An Improved Composition or Dressing for Leather Harness and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Composition or Dressing for Leather Harness and
the like.
I, SAMUEL MONTAUDEVERT NEILL, of 14, Eastbourne Terrace, Hyde Park, W.,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved composition or dressing for leather
harness and the like, and has for its object to provide a composition for dressing
5 harness and other leather articles which shall render such harness, for instance,
perfectly pliable, increase the durability of same and also impart to the surface
of the article treated a brilliant and glossy appearance, while at the same time
such composition or dressing will not stain the hands of the user.
In carrying my invention into practical effect, I take the following ingre-
10 dients and mix them together in or about the following proportions:-
15
Bees wax
White wax
Drop black powder
Gold size
Shellac
Indigo blue powder
Spirits of Turpentine
Spirits of Wine
3 ounces.
2 ounces.
2 ounces.
1 ounces.
ounce.
1 drams.
10 ounces.
ounce.
In preparing the above ingredients for admixture, I cut the wax into shavings
20 and put the latter into a jar or other suitable vessel into which I also place the
turpentine, letting both the said wax shavings and the turpentine remain for
about forty-eight hours in the vessel, in order that the wax may be thoroughly
dissolved in the turpentine.
The shellac is likewise added to a vessel containing the spirits of wine, the
25 two ingredients being allowed to remain in the vessel for about forty-eight
hours or until the shellac is thoroughly dissolved in the spirits of wine.
All the ingredients are subsequently mixed together and stirred until they
thoroughly assimilate.
The composition or dressing so produced is applied to the leather in the usual
30 manner.
Although the proportions of the ingredients as above given will be found to
produce a composition admitally suited for all general purposes, I may slightly
vary such proportions if found desirable or convenient, in order to produce a
composition adapted to the requirements of different kinds of leather, without
35 departing from the spirit of my invention.
Dated this 15th day of August 1800

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Composition or Dressing for Leather Harness and
'
the like.
I, SAMUEL MONTAUDEVERT NEILL, of 14, Eastbourne Terrace, Hyde Park,
in the County of London, England, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to an improved composition or dressing for leather
harness and the like, and has for its object to provide a composition for dressing
harness and other leather articles, which shall render such harness for instance,
perfectly pliable, increase the durability of same, and also impart to the surface
of the article treated a brilliant and glossy appearance, while at the same time
such composition or dressing will not stain the hands of the user.
In carrying my invention into practical effect, I take the following ingre-
dients and mix them together in or about the following proportions:-
Bees wax
White wax
-
Drop black powder
Gold size
Shellac
Indigo blue powder
Spirits of Turpentine
Spirits of Wine
--
3 ounces.
2t ounces.
2 ounces.
1 ounces.
ounce.
drams.
10 ounces.
* ounce.
In preparing the above ingredients for admixture, I cut the wax into shavings
and put the latter into a jar or other suitable vessel into which I also place the
turpentine, letting both the said wax shavings and the turpentine remain for
about forty-eight hours in the vessel in order that the wax may be thoroughly
dissolved in the turpentine.
The shellac is likewise added to a vessel containing the spirits of wine, the
two ingredients being allowed to remain in the vessel for about forty-eight
hours or until the shellac is thoroughly dissolved in the spirits of wine.
All the ingredients are subsequently mixed together and stirred until they
thoroughly assimilate. The composition or dressing so produced is applied to
the leather in the usual manner.
Although the proportions of the ingredients as above given will be found to
produce a composition admirably suited for all general purposes, I may slightly
vary such proportions if found desirable or convenient, in order to produce a
composition adapted to the requirements of different kinds of leather, without
departing from the spirit of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
The improved composition for dressing harness and the like, consisting in
mixing together bees wax; white wax; drop black powder; gold size; shellac ;
indigo blue powder; spirits of turpentine; and spirits of wine, in or about the
proportions and in the manner substantially as hereinbefore specified.
Dated this 4th day of May 1900.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.