NEW SPRING BANDS OR FASTENINGS FOR THE APPAREL OR FURNITURE OF MAN OR BEAST, WHICH BANDS OR FASTENINGS, BY THEIR CERTAIN REACTION OR SMALL FRICTION, WERE MORE EASY, SAFE, OF LASTING THAN OTHER BANDS OR FASTENINGS, AND OF PUBLIC GOOD,
Year: 1783

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARTIN
VANBUTCHELL, of the Liberty of Westminster, Surgeon Dentist, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Martin Vanbutchell, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
that I had, after much application, invented "NEW SPRING BANDS OR FASTENINGS
FOR THE APPAREL OR FURNITURE OF MAN OR BEAST, WHICH BANDS OR FASTENINGS,
BY THEIR CERTAIN REACTION OR SMALL FRICTION, WERE MORE EASY, SAFE, OF
LASTING THAN OTHER BANDS OR FASTENINGS, AND OF PUBLIC GOOD," wherefore,
I therefore humbly begged His said Majesty to grant unto me, the said
Martin Vanbutchell, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, His Royal Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of England, for the term of fourteen years,
for the sole making and vending the same within this Realm, the Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; and His said Majesty, being
willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be for
the public good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request, and
therefore by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the First day of December, in the
twenty-fourth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and
meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto
me, the said Martin Vanbutchell, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Martin
Vanbutchell, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself
and themselves, or by mine or their deputy or deputies, servants, or agents, or

page_text: such others as I, the said Martin Vanbutchell, my exors, admors, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within that part of
His said Majestie's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the
said Martin Vanbutchell, my exors, admors, or assigns, or any of us, should
in our discretions seem meet, and that I, the said Martin Vanbutchell, my
exors, adñiors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the
whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming,
growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during
the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the
said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or
mentioned to be granted unto by me, the said Martin Vanbutchell, my exors,
adiñors, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of
fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately
ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in
such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained
a provisoe that if I, the said Martin Vanbutchell, should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention; and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majestie's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in
anywise notwithstanding.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Martin Vanbutchell, in compliance with
the said provisoe, do hereby declare that my said Invention is of a curious,
useful, públic, easy, safe, lasting, mechanical, important, extensive, and
comprehensive nature, taking in each size and sort, and all sorts and sizes,
of my new spring band or fastenings, or my new spring bands and fastenings,
for all parts and every part of the common chirurgical, military, naval,
travelling, and all other apparel or furniture, or apparel and furniture, of man
or beast, or of human beings and brute creatures, which said new spring
bands or fastenings, or new spring bands and fastenings, are made of animal,
vegetable, and metallic materials, and performed in manner following (that is
to say)
One spring, two springs, and any greater number of springs, made of silk,

