IMPROVED SHIRTS AND ATTACHMENTS THERETO
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Jacob Wells, 36, Monkwell St., in the
City of London, Shirt Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVED SHIRTS
AND ATTACHMENTS THERETO."
Scaled the 22nd November 1872, and dated the 13th September 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Jacob Wells
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 13th September 1872.
I, SAMUEL JACOB WELLS, 36, Monkwell St., in the City of London,
Shirt Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVED SHIRTS AND ATTACHMENTS THERETO," to be as follows:―
I make a shirt with an adaptation from the yoke (back & front),
terminating in the form of a strap, to which are attached elastic brace
ends, which when fastened on the trousers in the ordinary way entirely
does away with the brace across the shoulder, the adaptation being so
placed that the bearings are equally distributed over the shoulders from
the neck to the point, which will render the weight of the trousers
scarcely felt. To be made in cotton, linen, silk, wool, wool & cotton,
or silk & wool, or linen & cotton.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Jacob Wells in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 11th March 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
JACOB WELLS, 36, Monkwell Street, in the City of London, Shirt Maker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Jacob Wells, Her special
licence that I, the said Samuel Jacob Wells, my exccutors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Jacob
Wells, 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 "Im-
PROVED SHIRTS AND ATTACHMENTS THERETO," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Samuel Jacob Wells, my exccutors or ad-
ministrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and scals, 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 Samuel Jacob Wells, 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 statement:-
I make a shirt with an adaptation from the yoke (back and front)
terminating in the form of a strap, which when attached to elastic or non-
elastic brace ends suspend the trowsers in the ordinary way, doing away
with the brace usually worn across the shoulders outside the shirt, the
adaptation being so placed that the bearings are equally distributed over

page_text: the shoulders from the neck to the point, so that the weight of the
trowsers is scarcely felt.
In the accompanying Sheet of Drawing the front straps A and B are
carried across the shoulders between the yoke from C and D and con-
nected with the back strap at F and G, the back strap E being attached
to the yoke at F and G, also to be made in cotton, linen, silk, wool, wool
and cotton, silk and wool, and linen and cotton, and other like fabric or
fabrics.
Having now particularly described the nature of my Invention, and
in what manner I prefer to put the same into practice, and having in
the accompanying Sheet of Drawing illustrated the same, I wish it to be
understood that what I claim is, a shirt formed and arranged with its
appendages and attachments in the manner herein-before set forth and
described and illustrated in the Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Jacob Wells, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of March, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.