A MACHINE FOR BETTER STRIKING AND FINISHING OF LEATHER
Year: 1815

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
HARVEY, of Long Lane, in the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey,
in the County of Surrey, Tanner, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Fourth day of August now last past, for Himself, His
heirs and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Harvey,.
His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said
Joseph Harvey, my exors, admors, and assigns, and every of them, by
myself and themselves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants or
agents, or such other as I, the said Joseph Harvey, my exors, admors, 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, within England and Wales and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A MACHINE FOR BETTER
STRIKING AND FINISHING OF LEATHER;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso obliging me, the said Joseph Harvey, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
and to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within two calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said

page_text: recited Letters Fatent, as m and by the same, reference being thereunto a
will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Harvey, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by the Plan or
Drawing in the margin of these Presents, and the following description thereof,
that is to say:
DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES 1 AND 2 OF A MACHINE FOR BETTER STRIKING
AND FINISHING OF LEATHER.
The same letters in both denote the same things. A represents a horse
wheel, or any other first mover, of 121 cogs, working in a pinion of 35 cogs
on the horizontal shaft B, which shaft drives the stamper B by four joggles,
and beats the leather laid out on the pile L. C is a wheel of 66 cogs, driving
a pinion of 30 cogs on the shaft D, E; G, G, F, is a cast-iron frame, in the
bottom of which is the brass roll F, which traverses on the leather spread on
the table, as herein-after described. To the frame G, G, F, is screwed the
toothed frame E, E. H is a spur wheel on the shaft D, E, working in the
teeth of E, E; one end of the shaft D, E, turns in the end of the
lever H, K, I, which lever is moveable round the centre K. D is a universal
joint, allowing the shaft D, E, to turn either up or down, being confined side-
ways by the long bearing M. N is the handle of catch box, to throw the
machinery for rolling out of gear, that the stampers may be separately worked.
When the machine is at work the wheel H is turned in the direction K, H,
and being fixed on the shaft it consequently communicates to the frame G, G, F,
a progressive horizontal motion, until the circular end of the frame reaches
the wheel, which, continuing to turn in the same direction, draws itself down
round the end of the long projecting piece E, E. When the weight I on the
lever H, K, I, forces the end of the shaft against the under side of the pro-
jecting piece E, E, and the frame returns in a contrary direction until the
other circular ends arrives at the wheel, when the weight on the lever raises
the end of the shaft D, E, round the end of the projecting piece E, E, to its
first situation. After the leather has been beaten by the stampers, as above
described, it is placed on the table and the roll moved over it. When the
roll reaches the end of leather, the workman lays a piece of wood equal in
thickness to the leather for it to run on, at the same time moving the hide
with his other hand to a new place. But nevertheless I, the said Joseph
Harvey, do not intend to confine myself to the number of cogs to all or any
of the wheels, or to the number of stampers or rollers to be worked by the

page_text: said machine, or to the metals or materials of which all or any part or parts
of the said machine is or are composed or made, nor to confine myself to
the said dimensions, as are above described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-
ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifteen
day of October, in the
year of our Lord 1815, the aforesaid Joseph Harvey came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.