INVENTION FOR THE MAKING AND MANUFACTURING OF HARD GLUE FROM THE TAIL, FINS, AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WHALE FISH;
Year: 1804

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
RAINES the younger, of the Town and Port of Hull, in the County of York,
Tanner and Glue Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-second day of November, in the forty-fifth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Robert Raines, my executors,
adininistrators, and assigns, His special licence that I, the said Robert Raines,
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "INVENTION FOR THE MAKING AND MANUFACTURING
OF HARD GLUE FROM THE TAIL, FINS, AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WHALE FISH;"
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
Robert Raines, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause
a particular description of my said Invention, and how the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one
calendar month next after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and
by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and
at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in pursuance of the said proviso, I, the said Robert
Raines, do declare that my said Invention for Making and Manufacturing
Hard Glue from the Tail, Fins, and other Parts of the Whale Fish is as
follows:-
In preparing and manufacturing, is as follows:-The tail, fins, and all
other gristly parts of the fish are cut into pieces of fourteen or fifteen pounds
weight. Such pieces are then put into boiling water, and kept hot by a
slow fire for half an hour, in order to extract the oil and grease, that the
next process may take effect. The next process is to steep the pieces of fish
in fresh water forty-eight hours, and which steeping is to be repeated four
times, having fresh water each time. Then take one ton of fish thus pre-
pared, with one hundred and twenty gallons of fresh spring or soft water,
which boil together twelve hours in a common glue bag. Then put out the
fire, and take out the bag, and let the ingredients which will have been
strained through the bag remain in the copper half an hour; then add twenty
pounds weight of pounded allum. After mixing these ingredients well, let
them remain in the copper twelve hours more, to incorporate with each other.
It must then be let off into coolers, and, when cool, laid on nets to dry, the
same as other glue. The preparation is then complete.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Raines, have hereunto put my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and four.
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being
first duly stamped) in the presence of
JOHN HALL.
WILL PYBUS.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Eighth day of December,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Robert Raines came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Tenth day of December, in the year above written.