IMPROVEMENTS IN BLACKING FOR BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Heim, of 15, King's Road, Islington, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BLACKING FOR BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER ARTICLES."
Sealed the 16th December 1870, and dated the 20th June 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Heim at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
20th June 1870.
I, LOUIS HEIM, of 15, King's Road, Islington, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BLACKING FOR BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER ARTICLES," to be as
follows:-
The objects of the improvements are cleanliness and economy with
facility in use.
Paste blacking as hitherto manufactured for use when in a dry or
tolerably dry state is required to be dissolved in or mixed up with a
suitable liquid before applicable to the article to be blacked, thus causing

page_text: great inconvenience and considerable waste, with want of cleanliness,
and such composition is of such a brittle nature as with the manner in
which it is enclosed (in skins or otherwise) to forbid its application to
the articles in the mode hercafter described.
The improvements consist in bringing up the blacking composition to
such state of consistency and hardness, and in forming and enclosing it
in such manner, that from a part of the same when such part is merely
dipped in water or other suitable solvent, the required quantity can
be rubbed on the article to be blacked without causing breakage or
"brittling" and without necessarily soiling the fingers of the user.
In carrying out these improvements the ingredients composing the
blacking may be of the ordinary kind, but they are brought into the
required consistency or hard state by combining with them Russian
tallow or other suitable matter in proportion of three pounds of the
latter to one hundred pounds of the other ingredients, and then casting
them into the desired forms, but the proportion may be varied, care
being taken that brittleness is avoided.
The forms adopted are cylindrical or other suitable shape, and such
blacking composition is then enclosed in a cover of cardboard, tin foil,
or other suitable material, in which cover the blacking composition is
made to slide, so that when one end of it is pushed out for for use the
remainder with the cover acts as a handle, preserving at the same time
cleanliness to the fingers of the user; or a portion of the cover may be
pealed off or removed at one end or part while the remainder acts as a
cover for like protection.
The exposed end or part of the blacking composition when dipped
in water or other suitable solvent and rubbed on the article to be blacked
will give off the required coating without breaking or "brittling."

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-fourth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Louis Heim, Her special licence that I, the
said Louis Heim, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Louis Heim, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term 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 "ImMPROVEMENTS IN BLACKING FOR BOOTS, SHOES, AND
OTHER ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Louis Heim, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 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 Louis Heim, 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 :-
The objects of the improvements are cleanliness and economy with
facility in use.
Paste blacking as hitherto manufactured for use when in a dry or
tolerably dry state is required to be dissolved in or mixed up with a
suitable liquid before application to the article to be blacked, thus causing
great inconvenience and considerable waste, with want of cleanliness, and
such composition is of such a brittle nature as with the manner in
which it is enclosed (in skins or otherwise) to forbid its application to
the articles in the mode hereafter described.
The improvements consist in bringing up the blacking composition
to such a state of consistency and hardness, and in forming and enclosing
it in such manner that from a part of the same when such part is merely
dipped in water or other suitable solvent the required quantity can
be rubbed on the article to be blacked without causing breakage or
brittling" and without necessarily soiling the fingers of the user.
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page_text: In carrying out these improvements the ingredients composing the
blacking may be of the ordinary kind, but they are brought into the
required consistency or hard state by combining with them Russian
tallow or other suitable matter in proportion of three pounds of the
latter to one hundred pounds of the other ingredients, and then casting
them into the desired forms, but the proportion may be varied, care
being taken that brittleness is avoided.
The forms adopted are cylindrical or other suitable shape, and such
blacking composition is then enclosed in a cover of cardboard, tin foil,
or other suitable material, in which cover the blacking composition is
made to slide so that when one end of it is pushed out for use the
remainder with the cover acts as a handle, preserving at the same time
cleanliness to the fingers of the user, or a portion of the cover may
pealed off or removed at one end or part while the remainder acts as a
cover for like protection.
The exposed end or part of the blacking composition when dipped in
water or other suitable solvent and rubbed on the article to be blacked
will give off the required coating without breaking or "brittling."
Having thus described my Invention and means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise details referred to so long as the peculiar
character of the Invention be retained substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Heim, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.