CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FORMS OR CONSTRUCTIONS OF HOOKS AND EYES FOR FASTENING DRESSES AND FOR OTHER USES
Year: 1843

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WARDROPER, of Welbeck Street, in the County of Middlesex, Surgeon, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fifth day of December, in the seventh year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Wardroper, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and autho-
rity, that I, the said William Wardroper, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, and such others as I, the said William Wardroper, 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 of years therein mentioned,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FORMS OR CONSTRUCTIONS OF HOOKS AND EYES FOR FASTENING
DRESSES AND FOR OTHER USES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso obliging me, the said William Wardroper, 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 inrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in

page_text: part 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
William Wardroper, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is 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):-
My Invention of improvements in the forms and constructions of hooks and
eyes, consists in making the said hooks and eyes of such a form as will admit
of their being easily connected and disconnected from each other when
required, and also will prevent them from coming unfastened accidentally.
The peculiar forms which I find to answer these purposes most effectually, and
which I claim as my Invention, are shewn in the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings.
Fig. 1 represents a plan view, and Fig. 2 an edge view, of one of my
improved hooks and eyes connected together; Figs. 3 and 4 are a front and
edge view of the hook; and Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are front, edge, and sectional views
of the eye. It will be seen by inspecting these last mentioned Figures that
that part of the eye which comes in contact with the hook is flattened and
pressed out, as seen best at a, Fig. 7, so as to present a broad surface to the
opening of the hook when connected, but. by turning the eye up at right angles
or nearly so, a narrow edge is brought opposite the opening of the hook and
may then be easily detached therefrom. The shape of the hook may be varied
according to the taste or will of the manuafacturer, as shewn in Figs. 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13, and 14; the only precaution that it is necessary to observe in the
construction or formation of the hooks is, that the entrance or opening should
be made narrower than the part a of the eye, so as only to admit the same
sideways. The shape or configuration of the eye may also be varied without
departing from the nature of my Invention, the principle of which consists in
flattening and widening the part a of the eye and contracting the entrance of
the hook, so as to prevent the fastenings from becoming disconnected acciden-
tally, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Wardroper, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
WILLIAM (L.S.) WARDROPER.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Fifth day of June, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Wardroper 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.
Invalled the come Trifth day of Tune in the year above written.