An Improvement in the Treatment of Hides for Belting and such like Purposes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 10th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 12th Feb. 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Treatment of Hides for Belting and such
like Purposes.
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CHARLES LOUIS ROYER, of Bond Street, Hopwood Lane, Halifax, in the County
of York, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
In preparing hides for belting and such like purposes requiring great tensile
strength and flexibility, it is usual, after removing the hair, to partly tan the hides,
dry them, soak them in water, and after seasoning, to smear them with oily matter
and then to full them in machines where they are subjected to great squeezing and
dragging strains, which frequently cause them to crack in the grain.
My invention relates to an improvement in this treatment whereby I save time
and expense and avoid the damage that often results from fulling hides treated in the
usual way.
For this purpose, after removing the hair and drying the hides, but without any
tanning steep them in water and then full them with substances not of an oily
character, that is to say, water with materials such as keratine, flour, glycerine, oxgall,
soap, and others.
After fulling I soak the hides for several days in water, I remove the substance used
in fulling, and then tan the fulled hides, and finally grease them.
After drying, excess of grease is removed, and the hides are then ready for being
cut into belting.
Dated this 10th day of May 1888
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Treatment of Hides for Belting and such
like Purposes.
I, CHARLES LOUIS ROYER, of Bond Street, Hopwood Lane, Halifax, in the County
of York Manufacturer, 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 :—
In preparing hides for belting and such like purposes requiring great tensile
strength and flexibility, it is usual, after removing the hair, to partly tan the hides,
dry them, soak them in water, and, after seasoning, to smear them with oily matter
and then to full them in machines where they are subjected to great squeezing and
dragging strains, which frequently cause them to crack in the grain.
My invention relates to an improvement in this treatment whereby I save time and
expense and avoid the damage that often results from fulling hides treated in the
usual way.
For this purpose, after removing the air and drying the hides, but without any
tanning, I steep them in water and then full them with substances not of an oily
character, that is to say, water with materials such as keratine, flour, glycerine, oxgall,
soap and others.
After fulling, I soak the hides for several days in water, I remove the substance
used in fulling, and then tan the fulled hides, and finally grease them.
After drying, excess of grease is removed and the hides are then ready for being
cut into belting.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The herein described treatment of hides for belting and like purposes, by removing
hair, drying the bides steeping them in water, fulling them with non-oleaginous
substances, soaking the hides and removing fulling materials, tanning and greasing
the hides.
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