Specification of William Edward Newton : preserving skins.

  • Newton, William Edward.
Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of William Edward Newton : preserving skins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Newtons Improvements in the Treatment and Preservation of Shins. half the time. When the hair has been removed the skins may be immersed a second time in the hydrocarbon ; after this they may be rinsed in water, and then submitted to the ordinary processes of tanning or dressing. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said William Edward Newton, in the Great Seal Patent Office 5 on the 2nd January 1864. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters 10 Patent, bearing date the Second day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Edward Newton, Her special license that I, the said William Edward Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns 15 or such others as I, the said William Edward Newton, 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, go and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improvements in the Treatment and Preservation of Skins of all Kinds,” being a,communication from Leonard Laureau, of Rue Saint Sebastien, Paris, in the Empire of France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Newton, b\ <m iustiument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly 25 desciibe 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 cal 1 atent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Newton, do hereby 30 .GC arG nature ^he said Invention, and in what manner the same to be pei formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to say) ' ^nunt*on consists in submitting skins to the action of liquid hydro- , . . ° ky distillation from mineral or vegetable tar) for the purpose 35 anmng 9? dressing them, or converting them into leather. It has been