A COMPOSITION APPLI- CABLE TO CERTAIN FABRICS OR SUBSTANCES FROM WHICH MAY BE MANUFACTURED BOOTS, SHOES, AND VARIOUS OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1829

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
HALL, of Plymouth, in the County of Devon, Tailor and Woollen Draper,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Tenth day of March, in the tenth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Hall, His special licence, that I, the said Richard Hall, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard
Hall, my exors, administrators, 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, usc, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in all
the Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "A COMPOSITION APPLI-
CABLE TO CERTAIN FABRICS OR SUBSTANCES FROM WHICH MAY BE MANUFACTURED
BOOTS, SHOES, AND VARIOUS OTHER ARTICLES;" in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Richard Hall, 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 per-
formed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court

page_text: of Chancery within. six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said recited Letters Patent; as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
I DO HEREBY DECLARE that the nature of my said Invention of making
a composition, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, also the
manner of applying the said composition to certain fabrics or substances, are
particularly described and ascertained in the following description: thereof
(that is to say):
I take one pound of bees-wax, eight ounces of india-rubber or gum, four
ounces of rosin, eight ounces of ivory black, and four ounces lamb-black,
and dissolve together, either by boiling or by gradual heat; I have tried the
above proportions with success, and have usually boiled them until the.com-
position becomes very nearly as fluid as water; the composition may be made
without the rosin or the lamp-black, or the lamp-black used and the ivory
black omitted; or any of the above-named ingredients may be used in greater
or less proportions than those I have stated; or, instead of rosin, I employ the
substances called thus, or frankincence, asphaltum, or bitumen, or such other
resinous bodies as I find to be capable of uniting with the other ingredients';
and in place of bees-wax I use spermacetti, or naptha, or petrolium, or
turpentine, or such mixtures and proportions of these or other substances
or liquids as will most completely dissolve or render fluid india-rubber, gum, or
other suitable substance, and assimilate with the other: matters: For lamp-
black and ivory black I occasionally substitute other pulverized substances of
various colours, according to the colour I wish to produce in my composition...
Mode of application I have used a close boiler that will contain ten
gallons of water (more or less), with a metal plate, at the top large enough to
admit a piece of cloth twenty-seven-inches wide, (more or less); as occasion may
require, to be laid smoothly on it. The boiler or furnace must be supplied with
water to about two-thirds its height, which; must boil in order to heat the
plate; having ready some of my composition, rendered' fluid by means of heat,
I lay my cloth or other fabric or substance smoothly on the plate, and by
means of a brush or sponge; or other suitable method, apply my composition to
it, rubbing it well in, so that it may be completely saturated; I then expose
the cloth or other substance for a few days to the air; after which it is laid on
á smooth surface and well rubbed for sleeked with a smooth piece of, wood,
glass, bone, or other smooth substance, to give it a smooth-and-fine-face,
or have it calendered, which has the same effect; .after, which I occasionally
apply solution of india-rubber or other suitable: substance on the back of the

page_text: cloth or fabric or other substance, for the purpose of rendering it impervious
to wet. I occasionally apply the composition to cloth or other fabrics or
substances, without the aid of a boiler or furnace, by rendering it fluid.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Hall, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Seventh day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventh day of September, in
the year of our Lord 1829, the aforesaid Richard Hall 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 stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
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