IMPROVEMENTS IN BRACE BUCKLES AND LOOPS, AND IN BRACES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Paterson of Wood Street, in the City of
London, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BRACE
BUCKLES AND LOOPS, AND IN BRACES."
Sealed the 12th August 1859, and dated the 15th February 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Paterson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th February 1859.
I, JOHN PATERSON, of Wood Street, in the City of London, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BRACE
BUCKLES AND LOOPS, AND IN BRACES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in carrying down a piece of metal from the lower
bar of the buckle or loop, and in turning up this piece of metal towards the
bar so as to form a pipe or tube for the chain or catgut, or cord carrying the
tabs to run in. My improvement in braces consists in attaching leather tabs
to tab chains by means of eyelets, and a piece of metal attached to each end
of the chain.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Paterson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th August 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
PATERSON, of Wood Street, in the City of London, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of February, 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 me, the
said John Paterson, Her special licence that I, the said John Paterson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Paterson, my 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 BRACE
BUCKLES AND LOOPS, AND IN BRACES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said John Paterson, 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 John Paterson, 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 following state-
ment thereof, reference being bad to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that is
to say:
My Invention consists in carrying down a piece of metal from the lower bar
of the buckle or loop, and in turning up this piece of metal towards the bar
so as to form a pipe or tube for the chain or catgut, or cord, carrying the tabs
to run in. My improvement in braces consists in attaching leather tabs to
tab chains by means of eyelets, and a piece of metal attached to each end of
the chain.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a buckle shewing the piece of metal or
flap a, carried down from the lower bar 6 of a buckle, preparatory to its being

page_text: turned up to form the pipe or tube for the chain, catgut, or cord to which the
tabs are attached to run in; Figure 2 is a front elevation, and Figure 3 a
section through the line x, x, of Figure 2, shewing the flap turned up in the
shape of a tube; Figure 4 is a front view of a loop with the flap turned up
to form the tube; Figure 5 shews the manner in which I secure brace tab
chains to leather tabs. At each end of the chain is a ring c, which is passed
through an eye d in a metal plate c. The lower part of the plate is placed
between the tab and a lining, or the lining may be dispensed with, and the
plate may be placed on the tab; the whole is secured by eyelets, and an ordi-
nary eyelet punch or press. One end of the tab chain is represented with the
metal plate, and the other with the tab complete.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First, manufacturing brace buckles and loops with a flap turned up to form
a tube for the tab chain, catgut, or cord to run in.
And, second, attaching leather braco tabs to tab chains, in manner herein-
before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Paterson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of August One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-nine.