CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC CLIPS OR JOINTS FOR HOLDING, CONNECTING, AND ADJUSTING CRINOLINES, AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1861

page_text: In the Matter of Letters Patent granted to MYER MYERS and MAURICE
MYERS; trading under the Style or Firm of Myers & Son, Steel
Pen Manufacturers, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
and WILLIAM HILL, Manager to the said Firm, also of Birmingham,
aforesaid, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC
CLIPS OR JOINTS FOR HOLDING, CONNECTING, AND ADJUSTING CRINOLINES,
AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES," bearing date the First day of November,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, No. 2745..
DISCLAIMER AND MEMORANDUM OF ALTERATION proposed to be
filed by the said Myer Myers, Maurice Myers, and William Hill, in
the Great Seal Patent Office, with the Specification to which the same
relates, according to the Statute in that case made and provided.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME UNTO OR
ONCERN, we, MYER MYERS and MAURICE MYERS, trading under the Style
nd Firm of Myers & Son, Steel Pen Manufacturers, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, and WILLIAM HILL, Manager to the said Firm, also of
Birmingham, aforesaid, send greeting.
WHEREAS ller most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, dated the First day of Noveniber, One thousand eight hundred an

page_text: sixty-one, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Myer Myers, Maurice Myers, and William Hill, Her special license
that we, the said Myer Myers, Maurice Myers, and William Hill, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Myer
Myers, Maurice Myers, and William Hill, our executors, administrators, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term of fourteen years from the date of the
said Letters Patent, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC CLIPS
OR JOINTS FOR HOLDING, CONNECTING, AND ADJUSTING CRINOLINES, AND OTHER LIKE
PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Myer Myers,
Maurice Myers, and William Hill, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal
of one of us, 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: And whereas,
in pursuance and performance of the said condition in the above recited
Letters Patent contained, we, the' said Myer Myers, Maurice Myers, and
William Hill, did, by an instrument in writing with certain Drawings annexed
thereto, under the respective hands and seals of us, the said Maurice Myers
and William Hill, dated the Thirtieth day of April, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two, particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention; and in what manner the same was to be performed, and caused
the said instrument to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office on the First
day of May, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two: And whereas, we,
the said Myer Myers, Maurice Myers, and William Hill, are desirous, for
good and sufficient reasons herein-after mentioned, to enter a Disclaimer of
such part of the said Specification as herein-after mentioned, and have for
that purpose obtained the assent of Her Majesty's Attorney-General, certified
by his fat and signature, according to the form of the Statutes in that behalf
made and provided: And whereas, we intend to file this our Disclaimer in the
Great Seal Patent Office.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Myer Myers, Maurice Myers, and
William Hill, do and each of us doth hereby disclaim the following parts
of the said Specification; that is to say we do disclaim,
First, the words, " And, secondly, for making such connectors that they

