER OF SAID COLLAGEN FIBERS, AND REMOVING THE SWELLING WATER FROM COLLAGEN FIBERS WITHIN SAID INTERMESHED FIBER MASS TO REAGGREGATE THAM INTO A LARGER COLLAGEN FIBER STRUCTURE WITHIN THE INTERSTITIAL SPACES THROUGHOUT SAID MASS OF INTERMESHED FIBERS TO REINFORCE SAID INTERMESHED FIBERS AGAINST DISPLACEMENT.