IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBINING MATERIALS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TEA TRAYS, BOXES, TRUNKS, TABLE COVERS, OIL CLOTHS, AND OTHER ARTICLES TO BE USED IN THE PLACE OF THE MATERIALSNOW EMPLOYED IN SUCH MANUFACTURE
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EUGENE
FRANÇOIS VIDOCQ, of the Gallierie Vivienne, in the Kingdom of France,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twentieth day of November, in the ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Eugene François Vidocq, my exors, adññors, and assigns, Her especial
license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Eugene
François Vidocq, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Eugene François Vidocq, my exors, adññors, 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 of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBINING MATERIALS TO BE
EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TEA TRAYS, BOXES, TRUNKS, TABLE
COVERS, OIL CLOTHS, AND OTHER ARTICLES TO BE USED IN THE PLACE OF
THE MATERIALS NOW EMPLOYED IN SUCH MANUFACTURE;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Eugene François Vidocq, shall
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Eugene François Vidocq, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following description thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in the employment in the manufacture of paper,
card board, tea trays, and the other articles above mentioned, of what are known
as shavings, scrapings, cuttings, and parings of leather; and, secondly, in
combining the same with other materials, as will be hereafter explained. The
scrapings, cuttings, shavings, and parings of leather are obtained from the
tanners, shoemakers, and curriers. The materials having been thoroughly
cleansed by washing, are placed in an ordinary paper engine, and treated pre-
cisely in the same manner as rags are treated in the manufacture of paper
(excepting that I omit the process of bleaching) until they are brought into a
state of pulp. In this state it may be manufactured into fabrics in sheets,
which, being dried, are suitable for being made up into tea trays, boxes,
trunks, table covers, oil cloths, and other articles, in substitution of the
materials before used for such purposes, and the ordinary modes of making
such articles are to be resorted to. When it is desired to render the leather
hard and compact, to be employed for purposes requiring such hardness, I
combine with it, when in a state of pulp, a quantity of the following
materials:-Six parts of tan; six parts of gluten; six parts of resin; six parts
of alum; six parts of blood. These materials are to be well mixed together,
and are combined with each one hundred parts of pulp of leather in the
proportion of thirty per cent. of them to every one hundred pounds of pulp.
After they have been thoroughly amalgamated with the pulp, it is to be made
into sheets in the ordinary way of paper making. Having previously brought
it into sheets, I apply to the surfaces a coat of glue, and then place them in
a heated chamber to be dried, and when thoroughly dry the surfaces of the
sheets are to be covered with a coating of fish oil, when they will be in a fit
state to be used for the manufacture of various articles.
When it is required to make the leather pliable, in order to make it
applicable to the manufacture of articles requiring such pliability, I combine
with the pulp, as before explained, a certain portion of the following
materials-Five parts of residue of cotton or wool; five parts of oakum;
five parts of old waste paper; five parts of farina of potatoes; five parts of
clay; five parts of animal excrements; five parts of dust of hemp or flax.
These materials are to be well mixed together, and about thirty-five per cent.
of them added for each hundred parts of pulp to the leather pulp, and the
whole mixed together, and the sheets are to be treated as before explained.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the precise details, so long as the character of my Invention be retained;
but what I claim, is,--first, the employment of the scrapings, parings, cuttings,
and shavings of leather, reduced to pulp, in the manufactures herein described;
and, secondly, I claim the combining with the parings, shavings, cuttings, and
scrapings of leather the materials herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Eugene François Vidocq, have hereunto
Enrolled the Twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-six.