A POCKET ON AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION, TO BE USED ABOUT THE PERSON OR OTHERWISE
Year: 1812

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENT SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BROWN, of Mile End New Town, in the County of Middlesex, Stationer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of January, in
the fifty-second year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said John'
Brown, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John Brown, my exors,
adiñors, and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of years
therein mentioned, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A POCKET ON AN
IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION, TO BE USED ABOUT THE PERSON OR OTHERWISE;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if I, the said John
Brown, shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said
Invention, and in what manner the the same is to be performed, by an in-
strument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled
in Our High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and im-
mediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters
Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall
utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the same, relation
being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Brown, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and the following
description thereof, that is to say:-
Fig. 1st, is a pocket, made nearly on the same construction as pockets
generally are made, but is cased or covered round with rings or links of wire,
or any fit thing to be sewed or fastened on separately from each other (see
12, Fig. 1,) so as to prevent a knife or any other instrument from cutting it
through. It may be closed in various ways by locks, bolts, screws, &c., or loops
or instruments, as Fig. 2, which is made by tubes or pipes of metal, or any
thing fit to slide on a wire, something like a telescope.
Fig. 3 is the tube or pipe by which the fingers and thumb slide up and
down a small distance on the under wire, which by a small nib slides to the
edge of the grove, stops Fig. 4 from moving down; when Fig. 3 moves down
a small distance the nick in the grove is open, and Fig. 4 is at liberty
to slide down the small nick or grove in Fig. 3, which by sliding down
Fig. 4, opens the loop Fig. 5, similar to a pair of compasses opening; this
loop or loops clasps round a button or stud on the top part of the pocket;
there must be a small loop underneath Fig. 5 to go round the top part of the
pocket and loop on the button or stud to the loop Fig. 5, on which closes the
pocket fast. At Fig. 6 is the gallows button; it screws down into the wire
underneath Fig. 3, and holds Fig. 3 from sliding down. Fig. 7 is another
screw at the end of the wire to keep Fig. 6 from screwing round.
I do lock or fasten the above described various ways; two or more of the
loops may be applied at one time. I also apply a chain or wire on the top
part of the pocket, to prevent its being cut or torn away. See 14, 14. I also
make the pockets with split rings, similar to watch chain rings, linked together
to form the pocket, which I connect to a frame similar to Fig. 1, which opens
by two hinges or rivits, 13, 13, Fig. 1, to be made of steel, brass, or any
other fit material. In Fig. 2 the part Fig. 5 may be looped on the stud or
button Fig. 8, which will lock the pocket as before mentioned. I also lock it
by a lock similar to a round snuff box, with one, two, or more moving circles
inside, to have a nick or small piece filed out of each rim, similar to Fig. 9, so
as to admit the bolt Fig. 11 to move upwards and downwards, when the nicks
or slits in the rims comes opposite to each other, as Fig. 10. It does not
require any key to open this, lock, it being marked on the front side similar to
a clock face, and when the points, dots, or letters come to any particular place
required, by moving the circles round with the fingers the bolt will slide back,

page_text: Inrolled the Twenty-fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twelve.