AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR WATERPROOFING, SOFTENING, AND PRE- SERVING ALL KINDS OF LEATHER, AND ARTICLES MADE THEREFROM
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Lloyd, of No. 22, Wells Street, in the Parish
of Saint Marylebone, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR WATERPROOFING, SOFTENING, AND PRE-
SERVING ALL KINDS OF LEATHER, AND ARTICLES MADE THEREFROM."
Sealed the 2nd September 1868, and dated the 2nd July 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Lloyd at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd July
1863.
I, EDWARD LLOYD, of No. 22, Wells Street, in the Parish of Saint Mary-
lebone, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR WATERPROOFING, SOFTENING, AND
PRESERVING ALL KINDS OF LEATHER, AND ARTICLES MADE THEREFROM," to. be as
follows:-
An improved composition which has for its object the waterproofing, soften->
ing, and preserving all kinds of leather and articles made therefrom, and which
is composed of the following articles, and in the proportions hereafter. named:-
Castor oil, eight parts or pounds.
Boiled linseed oil, one part or pound..
Beeswax, one part or pound.
Fir balsam, one-eighth of a part or pound..
Tannic acid, one-sixteenth of a part or pound.

page_text: All the above ingredients are to be melted and incorporated together, and
to be applied to the leather in the following manner :-The composition must
be heated until it is liquefied, and applied while warm to the leather with a
brush, and afterward to be rubbed into the leather with the hand till the
pores of the leather are filled; the composition should now be allowed to dry
into the leather for two or three days, when the process must be repeated, and
the leather put aside until quite dry. When the composition has dried in, the
leather may be blacked and polished in the usual way, if carriage harness, the
usual harness polish may be applied. This composition will be found to
nourish the leather, rendering it capable of resisting the wet, and adding
greatly to its softness and durability.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the Edward Lloyd in the Great Seal Patent Office on the .30th
November 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
LLOYD, of No. 22, Wells Street, in the Parish of Saint Marylebone, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,, give and grant unto me, the
said Edward Lloyd, Her special licence that I, the said Edward Lloyd, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward
Lloyd, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter 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 "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION WHICH
HAS FOR ITS OBJECT THE WATERPROOFING, SOFTENING, AND PRESERVING ALL KINDS
OF LEATHER, AND ARTICLES MADE THEREFROM," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Edward Lloyd, 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 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..

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Lloyd, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment:-
An improved composition which has for its object the waterproofing, soft-
ening, and preserving all kinds of leather and articles made therefrom, and
which is composed of the following ingredients, and in the proportions here-
after named :—
Castor oil, eight parts or pounds.
Boiled linseed oil, one part or pound.
Beeswax, one part or pound.
Fir balsam, one-eighth of a part or pound.
Tannic acid, one-sixteenth of a part or pound.
Or in such other proportions as may be suitable to the kind of leather to
which the composition has to be applied.
.
The above ingredients are to be melted and incorporated together, and the
composition applied to the leather in the following manner:-The composition
must be heated until it is liquified, and applied while warm to the leather
with a brush, and afterwards to be rubbed into the leather with the hand till
the pores of the leather are filled; the composition should now be allowed to
dry into the leather for two or three days, when the above process must be
repeated, and the leather put aside until quite dry. When the composition
has dried in, the leather may be blacked and polished in the usual way, or if
carriage barness, the usual harness polish may be applied. This composition
will be found to nourish the leather, rendering it capable of resisting the wet,
and adding greatly to its softness and durability.
I claim the right of adding to the above composition such coloring matter
as may be suited to the color of the leather to which the composition has to
be applied.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Lloyd, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
EDWARD LLOYD. (L.S.)