AN IMPROVED REGULATING JUPON
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, of the Firm of Robert-
son, Brooman, and Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London,
Patent Agents, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED REGULATING
JUPON. A Communication from abroad by Paul de Plument de
Bailhac, of Paris, France.
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Sealed the 29th November 1867, and dated the 27th June 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Clinton Edgcumbe
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 27th June 1867.
I, CLINTON EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and
Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED REGULATING
JUPON," to be as follows:-
The chief feature of this Invention is the
shortening a jupon at will altogether or only at
suit different figures and uses.
means of lengthening or
some parts of it, so as to
The bottom ends of a series of tapes or strips are sewn to the ordinary
bottom of the jupon, and buckles are attached to the other ends of these
tapes or strips; other tapes or strips of the same kind are attached to the
waistband. The tapes or strips depending from the waistband are passed
through the buckles attached to the lower tapes or strips, and the jupon thus

page_text: connected can be adjusted not only to any height of person or figure, but also
to suit all weathers, whether fine or rainy, or again for walking or indoors;
or the tapes or strips instead of being in two parts may be in a single piece,
passing through loops or otherwise in the waistband, and having adjusting
sliding buckles attached to their ends and sliding on the tapes or strips, by
which means the jupon may be adjusted as before stated. Any desirable
number of the tapes or strips may be employed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 24th December 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CLINTON
EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and Company, of
166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord'
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said
Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 REGULATING JUPON," (communicated to me from
abroad by Paul de Plument de Bailhac, of Paris, France,) upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by

page_text: the following statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in means of lengthening or shortening a jupon at
will, either altogether or only at some parts of it, so as to suit different figures
and uses.
For this purpose the bottom part of the jupon is connected to the top or
waistband by flexible tapes, strips, or bands, each composed of two parts.
One of the parts of each tape, strip, or band is sewn or attached at its lower
end to the bottom part of the jupon, while its upper end is connected by a
buckle to the lower end of the corresponding upper part of the tape, strip, or
band, the upper end of this part being attached to the waistband. Each tape,
strip, or band being thus divided and provided with a buckle can be
lengthened or shortened separately, so that the jupon can be readily raised or
lowered at any part desired. The number of the tapes, strips, or bands may
be varied.
The essential feature of the Invention consists in the means afforded by
these tapes, strips, or bands made in two parts connected together by a buckle,
of being able to lengthen or shorten them as required according to the height
or figure of the wearer, or according to whether the weather be fine or wet, or
for indoors or walking.
Figure 1 of the annexed Drawings represents a jupon made according to
this Invention.
A is the ordinary bottom part of the jupon provided with hoops or springs
as usual; this part is connected to the waist part B by tapes, strips, or bands
C, C. The lower part C of each tape, strip, or band is connected to the
upper part C¹ by means of a buckle D, shewn clearly in the detached view
Figure 2. The making of each tape, strip, or band in two parts and their
adjustable connection by a buckle affords the means of lengthening or
shortening each tape, strip, or band separately, and consequently of raising or
lowering the jupon at any desired part. Instead of making each tape, strip,
or band in two parts they may be made in one piece, the upper end being
made to slide in a buckle attached to the edge of the waist part B; or the
upper end may be passed through a loop in the waist part, and an adjusting
sliding buckle or loop be fitted on the tape, strip, or band. The waist part B,
represented in Figure 1, is a sort of bustle or "tournure," but instead thereof
a simple band may be used, as shown at B', Figure 3; but in either case the
particular feature of this Invention is retained, viz., the means afforded of
lengthening or shortening the jupon entirely or in part.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the manufacture
of jupons with tapes, strips, or bands in combination with buckles in such
manner that the tapes, strips, or bands, or some of them, can be lengthened
or shortened, and the jupon thereby regulated, substantially as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, have
hereunto set my band and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.