Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Dec., 1886.
Complete Left, 7th May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 7th July, 1887.
I WILLIAM TUKE of 44 Stansfeld Street Old Radford Nottingham Leather
Dresser do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
Each skin to be embossed I damp in with water and place a number over cach
other until they are of equal dampness throughout then I season each skin on the
grain side with either blood or albumen and while damp place the pattern to bo
embossed upon the grain side of the skin, and press firmly upon the pattern above the
skin with either a hand or power driven jigger carrying a dummey or roller of the
usual, construction after the dummey or roller has been repeatedly passed over
the pattern an exact copy of it will be produced on the skin leaving the portions not
covered by the pattern with a burnished surface, if the skin is required to be more
highly burnished such burnishing is done after the pattern is removed from the skin.
Each pattern I employ is made of cotton lace having a spotted, sprigged, floral or
other pattern of any kind capable of being made on a curtain or levers twist lace
machine such cotton lace pattern I prepare with a bath of glue or gelatine size and
thoroughly dry the lace before placing it upon the skin.
A cotton lace pattern so prepared will serve to emboss several skins before requiring
to be prepared again.
By such means I am enabled to emboss the most intricate and beautiful designs
upon leather at considerable less cost than can possibly be produced by the expensive,
brass or copper embossing rollers heretofore employed.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
• Improvements in Embossing Leather.
1, WILLIAM TUKE of 44 Stansfeld Street, Old Radford, Nottingham, Leather
Dresser, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :—
In carrying out my improvements I procure a piece of patterned cotton lace of a
size corresponding to the size of the skin to be embossed, the lace may be of any
kind capable of being made on a warp lace machine, a twist lace curtain machine, or
a levers machine, the pattern on the lace may be either a spotted, sprigged, floral, or
other pattern. Such patterned cotton lace I prepare for use by immersing it in a bath
of glue or gelatine size, and after shaking out the superfluous size, I thoroughly dry
the laco so as to leave it as even as possible.
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Each skin to be embossed I damp in "with water, and place a number of them
evenly over each other and let them lie until they are of equal dampness throughout,
I then season each skin on the grain side with either blood or albumen, evenly placed
thereon by means of a sponge or other suitable soft material, and while the skin is
damp I place the front side of the dry prepared patterned lace upon the grain side
and press firmly upon the patterned lace above the skin with either a hand or power
driven "jigger" carrying a dummy or roller of the usual construction, after the
dummy or roller has been repeatedly passed over the back of the patterned lace, upon
the lace being removed from the skin, an exact copy of it will have been embossed on
the skin, leaving the portions of the skin not covered with the patterned lace with a
burnished surface, if the skin is required to be more highly burnished, such burnishing
is done after the embossing is finished and the patterned lace has been removed
from it.
Cotton lace patterns prepared as above described will serve to emboss several skins
before requiring preparation again.
By such means I am enabled to emboss the most intricate and beautiful designs
upon leather at considerable less cost than can possibly be produced by the expensive
brass or copper embossing rollers heretofore employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
The improved method of embossing leather by employing prepared cotton lace
patterns substantially as described.
Dated this Twenty-ninth day of April 1887.