A WARDROBE TRUNK FOR TRAVELLERS
Year: 1815

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
PRATT, of No. 119, Holborn Hill, in the County of Middlesex, and of No. 40,
Holborn Hill, in the City of London, Trunk Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Eleventh day of May, in the fifty-fifth year of His reign, did, for
Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Samuel
Pratt, His especial licence that I, the said Samuel Pratt, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Pratt, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A WARDROBE
TRUNK FOR TRAVELLERS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso,
obliging me, the said Samuel Pratt, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause
the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Samuel Pratt, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the

page_text: manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascertained in
the Plan drawn in the margin of these Presents, and the following description
thereof, that is to say :-
This trunk is constructed with four compartments, each to contain wearing
apparel or other property seperately from each other, and is made to balance
itself by the upper part, consisting of two compartments having the same
depth as the bottom, which consists also of two compartments: there are
three flaps in this trunk.
The description of the two upper compartments is as follows: The lid when
unlocked is thrown back so that the upper part of it may rest in like manner
as the bottom does, by which means the inside of the lid becomes a bottom
to one compartment. The upper part of the trunk has a flap which, being
opened and thrown back, lies on the two lower compartments, and shews two
compartments in the lid; there being about half way between the middle of
the depth of the trunk and the inside of the lid A partition sewed all round
the trunk, which has a flap in the center of greater or less dimensions for the
purpose of introducing wearing apparel into the compartment next the lid.
This flap is fastened to the partition by a piece of tick or other pliable material,
and the flap being shut down with the partition forms at once the top of the
compartment next the lid and the bottom of the next compartment, the top of
which next is formed by the flap above mentioned to be thrown back.
The description of the two lower compartments is as follows: A partition
attached by tick or other pliable substance to the sides at or near the bottom
of the trunk, and which partition rises or falls at pleasure, divides the 'lower
part of the trunk into two compartments; the elevation or lowering of which
'partition diminishes or encreases the size of each of these two compartments
at the pleasure of the packer. There is in this partition a flap, similar to the
one made use of in composing the compartment in the lid, for the like purpose
of introducing wearing appearel into the lowest compartment. For the
purpose of holding up this partition while the goods are packing, two pieces of
'tape or other material are fastened on this partition near the two ends,
which can be attached to two hooks or other catches fixed to the trunk at the
two ends.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Pratt, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One
SAMUEL PRATT. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighth day of July, in the
year above mentioned, the aforesaid Samuel Pratt came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
in that case made and provided.