A NEW METHOD OF TANNING LEATHER WITHOUT THE USE OR APPLICATION OF BARK OR MINERAL ASTRINGENT (EXCEPT IN TANNING OF BACKS AND BENDS), FIELDING A GREAT ADVANTAGE EOTH IN RESPECT TO TIME AND EXPENCE, WHEREBY AS GOOD, IF NOT A SUPERIOR ARTICLE OR COMMODITY IS PRODUCED
Year: 1807

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
JOHN STANLEY, of the Town of Gainsborough, in the County of Lincoln,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of April, in
the forty-seventh year of His reign, hath given and granted unto me, the said
Robert John Stanley, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Robert John Stanley, my exors, adiñors, and
assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by mine or their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Robert
John Stanley, my exors, admors, or assigns, shall at any time agree with, and
no others, during the term of years therein mentioned, shall and lawfully may
make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF TANNING
LEATHER WITHOUT THE USE OR APPLICATION OF BARK OR MINERAL ASTRINGENT
(EXCEPT IN TANNING OF BACKS AND BENDS), FIELDING A GREAT ADVANTAGE EOTH
IN RESPECT TO TIME AND EXPENCE, WHEREBY AS GOOD, IF NOT A SUPERIOR ARTICLE
OR COMMODITY IS PRODUCED," in such manner as to me, the said Robert John
Stanley, my exors, admors, and assigns, or any of them, shall seem meet; in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that if I, the said Robert

page_text: John Stanley, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my
"said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in
His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, then the same Letters Patent, and all
liberties, and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease,
determine, and become void, as in and by the same Letters Patent, relation
being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Robert John Stanley, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a new
method of tanning leather is described in the manner following (that is to
say):―
That-my-new-method of tanning_does_not_differ from_that_used_by_tanners
in general in any other respect than the saving of time and expence, the
preparation of the ouze or astringent liquor, and the materials of which the
same is composed, except that the hides and skins, previous to their being put
into the ouzo or astringent liquor herein-after specified, are put into a prepara-
tion of bran and water, where they remain for a space of two days; that the
materials of which the ouze or astringent liquor is composed for tanning of
skins are Allepo galls, tormentill, or sept-foil root, and Bengal catechu, and
the quantities or proportions of each ingredient (of the best quality) are half a
pound of Allepo galls, five pounds of tormentill or sept-foil root, and one ounce
and a half of Bengal catechu. That the method of preparing the said ouze or
astringent liquor for tanning of skins is as follows:-.
The above materials are powdered and put into a copper with seventeen
gallons of water, and boiled for such a length of time as the tanner may judge
necessary, when the same is so boiled, the liquor is to be pumped out of the.
copper into the vat, there to remain until cold, when the skins are to be put in
and handled frequently during the three first days, afterwards to remain two.
or three days, then to be handled two, three, or more times in one day as may
appear necessary, there to remain undisbed for twenty-five days, or thereabouts,
according to the thickness of the skins, after which the skins are to be taken
out and dried in the usual manner, and the same are then ready for the
currier. That the materials of which the ouze or astringent liquor for tanning
of hides is composed are the same and in the same proportions as for tanning
of skins, but the operation is something different, for after the hides are put
into the ouze or astringent liquor they are to be handled frequently for the
first six or seven successive days, then to remain quiet for about a fortnight,
and then to be taken up and handled frequently for about two or three days

page_text: more, after which they are to be handled at intervals as the tanner may judge
necessary, for a space of from ten to twelve weeks, according to the thickness
of the hides, and then to be dried in the usual manner. That for tanning very:
thick hides for the purpose of being cut into back and bends, it will be neces-
sary to add to the former materials for composing the ouze or astringent
liquor the same quantity of good oak bark as of tormentill or sept-foil root.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert John Stanley, have to this
instrument in writing set my hand and seal, the Fourth day of May,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seven.
Sealed and delivered by the above-named
Robert John Stanley (being first duly
stampt), in the presence of
S. FLOWER.
(4.8.)
HAROLD STANLEY.
Harold Stanley, of Newark-upon-Trent, in the County of Nottingham,
Gentleman, maketh oath and saith, that Robert John Stanley, of the Town of
Gainsborough, in the County of Lincoln, Gentleman, the person in the
annexed deed poll or instrument in writing named and described, did sign,
scal, and as his act and deed in due form of law deliver the said annexed deed
poll or instrument in writing in the presence of this deponent, and of Samuel
Flower of Gainsborough aforesaid (apprentice to the said Robert John
Stanley), the other subscribing witness thereto, and saith that the name
"R. J. Stanley," set and subscribed opposite the seal affixed to the said deed
poll or instrument in writing as the party executing the same, and the names
"S. Flower" and "Harold Stanley" thereto also set and subscribed as
witnesses attesting the execution thereof by the said Robert John Stanley, are
of the respective proper handswriting of the said Robert John Stanley,
Samuel Flower, and this deponent.
TT

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the oath of Harold Stanley, the
Specification aforesaid was inrolled word for word as above written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute
made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twelfth day of May, in the year our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seven.