page_text: "
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may be adjusted so as to suit the various widths of the crinoline or other
Included in lines 23, 21, and 23 of page 3 of the printed copy of the Specification.
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"material required to be joined in the first case.' Second, the words,
"And our improved clip suitable for holding or uniting any general width
"of crinoline or like material, consists in forming the same of two parts,
"the one having a series of teeth bent down for holding the crinoline,
"and the other part presses over the unprotected edge of crinoline or
other material, and over the free portion of the other part. The first we
"make with a series of longitudinal slots, and in the other part a spring catch
"which catches into the slot in immediate connection with it, according to
"the width of crinoline or other material to which such clips are applied.
"And in some instances we make one or both edges of these clips elastic, so
"that a force may be exerted on the edge of the crinoline or other material
being the last four lines of page 3, and the following seven lines of page 4 of the said printed Specification.
to assist in holding it in position," Third, the words, "Fig. 10 and
"12 represent in the flat the parts suitable for holding and connecting
"crinoline of various widths, which may be done by deflecting the part
"marked p of Fig. 10, so as to form a spring stop, and this part we purpose
bending into the form shown at Figure 11, and the part Figure 12
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we purpose bending up into the form shown at Figure 13. The teeth
"marked r, r, r, r, are intended to be deflected for catching and holding in
"the fabric covering of the crinoline, and the parts marked s, s, are also to
"be deflected to form stops to regulate the insertions of the crinoline; t is a
"series of longitudinal sluts for receiving the part of the spring marked p in
Figure 10. The dotted lines in Figure 13 represent a sectional or endway
"view of the crinoline in position for the part Figure 11 to be passed down
"over it, when the stop p will pass over and take into the slots and prevent
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its voluntary removal, but to effect which the spring u, Figure 10, has only
"to be lifted up when the two parts may be separated and the crinoline
"freed. Fig. 14 represents the parts Fig. 10 and 13 in position, colored
yellow and green, retaining the crinoline, colored red, and which crinoline
may as before stated vary in width a quarter of an inch and yet be
securely held by the means here shown. Figs. 16 and 17 represent a side
"and end view of a crinoline fastener so constructed that the connector may
"be only double the thickness of the metal of which it is composed, or that
"much thicker than the crinoline which it is intended to unite. In this case
"the means of holding the crinolines are formed of side springs marked v, v,
"and w, w, and which springs may be pulled outward for the purpose of
relieving the crinoline when it may be desirable to remove the connector for
"readjustment or otherwise. Figure 15 represents the general form of this
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page_text: "connector in the flat, and which as in the former case we prefer making of
"thin sheet steel. The part a is bent in to form a stop to prevent one end of
"the crinoline being passed in farther than the other. For further security,
"when such simple kind of connector is used, a ring or band of india-rubber
may be applied, broad or narrow as desired, but in our judgment the band
as exhibited at Figure 18 would be very suitable, and such band would
protect the ends of the springs and securely hold them against the edge of
"the crinoline, or press the teeth formed at their ends into the fabric covering
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commencing at line thirteen of page 5 including the whole of the remainder of that page and the next following seven
-lines of page of the said printed copy of the Specification.
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"the same," Fourth, in the claiming part of the said Specification we
disclaim the words, Secondly, we claim the description of connector
"suitable for connecting crinolines or other such like material of various
"widths, as exhibited at Fig. 14, and the details in connection with the
"same. Thirdly, we claim the manner of connecting crinolines and such like
"material, as exhibited at Figures 16 and 17, whether the same be used
being the whole of the lines 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25 of the same page 6 of the printed copy of the Specification.
"with or without the assistance of elastic bands,' And we disclaim, fifth,
such of the several Drawings or Figures contained in the Sheet of Drawings
annexed to the said Specification as are thereon respectively numbered
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, and also the several letters and figures
attached or referring to the same respectively.
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And we do hereby declare our reasons for making and entering the said
Disclaimer to be, that since the sealing of the said Letters Patent we have
discovered that the instruments of Inventions respectively mentioned and
described in the parts of the said Specification and Drawings hereby respectively
disclaimed were not at the time of the sealing of the said Letters Patent
novel Inventions, and we do hereby further declare that the above Disclaimer
does not in anywise extend the exclusive right granted to us by the said
Letters Patent.
In witness whereof, we, the said Myer Myers, Maurice Myers, and
William Hill, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-
fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight.

page_text: I hereby grant my fiat, giving leave to the above-named Myer Myers,
Maurice Myers, and William Hill, to file in the Great Seal Patent Office,
with the Specification with which the same relates, the above written Amended
Disclaimer and Memorandum of Alteration.

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Myer Myers and Maurice Myers, trading under the
style or firm of Myers & Son, Steel Pen Manufacturers, of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, and William Hill, Manager to the said firm,
also of Birmingham, aforesaid, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN METALLIC CLIPS OR JOINTS FOR HOLDING, CONNECTING, AND ADJUSTING
CRINOLINES AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Myer Myers, Maurice
Myers, and William Hill at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 1st November 1861.
We, MYER MYERS and MAURICE MYERS, trading under the style or firm of
Myers & Son, Steel Pen Manufacturers, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, and WILLIAM HILL, Manager to the said firm, also of Birmingham,
aforesaid, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC CLIPS OR JOINTS FOR HOLDING, CONNECTING, AND
ADJUSTING CRINOLINES AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES," to be as follows (that is
to say)
Our Invention consists, first, in making clips or connectors for jointing
crinolinės and.such like purposes where the material is of a uniform width;
and, secondly, for making such connectors that they may be adjusted so as to
suit the various widths of crinoline or other material requiring to be joined.
In the first case we make a clip, by preference of thin. steel; having spring
catches formed of or applied to the saine at each end, and into this clip we
slide tongues barbed or serrated on their outer ends, which are turned down

