A CERTAIN ANIMAL SUBSTANCE, AND A METHOD OF PRE- PARING AND MANUFACTURING THE SAME, WHEREBY THE SAID SUBSTANCE BECOMES APPLICABLE AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR HORSE AND OTHER HAIR, NOW USED FOR THE STUFFING OF CUSHIONS, MATTRASES, CARRIAGES, SOFAS, CHAIRS, &C., AND ALL OTHER PURPOSES FOR WHICH FLOCKS, WOOL, OR HAIR, ARE NOW GENERALLY AFFLIED
Year: 1806

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
RANDOM DE BERENGER, of Hart Street, Bloomsbury, in the County of Middle-
sex, Artist, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fourth day of
July, in the forty-sixth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
Charles Random do Berenger, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial
licence that I, the said Charles Random de Berenger, my exors, admors, and
assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, "A CERTAIN ANIMAL SUBSTANCE, AND A METHOD OF PRE-
PARING AND MANUFACTURING THE SAME, WHEREBY THE SAID SUBSTANCE BECOMES
APPLICABLE AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR HORSE AND OTHER HAIR, NOW USED FOR THE
STUFFING OF CUSHIONS, MATTRASES, CARRIAGES, SOFAS, CHAIRS, &C., AND ALL OTHER
PURPOSES FOR WHICH FLOCKS, WOOL, OR HAIR, ARE NOW GENERALLY AFFLIED;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Charles
Random de Berenger, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
to cause a particular description of the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Random de Berenger, do hereby declare that the said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described in manner
following, that is to say :-
The said article, or substitute for horse hair, is manufactured of the hair or
coat of hogs (not of the bristles or mane of the hog, but of the hair of its
body in general); long hair of large hogs is the best for the purpose, but even
that of pigs may be made use of. After killing the hog, the hair is scalded
and scraped off, as at present, it is then washed and cleansed and thrown into
lime water, where it may remain from one to two days, tho' the immerging
in lime water is not absolutely necessary, it is nevertheless desirable, as thereby
every fleshy substance is destroyed, and putrefaction completely prevented; it
is then washed in cold water, and twisted into a cord of about the thickness of
a goose quill, which cord is forced into a tin, glass, or other tube, while it is
twisted; the tube to be about three-quarter of an inch diameter, and from
fifteen to thirty or more inches in length, tho' the length is immaterial; this
cord will readily coil itself round in the inside, and a stick should occasionally
be introduced to force it quite tight; when full these tubes must be corked up
close at both ends, and when a sufficient number of tubes are filled, they are.
to be placed into a copper of boiling water, where they should continue for
two hours, the water boiling the while. The hair is then taken out of the
tubes and left to cool in solid pieces; these are afterwards unpicked, when the
hair will be quite curly; it is then loosely thrown into large carthen pans,
with fine dry sand at the bottom, and a layer of dry sand is sifted on every layer
of hair till the pans are filled; they are then tied over with brown paper, and;
put into a hot oven, where they may so remain for three or four hours (the
heat must not be sufficient to burn the brown paper, but nearly so); after the
sand is quite cold it is passed thro' a sieve, and the hair will be found fit for
use, having obtained a good curl and fine elastic power, being also perfectly
clean and incapable of engendering any vermin.
N.B. A small wheel, or other machine commonly used for twisting, may
also be used for twisting the hair together; to put it into tubes, either in this
case or when twisted with the fingers, the cords so twisted need not be long;
the hair should be damp to be twisted.
S
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Random de Berenger, have hero-s
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seven.
CH RANDOM DE BERENGER. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of January,
in the year of our Lord 1807, the aforesaid Charles Random de Berenger
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.
Inrolled the Twenty-third day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seven.