AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE TREATMENT OR PREPARATION OF SKINS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Taylor, of Princes Square, in the County
of Middlesex, Engineer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN THE TREATMENT OR PREPARATION OF SKINS."-A communication.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Taylor at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 30th September 1853.
I, JOHN TAYLOR, of Princes Square, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for " AN
IMPROVEMENT IN THE TREATMENT OR PREPARATION OF SKINS" to be as
follows:-
The Invention consists in substituting for the yolk of eggs now
employed in treating or preparing skins the brains of animals, the
natural properties of which render them eminently suitable for this
purpose. I employ the brains of animals in all the processes of
treating and preparing skins in which the yolk of eggs is now used.
I dissolve the brains in warm water, and strain the solution so as to free
it from bones, hair, or other extraneous matters. When I use this

page_text: substance in leather dressing I either employ it alone, or niix it with
flour or some similar substance, until it assumes a pasty consistence.
When preparing skins for dyeing I generally use the brains without
such addition. I also improve the quality of the inferior kinds of
skins, and render them fit for use in glove making, &c., by placing
them in a close vessel, and introducing animal brains into the pores of
the skins by a pump, press, or other suitable means.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 27th March 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN TAYLOR, of Princes Square, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said John Taylor, Her special
licence that I, the said John Taylor, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Taylor, my ex-
ecutors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the terin therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN THE TREATMENT OR PREPARATION OF SKINS," com-
municated to me by a certain foreigner residing abroad, upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Taylor, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed

page_text: in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Taylor, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say:
This Invention consists in substituting for the yolk of eggs now
employed in treating or preparing skins the brains of animals, the
natural properties of which render them eminently suitable for this
purpose. I dissolve the brains in warm water, and strain the solution
to free it from bones, hair, and other extraneous matters, and use it
either alone or mixed with flour or some similar substance until it
assumes a pasty consistence, precisely in the same manner as the yolks
of eggs are now generally employed. I also improve the quality of
the inferior kinds of skins, and render them fit for use in glove making,
&c., by placing them in a close vessel, and introducing animal brains
dissolved in water or other liquid into the pores of the skins by a pump,
press, or other suitable means.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim
as my improvement in the treatment or preparation of skins the
employment of the brains of animals as a substitute for the yolks of
eggs as now used in the preparation or treatment thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Taylor, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of March, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
JOHN TAYLOR. (L.S.)