page_text: at right angles for holding the crinoline. And in these tongues slots are formed
for receiving the bent ends of the spring catches, which in use hold the tongues
in position, but when the tongues are required to be pulled out in order that the
crinoline or other like material may be applied or adjusted, the spring catches
have to be elevated before the tongue or tongues can be drawn out; and when
the crinoline or other like material is applied, the tongue or tongues are
intended to be pushed back within the clip until the bent ends of the spring
catches drop into the slots before named. And our improved clip suitable for
holding and uniting any general width of crinoline or like material consist in
forming the same of two parts, the one having a series of teeth bent down for
holding the crinoline, and the other part passes over the unprotected edge of
the crinoline or other material, and over the free portion of the other part.
The first part we make with a series of longitudinal slots, and in the other
part a spring catch which catches into the slot in immediate connection with
it, according to the width of crinoline or other material to which such clips
are applied. And in some instances we make one or both edges of these clips
elastic, so that a force may be exerted on the edge of the crinoline or other
material to assist in holding it in position.
With this general description we would remark that the same may be
generally modified without departing from the general character of our Inven-
tion as herein described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Myer Myers, Maurice Myers, and William Hill in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 1st May 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, MYER
'MYERS and MAURICE MYERS, trading under the style or firm of Myers and
Son, Steel Pen Manufacturers, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
and WILLIAM HILL, Manager to the said firm, also of Birmingham, aforesaid,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said,
Myer Myers, Maurice Myers, and William Hill, Her special license that we,
the said Myer Myers, Maurice Myers, and William Hill, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Myer Myers,

page_text: Maurice Myers, and William Hill, our executors, administrators, or 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
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS. IN METALLIC CLIPS OR. JOINTS FOR HOLDING, CONNECTING,
AND ADJUSTING CRINOLINES AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Myer Myers. Maurice Myers, and William
Hill, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our
hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of them, 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 we, the said Myer Myers, Maurice Myers, and
William Hill, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being bad to the
accompanying Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that
is to say:
Our Invention consists, first, in making metallic clips or connectors for
joining or uniting crinolines and for such like purposes where the material is
of a uniform width; and, secondly, for making such connectors that they may
be adjusted so as to suit the various widths of the crinoline or other material
required to be joined. In the first case we make a clip by preference of, thin
steel, having spring catches formed of or applied to the same at each end, and
into this clip we slide tongues barbed or serrated on their outer ends, which
are turned down at right or other convenient angles for holding the crinoline ;.
and in these tongues slots are formed for receiving the bent ends of the spring
catches, which in use hold the tongues in position, but when the tongues are
required to be pulled out in order that the crinoline or other like material
may be applied or adjusted, the spring catches have to be elevated before the
tongue or tongues can be drawn out; and when the crinoline or other like
material is applied the tongue or tongues are intended to be pushed back
within the clip until the bent ends of the spring catches drop into the slots
before named. And our improved clip suitable for bolding or uniting any
general width of crinoline.or like material consist in forming the same of two
parts, the one having a series of teeth bent down for holding the crinoline,
and the other part presses over the unprotected, edge of crinoline or other

page_text: material, and over the free portion of the other part. The first we make with
a series of longitudinal slots, and in the other part a spring catch which
catches into the slot in immediate connection with it, according to the width
of crinoline or other material to which such clips are applied. And in some
instances we make one or both edges of these clips elastic, so that a force may
be exerted on the edge of the crinoline or other material to assist in holding it
in position.
With this general description we would remark that the same may be
generally modified without departing from the general character of our Inven-
tion as herein described.
But as our Invention will be clearly understood by referring to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, we will proceed to describe the same, reference being made
to the various figures and letters marked thereon (that is to say):―
b
Fig. 1 represents the body of a crinoline fastener in the flat as pierced and
shaped ready for bending up, as represented at Fig. 3, and in a side view at
Fig. 5, coloured yellow; and Fig. 2 represents, also in the flat, a tongue,
which is represented as bent into form at Fig. 4, and in an edge view at
Fig. 6, coloured green. The relieved parts marked a, a, are bent inward to
form stops hereafter to be referred to, and the parts marked b, b, are also bent
inward or deflected for the purpose of preventing the tongues at each end
being pulled out, and also to form a spring click or stop when the tongue is
pushed fairly within the body of the connector, as, for instance, the part b
catches in the deflected part of the tongue marked c, when the tongue is
pulled out or extended for applying the crinoline, and the parts f, f, take into
the slots g, g; and when the tongue is pushed within the body of the connector
the deflected part 6 takes into the slot h of the tongue. The teeth or serrations
marked i, i, in Figure 2 are bent under as seen at Figure 6, and in dotted
lines at Figure 4, the use of which will be hereafter referred to. We will
suppose the tongues to be applied as represented at d and e, Figs. 8 and 9,
which is prevented from coming loose by the stops before named, and that it
is now desirable to apply the crinoline, which should be of a proper width or
about the proportions here shown marked k, k, and 7, 1, coloured red, and this
will be best understood by referring to the edge view Fig. 9, which represents
the right-hand side of the crinoline pushed in and held between the back of
the connector marked m, m, Figure 3, and the inside of the tongue; the
teeth as at i, Figure 6, embedding themselves in the woven or other fabric or
outer covering of the crinoline; and when so placed as here represented the
crinoline will be securely held and stopped in position by the deflected parts
marked. a, a, before referred to, as shown by dotted lines, and cannot be

