A NEW METHOD OR MODE OF RAISING NAP ON THE LININGS OF SHEEP SKINS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Shaw, of the Earle's Field Works,
Grantham, in the County of Lincoln, Leather Dresser and Fellmonger,
and Glue and Parchment Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A NEW
D
"
Sealed the 19th April 1859, and dated the 22nd October 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Shaw at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd October 1858.
I, ALEXANDER SHAW, of the Earle's Field Works, Grantham, in the County
of Lincoln, Leather Dresser and Fellmonger, and Glue and Parchment
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A
NEW METHOD OR MODE OF RAISING NAP ON THE LININGS OF SHEEP SKINS," to be
as follows:-
My Invention consists in the employment of pumicestone by which I raiso
a nap on the linings of sheep skins.
In explaining my Invention it may be necessary to say that I tan and dye
tho linings of sheep skins in the usual way well known in the trade of leather
dressers, and after subsequently placing the linings in parchment frames and
fleshing them off in the usual manner or mode in which parchment is fleshed
and scoured, I apply pumicestone to the lining, and after tho samo has
become dried I apply the pumicestone again. By this means a finer nap is

page_text: raised on the lining, to which is given the appearance of rough calf skin or
sheep skin, and which will bo found suitable for the binding of books,
coverings for work cases, travelling bags, portmanteaus, and other articles,
and at much less cost.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alexander Shaw in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th April 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
SHAW, of "the Earle's Field Works," Grantham, in tho County of Lincoln,
Leather Dresser and Fellmonger, and Glue and Parchment Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patont, bearing, date the Twenty-second day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Alexander Shaw, Her special licence that I, the said
Alexander Shaw, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Alexander Shaw, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times theroafter 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
"A NEW METHOD OR MODE OF RAISING NAP ON THE LININGS OF SHEEP SKINS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, tho said Alexander Shaw, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, 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 Alexander Shaw, do hereby declare tho
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in the employment of pumicostone for raising nap on
the linings of sheep skins.

page_text: In setting forth the mode which I adopt for performing my Invention, it
may be necessary to say, that I first tan and dye the linings of sheep skins
in the usual way well known in the trade of leather dressers, and after sub-
sequently placing the linings in parchment frames and fleshing them off in
the usual manner or mode in which parchment is fleshed and scoured, I apply
pumicestone to the linings, and after the same has become dried I apply the
pumicestone again. By these means a finer nap is raised on the lining, to
which is imparted the appearance of rough calf skin or sheep skin, and thus
treated it will be found suitable for the binding of books and for covering work
cases, travelling bags, portmanteaus, and other articles.
I may mention that the employment of glue-sizing for the backs of the
skins treated according to my Invention will give them a firmer nap.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention and the manner t
in which the same may be performed, I declare that what I claim is, the
employment or application of pumicestone for raising nap on the linings
of sheep skins.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Shaw, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord.
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Witness,
GEO. JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Agent,
Nottingham.
ALEXANDER SHAW. (L.B.)