IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE ATTACHED TO TROWSERS, COMMONLY CALLED TROWSER STRAPS
Year: 1841

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH
WILSON NUTTALL, of Belper, in the County of Derby, Draper, and HENRY
HOLDEN, of the same place, Tailor, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Fifth day of April,
in the fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Joseph Wilson Nuttall and Henry Holden,
Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that we, the said
Joseph Wilson Nuttall and Henry Holden, her executors, administrators, and
assigns, and such others as we, the said Joseph Wilson Nuttall and Henry
Holden, our executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our
Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE ATTACHED TO TROWSERS, COMMONLY
CALLED TROWSER STRAPS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
obliging us, the said Joseph Wilson Nuttall and Henry Holden, by an instru-
ment in writing under our hand and seal, or under the hand and seal of one
of us, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be
inrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent,

page_text: 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
Joseph Wilson Nuttall, on behalf of myself and the said Henry Holden, do
hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, are particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following description thereof, reference being had to the Drawing
hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to
say):
Our Invention of improved apparatus to be attached to trowsers consists of
certain improved constructions of hooks and catches, by means of which the
gaiter or trowser strap, or other fastening to be passed under the foot, may be
attached to or detached from the gaiter or trowser with very great facility.
In the Drawing hereunto annexed we have shewn views of several different
constructions of fastenings, in which the upper part, or that which may be
called the hook, must be sewed on to or otherwise attached or connected to
the bottom of the trowser or gaiter, whilst the lower or under part or catch is
rivetted or otherwise connected to the leather or other strap which passes
under the foot.
.
Fig. 1 in the accompanying Drawings represents a front view, and Fig. 2
a side or edge view of the most simple form of hook, consisting merely of a flat
piece of metal, with suitable holes drilled in it for sewing on to the trowser,
and having a bent up tongue a, formed by turning up, in the manner shewn
in Fig. 2, a portion of the flat piece of metal.
Fig. 3 represents a front and side view of the staple, catch, or eye piece,
which is made fast to the end of the leather or other strap by rivets or other
means. The eye, catch, or staple 6 having been punched out of a piece of plate
metal, its outer edge c is turned over nearly at right angles, forming a lip, as
shewn in the edge view.
In connecting these, as represented at Fig. 4, the catch at the end of the
strap is brought nearly into a horizontal position, as shewn by dots in the
edge view, by which means the lip edge is enabled to slide freely between the
tongue a and the plate of the hook piece, and when so connected will hang
down in the manner shewn, and not be liable to rise and slip out in conse-
quence of the lip c being wider than the passage between the upper part of
the tongue a and its place.
Figs. 5, 6, and 7 represent another construction of hook piece. In this
instance the tongue a has a moveable cover d, attached by a pivot to the
plate, and the catch or staple c-of-the strap, when connected to the tongue
.

page_text: piece, is prevented from becoming unfastened by means of the cap piece or
cover d, which completely closes the opening of the hook, as seen in the edge
view at Fig. 7. A slight modification of the same hook, without any essential
difference, but merely in the form of the sliding cap or cover d, is .shewn at
Figs. 8, 9, and 10. In the ledge of the sliding cover there is a little slot
at e,which, when the cover is shut down, as at Fig. 8, causes the upper edge-
of the tongue a to spring into it, and thereby keep the cover secure in its
place.
Another description of fastening, in which the hook is closed by a lever
cap or cover f, is shewn in Figs. 11, 12, 13, and 14. Fig. 11 is a front
view of the fastening, and Figs. 12 and 13 side views of the same. The
hook is closed by the falling of the lever f, which turns on a hinge joint above,
and has a nib or elongation g at bottom. Fig. 18 represents this piece raised
in order to admit the eye, catch, or staple c of the strap. In passing the catch
or staple on. to the hook, the lip of the catch piece striking against the nib g
raises the lever f; and when the catch piece falls into its place, as shewn in
Fig. 14, the lever assumes the closed position, and is prevented from being
opened merely by the accidental rising of the catch, owing to the nib g passing
behind the lower edge of the staple or eye.
A fastening of another construction, essentially different from either of the
above, is shewn at Figs. 15, 16, and 17; Fig. 15 representing a front, and
Fig. 16 an edge view of this contrivance. The fastening consists of a straight
bar of metal h, h, see Fig. 17, which may be attached or connected to the
trowser by sewing, or in any other manner that will allow of its being easily
removed when the trowsers require washing. At each end of this bar h there
are notches i, i, covered by a flat spring k, k, slightly turned up at its ends.
The corners of the metal bar h are rounded off, in order that the loops 1, 1
(which are attached by joints to a bar m, connected to the leather or other
strap), may be easily passed into the notches i, i, and thereby made secure, as
seen in the Figures 15 and 16. These jointed loops are easily removed from
the bar, and the fastenings disengaged, when required, by lifting the ends of
the spring k, k, and sliding the loops 1, 2, over the ends of the bar.
Figs. 18 and 19 represent a similar construction of fastening to Figs. 1, 2,
3, and 4, but in this instance the staple catch is attached to the trowser, and
the hook to the strap.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Wilson Nuttall, have hereunto
set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
J. W.
(L.S.) NUTTALL.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Fifth day of October, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Joseph Wilson Nuttall came before
our Lady the Queen in Her 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.
Inrolled the same Fifth day of October, in the year above written.