A NEW PROCESS FOR ORNAMENTING LEATHER
Year: 1884

page_text: I, THOMAS BAYLEY of Peverel House, The Park, Nottingham, Gentleman do
hereby declare the nature of my Invention for "A NEW PROCESS FOR ORNAMENTING
LEATHER" to be as follows :-
According to this Invention leather is first dyed or colored to a uniform color
and is then embossed to imitate the graining of skins. The leather is then dried
and afterwards a darker color is applied by hand or otherwise to the prominences
only of the grain or markings which have been embossed upon the leather leaving
the lighter color as the foundation of the pattern. The darker color may either be
a darker shade of the ground or color of some other color. Or the disposition of
the colors may be reversed that is the ground or foundation color may be dark and
the prominences colored with a lighter color.
Afterwards when the color has been allowed to dry the embossing may be taken
out and the leather again rendered smooth leaving the pattern upon a plain or
nearly plain surface or the leather may be left with the pattern raised upon its
surface as desired.
7001
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, THOMAS BAYLEY of Peverel House, The Park, Nottingham Gentleman do
hereby declare the nature of my Invention for "A NEW PROCESS FOR ORNAMENTING
LEATHER" and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
According to this Invention leather is first dyed or colored to a uniform color
and is then embossed to imitate the graining of skins.
The leather is then dried and afterwards a darker color is applied by hand or
otherwise to the prominences only of the grain or markings which have been
embossed upon the leather leaving the lighter color as the foundation of the
pattern. The darker color may either be a darker shade of the ground color or of
some other color. Or the disposition of the colors may be reversed that is the
ground or foundation color may be dark and the prominences colored with a
lighter color. Afterwards when the color has been allowed to dry the embossing
may be taken out and the leather again rendered smooth leaving the pattern upon
a plain or nearly plain surface or the leather may be left with the pattern raised
upon its surface as desired.
In carrying out my Invention I proceed as follows,-
I take a skin of leather and either dye it all one color or use the natural tanned
colour as the bottom or ground colour, I then emboss the leather to imitate the
graining of skin such for example as crocodile or other well marked skin. The
embossing I effect in the way now usual by first moistening the skin and then
passing it between a pair of rollers around the circumference of one of which has
been secured an electrotype of any skin or pattern the graining of which it is
desired to impress on the leather; or of any skin with a raised pattern or grain.
When the leather has subsequently been allowed to dry and set I apply to the
prominences of the grain one or more different shades of color these different
shades may either be lighter or darker than the ground color as required. For
this purpose I use a sponge or a pad composed of woollen or other soft fabric and
with it spread the extra colors upon such parts of the leather as may be desired.
The colors so applied may either be ordinary dyes or metallic or other paints.
The embossed leather so colored may if desired be left in its embossed state or if
the leather has been colored by this process with fast dyes I in some cases
afterwards steep it in hot water and then by "rolling" or "striking" take out the
embossing and leave the leather flat with the color still upon it. By these means
I am able to produce colored leather somewhat resembling leopard skins and other
such like marked skins in any combination of colors that may be desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The process herein before described for ornamenting leather consisting in first
embossing a skin of leather either dyed or undyed to imitate the graining of some
natural skin or pattern then applying color to the prominences of the grain or
markings which have been embossed upon the leather or which are upon a natural
skin and either leaving the embossed leather in this state or afterwards soaking
the skins and "striking" or rolling out the embossing.
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