A LIQUID OR COMPOSITION FOR WATERPROOFING AND STRENGTHENING LEATHER
Year: 1828

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BARON
CHARLES WETTERSTEDT, of Commercial Place, Commercial Road, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the
Fourth did, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
bearing date at Westminster, the Fourth day of June One thousand eight
hundred and twenty-eight, in the ninth year of His reign, give and grant
unto me, the said Baron Charles Wetterstedt, His special license that I, the
said Baron Charles Wetterstedt, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
and such others as I, the said Baron Charles Wetterstedt, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein mentioned,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A LIQUID OR
COMPOSITION FOR WATERPROOFING AND STRENGTHENING LEATHER," in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that I, the said Baron Charles
Wetterstedt, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as
in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Baron Charles Wetterstedt, do hereby describe the manner in which my said

page_text: Invention is to be performed by the following description thereof (that is to
say) :-
Take of rosin sixteen pounds, and of tallow five pounds, which being boiled
together, add one gallon of boiled linseed oil, which being well mixed together,
add one pound and a half of turpentine, in which is dissolved one ounce and a
half of india rubber. This mixture is to be rubbed into the sole or leather
intended for the under part of the shoes. The following mixture is suitable
for harness and the upper parts of shoes, as blacking may be rubbed on after
the composition:-Take of neat's foot oil one gallon, of tallow six pounds,
of hogs' lard one pound, of bees' wax half a pound, which are to be boiled till
the whole is well mixed and dissolved, to which, when nearly cold, add of
spirits of turpentine three pounds, in which is dissolved three ounces of india
rubber; these being well mixed and cold, will be ready to be applied to the
leather either by a brush or other means. Although I have here given the
exact proportions, they may be slightly varied without departing from the
Invention.
CHARLES (L.s) WETTERSTEDT.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the First day of July, in the year
of our Lord 1828, the aforesaid Baron Charles Wetterstedt came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, 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 First day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and twenty-eight.