AN IMPROVED SHIRT WRISTBAND
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Frederick Stansbury, of the firm of Nourse
& Co., American and General Patent Agents, of No. 67, Gracechurch
Street, London, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED SHIRT WRISTBAND."—
A communication from Rufus K. Chandler, of Richmond, Virginia, in
the United States of America.
Sealed the 19th February 1856, and dated the 25th August 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Frederick Stans-
bury at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 25th August 1855...
I, CHARLES FREDERICK STANSBURY, of the firm of Nourse & Co., American
& General Patent Agents, of No. 67, Gracechurch Street, London, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED SHIRT WRISTBAND,"
a communication from Rufus K. Chandler, of. Philadelphia, in the United
States of America, to be as follows:-
The Invention consists in making the shirt wristband double, in such a
manner that each shirt to which the improved wristband is applied shall have
the advantage of two sets of wristbands, in order that when one. set has become
soiled it may be turned out of sight while the second set is brought. into use.
This I secure by making my wristband of three pieces of cloth instead of two,
as in the ordinary article. Two of these pieces, which I shall call." side pieces,!:

page_text: are in the common form, but the third, or middle piece, is twice as large as
either of the others, & is attached to them by all its edges, by being stitched to
their free edges. It is further attached to the side pieces by seams across its
middle, which fasten it to the confined edges of the side pieces, viz., those by
which said side pieces are fastened to the sleeve of the shirt.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Frederick Stansbury in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 22nd February 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
FREDERICK STANSBURY, of the firm of Nourse & Co., American and General
Patent Agents, of No. 67, Gracechurch Street, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Charles Frederick Stansbury, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
Frederick Stansbury, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Charles Frederick Stansbury, 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 SHIRT WRISTBAND," a communication from Rufus
K. Chandler, of Richmond, Virginia, in the United States of America, upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Frederick Stansbury,
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 Charles Frederick Stansbury, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the

page_text: following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings; in
which, Figure 1 is a side view of my improved wristband complete; Figure 2
shows the shape of the two side pieces; and Figure 3 shows the shape of the
oval middle piece. The same parts are indicated by the same letters in all
the Figures.
The Invention consists in making the shirt wristband double, in such a
manner that each shirt to which the improved wristband is applied shall have
the advantage of two sets of wristbands, in order that when one set has become
soiled it may be turned out of sight while the second set is brought into use.
I make my improved wristband of three pieces, two of which, called "side
pieces," are of the shape shown in Figure 2, and the third, or middle piece, of
the shape shown in Figure 3. The middle piece is attached by its entire edge
to the free edges of the two side pieces by being sewn or stitched thereto. It
is further attached to said side pieces along the line a, b, of Figure 2, by one or
more seams across its middle in the line X, X, of Figure 3, which fasten it to
that part of the side pieces where they unite to form the base A of the wrist-
band, or where, if preferred, the said side pieces may be attached to the sleeve
of the shirt.
I do not confine myself to the particular form of wristband here described
and represented, as it is obvious that other forms may be made on this plan
without a variation in the principle. What I claim under the above in part
recited Letters Patent is, making a double shirt wristband, substantially in the
manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Frederick Stansbury, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this
day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
CHARLES FREDERICK STANSBURY. (L.S.)