page_text: catgut, cotton, hair, worsted, thread, and such materials, twirled, twisted, or
curled so tight as the materials will bear, which said springs are put in
strait, cross, diagonal, and all other lines, as may best suit the design, one
spiral spring, two spiral springs, and every greater number of spiral springs,
made of gold, silver, copper, brass, steel, iron, tin, pewter, lead, or other
metal or mixture of metals, with or without semi-metals, forged, rolled, or
drawn into wire of any form, and twirled, purled, twisted, spun, or wound,
on moulds which are proportioned to the strength and extension wanted.
For instance, the brass wire to make spiral springs for my new spring bands
or fastenings, which are called horse blinds, and fixed to the front of the
bridle to be occasionally drawn over or before the eyes of a brute creature
by means of a rein, two pieces of lacing, and four bits of string from the
bottoms of said horse blinds, the said rein being pulled by an human being
while on the back of said brute creature,-I say the brass wire to make said
spiral springs, if put in a watchmaker's sector at figure five, the mould to
wind said. wire on or upon, if put in said sector at same time, fits at or about
figures seventy; the brass wire to make spiral springs for my new spring
bands or fastenings in the seats of saddles, if put in said sector at figure six,
the mould fits at or about figures ten; the brass wire to make spiral springs
for my new spring bands or fastenings for hats, if put in said sector at figure
eight, the mould fits at or about figures forty, which last proportion is nearest
to the spiral springs used for most of my other new spring bands or fastenings.
The bredoon or snaffle new spring band or fastening is a strong chain, made
of wire rings to go through or across the mouth of the beast; the wire to
make them, and all other rings used in my new spring bands or fastenings,
if put in sector aforesaid at figures twenty-one, the mould fits at or about
figures fifty-nine. That the joints of said rings may be very close, they are cut
through with a very thin saw, which has very fine teeth. The aforesaid spiral
springs have their lines close together, as for glove bands, or far apart, as for
perch bolt fastening. Each row of spring is in one length, as for knee bands,
or two lengths, as for hat bands, or three lengths or inore, as for boot
fastenings. The wire to make said spiral springs for neck bands is about
the size of an horse-tail hair; the lines for perch bolt fastening are about the
size of a man's small finger. Some of said spiral springs have an eye at the end,
about the size of said spring, made with a pair of round nose plyers, which eye
is so true and neat, and the end of the wire is laid so much in the middle of
the tube that if you put an hook in the eye, and extend the spring, it forms
a strait line. Thus are spiral springs to make spring waistbands. Some of
said spiral springs have the end of the wire cut close or bent in an angle,
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page_text: and made round and smooth; thus are springs for an entire sett of artificial
teeth. Some of said spiral springs have the end of the wire made very
smooth, and turned within the line to be out of the way, as in flexible tubes for
the oesophagus and urethra. The wire to make said spiral springs is sometimes
twisted or twirled two or more together, or flatted or covered with gold,
silver, tin, silk twist, mohair, cotton, worsted, thread, or such materials
before it is twirled or wound. Sometimes said spiral springs are made or
bruised flat, or japaned after they are wound, where partial outside pressure
is wanted. As to hats, that is performed by strait springs, made of metal
or metals, whalebone, tortoise shell, ivory, bone, paper, composition, paste.
board, horn, cane, leather, wood, or such materials, which said strait springs
either act alone or with said spiral springs, by being put without, within,
upon, or between them. When the ends of the said spiral springs are joined
together, or to any other thing, hooks, eyes, rings, or esses, male true and
shut close, or wire, catgut, silk lacing, trolling line, twist, mohair, cotton,
worsted, thread, or such materials are used. When said spiral springs are
covered, to make my new spring bands or fastenings, gold or silver lace, frame-
work or other knitting, netting, knotting, chain work, or other looping, lacing,
ribband, tape, girth webb, gartering, girdling, silk, nankeen, callico, cotton,
linnen, woollen, leather, or such materials are used. Where is wanted to put on
or take off my new spring band or fastening in a clean way, as to the clog and
eye, a ring, an esse, a string, a button, or some such thing, made very fast at or
near the middle of said spring band or fastening, will do. To fix my said new
spring bands or fastenings to the different parts, buckles, buttons, studs, locketts,
clasps, hooks, eyes, esses, rings, strings, and other such materials are used.
My new invented hooks are made thus:-Hold a blanket pin in a
pair of round-nose plyers, about one quarter of an inch from the head end,
then turn it round said plyers, so as to make an eye about one tenth part
of an inch withinside, then hold said pin in a pair of larger round-nose plyers,
about half an inch from the point end, and turn it half round said plyers,
so as to make an hook about one fifth part of an inch withinside. If you
mean to have a blunt pointed hook, cut off the sharp point, in length about
the thickness of a new sixpence, then file it square, and round off the edge
as a watch finisher, who is a good workman, rounds the top of a cock pin.
My new spring bands or fastenings for bridle harness and other leather :-
That for a bridle is a long rim like a buckle rim, with a bar across the middle
in or near the midst, and on the top of said bar is a round pointed pin,
nearly upright, about one twelfth part of an inch diameter, and about one fourth
part of an inch long; in or about the middle, and at the under part of each

page_text: end of said rim is a round pointed pin, nearly down right, about one twelfth
part of an inch diameter, and about one tenth part of an inch long, which
pins serve for tongues and chapes by going into holes made in. the leathers to
receive then. The said rims and pins are made in due proportion for harness
and other leathers.
My new spring bands or fastenings for the feet of brute creatures are shoes
made of one or more of the aforesaid metals, with grooves or furrows all
round them, to keep the beasts from slipping. Each of said grooves or
furrows are so deep as those well made in an horse shoe for the nail heads,
and are nearly so broad at bottom as at top. Each fore shoe has four grooves
or furrows, more or less; each hind shoe has three grooves or furrows, more
or less.
My new spring band or fastening for a watch, to keep it safe in the
fub-Sew a large button firmly on the waistband, about midway between
the top button on the waistband and the button at the codpiece; place
the side of the fub about an inch from the end of the waistband; put a
strong loop of plaited lacing, or some such material, at the side of the fob
and edge of the waist band, which said loop may, over the watch chain or
string, be safely put, on, over, or upon, and easily taken off from the said
large button firmly sewed to receive the said strong loop.
stirrup leather, called a stirrup
The round part of said bar,
twelfths of an inch diameter,
My new spring band or fastening for the
bar, is made of some of the aforesaid metals.
for stirrup leather to lay on, is about five
and so round and smooth as well drawn wire. The turning of said bar to
make an angle has not a sharp corner, as usual, but is so round as a crown
picce. Each flattest part of said bar is so broad as a new sixpence, and about
an eighth part of an inch thick.
My new spring band or fastening for the foot of a rider, called a stirrup,
is made of some of the aforesaid metals, and has the top and sides as another
stirrup, but, at bottom, has an outside circular rim, or an oval so short as
to be near a circle, about five inches withoutside, and an inside circular rim, or
an oval so short as to be near a circle, about an inch an half open withinside;
from the inner part of the outer rim to the outer part of the inner rim are six
bars, or more or less, nearly at equal distances. Each of said rims and bars
are about one fifth part of an inch broad.
My new spring bands or fastenings for saddle trees are made of steel, well
tempered, and put instead of iron plates at the head or cantle, or head and
cantle.
My new spring band or fastening for the perch bolt of a carriage is a

