NEW-INVENTED EXTRACT OR PREPARATION OF OR FROM BARE
Year: 1793

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WARDEN, of Shelburne, in the Province of Nova Scotia, in North America,
Trader, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing dato
at Westminster, the Second day of October, in the thirty-third year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said William Warden, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, Flis especial licence, full power, sole priviledgo
and authority, that I, the said William Warden, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, by myself and themselves, or by my or their deputy or
deputies, servants or agents, or such others, as I, the said William Warden,
my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend my "NEW-INVENTED EXTRACT OR PREPARATION OF OR FROM BARE," within
that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in
all His Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such manner as to me, the
said William Warden, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of
us, should in our discretions seem meet; in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that if I, the said William Warden, should not particu-
larly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High

page_text: Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after
tho date of the said Letters l'atent, that then the said Letters Patent, and
all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease,
determine, and become void, anything therein-before contained to the con-
trary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said recited Letters
Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that 1, the said William Warden, in pursuance of and
in compliance with the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain tho naturo
of my said Invention, and declare that the same is to be performed in männer
following (that is to say) :-
From a conviction that the extract of bark will answer all the purposes of
tanning, as well as bark in the rough, its utility becomes both of a public
and private nature, by saving the timber of these Kingdoms, and by reducing
the price of bark, and, of course, likewise of leather, this being the design
and intention of introducing the extract of bark into the world. The process
or manner of making the decoction is simply this :-The process may be carried
through either with one, two, or threo kettles or coppers, of whatever size
or dimensions the chymist or manufacturer shall think proper, but that it
may be made expeditiously and in large quantities,' three coppers are recom-
mended in preference to any other number as a set. They ought to be very
large, particularly the first or upper one, which should contain from three
thousand to four-thousand gallons, the second about eighteen hundred gallons,
and the third or last about one thousand gallons; each to have a cock fixed
near the bottom, and tho coppers placed one under the cock of the other, so
as conveniently to draw off the liquor from the first into the second,
from the second into the third, and from the third into casks, in such
manner as is described by the Plan or Drawing thereof in the margin of
theso Presents. No iron, however small, not oven a nail, should ever
touch the liquor, as it changes the complexion of the extract, and gives
a blackness to the leather. The three coppers being fixed as before de-
scribed, let the largest or upper one be filled with ground bark, then turn
on the water until the vessel can hold no more. Make it boil until the
strength of the liquor gives it the colour of strong cofleo; and turn the cock
and rack it into the reservoir or second copper. Keep adding water to the
bark in the first copper, and racking it off as before mentioned, until all the
restringent qualities, the salts, and juices of the bark are completely extracted,
which may be known by the liquor getting wenker, and by the tastelessness
of the bark on taking a little of it into the mouth. The liquor from the first
copper thus received into the second (which serves as a reservoir to feed con-

page_text: tinually the third) is all this time kept boiling and reducing, until it gets a
little glutinous, when it should be again racked off into the third copper, where
it is still kept reducing until it is brought to about the consistence of tar, or,
as a better standard, to the weight of from twenty-two to twenty-four ounces
avoirdupois the pint beer measure. It is then sufficiently done, and must be
drawn off from thence into casks, and when cold should be bunged up tight.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Warden, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.
Sealed and delivered by the above-
named William Warden (being first
duly stamped) in the presence of us,
WILL WARDEN. (L.8.)
THO. BAINBRIDGE.
WILL WARDEN. (L.S.)
Sealed and delivered by the above-
named William Warden (being first
duly stamped) in the presenco of us,
THO. BAINBRIDGE.
JOHN DAVIES.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the First day of November, in the
thirty-fourth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the
said William Warden came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes made in
the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary
of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth and twenty-third years of
the reign of His present Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the First day of November, in the year above written.