AN. IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR IMPARTING A GLOSSY OR LUSTROUS APPEARANCE TO BOOTS SHOES HARNESS BELTS AND OTHER ARTICLES "
Year: 1882

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LETTERS PATENT to Edward Wright and Arthur Wright both of Rephidim
Street, in the County of Surrey Manufacturers of inks and dyes for the
leather trade, for an Invention of AN. IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR
IMPARTING A GLOSSY OR LUSTROUS APPEARANCE TO BOOTS SHOES HARNESS
BELTS AND OTHER ARTICLES
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Wright and Arthur
Wright at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd October
1882.
EDWARD WRIGHT and ARTHUR WRIGHT, both of Repbidim Street, in the County
of Surrey, Manufacturers of inks and dyes for the leather trade "AN IMPROVED
COMPOSITION FOR IMPARTING A GLOSSY OR LUSTROUS APPEARANCE TO BOOTS,
SHOES, HARNESS, BELTS, AND OTHER ARTICLES
"
Our invention relates to a composition for imparting a brilliant black polish to
the edges of boot and shoe soles, harness bands or belts, and other articles.
Our improved composition is manufactured as follows that is to say:-We first
make a compound or mixture of Carnauba wax, white cerisin, palm or olive oil
soap, and vegetable black, which are subjected to sufficient heat to melt them; these
ingredients being used in about the proportion of one third ('/s) of the Carnauba
wax and the white cerisin, and one sixth ('/e) of the soap and the black. This
mixture or compound is dissolved in spirits of turpentine, benzoline, naphtha spirits
of wine or petroleum or any or all of these solvents. We then add to it a sufficient
quantity of beeswax to reduce the composition to, and keep it in, a pasty condition
and render it capable of imparting the desired lustre or polish to the articles on
which it is used.
Our improved composition is then ready for use and when put up in small boxes
or the like, and sold will remain in this condition so that it may be applied to
boots, shoes, or other articles without requiring any preparation or admixture with
other materials.
Our improved composition is chiefly intended for polishing or imparting lustre to
articles made of oil dressed leather but it may be applied to other articles or
materials for imparting to the same a black lustrous
appearance.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Edward Wright and Arthur Wright in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 2nd April 1883.
EDWARD WRIGHT and ARTHUR WRIGHT, both of Rephidim Street, in the County
of Surrey, Manufacturers of Inks and Dyes for the Leather Trade "AN IMPROVED
COMPOSITION FOR IMPARTING A GLOSSY OR LUSTROUS APPEARANCE TO BOOTS,
SHOES, HARNESS, BELTS AND OTHER ARTICLES
"
Our invention relates to a composition for imparting a brilliant polish to the
edges of boot and shoe soles, harness, bands or belts, and other articles.
Our improved composition is manufactured as follows, that is to say, we first
make a compound or mixture of Carnauba wax, white or yellow "ceresine," (or
what is usually known as "white artificial wax,") palm or olive oil soap, and
vegetable black, which are subjected to sufficient heat to melt them; these ingre-
dients being used in about the following proportions, viz:-One third ('/s) of the
Carnauba wax, one third (1/3) of the white or yellow "ceresine," one sixth (1/6) of
the soap, and one sixth ('/6) of the black. This mixture or compound is dissolved
in spirits of turpentine, benzoline, naphtha, spirits of wine, or petroleum, or any or
all of these solvents, a sufficient quantity of the said solvents being employed to
reduce the composition to, and keep it in, a pasty condition, and we then add a
small quantity of beeswax to render it capable of imparting the desired lustre or
polish to the articles on which it is used. In order to give the composition an
agreeable odour, we mix therewith a small quantity of citronella, essence of bitter
almonds, mirbane, attar of roses, or other suitable perfume.
Our improved composition is then ready for use, and, when put up in boxes and
sold, will still remain in this condition so that it may be applied to boots, shoes
or other articles, without requiring any preparation or admixture with other
materials.
The said composition is chiefly intended for polishing, or imparting lustre to,
articles made of leather, but it may be used with advantage for polishing furniture
and, for this purpose, we sometimes omit the vegetable black from the mixture
above described. It may also be used for imparting a lustrous appearance to
articles made of papier-maché, or to other articles or materials.
Having thus fully described our said invention and the manner of performing
the same we wish, it understood that we claim :-
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The improved composition manufactured substantially as above described for the
purpose specified.
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In witness whereof we the said Edward Wright and Arthur Wright have
hereunto set our hands and seals this thirty first day of March in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty three