IMPROVEMENTS IN CUTTING HIDES FOR MAXING ELEXIBLE PIPES AND FOR CERTAIN OTHER PURPOSES"
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Turner, of Leeds, in the County of York,
Leather Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CUTTING HIDES
FOR MAXING ELEXIBLE PIPES AND FOR CERTAIN OTHER PURPOSES"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry. Turner at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th July 1856.
I, HENRY TURNER, of Leeds, in the County of York, Leather Merchant, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CUTTING
HIDES FOR MAKING FLEXIBLE PIPES, AND FOR CERTAIN OTHER PURPOSES," to be as
follows:-
The nature of this Invention consists in cutting hides before they are tanned,
and in cutting continuous lengths, in the manner described in the Specification
of Letters Patent granted to me on the Eighth day of August, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four, for making leather flexible pipes for fire engines
or other purposes, whereby pipes of thirty or forty feet, or more or less in length,
may be obtained without joints; and in the application of the said mode-of
cutting hides into straps for making card fillets, such as are used in machinery

page_text: for preparing cotton and other fibrous materials, for making harness, and for
other purposes (excepting for straps used in driving machinery) where straps
or bands of leather are required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Turner in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th January 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
TURNER, of Leeds, in the County of York, Leather Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henry Turner, Her special lisense that I, the said Henry Turner,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Henry Turner, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CUTTING HIDES FOR MAKING FLEXIBLE PIPES, AND FOR CERTAIN OTHER
PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Turner,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain 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.-
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Turner, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention; and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):-
The nature of my Invention consists in cutting hides into continuous lengths,
in the manner described in the Specification of Letters Patent granted to me
on the Eighth day of August, in the year of our. Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-four, for making. leather flexible pipes for fire engines or
other purposes, whereby pipes. of any convenient length may be obtained with-

page_text: out joints; and in the application of the said mode of cutting hides into straps
or bands for making card fillets, such as are used in machinery for preparing
cotton and other fibrous materials, for making harness, and for other purposes
where straps or bands of leather are required, excepting for driving machinery.
In performing my Invention, the hide is cut into a continuous length in the
manner described in the Specification above referred to, or by any other suit-
able means, and after being tanned or otherwise prepared, it is converted into
a flexible pipe, or into straps or bands for card fillets, or harness, or for other
purposes, in the usual manner of manufacturing such pipes or other articles.
Having thus particularly described the nature and particulars of my Inven-
tion, I declare that what I claim is, the application of hides cut into continuous
lengths for making leather flexible pipes, straps or bands for card fillets, or for
harness, or for other purposes, excepting for driving machinery.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Turner, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eighth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
H. B. BARLOW,
Manchester.
HENRY TURNER. (L.S.)