A SHOE, SLIPPER, AND BUCKLE TO BE AFFIXED THERETO AND WORN THEREWITH, ON A NEW CONSTRUCTION, WHICH WILL SIT NEATER AND EASER THAN ANY HITHERTO DISCOVERED
Year: 1788

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
TYLEE, of the Parish of Saint Marylebone, in the County of Middlesex,
Shoemaker, send greeting.
grant
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Thirtieth day of June, in the twenty-eighth year of His reign, give and
unto me, the said James Tylee, His especial licence that I, the said James
Tylee, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "A SHOE, SLIPPER, AND BUCKLE TO BE AFFIXED THERETO
AND WORN THEREWITH, ON A NEW CONSTRUCTION, WHICH WILL SIT NEATER AND
EASER THAN ANY HITHERTO DISCOVERED;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso obliging me, the said James Tylee, under my hand and
seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,
and how the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within one calendar month after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Tylee, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in manner
following (that is to say):
The shoe and slipper are cut without side seams, and the quarters or sides,
one a little longer than the other, closed even, and the overplus hemmed to

page_text: the shortest, with two or three straps cut in the same piece, or cut separate,
and closed in the fore part, lengthened and proportioned to the size of the
buckle, and a flap is sowed to the fore part of the shoe; a drawing string to
keep the quarters close runs under the turn-down of the quarter or the
binding, fastened by a sharp-pointed hook to the strap or to the buckle; the
inside lining is put in whole, and sewed to the binding or turn-down of the
quarter. The apparatus or inside works for the shoe buckle are two chapes,
fixed in the rim at an equal distance from the centre, which operate with a
purchase; on the extremity of one are three teeth pointing to the centre and
two from it, and three near the middle pointing to the centre; in the other
are three teeth pointing to the centre, with a sloped hole to receive a catch in
the outside strap. Both chapes must fit well to the rim. A supporter may
be fixed in the centre of each bridge to keep up the strap and hitch the
quarter spring to. For the slipper buckle is a broad bar, round upon the
upper part and hollow under, fixed in the centre of each bridge, to which, on
the under part, is fixed a slide spring with one catch, and a stop that fasten in
a box in a frame formed and calculated to answer the purpose of two chapes
with holes to fasten the quarter strings and a cusheon to. Two'small stops
are fixed on the inside of the rim to prevent the strap from springing out.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Tylee, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of July, One thousand seven hundred
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of July,
in the year of our Lord 1788, the aforesaid James Tylee came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirtieth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.