IMPROVED SUBSTITUTE FOR LEATHER
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Otto Wolff, Patent Agent, of 12, Schloss Strasse,
Dresden, A., Saxony, for an Invention of "IMPROVED SUBSTITUTE FOR
LEATHER." A communication from Gottfried Luithardt Lippold, of Dresden,
Saxony, Saddle Manufacturer.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Otto Wolff at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th November 1880.
OTTO WOLFF, Patent Agent, of 12, Schloss Strasse, Dresden, A., Saxony.
"IMPROVED SUBSTITUTE FOR LEATHER." (A communication from Gottfried
Luithardt Lippold, of Dresden, Saxony, Saddle Manufacturer.)
My said improvement relates to the manufacture of a substitute for leather out
of prepared cane and web or cloth, which said substitute can be employed instead
of leather for various articles of manufacture.
In order to carry out my Invention I split or otherwise divide cane into small
strips or staves of a four cornered or square or other suitable section.
The edges
of the said strips or staves of cane are now planed or otherwise so treated that
when they are glued or cemented together they will form an even surface in the
form, and having the appearance of a thin board or plate.
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These said boards or plates of cane can be made of any desired length and
breadth, according to the use for which they are required.
After the said said strips or staves of cane have been so glued or cemented
together, one or both surfaces are covered with web, strong canvas, cloth, or other
suitable material, which said web, canvas, or other material is firmly attached to the
said surfaces of the aforementioned board or plate of cane, by means of glue, cement,
or other suitable adhesive matter.
After the web, canvas, cloth, or other suitable material has been applied to the
said board or plate made from split cane, the glue, cement, or other adhesive
matter employed is allowed to dry, when the so prepared plate, sheet, or board can
be cut up into the required form and size, and can be employed to great advantage.
in the manufacture of despatch boxes, portmanteaux, travelling cases, and such like
articles, and for various other purposes where leather is now generally employed.
The so prepared material possesses many advantages over the leather now employed.
It is very much cheaper, considerably lighter, is very flexible, extremely durable,
and can be made in any required size, thus saving waste in manufacture, and con-
sequently forms an admirable substitute for leather, and an important article of
commerce.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Otto Wolff in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd May 1881.
OTTO WOLFF, Engineer and Patent Agent, of No. 12, Schloss Strasse, in the
City of Dresden, in the Kingdom of Saxony and German Empire.
"AN IMPROVED
SUBSTITUTE FOR LEATHER.' (A communication from Gottfried Luithardt Lippold,
of the City of Dresden, in the Kingdom of Saxony and German Empire
aforesaid.)
These said improvements relate to the manufacture of a substitute for leather
out of prepared cane and web or cloth, which said substitute can be employed
instead of leather for various articles of manufacture.
Fig. 1 is a plan of a piece of my improved substitute for leather, partly in
section; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section; Fig. 3 is a cross section of Fig. 1.
In order to carry out my said Invention, I split or otherwise divide or trim cane
into small strips or staves (a) of a four cornered, oblong, square or other suitable
section. The edges of these said strips or staves of cane are now planed or other-
wise so treated that when they are glued or cemented together they will form an
´even surface in the form and having the appearance of a thin board or plate.
These said boards or plates of cane can be made of any desired length and
breadth, according to the use for which they are required.
After the said strips or staves of cane (a) have been so glued or cemented
together, one or both surfaces are covered with web, strong canvas, cloth, or other
suitable material b, c, which said web, canvas, or other material is firmly attached
to the said surface or surfaces of the aforementioned board or plate of cane, by
means of glue, cement, or other suitable adhesive matter.
After the web, canvas, cloth, or other suitable material has been applied to the
said board or plate (a) made from split cane, the glue, cement, or other adhesive
matter employed is allowed to dry, when the so prepared plate, sheet, or board can
be cut up into the required form and size, and can be employed to great advantage
in the manufacture of despatch boxes, portmanteaux, travelling cases, and such
like articles, and for various other purposes where leather is now generally
employed.
The so prepared material possesses many advantages over the leather now
employed; it is very much cheaper, considerably lighter, is very flexible, extremely
durable, can be made in any required size, thus saving waste in manufacture, and
consequently forms an admirable substitute for leather, and an important article
of commerce.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I desire it to be understood that I do not confine
myself to the exact form of the said staves or strips of cane or the material for
covering the same, or the adhesive matter for joining or connecting the aforesaid
covering to the said staves or strips of cane, but what I do claim as the Invention
secured to me by Letters Patent as aforesaid is,-
First. The manufacture of artificial leather, or a substitute for leather, from a
suitable number of small staves of cane attached to canvas, cloth, webbing, or other
suitable material, by means of glue, cement, or other suitable adhesive matter,
substantially as described in the foregoing Specification and shown in the
accompanying Drawing.

page_text: Second. The combination of the staves or strips of cane (a) with one or two
layers of cloth, canvas, webbing, or other suitable material, substantially as shown
in the accompanying Drawing, and set forth in the foregoing Specification.
In witness whereof, I, the said Otto Wolff, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
OTTO WOLFF. (LS.)

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