page_text: very strong open spiral or flat spring, or more springs than one, put under
the head or over the point, or under the head and over the point, of said
perch bolt, which said spiral or flat spring or springs will save the perch bolt
from breaking, and the perch from being strained.
My new spring bands or fastenings, or bands and fastenings, are applied
to the parts following, that is to say, hat, bonnet, kerchief, hood, cap, wig,
curls, head, spectacles, csaphagus, stock, cravat, neck, shoulder, arm, glove,
wrist, hand, finger, back, breast, belly, loins, navel, side, waist, womb,
pessary, urethra, penis, thigh, knee, patella, leg, tendo-Achilles, ancle, heel,
foot, toe, necklace, gallows, shoulder strops, stays, jumps, waistcoat, belt,
girdle, truss, petticoats, pockets, breeches, stocking, garter, boot, spatterdash,
gater, half boot, slipper, shoe, calash, clog, patten, artificial teeth, artificial
arm, artificial hand, artificial thigh, artificial leg, artificial foot, bedstead,
soffa, sette, couch, chair, stool, bell, clock, time piece, watch, perch bolt, horse
blind, bridle, harness, bredoon, snaffle, bearing rein, meadows rein, martingale,
breast plate, saddle, saddle tree, saddle civet, saddle seat, saddle girth, surcingle,
stirrup, stirrup leather, crupper, roler, and every other part and all other parts
of the common chirurgical, military, naval, travelling, and all other apparel or
furniture, or apparal and furniture, of man or beast, or of human beings and
brute creatures, where my new springs bands or fastenings can well be used.
Each new spring band or fastening for the hat or cap has a joint before, and
a joint behind, but no joint on either side, and is divided in or near two equal
parts, with one strait spring, or more than one, on each side, to take off
pressure from the forehead and bindhead. Each new spring band or fastening
for the wig, neck, arm, glove, wrist, gallows, shoulder strop, stays, jumps,
waistcoat, belt, girdle, truss, petticoat, pockets, back, breast, belly, loins, navel,
side, waist, thigh, knee, leg, breeches, stocking, garter, boot, spatterdash, gater,
half boot, clog or patten, is flat, or has two or more choice springs put side
by side. Each new spring band or fastening for the waistband of breeches
has six choice springs, or more or less, put in the back part of said waistband.
Each new spring band or fastening, called saddle girth or surcingle, has
eleven choice springs, or more or less, put in the belly part of said saddle girth
or surcingle. Each new spring band or fastening for a fractured patella, or
ruptured tendo-Achilles, has two very strong spiral springs, which are joined
together with two strong eyes, from which go bandages to fix the said new
spring band or fastening.
My rich, elegant, and expensive new spring band or fastening is made
of silver wire, covered with fine gold, and is performed in manner following,
that is to say-Have the wire drawn very hard, and spun or wound close

page_text: on the mould; then pull the lines far apart, and afterwards push them
close on said mould; then make a small eye at each end of spiral spring,
and join them together with a silver gilt ring; so doing, you will have a true,
neat, open, valuable, new spring band or fastening. That on my hat weighs
about twenty-eight pennyweights, and is in one length. The said wire, when
put in aforesaid secture at figure six, the mould fitted at or about figures thirty-
seven. To clean said new spring band or fastening, I wash it in hot water with
ny shaving brush.
In witness whereof, I, the said Martin Vanbutchell, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Twenty-ninth day of March, in the twenty-
fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by
the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender
of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-four.