A METHOD OF MAKING SHOES AND BOOTS WITHOUT SEWING, SO AS ENTIRELY TO KEEP OUT THE WET, WHICH INVENTION MAY BE APPLIED TO OTHER ARTICLES IN LEATHER
Year: 1816

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS
FAUCHE BOREL, of Frith Street, Soho, in the County of Middlesex, Esq, do
send greeting.
..WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of October, in
the fifty-seventh year of. His reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Louis
Fauche Borel, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, His special licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority that I, the said Louis Fauche Borel, my exors,
admors, and assigns, 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, a certain Invention of "A METHOD OF MAKING
SHOES AND BOOTS WITHOUT SEWING, SO AS ENTIRELY TO KEEP OUT THE WET,
WHICH INVENTION MAY BE APPLIED TO OTHER ARTICLES IN LEATHER;" in which
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Louis Fauche
Borel, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description or explanation
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six months
next and immediately 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
Louis Fauche Borel, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention

page_text: and method of making shoes, boots, or any other articles of leather without
sewing, is as follows, viz:-
I cut out of a hide of leather one piece of the size and dimensions adapted
to those of the shoes, boot, or any other article in common size and form, and
suited to the size of the wearer, which must necessarily vary. The piece of
solid leather so cut out as aforesaid into the shape of the article required to be
made I afterwards soak in water, in the same manner as shoemakers usually do,
and then, by means of a machine, form it into a shoe, boot, or other articles,
according to the size and shape required, which must necessarily vary. The
outward surface of the leather must afterwards receive its proper colours,
shape, and polish in like manner and with such variation as are commonly
given to it by shoemakers, bootmakers, or other manufacturers of every such
articles of leather, so as best to produce durability, and to give case and
comfort to the wearer.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Faucho Borel, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of April, in the year of
Low One thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
ALLM
J. CAMPBELL.
L. F
BUKEL. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-second day of April,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Louis Fauche Borel came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute in such case made, and provided.
Inrolled the same Twenty-second day of Avril, in the year above written.