AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MAKING AND RENDERING PERFECTLY WATERPROOF ALL KINDS OF LEATHER, COTTON, LINNEN, AND WOOLLEN CLOTHS, SILKS, STUFFS, PAPER, WOOD, AND OTHER MANUFACTURES AND SUBSTANCES, FOR THE PURPOSE OF BEING WORKED UP INTO SHOES, BOOTS, AND OTHER WEARING APPAREL, AND TO BE USED ON ALL OCCASIONS WHERE DRYNESS OR A POWER OF REPELLING WET OR MOISTURE MAY BE REQUIRED
Year: 1791

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
PEAL, of Wirksworth, in the County of Derby, Cordwainer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Second day of May, in the thirty-first year of His reign,
give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Peal, His especial licence that
I, the said Samuel Péal, during the term of years therein mentioned, should
and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD
OF MAKING AND RENDERING PERFECTLY WATERPROOF ALL KINDS OF LEATHER,
COTTON, LINNEN, AND WOOLLEN CLOTHS, SILKS, STUFFS, PAPER, WOOD, AND OTHER
MANUFACTURES AND SUBSTANCES, FOR THE PURPOSE OF BEING WORKED UP INTO
SHOES, BOOTS, AND OTHER WEARING APPAREL, AND TO BE USED ON ALL OCCASIONS
WHERE DRYNESS OR A POWER OF REPELLING WET OR MOISTURE MAY BE REQUIRED;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the
said Samuel Peal, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
four calendar months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as
in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at
large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Samuel Peal, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in manner
following, that is to say:-
Take caoutchouc or (what is called in this country) clastic gum or india-
rubber; dissolve the same by distillation, or by infusion in a small quantity of
spirits of turpentine, over a brisk fire; it may also be dissolved by infusion in
other spirits, and in most kinds of oils; or the gum may be used with equal
advantage in its native fluid state. The gum thus prepared, or in its native
state, is to be applied to the hide, skin, leather, cloth, silk, or any other article
or manufacture intended to be rendered waterproof, by means of a brush or
other utensil capable of giving a regular thin coating. Place the hide, &c.
in a hot room or stove till it becomes nearly dry; then lay on another
coating in the same manner, which application is to be repeated several
times, according to the substance of the article or manufacture, and the use
for which it is intended; observing, that after it has received its last coating
it must remain in the hot room or stove till it is perfecty dry. It is thou
compleatly ready, for use.
In witness whereof, 1, the, said Samuel, Peal, have hereunto set iny
hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-one._
"
1.
SAMUEL PEAL. (L.8.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Thirty-first day of
August, in the year above, written, the aforesaid: Samuel Peal came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged. the Specification
aforesaid, and all and, every thing therein contained, in form. above
written. And also the Specification, aforesaid was stamped according to tho
tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.