Improvements in and relating to the Treatment of Hides.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Jan., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 13th Oct., 1899—Accepted, 2nd Dec., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Treatment of Hides.
We, JOHN DUNN, of the Firm of Dunn Brothers, of Tanner Street, Bermondsey,
in the County of London, Leather Manufacturers; and GEORGE HENRY JAMES,
trading as G. H. James & Co., of 48, Old Bailey, in the City of London, Fancy
Leather Goods Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the treatment of cow, horse and like hides for the
purpose of producing imitation morocco in all shades, colour and finish and
suitable for being made into bags and portmanteaus and for all fancy leather
work for which morocco is generally used.
The method of treating the hides is as follows; the hides should be carefully
selected for the purpose intended, namely free from scratches and breaks even
in texture and weight and supple.
The selected hides are first degreased or properly cleansed of all fatty
matter, in the ordinary way after which, as the nature or strength of the hides
is naturally weakened, they are re-tanned in shumac and then allowed to slowly
drv.
When properly dried the hides are scoured with a stiff brush or cocoanut matting
with water or a solution of ammonia or soda then cleared by immersing them in
a strong bath of vitroil and water for about 15 minutes and subsequently im-
mersed in two or three baths of clear water and kept well on the move until all
the acid is removed. The hides are then boarded out as dry as possible then
placed in a bath of colour and turned backwards and forwards until the required
shade is attained.
The coloured or dyed hides are then pressed or boarded out ready for the shaver
who pares them down to the required even substance (all over) and they are then
struck out and strained on a flat board in the stove or open air as found desirable.
When dry they are ready to be finished.
To finish the hides they are first seasoned and then embossed or printed with
heavy pressure either in long grain or cross grain, hard grain or levant which-
ever is required, by means of embossed rollers or plates, and subsequently dried
off in a lot stove; after which the finisher again seasons and prepares them
ready for rolling by the machine or by hand; the hides are then rolled and glazed,
grained or corked up, well re-rolled and glazed and grained again and lastly
nicely drawn up, when they are ready for sale.
Dated this 14th day of January 1900.
2004
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.,
Patent Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: trading as G. H. James & Co., of 48, Old Bailey, in the City of London, Fancy
Leather Goods Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to the treatment of cow, horse and like hides for the
purpose of producing imitation morocco in all shades, colour and finish and
suitable for being made into bags and portmanteaus and for all fancy leather
work for which morocco is generally used.
The method of treating the hides is as follows:-the hides should be carefully
selected for the purpose intended, namely free from scratches and breaks, even
in texture and weight, and supple.
The selected hides are first degreased or properly cleansed of all fatty
matter, in the ordinary way after which, as the nature or strength of the hides
is naturally weakened, they are re-tanned in shumac and then allowed to slowly
dry.
When properly dried the hides are scoured with a stiff brush or cocoanut matting
with water or a solution of ammonia or soda then cleared by immersing them in
a strong bath of vitroil and water for about 15 minutes and subsequently im-
mersed in two or three baths of clear water and kept well on the move until all
the acid is removed. The hides are then boarded out as dry as possible then
placed in a bath of colour and turned backwards and forwards until the required
shade is attained.
The coloured or dyed hides are then pressed or boarded out ready for the shaver
who pares them down to the required even substance (all over) and they are then
struck out and strained on a flat board in the stove or open air as found desirable.
When dry they are ready to be finished.
To finish the hides they are first seasoned and then embossed or printed with
heavy pressure, either in long grain or cross grain, hard grain or levant, which-
ever is required, by means of embossed rollers or plates, and subsequently dried
off in a hot stove; after which the finisher again seasons and prepares them
ready for rolling by the machine or by hand; the hides are then rolled and glazed,
grained or corked up, well re-rolled and glazed and grained again and lastly
nicely drawn up, when they are ready for sale.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
The process herein described for treating hides, which process consists of the
following steps; first, degreasing and then re-tanning and drying; secondly
scouring with water or a solution of ammonia or soda, cleaning with a solution of
sulphuric acid and with water, boarding out and colouring or dyeing; thirdly
pressing, shaving, straining and drying; fourthly, seasoning and embossing or
printing and drying and finally, re-seasoning, rolling, and glazing, all in the
order and for the purposes set forth.
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F. W. GOLBY,
Patent Agent, 36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.