AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR UNITING IRON WITH WOOD, AND LEATHER WITH LEATHER, FOR WATERPROOFING TEXTILE FABRICS, PAPER, AND CORDAGE, FOR. MOULDING, AND FOR VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, of
the General Patent Offices, 10, Rue de la Fidélité, Paris, in the Empire
of France, and 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Patent Agent, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR UNITING IRON WITH WOOD,
AND LEATHER WITH LEATHER, FOR WATERPROOFING TEXTILE FABRICS, PAPER,
AND CORDAGE, FOR. MOULDING, AND FOR VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES."-A com-
munication from Messieurs Henri Lemaistre and Company, of Brussels,
in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Sealed the 28th March 1865, and dated the 26th October 1864
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Armand Le Comte
de Fontaine Moreau at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,,
with his Petition, on the 26th October 1864.
I, PETER ARMAND LE COMTE DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of the General Patent
Offices, 10, Rue de la Fidélité, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 4, South
Street, Finsbury, London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR UNITING IRON WITH WOOD,
AND LEATHER WITH LEATHER, FOR WATERPROOFING TEXTILE FABRICS, PAPER, AND
CORDAGE, FOR MOULDING, AND FOR VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows, that
is to say:
This Invention consists in making a new kind of composition or solder for
uniting iron with wood, for joining leather, for rendering textile fabrics, paper,

page_text: and cordage waterproof, and for moulding, but more expecially for the manu-
facture of leather straps or bands.
The solder or composition consists of a solution of about 50 grains of gutta
percha for about a quart of sulphuret of carbon. I sometimes use strips of
muslin in addition to the composition. To use this composition it is only
necessary to heat the parts to be joined, to cover them with the composition,
and hold them to a fire without flame after having dried them.
For the manufacture of straps or bands, the ends of the pieces of leather
are cut feather-edged by means of a proper knife, or one end may be cut
feather-edged to fit into a slit cut in the other, by which means the adhesive
surface is increased; the surfaces are covered with the composition and left to
dry, then heated in a fire and hammered or pressed. The joining may be
afterwards rendered stronger by driving in brass eyelets beat out over the
leather at convenient distances apart.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine Moreau in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 24th April 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
ARMAND LE COMTE FONTAINE MOREAU, of the General Patent Offices,
10, Rue de la Fidélité, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, Patent Agent, send greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de. Fontaine Moreau, Her special
licence that I, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Peter
Armand Le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR UNITING IRON WITH WOOD, AND
LEATHER WITH LEATHER, FOR WATERPROOFING TEXTILE FABRICS, PAPER, AND
CORDAGE, FOR MOULDING, AND FOR VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES," (a communication

page_text: from Messieurs Henry Lemaistre and Company, of Brussels, in the Kingdom
of Belgium,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Peter Armand
Le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the late of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
The Invention communicated to me relates to an improved mode of uniting
iron to wood, and leather with leather, for waterproofing fibrous substances,
and especially for manufacturing leather bands and cords or ropes of all sizes
and of any required length.
To carry out the Invention I make use of a solution having gutta percha
for basis, and which solution is composed of about 12 ounces of gutta percha for
every pint and three-quarters of sulphate of carbon. To make use of this solu-
tion it suffices to heat the parts to be joined, and to lay some of the composition
or solution over them, and when they are dried they are brought to a fire without
flame. Sometimes it is advisable in order to strengthen the joint, to surround
it with small bands of muslin or other similar fabric which receives the solution.
For manufacturing straps, the leather is prepared feather-edged by cutters,
the bands are roughed to present a larger adhesive surface, and receive the
solution before being joined, then they are sized and passed over a brisk fire, and
being heated they are firmly joined by a hammer or under rollers. The
soldering is still further strenthened by employing metal eyelets at convenient
distances apart, and properly rivetted.
The cotton cords employed for spinning may be very advantageously
replaced by leather cords or plaits, made of three or more properly cut ends
of the required size, and to which the solution is applied before the twisting
or plaiting. To join them, one of the ends is opened or flattened, and the
other end being tapered or made smaller is surrounded by the first, which
covers it, and the two ends are made tight by sewing, rivetting, or any other
convenient means. Textile fabrics may be made waterproof by receiving a
coating of the above described composition or solution.
And having now described the nature of the Invention communicated to
me, and the best means of putting the same into execution, I wish it be

page_text: understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details herein-before
laid down, provided the principle of the Invention be retained; but what I
claim and wish to be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent is,
Firstly, the preparation of a solution having gutta percha for basis, and its
application to the purposes herein-before described.
Secondly, the mode of cutting and uniting leather with leather, either for
bands, plaits, or cords.
And, thirdly, the application of eyelets and rivets for the purposes herein-
before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day
of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-five.
L. DE FONTAINE MOREAU. (Ls.)
Witness,
G. F. RELVERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury,
London.