CERTAIN IMPROVE- MENTS IN MAKING OR PRODUCING LEATHER PROM HIDES AND OTHER SKINS
Year: 1833

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN PAUL
NEUMANN, of Cornhill, in the City of London, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,.
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date-
at Westminster, the Twenty-first day of December, in the fourth year of
His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Paul Neumann, His espicial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said John Paul Neumann, my exors, admors,.
and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Paul Neumann, my exors,
adiñors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MAKING OR PRODUCING LEATHER PROM HIDES AND OTHER SKINS," com-
municated to me by a certain Foreigner residing abroad; in which said.
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said John Paul Neumann,
shall cause a particular description of the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in. His
said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next.and.
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in.
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will, more fully, and at large.
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Paul Neumann, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following description thereof, that is to
sav

page_text: The novelty and utility of the new Invention, communicated to me by a
certain Foreigner residing abroad, consist in employing the hop plant, whether
root, stalks, or leaves, or any part thereof, either in a green or dry state, but
I prefer the use of the plant in a dry state; and, for the sake of economy, I
give the preference to the stalks and the roots. But be it understood, although
I prefer the hop plant, or any part thereof, to be used by itself for the purpose
of tanning, yet they may be used in conjunction with any vegetable containing
tanning matter. The mode to which I give the preference for this plant to be
used for the purpose of tanning is, to grind or reduce it as fine as practicable,
and when so prepared it may be employed for every mode of tanning in the
same manner as oak bark, or any other vegetable containing tanning matter,
according to circumstances of different hides or skins. This tanning matter
may be applied either warm or cold, whether in extract or mixed with other
matter. Every practitioner in tanning will soon perceive
which mode is most applicable for the different hides or skins which he means
to subject to the process of tanning, as hides and skins require different modes
of treatment. With some it is necessary to use heat or warmth, and others
cold; but I prefer to have the bides or skins prepared in the usual mode
hitherto followed by practical tanners.
The principal novelty of this Invention consists in using the hop plant for
tanning, which hitherto has never been employed for that purpose; and by
means of this process it will be rendered both useful and valuable for the
purpose of tanning.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Paul Neumann, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
(L.B.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of June, in the
year of our Lord 1834, the aforesaid John Paul Neumann came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Indenture
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twentieth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.