A MACHINE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PAREING, PUMMING, FRIEZING, AND GROUNDING OF LEATHER USED IN THE MANUFACTURING OF GLOVES, BREECHES, AND SHOES, AND FOR BINDING OF BOOKS, AND FOR CUTTING OUT OF SHOES, SLIPPERS, GLOVES, MITTS, AND MUFFS, AND FOR EMBELLISHING THE SAME WITH ORNAMENTS IN GOLD, SILVER, AND COLOURS
Year: 1786

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BULL, of the Parish of All Saints, in the City of Worcester, Glover, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Thirty-first day of January, in the twenty-sixth year of His reign, did give
unto me, the said John Bull, His special licence that I, the said John
Bull, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
nake, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Ber-
wick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A MACHINE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PAREING,
PUMMING, FRIEZING, AND GROUNDING OF LEATHER USED IN THE MANUFACTURING
OF GLOVES, BREECHES, AND SHOES, AND FOR BINDING OF BOOKS, AND FOR CUTTING
OUT OF SHOES, SLIPPERS, GLOVES, MITTS, AND MUFFS, AND FOR EMBELLISHING THE
SAME WITH ORNAMENTS IN GOLD, SILVER, AND COLOURS; in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John Bull, under my hand
and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,
and how the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within one month next after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Bull, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Machine for the
Purpose of Pareing, Pumming, Friezing, and Grounding of Leather used in
the Manufacturing of Gloves, Breeches, Shoes, and for Binding of Books, and

page_text: for Cutting out of Shoes, Slippers, Mitts, Muffs, and for Embellishing the
same with Ornaments in Gold, Silver, and Colours, and the manner in which
the some is performed is particularly described in the several Plans. Figures
or Drawings, with the explanation, thereof respectively hereunder, or in the
Paper hereto annexed contained.
for Cutting out of Shoes, Slippers, Mitts, Muffs, and for Embellishing the
same with Ornaments in Gold, Silver, and Colours, and the manner in which
the some is performed is particularly described in the several Plans. Figures,
or Drawings, with the explanation, thereof respectively hereunder, or in the
Paper hereto annexed contained.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Bull, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord
or Drawings, with the explanation, thereof respectively hereunder, or in the
Paper hereto annexed contained.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Bull, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and eighty-six."
In witness whereof, I, the said John Bull, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and eighty-six.
JAMES BEESLEY DAW.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of February,
in the year of our Lord 1786, the aforesaid John Bull came, before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statutes made for. that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-six.

