Improved Method of Ornamenting Leather.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1891
Complete Speification Left, 9th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 13th June, 1891
LEIDE
Improved Method of Ornamenting Leather.
ROBERT MLIN CALDER 39 & 41 Warwick Street Pimlico London, S.W.
Manufacturer of toes and Shoe Trimmings do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to las follows:-
An improved hod of ornamenting leather by punching holes in the leather
and filling the holes with leather plugs or studs of various colors, and in
rious patteror devices. This method of decoration is applicable, and intended
or all articies where leather is used in the manufacture thereof,--such as boots and
hoes (or parts thereof) bags belts, purses, picture frames, harness, furniture
coverings, toilet cases, dressing cases, tobacco pouches, book bindings, shelf and
ook-case drapes, gloves and gauntlets, and all leather, or leather covered articles.
Also for shoe and boot trimmings and embroideries.
Dated this 27th day of February 1891.
ROBERT MCLEAN CALDER.
Improved Method of Ornamenting Leather.
ROBERT MCLEAN CALDER 39 & 41 Warwick Street Pimlico, London, S.W.
Shoe Trimming Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:
An improved method of ornamenting leather by punching holes in the leather,
and filling the said holes with plugs or studs of various colours and in various
patterns or devices.
This method of ornamentation is applicable to all articles made of leather, or
where leather is used in the manufacture thereof.
In order to more particularly describe the nature of this invention, and the means
for carrying it into effect- append drawings to illustrate the process, and
completed work.
The drawing section A-shows a piece of leather with holes punched in various
sizes, and in a design. The white spots in the drawing represents the holes when
punched out, and before being refilled. The colored half of the drawing shows
the second process of filling the holes with plugs of various colored leather, which
fit perfectly into the holes made to receive them.
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Section B, represents the various shaped studs (or plugs) which are used in the
process; as the punch can be made to cut any shape, and the plugs thus obtained
say from red or other colored leather-will fit into the hole made by the punch in
black leather. The plugs in this drawing are shewn by the white shapes in the
dark blocks.
Section C, represents another design-one half punched out, and the other half
completed with colored plugs. The punching out may be done either by hand or
machinery, and when filled in, is completed by affixing any material at the back
with some adhesive substance to secure the plugs in their places.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is,
1. Novelty in punching holes in the leather, in designs or patterns ready for
filling with plugs or studs of other colored leather, and-
2. Refilling the punched holes with studs or plugs of variou colored leather so
as to form a design or pattern-and
3. The completed ornamentation showing a smooth surface je solid leather.
Dated this 28th of May 1891.
ROBERT MCLEN CALDER.