IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WELLINGTON BOOTS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Lockington St. Lawrence Bunn, of Walbrook, in
the City of London, India-rubber Merchant, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WELLINGTON BOOTS."
Scaled the 14th August 1857, and dated the 20th June 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Lockington St. Lawrence
Bunn at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 20th June 1857.
I, LOCKINGTON ST. LAWRENCE BUNN, of Walbrook, in the City of London,
India-rubber Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WELLINGTON BOOTS," to be as follows:
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
Wellington boots. For these purposes the legs or upper parts of Wellington
boots, in place of being made as heretofore of leather, are made of waterproof
woven fabric prepared to imitate leather, either by means of india-rubber.
combined with sulphur, or matters containing sulphur, or of waterproof
woven fabrics coated and impregnated with drying oils and pigments. And.
in order to get substance and strength to such fabrics, it is preferred that the
fabrics used for each leg of a boot should be composed of two or more plies
or layers cemented together by india-rubber combined with sulphur, the
fabrics so cemented being afterwards subjected to heat in order to produce.
the change in the india-rubber, consequent on that substance being combined

page_text: with sulphur, and subjected to a high temperature. The seams of the legs
may be formed by sewing, as heretofore, when leather has been used, or
the seams may be cemented. The feet, soles, and heels of the boots are
made of leather, and combined with the legs as heretofore, and in a similar
manner to that ordinarily practised when making what are called dress boots,
using, however, either what is called patent leather, or other leather such as
ordinary Wellington boots are made of.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Lockington St. Lawrence Bunn in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 19th December 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOCKINGTON
ST. LAWRENCE BUNN, of Walbrook, in the City of London, India-rubber
Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Lockington St. Lawrence Bunn, Her special licence that I, the said
Lockington St. Lawrence Bunn, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Lockington St. Lawrence Bunn, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
WELLINGTON BOOTS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Lockington St. Lawrence Bunn, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Lockington St. Lawrence Bunn, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-

page_text: This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
Wellington boots. For these purposes the legs or upper parts of Wellington
boots, in place of being made as heretofore of leather, are made of waterproof
woven fabric prepared to imitate leather, either by means of india-rubber
combined with sulphur, or matters containing sulphur, or of waterproof
woven fabrics coated and impregnated with drying oils and pigments. And
in order to get substance and strength to such fabrics, it is preferred that the
fabrics used for each leg of a boot should be composed of two or more plies
or layers cemented together by india-rubber combined with sulphur, the
fabrics so cemented being afterwards subjected to heat in order to produce
the change in the india-rubber, consequent on that substance being combined
with sulphur, and subjected to a high temperature. The seams of the legs
may be formed by sewing, as heretofore, when leather has been used, or the
seams may be cemented. The feet, soles, and heels of the boots are made of
leather, and combined with the legs as heretofore, and in a similar manner to
that ordinarily practised when making what are called dress boots, using, how-
ever, either what is called patent leather, or other leather such as ordinary
Wellington boots are made of.
In witness whereof, I, the said Lockington St. Lawrence Bunn, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
LOCKINGTON ST. LAWRENCE BUNN. (L.S.).
EDWIN WHITBY,
21, Budge Row, London.