page_text: removed without elevating or lifting up the part marked n, so as to lift the
stop 6 out of the slot h, as seen separate and distinct, in Figures I and 3, and
the sloth in Figures 2 and 4, but, by referring, to the left-hand side of
Figures 8 and 9, the position of the end of the crinoline will be seen with the'
tongue either in the act of connecting or disconnecting the crinoline from the
connector. The connectors may be made broader or narrower to suit different
widths of crinoline that may be required, and its general outline may be
varied, still possessing the quality herein mentioned; and such connectors may.
be made of any suitable metal, but by preference we purpose making them of
thin sheet steel, such as is generally used in the manufacture of steel pens
and
suitably tempered, so as not to be too hard to snap or break with any slight
pressure, or too soft so as to set and be readily put out of shape.
Fig. 10 and 12 represent in the flat the parts suitable for holding and
connecting crinoline of various widths, which may be done by deflecting the
part marked p of Figure 10, so as to form a spring stop; and this part we
purpose bending into the form shown at Fig. 11, and the part Figure 12 we
purpose bending up into the form shown at Fig. 13; the teeth marked r, r, r, r,..
are intended to be deflected for catching and holding in the fabric covering of
the crinoline, and the parts marked s, s, are also to be deflected to form stops
to regulate the insertion of the crinoline; t is a series of longitudinal slots for
receiving the part of the spring marked p in Figure 10. The dotted lines in
Figure 13 represent a sectional or end way view of the crinoline in position
for the part Figure 11 to be passed down over it; when the stop p will pass
over and take into the slots and prevent its voluntary removal, but to effect
which the spring u, Figure 10, has only to be lifted up when the two parts'
may be separated and the crinoline freed. Fig. 14 represents the parts
Figure 10 and 13 in position, coloured yellow and green, retaining the
crinoline coloured red, and which crinoline may, as before stated, vary in
width a quarter of an inch, and yet be securely held by the means here
shown.
Figs. 16 and 17 represent a side and end view of a crinoline fastener, so."
constructed that the connector may be only double the thickness of the metal
of which it is composed, or that much thicker .than the crinoline which it is
intended to unite. In this case the means of holding the crinoline are formed
of side springs marked v, v, and w, w, and which springs may be pulled_
outward for the purpose of relieving the crinoline when it may be desirable to
remove the connector for.readjustment or otherwise... Fig. 15 represents the
general form of. this connector in the flat, and which as in the former case we
prefer making of thin sheet steel; the part is bent in to form a stop to

page_text: prevent one end of the crinoline being passed in farther than the other. For
further security when such simple kind of connector is used, a ring or band of
india-rubber may be applied broad or narrow as desired, but in our judgement
the band as exhibited at Fig. 18 would be very suitable, and such band would
protect the ends of the springs, and securely hold them against the edge of the
crinoline, or press the teeth formed at their ends into the fabric covering
the same.
In thus giving a general description of our Invention we have not thought
it necessary to describe the appliances by which they are cut out and formed,.
as we purpose making them with the ordinary tools used in connection with
what are called fly presses, means well known and understood to the
manufacturers or workers in thin sheet steel or other metal, such tools being.
shaped according to the form or outline we wish to give to our connectors, but
which may be diversified without affecting the object or spirit of our Inven-
tion; but what we claim and wish to protect by these our in part recited
Letters Patent is,-
First, the means of connecting and disconnecting crinoline bands and such
like material as exhibited at Figures 7, 8, and 9, in connection with sliding.
tongues without regard to size or detailed outline.
Secondly, we claim the description of connector suitable for connecting
crinoline or other such like material of various widths, as exhibited at
Fig. 14, and the details in connection with the same.
Thirdly, we claim the manner of connecting crinolines and such like
materials, as exhibited at Figures 16 and 17, whether the same be used with
or without the assistance of elastic bands.
In witness whereof, we, the said Maurice Myers and William Hill,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Thirtieth day of April,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
JAMES S. COCKINGS,
Patent Agent,
Birmingham.
MAURICE MYERS. (L.S.)
WILLIAM HILL.
(L.S.)