AN IMPROVED BUTTON FOR PROTECTING THE THREAD OR SHANK FROM FRICTION AND WEAR
Year: 1838

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
BARNETT, of Jewin Street, in the City of London, Tailor, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her Majesty Queen Victoria the First, by Her Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Seventh day of
April, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and in the first year of
Her said Majesty's reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said George Barnett, Her especial license, full power, sole
privilege and authority, for me, the said George Barnett, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or
by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I,
the said George Barnett, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, to make, use, and vend the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED BUTTON FOR PROTECTING THE THREAD OR SHANK
FROM FRICTION AND WEAR," within England and Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in all Her said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations
abroad;
and in such Letters Patent is contained a proviso, requiring me, the
said George Barnett, to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, and to cause such instrument to be inrolled
in Her Majesty's Court of Chancery within two calendar months next after
the date of the said Letters Patent, as by the said Letters Patent, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Barnett, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascer-
tained as follows (that is to say):
I affix, fasten, or form a hollow neck or collar to, upon, or out of buttons,
which protects the threads or flexible shank from friction and wear. In brace
or other buttons without a shank, whether made of metal, horn, ivory, bone,
pearl, tortoiseshell, wood, or paper, or a mixture of any of the above materials,
and with any number of thread holes, the neck or collar has a bottom to it
through which the thread holes are perforated. When convenient an ornament
may be placed over the top of the button. In flexible shank buttons the neck
or collar has no bottom, but is left open so as to permit the flexible shank to
pass, protrude, or be drawn through. I rest my Invention and Patent on the
hollow neck or collar.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Barnett, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
GEORGE BARNETT. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twelfth day of May, in the first
year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the said George Barnett
came before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged
the instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and
specified, in form above written. And also the instrument aforesaid was
stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the fifty-fifth year of
the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third.