IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LEATHER FOR PICKING BANDS, LATHES, AND OTHER ARTICLES REQUIRING LEATHER OF AN EXTRAORDINARY TOUGHNESS, DURABILITY, AND STRENGTH.
Year: 1870

page_text: ETTERS PATENT to Edward Moss, of Winchester House, Old Broad
Street, in the City of London, Gentleman, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LEATHER FOR PICKING BANDS,
LATHES, AND OTHER ARTICLES REQUIRING LEATHER OF AN EXTRAORDINARY
TOUGHNESS, DURABILITY, AND STRENGTH.". - A communication from abroad
by Messieurs Klemm, Brothers, of Pfullingen, near Reutlingen, in
SW...the
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aled the 7th February 1871, and dated the 9th August 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Moss at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th August 1870.
I, EDWARD Moss, of Winchester House, Old Broad Street, in the City
of London, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LEATHER FOR PICKING BANDS,
LATHES, AND OTHER ARTICLES REQUIRING LEATHER OF AN EXTRAORDINARY TOUGHNESS,
DURABILITY, AND STRENGTH," communicated to me from abroad by Messrs..
Klemm, Brothers, of Pfullingen, near Reutlingen, in the Kingdom of
Wurttemberg, Tanners and Curriers, to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in impregnating the hides and skins to be
manufactured into leather for picking bands, lathes, and other articles.

page_text: requiring leather of an extraordinary toughness, durability, and strength
with the two following compositions after the hair adhering to them
has been removed and the hides and skins steeped in water, and
partially dried, that is to say, for every four hundred pounds weight of
composition No. 1 are used 200 pounds weight of sugar of grapes,
heretofore commonly used in the manufacture of artificial wines. One
hundred and thirty-three pounds weight of train oil, & sixty-seven
pounds weight of tallow. The two latter ingredients may be substituted
by any other animal or vegetable fat or grease or fatty substance
according to circumstances.
Composition No. 2 is composed as follows:-For every four hundred
pounds weight of composition are used one hundred and eighty pounds
weight of sugar of grapes, one hundred and twenty pounds weight of
train oil, sixty pounds of tallow, and forty pounds weight of resin.
Composition No. 1 is mixed as follows:-The sugar of grapes is first
melted in a boiler, during which process it is kept continually stirred,
when melted the tallow is added & the mixture continually stirred.
until the tallow is also melted. The boiler is then removed from the
fire and the train oil added, & the whole is again continually stirred
until it is reduced to a temperature of twenty-five degrees Reaumur.
Composition No. 2 is mixed in a similar manner, but is kept con-
tinually stirred until it is cold, and water is added in small quantities
until the composition forms a light yellow salve. The above proportions
may be varied according to the quality of the hides and skins to be
treated.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Moss in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 7th February 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
Moss, of Winchester House, Old Broad Street, in the City of London,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-fourth
year of Her reign did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give

page_text: and grant unto me, the said Edward Moss, Her special licence, that I,
the said Edward Moss, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Edward Moss, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LEATHER
FOR PICKING BANDS, LATRES, AND OTHER ARTICLES REQUIRING LEATHER OF AN
EXTRAORDINARY Toughness, Durability, and Strength,” upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Edward Moss, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Moss, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :→
The said Invention consists in impregnating the hides or skins to be
manufactured into leather for picking bands, lathes, and other articles
requiring leather of an extraordinary toughness, durability, and strength
with the two following compositions after the hair adhering to them
has been removed, and the hides and skins steeped in water, cleaned and
partially dried, that is to say, for every 400 lbs. weight of composition
No. 1 are used 200 lbs. weight of sugar of grapes, heretofore commonly
used in the manufacture of artificial wines, 133 lbs. weight' of train oil,
and 67 lbs. weight of tallow. The two latter ingredients may be
substituted by any other animal or vegetable fat or grease or fatty
substance according to circumstances.
Composition No. 2 is composed as follows:-For every 400 lbs. weight
of composition are used 180 lbs. weight of sugar of grapes, 120 lbs.
weight of train oil, 60 lbs. weight of tallow, and 40 lbs. weight of resin.
Sirup, treacle, or other saccharine matter may be advantageously used
instead of sugar of grapes according to the quality of the leather to
be manufactured.

page_text: Composition No. 1 is mixed as follows:-The sugar of grapes, sirup,
treacle, or other saccharine matter is first melted in a boiler, during which
process it is kept continually stirred, when melted the tallow is added,
and the mixture continually stirred until the tallow is also melted.
boiler is then removed from the fire and the train oil added, and the
whole again continually stirred until it is reduced to a temperature of
25 degrees Reaumur.
The
Composition Number 2 is mixed in a similar manner but is kept con-
tinually stirred until it is cold, and water is added in small quantities
until the composition forms a light yellow salve. The above proportions
may be varied according to the quality of the hides or skins to be
treated.
'
Having thus set forth the nature of the said Invention the following
is the best manner in which it may be carried into effect:-The hair
is first removed from the hides or skins, which are then steeped in water
and cleaned; they are then partially dried, laid upon tables, and smeared
over with the first composition on both sides until the necessary
quantity of the said composition is equally distributed over each side of
the hides or skins; they are theu fulled in the fulling tube, which is first
heated to from thirty to fourty degrees Reaumur for from six to eight
hours, in which time they will have absorbed the composition; they
are then in the same manner smeared over with the-second composition
and fulled as before, the fulling tube being also heated as before, and
when the hides or skins have been thoroughly penetrated they are
converted into leather, and are then made plane or smoothed, according
to the usual method, and when dry are fit for use. If the hides or skins
are extra strong or thick they must be smeared a second time with the
second composition and fulled as before. The leather receives by this
process a yellow colour but a brown or any other colour, may be imparted
by the hides or skins being dyed by tan or other suitable material
previously to the application of the first composition. The fulling tube
used in this process is the same as that used in the Invention for
improvements in the manufacture of leather for mill bands, Patented by
me on the eighth day of June 1870, and which Patent is Numbered
1662.
This Invention consists more particularly in the employment of sugar
of grapes, sirup, treacle, or other saccharine matter as a material for
converting or tanning hides or skins into leather for picking bands,

page_text: lathes, and other articles requiring leather of an extraordinary toughness,
durability, and strength, and acquires by this process greater durability,
strength, and toughness than any other leather now used for such
purposes.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Moss, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixth day of February One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.