IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS APPLICABLE TO STAYS, GAITERS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Pallant, of No. 294, Regent Street,
in the County of Middlesex, Ladies' and Children's Outfitter, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS APPLICABLE TO STAYS, GAITERS,
AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS."
Scaled the 28th May 1869, and dated the 2nd December 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Pallant at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, ou
the 2nd December 1868.
I, SAMUEL PALLANT, of No. 294, Regent Street, in the County of
Middlesex, Ladies' and Children's Outfitter, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS APPLICABLE TO
STAYS, GAITERS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in fastenings applicable
to stays, gaiters, and other articles of dress. In constructing such

page_text: fastenings I fix on to one of the two edges to be fastened a stiffener of
thin steel or other suitable material having upon it at distances apart
a number of studs or hooks or such like instruments, and on to the other
edge I attach another stiffener with hooks or similar fastenings upon it,
and this stiffener is jointed opposite cach of the hooks or fasteners
which it carries so that by bending the jointed stiffener at each of its
joints in succession each hook or fastener is brought into such a position
that it can be passed behind the corresponding stud or hook or such
like instrument on the other fastener, and as each joint is straightened its
hook or fastener is carried into such a position that it is unable to pass
back from behind the stud or instrument on which it has been made
to catch, and so the parts are securely connected together. At the end
or ends of the stiffeners they are held together by a stud and cyc, or by
other convenient means which will hold them together and prevent them
moving longitudinally. The joints are made with slotted holes so that
they may work freely when the stiffener is enclosed in fabric. In place
of making all the joints in one stiffener they may be made alternately
in either stiffener or otherwise. Parts of garments to which these
fastenings are applied can very rapidly be secured together, or detached
the one from the other, and when fastened the parts are closely held
together.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Pallant, in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 1st June 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
PALLANT, of 294, Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex, Ladies'
and Children's Outfitter, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-second
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Samuel Pallant, Her special license that
I, the said Samuel Pallant, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Pallant, my exccutors,.

page_text: 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
FASTENINGS APPLICABLE TO STAYS, GAITERS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Pallant, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describo
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 Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Pallant, do hereby
declare tlio nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
aud by the following statement:-
My improvements in fastenings applicable to stays, gaiters, and other
articles of dress, consist in constructing such fastenings in the following
manner, namely, I fix on to one of the two edges to be fastened a
stiffener of thin steel or other suitable material having upon it at
distances apart a number of studs or hooks, or such like appliances, and
on to the other edge I attach another stiffener with hooks or similar
fasteners upon it, which last-mentioned stiffener is jointed opposite cach
of the hooks or fasteners which it carries, so that by bending the jointed
stiffener at each of its joints, in succession cach hook or fastener is
brought into such a position that it can be passed behind the corres-
ponding stud or hook or such like appliance on the other fastener, and
as each joint is straightened its hook or fastener assumes such a position
that it is unable to pass back from behind the stud or appliance on which
it has been made to catch, and so the parts are securely connected
together. At the end or ends of the stiffeners they are held together
by a stud and eye or by other convenient means which will hold them
together, and prevent motion longitudinally. The joints are made with
slotted holes, so that they may work freely when the stiffener is enclosed
in fabric. In place of making all the joints in one stiffener they may be
made alternately in either stiffener or otherwise.

page_text: Having thus particularly described the nature of my said Invention
in furthur compliance with the aforesaid conditions in the said Letters
Patent contained, I now proceed to particularly describe and ascertain
in what manner the said Invention is to be performed or carried into
practical effect, which I shall do by referring to the Drawings accom-
panying these Presents by the words, figures, and letters marked
thercon and herein referred to, that is to say :-

page_text: thereto per se, nor do I limit myself to the use of such details, as they
may be varied according to circumstances.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Pallant, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Twenty-eighth day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Witness,
SAM. PALLANT. (L.S.)
ALEXANDER P. WRIGHT,
Secretary to the
Inventors' Patent Right Association, Limited,
21, Cockspur St.,
Charing Cross,
Patentee's Agents.