Improved Blacking for Leather.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 1st July, 1891-Accepted, 1st Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Blacking for Leather.
I, JOHN PITT BAYLY, of 18 Fulham Place, Paddington, in the County of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a
communication to me from abroad by John Baulch, of St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
Inventor) to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide a new water-proof compound dressing
for leather.
The water-proof compound or leather blacking made in accordance with this
invention consists of two ounces of beeswax, four ounces of neat's foot oil, one and
half ounces of drop black, two ounces of heel-ball, and one ounce of molasses, all
mixed together substantially in the proportion herein set forth.
Dated this 1st day of October 1890.
:
J. P. BAYLY,
Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Blacking for Leather.
I, JOHN PITT BAYLY, of 18 Fulham Place, Paddington, in the County of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a
communication to me from abroad by John Baulch, of St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
Inventor,) 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 a waterproof compound that is especially adapted for
the treatment of harness and of all other products of leather-manufacture, which
compound, from its oleaginous and other penetrating elements, is very diffusive,
carrying both itself and the elements with which it combines into the pores of the
leather, from which, in consequence of its own capacity and that of other elements
of the device with which it combines it is not readily ejected by moisture or other
foreign elements that are obnoxious to the leather, and which fortifies the same
from evaporation, and consequent hardening and lack of pliability; and the
invention consists of features of novelty hereinafter fully described and pointed
out in the claims.
The preparation is composed substantially in accordance with and of the
constituent parts of the following formula, which formula is introduced by a table
of the respective parts with the amounts given of the elements that enter
into the combination, as follows: Beeswax, two ounces; neat's-foot oil, four
ounces; drop-black, one and one-half ounce; heel-ball, two ounces; molasses,
one ounce. These ingredients are mixed and thoroughly amalgamated in
the following manner: The neat's foot oil and drop-black are mixed by
trituration and ground in any suitable vessel and by any suitable means
until being themselves, as an initial step, thoroughly amalgamated, and the
drop-black effectually ground and disintegrated. Then stir in the molasses. In
the meantime the heel-ball and beeswax are to be heated together in any suitable
vessel until they reach the boiling-point. Then stir the previously triturated and
amalgamated neat's-foot oil, drop-black, and molasses into the above-stated boiled
beel-ball and beeswax, and thoroughly mix the whole of the ingredients together,
which are then to be boiled, so as to still more effectually amalgamate them and
bring them into complete affinity with each other. Then allow the compound to
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page_text: cool, and again, lastly, mix by trituration, so as to overcome the tendency of the
heavier elements to gravitate while the compound has been in a melted condition.
The prepared compound may be applied to the harness or other leather product
by a brush or cloth, or by any other suitable means.
The dressing thus prepared is very economic in its production, as no expensive
elements enter into its composition. It produces a surface highly impervious to
water, while it is itself very penetrating and diffusive, and hence renders the leather
very soft and pliable. It is very cleanly, as sufficient of its waxy ingredients
remain on the surface of the leather to constitute a hard, glossy, and smooth finish,
which does not transfer the colouring ingredients to objects that come in contact
with it, and which being elastic and pliable does not crack under the influences of
frost and heat.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. A water-proof compound dressing for leather, composed of the combination
of beeswax, neat's-foot oil, drop-black, heel-ball, and molasses, substantially in
accordance with the formula as described.
2. A water-proof compound dressing for leather composed of the combination of
the following ingredients in about the following proportions: two ounces of bees-
wax, four ounces of neat's-foot oil, one and a half ounce of drop-black, two ounces
of heel-ball, and one ounce of molasses, substantially in accordance with the
formula described.
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