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Fig. 1. A puspective representation of the whole Machinery at work A is a press wherein the cutting is performed
by turning the skrew which revolves in a Box fixed in the mam Beam at D. with the lever b. c & d. the supports
of the Press are • shong uprights morticed through the main Beam at E & fastened to the floor at the bottomn
the latter of which it supports the frame wherein are fixed the paring cylinders of with the rollers g. e.e.e are
drawers containing the cutting implements P. P. Cylinders whereon are fustened the pumice stones pulverized
Glass or the paring Knives (Fig III) according to the different size or quality of the Skins to be pared
pinned frized or grounded
The Cylinders
are moved in a perpendicular direction by the pinions
8. working in the Teeth of the lurge horizontal wheel n & turned on one center in the main Beam at
C. and another in the Floor below at I by the Horse H until a water wheel can be finished which
will be accompanied with a Fire Engine to be used when a scarcity of water is occasioned by a
very dry or frosty Season 9. g. rollers between which the Skins are suspended and stained over, the
paring Cylinders as in Fig II they hold the Skin sight by being set very close together with w
which forces the moveable brass center wherein the rollers run close together
as represented in the Pian of the Frame Fig V. h.h. uprights that support the lower part of the frame
conturning the rollers and Cylinders thro' which at the mortice ti is a lever for throwing the pinion s.
out of the teeth of the horizontal wheel at pleasure as in Fig II. whereby the Cylinder will instantly stop,
while the Workman repairs the knives moves the skin (c) and is as instantly set to work again by
liberating the thing m from the pin p Fig II. B. is a rolling press thro' which the Gloves and Shoes
after they
are cut out, are passed to receive the impression from the Copper Plate Fig; VII the
ved divice WV is filled by rubbing in the White Color or Gilding size, with the stuffed Flannel rubber,
Fig 8. and then cleaning the plate without wiping the size ve out of the Engraving. The Leather
is placed on the Flannel at a and thereon the plate thus filled the Workman then presses down the
lever o. which by lifting up the end of the Bart at x throws the pinion W. into the teeth of the
main Wheel, & thereby gives motion to the centrale which & that turns the rotter I which draws through
the flannel plate S leather the Artist then lets the Lever o and receives the work on the other side
go
after it has passed between the collers I transferred the impression from the piate to the Leather which
must be then hung up to dry of the work is finished p are.
(regulating screws that act upon the centers
in which the upper roller, runs whereby it is made to press hand or easy at pleasure by turning the
winch a at the top. 1.2.3. are drauvers containing the plates you
-Big IX. A perspective representation of the cutting frame the plane surface of which is at Fry X I a piece
of wood half an inch thick cut into the Shape of a Shoe Mitt Glove or Muff & nailed down on the surface
of the frame II are pieces of wood of the same thickness of corresponding shape on one edge and sheight on the
other these placed near the piece I form a groove wherein the side knives are fixed and mude fast by the
wedges I which bind against the pieces I and the inside of the uprights of the frame M. in Tig IX. whichh
uprights are of an equal height with the Knives to defend them from the Block Fig II after they pass
through the Leather Fig XI A knife for cutting the fingers of a Glove two of which are put between
each finger and made fast by driving. a small wedge z between them then a rounding Tool Frg XII. is
put up to the ends of the fingers fastened down on the Frame by the Shrew V. To cut out the opening a
tool mude of a corresponding shape is screwed clown ut Y. Fig II. The Block whereon the Leather is
placed at P. in a quantity nearly us thick us the knives are.
high
The
frame Fig II with the knoves
properly fixed is then put upon the Leather and kept in its place by the projecting pieces N. which fit
into niches in the block at O. the whole thus prepired is passed through the press at A Fig 1 - Fig II Is a
cylinder with the paring knife fastened on by lifting up the fecule p and slipping the knife w into a
the fecule p drops into the knife W which is a sufficient fastening Fig XIII. The frame for the rolling priss
that fit into the mortcises of the main beam Fig 1. 6 the moving Brass center in which the upper roller runs C.
the shrew that passes thro' the nut at d & comes down upon the Brass center 6 to regulate the power of the press by
turning the winch e. f the brass center for the under roller & the mortoise thro! which the lever passes at o in Figs 1
moving center containing a small lead roller that hangs upon the flannel to keep it right and prevent its
wrinkling i a hole thro' which an vion bar is put to screw the whole up close together and keep it firm te.
un meters that acceve the cress juices as at y an high The dotted time shoes the course of the pound
IV. The apparatus for the wolling press without the framing to support it 1. the rollers B the lever ( the leadroller
7. the Iron Bolt E the contrate whiel F. the pinions Diy XIV The plan of the great wheel with the pinions annexed for
Jurning paring Cylinders and rotting press Dig V A plan of the fruming that contunes the whole paring Ap-
paratus consisting of night pieces of Oak, (inch and half thick and of the form of Figure XVII) all dove failed
together and secured with iron pins passing thro' the dovetails at the dotted lines a are moving Brass centers
let into the Wood, in which the rollers run that suspend the skin 7 skrews that keep the rollers close to -
gether to the centers for the Cylinders i i. brass plates pinned on to the edges of the frame at e which are readily
taken off to pull out the rollers or cylinders M, a large hole thro which the shaft of the main wheel passes
and the paring dust fulls. The cutting press is fixed on at A and the rolling press at B. C. a hole thro'
which the pinion IV in Fig 1. passes to give occasional motion to the rollers by means of the Liver o Fig XVI
ha
the.
In Tron state screwed on to Fix V at W to keep the moving centers in their places
groove
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a the tenons