CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN TANNING
Year: 1852

page_text: MORIDE, OI Name
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Thirtieth day of Sep-
tember, in the sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Edouard Moride, my exors,
adors, and assigns, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Edouard Moride, my exors, adñiors, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Edouard Moride, my exors, admors, and 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, and in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark,
and Man, and also in all Her said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad,
my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN TANNING;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso that I, the said Edouard Moride, shall
cause a particular description of the nature of iny said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, to be enrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chan-
cery 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that, in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Edouard Moride, do hereby declare that the nature of my Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had
to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say :--
My Invention consists in the application of an apparatus known under the
name of "monte jus," or ooze cylinder (the shape of which may vary) for
the preparation in a cold state, and sheltered from the air of the concentrated
oozes used for tanning.
The following is a description of the Drawings:-A, A', A", are reservoirs
to receive the oozes at various degrees of concentration; B, B', steam boiler;
E, E, ooze cylinder; F, F, F, vats for preparing hides; G, G', pipe to bring
the steam under the piston of the engine D; I, I, diaphragm placed inside
the ooze cylinder to receive the tanning substances; H, H', pipe to bring the
steam into the ooze cylinder; K, 1', pipe through which the liquid flows out of
the lower part of the ooze cylinder to go through the pipes L, L, L", and
into the reservoirs A, A', A"; M, M', M", pipes through which the liquid of
the reservoirs A, A', A", flows into a moveable tube O, O; N, N', N", move-
able tubes for distributing the liquid in the preparing vats F, F, F"; S, screw
to tighten the cover; T, suction pipe with cock to bring the cold water into the
ooze cylinder. The apparatus works as follows:-The steam is allowed at a
tension of from one to three atmospheres to arrive at the upper part of the
ooze cylinder. This cylinder is closed at each extremity, and provided at its
lower part with a tube through which the ooze is to run out. The pulverized
vegetable substance is placed inside of the cylinder, and on a diaphragm of
copper. The vegetable substance to be used should be previously wetted, it is
covered with water, and when the steam valve is opened the pressure of the
steam obliges the water to pass through it. That water dissolves the tanning
acid and soluble substances which may be used for tanning. After having
undergone this operation three times, the organic substance is completely
exhausted, and may be replaced by fresh water. The oozes which are obtained
contain more or less tannin as they proceed from the first, second, or third
treatment. They are classed according to their strength, in order that the
operation of tanning hides may be commenced with the weakest oozes and
terminated with the most concentrated, as indicated in the annexed Drawings;
my ooze cylinder is arranged in such a manner as to allow the liquid proceed-
ing from each of the thee treatments of the tanning substances to be con-
ducted through the tubes M, M¹, M", into the reservoirs A, A', A".

page_text: I claim the application of the above-described apparatus for the preparation
f the oozes employed for tanning.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edouard Moride, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Fourteenth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Taken and acknowledged by Edouard
Moride (party hereto), at Nantes,
in the Empire of France, this
Fourteenth day of March. 1853.
EDOUARD MORIDE. (L.S.)
This is the Specification referred to in the annexed Affidavit of William
Kuper, of 6, Chatham Place, Blackfriars, in the County of Middlesex, Wire
Rope Manufacturer, and sworn before me, the Thirtieth day of March, One
thousand eight hundred & fifty-three:
T. DREW.
William Kuper, of No. 6, Chatham Place, Blackfriars, in the County of
Middlesex, Wire Rope Manufacturer, maketh oath and saith, that he is
acquainted with the manner and character of the handwriting of Henry
Newman, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Nantes, in the Empire of
France. And this Deponent further saith, that the signature "Henry
Newman," set, subscribed, or written in the margin of the Specification
hereunto annexed (marked A), and dated the Fourteenth day of March
instant, and purporting to be executed by Edouard Moride, of Nantes,
whereby it is stated that the Specification was acknowledged by him, the said
Edouard Moride, before the said Henry Newman, on the Fourteenth day of
March, at Nantes aforesaid, is of the proper handwriting of the said Henry
Newman

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the oath of William Kuper, the
Specification aforesaid was enrolled, word for word, as above written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
made for that purpose.