IMPROVEMENTS IN DRAWERS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Craft, of 12, Cambridge Road, Ham-
mersmith, and Thomas Wilson, of Bradmore House, Chiswick, both in
the County of Middlesex; for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN DRAWERS
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Sealed the 18th March 1859, and dated the 14th January 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Craft and
Thomas Wilson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 14th January 1859.
We, WILLIAM CRAFT, of 12, Cambridge Road, Hammersmith, and THOMAS
WILSON, of Bradmore House, Chiswick, both in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
DRAWERS AND NAPKINS, SO AS TO RENDER THE SAME WATERPROOF," to be as
follows:-
The object of this Invention is the manufacturing of drawers and napkins
of a waterproof material, having elastic bands or fastenings at their upper and
lower extremities, obviating the necessity of strings or buttons. The ordinary
cumbersome flannel "pilches" for children are dispensed with by manu-
facturing "pilches." of a light waterproof material, sufficiently large to cover
the napkins now in use, and are to be fastened in the same manner as the
drawers above mentioned. .

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Craft and Thomas Wilson in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 14th July 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
CRAFT, of 12, Cambridge Road, Hammersmith, and THOMAS WILSON, of
Bradmore House, Chiswick, both in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said William Craft and Thomas Wilson, Her special licence that we, the said
William Craft and Thomas Wilson, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said William Craft and Thomas Wilson, our 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, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN DRAWERS AND NAPKINS, SO AS
TO RENDER THE SAME WATERPROOF," upon the condition (amongst others) that we,
the said William Craft and Thomas Wilson, our executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the
hand and seal of one of us or 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 I, the said Thomas Wilson, 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 the following
statement thereof, that is 'to say:-
The object of this Invention is the manufacturing of drawers and napkins
of a waterproof material, having clastic bands or fastenings at their upper and
lower extremities, obviating the necessity of strings or buttons. The ordinary
cumbersome flannel "pilches" for children are dispensed with by manu-
facturing "pilches" of a light waterproof material, sufficiently large to cover
the napkins now in use, and are to be fastened in the same manner as the
drawers above mentioned.

page_text: In order to explain our said Invention as completely as possible, we now
proceed to describe the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect as follows:-
We cut the thin waterproof material to the desired shape of the drawers,
and instead of sewing the parts together, we overlay the seams and cement
them together with caoutchouc or other waterproof adhesive substance.
Around the upper part or waist of the drawers is attached a piece of elastic
material, for the purpose of keeping the drawers on the body of the wearer;
pieces of elastic material are also placed round the lower parts of the legs of
the drawers, so that when in use no liquid matter can possibly escape; all
these elastic parts are provided with a slip or buckle, for the purpose of
adjusting the drawers to the size and comfort of the wearer. Small apertures
are made near the top or waist for the sake of ventilation.
Having now fully described the nature and object of our said Invention of
"Improvements in Drawers and Napkins, so as to render the same Water-
proof, together with the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, we would remark, in conclusion, that we do not
confine ourselves to any particular material to be rendered waterproof, nor the
material for so rendering it; but what we claim as our Invention intended to
be secured to us by the herein in part recited Letters Patent is, the making
of drawers or coverings waterproof, in combination with elastic bands, in the
manner and for the purpose herein described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Wilson, have hereunto set niy
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
THOMAS WILSON. (L.S.)
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE, Patent Agent,
4, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross.