IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF BOOT AND SHOE STRAPS, AND IN ELASTIC SIDE SPRINGS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Charles Henderson, of No. 31, Oharing
Cross, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF BOOT AND SHOE STRAPS, AND
IN ELASTIC SIDE SPRINGS."-A communication from abroad by Henri
Suser, Boot and Shoe Maker, of Nantes, in the Department of the
Loire Inférieure in the Empire of France
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. left by the said Arthur Charles
Henderson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 10th September 1868.
I, ARTHUR CHARLES HENDERSON, of No. 31, Charing Cross, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF BOOT AND SHOE
STRAPS, AND IN ELASTIC SIDE SPRINGS," a communication from abroad
by Henri Suser, Boot and Shoe Maker, of Nantes, in the Depart-
ment of the Loire Inférieure, in the Empire of France, to be as
follows:-
The features of novelty in this Invention consist in the arrangement

page_text: of the tissue, which is round at the edges and is woven of an exceptional
strength, and has a double face, one side being emerald green and
bearing three gold lines woven in it one on either side of the strap, and
one in the centre much finer than the others. The other side of the
band is green and white, having 10 small green stripes woven in it, the b
two outside ones being the widest, and 9 small white stripes in imitation
of chain stitch, in all 19 stripes, alternate green and white.
For the side springs of boots a gold and a green stripe are employed
one above the other both at the top and bottom of the elastic.
The object of this Invention is to secure the Inventor against 1
fraudulent imitations of his 'workmanship, as each pair of boots or shoes
would be furnished with a pair of these straps and side springs.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Arthur Charles Henderson in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 9th March 1869. -
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARTHUR
CHARLES HENDERSON, of No. 31, Charing Cross, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Arthur Charles Henderson, Her special
licence that I, the said. Arthur Charles Henderson, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Arthur
Charles Henderson, 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 THE ORNAMENTATION OF BOOT AND SHOE STRAPS, AND IN
ELASTIC SIDE SPRINGS," a communication, to me from abroad by Henri
Suser, Boot and Shoe Maker, of Nantes, in the Department of the Loire.
Inférieure, in the Empire, of France, upon the condition (amongst

page_text: others) that I, the said Arthur Charles Henderson, 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 Arthur Charles Henderson, 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:-
The features of novelty in this Invention consist in the arrangement
of the tissue, which is round at the edges and is woven of an exceptional
strength, and has a double face, one side being emerald green, and
having three gold lines woven in it, one on either side of the strap and
one in the centre much finer than the others. The other side of the
band is green and white, having 10 small green stripes woven in it, the
two outside ones being the widest, and 9 small white stripes in imita-
tion of chain stitch, in all 19 stripes, alternate green and white.
For the side springs of boots a gold and a green stripe are employed
one above the other both at the top and bottom of the elastic.
The object of this Invention is to secure the Inventor against
fraudulent imitations of his workmanship, as each pair of boots or shoes
would be furnished with a pair of these straps and side springs.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Charles Henderson, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of March in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Witness,
A. J. HENDERSON,
31, Charing Cross.
A. C. HENDERSON. (L.S.)