THE SPLITTING RAW BULL, OX, AND Cow HIDES, SO THAT EACH SIDE OF THE HIDE SO SPLIT MAY BE MANUFACTURED FOR THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH AN ENTIRE HIDE HATH BEEN BEFORE USED, AS FOLLOWS:-THE GRAIN SIDE FOR COACH AND CHAISE HIDES, AND OTHER PURPOSES, AND THE FLESH SIDE FOR LOSH HIDES, FOR WHITE LEATHER, FOR VELLUM, FOR TANNING, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1808

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
BROOKES, of Bermondsey, in the County of Surrey, Tanner, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Third day of November, in the forty-ninth year of His reign, did,
for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Samuel
Brookes, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence that I, the said
Samuel Brookes, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Samuel Brookes, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
for "THE SPLITTING RAW BULL, OX, AND Cow HIDES, SO THAT EACH SIDE OF THE
HIDE SO SPLIT MAY BE MANUFACTURED FOR THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH AN ENTIRE
HIDE HATH BEEN BEFORE USED, AS FOLLOWS:-THE GRAIN SIDE FOR COACH AND CHAISE
HIDES, AND OTHER PURPOSES, AND THE FLESH SIDE FOR LOSH HIDES, FOR WHITE
LEATHER, FOR VELLUM, FOR TANNING, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Samuel
Brookes, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly
to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be enrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and

page_text: by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with and agreeable to the true
intent and meaning of the said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained,
I, the said Samuel Brookes, do hereby declare the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and
ascertained in the following explanation thereof, that is to say :-
Instead of slitting the tanners' hides by the machinery of cylinder and
knife, as hath hitherto been done, or shaving the raw hide by a currier's knife,
I do take the hides of bulls, oxen, and cows, in the raw state, immediately
after the same shall have been unhaired, and I do split the said hides by
machinery of liko construction but of larger dimensions than heretofore used,
and by these means I do manufacture and produce two new materials, namely,
the piece of hide having the grain side thereon, and the other piece having the
flesh side therein, and the said materials or pieces may be farther manufactured
and prepared for various purposes, which are set forth in the said in part
recited Letters Patent, and for other beneficial uses and applications well-
known to men conversant with the fabrication and consumation of hides and
leather.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Brookes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Second day of March, in the year of our Lord One
Inrolled the Second day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and nine.