IMPROVEMENTS IN: THE PREPARATION OR MANUFACTURE OF LEATHER CLOTH.
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Nathaniel Shattswell. Dodge, of the firm of Dodge;-
Bacon, and Co., of 44, St. Paul's Churchyard, in the City of London..
Merchants and Manufacturers, for the Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN:
THE PREPARATION OR MANUFACTURE OF LEATHER CLOTH.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Nathaniel Shattswell'
Dodge at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 14th January 1856.
I, NATHANIEL SHATTSWELL DODGE, of the firm of Dodge, Bacon, and Co.. of
44, St. Paul's Churchyard, in the City of London, Merchants and Manu-
facturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE PREPARATION OR MANUFACTURE OF LEATHER CLOTH" to be as-
follows:-
This Invention consists in an improved manufacture of leather cloths, or
cloths covered or coated with a species of enamel, so as to resemble leather,.
and applicable for many of the purposes to which leather is applied, by preparing
the cloths to be manufactured into leather cloths by dyeing or coloring the
whole of the surface thereof prior to the spreading of the composition thereon..
According to the process at present in use, the cloths are usually employed
in a plain or uncoloured state; and it is found to be a great improvement to
dye, color, or print in one uniform color the entire surface of the cloths, on
one or both sides, prior to the composition or enamelling material being spread
thereon. It is found that by the adoption of this Invention a less amount of

page_text: composition is required to produce the same effect, whilst the composition
adheres much better to the fabric than when spread upon uncolored cloths,
thereby producing a better quality of leather cloth than has heretofore been
attained
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Nathaniel Shattswell Dodge in the Great Seal Patent Offico
on the 14th July 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, NATHANIEL
SHATTSWELL DODGE, of the firm of Dodge, Bacon, and Co., of 44, Saint
Paul's Churchyard, in the City of London, Merchants and Manufacturers,
send greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria,. by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the 'Fourteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Nathaniel Shattswell 'Dodge, Her special license that 1, the said Nathaniel
Shattswell Dodge, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Nathaniel Shattswell Dodge, my executors, administrators, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereäfter 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
*** IMPROVEMENTS. IN THE PREPARATION, OR MANUFACTURE OF LEATHER, CLOTH," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I; the said Nathaniel Shattśwell Dolge,
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 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 Nathaniel, Shattswell Dodge; do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner, the samo, is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-:-
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My said Invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of what
is usually called leather cloth, that is, cloth covered or coated with an
enamelling material or composition so as to resemble leather, such .cloth
being applicable to many of the purposes to which leather is applied. .

page_text: The improvement consists in preparing the cloth to be manufactured into
leather cloth, by communicating a uniform color thereto, either by the ordinary
process of dyeing, or by tanning, prior to the application of the enamelling
material or composition upon the surface. According to the process at present
in use, the cloth is usually employed in a plain or uncolored state, and it is
found to be a great improvement to dye or color the same uniformly, as
herein-before described, on one or both sides, prior to the application of the
composition or enamelling material to the surface. It is found that by this
process a less amount of enamelling composition is required to produce the
same effect than by the ordinary process, whilst the enamelling composition
adheres much better to the fabric than when spread upon uncolored cloth,
thereby producing a better quality of leather cloth than has heretofore been
obtained.
Ilaving now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into
effect, I would observe, in conclusion, that I do not confine or restrict myself
to the precise details or arrangements which I have had occasion to describe or
refer to, as many variations may be made therefrom without deviating from the
principles or main features of my said Invention; but what I consider to be
novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is, the preparing the cloth or fabric
to be manufactured into leather cloth by coloring the same uniformly, on one
or both sides, either by the process of dyeing or that of tanning, previous to the
application of the composition or enamelling material thereto.
In witness whereof, I, the said Nathaniel Shattswell Dodge, have here-
unto set my hand and scal, the Twelfth day of July, One thousand eight
hundred and fifte-six.
Signed, sealed, and delivered in the
presence of
J. HENRY JOHNSON,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields,
Solr.
N. S. DODGE. (L.S.)