IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HOLDING STRAPS FOR SHARPENING RAZORS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Hayter, of the King's Head, Borough of
Southwark, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
HOLDING STRAPS FOR SHARPENING RAZORS."
Scaled the 20th February 1855, and dated the 24th August 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Hayter at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th August 1854.
I, THOMAS HAYTER, of the King's Head, Borough of Southwark, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
HOLDING STRAPS FOR SHARPENING RAZORS " to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the arrangement and construction of apparatus to
facilitate the holding one end of a flexible strap or belt for sharping razors
upon such strap or belt, consisting of a separate piece of leather, which is not
fixed to any other surface, as in the ordinary razor strop; and my Invention has
for its object the means of securely holding one end of such strap or belt, and
attaching it to a table or other surface, the other end of the strap being held
out by one hand when used to sharpen a razor upon. The apparatus consists
of a pair of jaws or clamps, connected by a pin joint, and capable of opening
and closing, so as to clasp the edge of a table or other fixed surface, and be
firmly affixed thereto by a screw and nut, which is connected to one of the
jaws by a pin joint, the head of the scrow acting to compress the fixed surface
between the two jaws. The jaws carry a buckle or other fastening, to which
the strap is connected in any convenient manner; or the apparatus may consist
of a simple screw clip, the end of the screw acting against one side of the fixed
surface, so as to attach it firmly thereto.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Hayter in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th February 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
HAYTEB, of the King's Head, Borough of Southwark, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her.
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Thomas Hayter, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas
Hayter, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Thomas Hayter, 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, exer-
cise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR HOLDING STRAPS FOR SHARPENING RAZORS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Hayter, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, 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 Thomas Hayter, do hereby declaro
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof (that is to say):
:-
This Invention consists in the arrangement and construction of apparatus to
facilitate the holding one end of a flexible strap or belt for sharpening razors
upon such strap or belt, consisting of a separate piece of leather, which is not
fixed to any other surface, as in the ordinary razor strop; and my Invention has
for its object the means of securely holding one end of such strap or belt, and
attaching it to a table or other surface, the other end of the strap being held
out by one hand when used to sharpen a razor upon. The apparatus consists
of a pair of jaws or clamps, connected by a pin joint, and capable of opening
and closing, so as to clasp the edge of a table or other fixed surface, and be
firmly affixed thereto by a screw and nut, which is connected to one of the jaws
by a pin joint, the head of the screw acting to compress the fixed surface

page_text: of a single screw clip, the end of the screw acting against one side of the fixed
surface, so as to attach it firmly thereto.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to describe
the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a section, and Figure 2 a plan, of apparatus constructed
according to my Invention. a, a, are jaws or clamps connected by pin joints
to the arms a', a, which are connected by a pin joint or axis at a³, upon which
they move freely, so as to be capable of opening and closing upon the edge of
a table or other fixed surface b, in order to be secured thereto by the screw c,
which passes through the screw nut d, formed with projections d', which are
connected by a pin joint to the arms a³, as shewn. The head of the screw c is
formed with a collar c', which acts on the upper surface of the arms a', to
compress the parts together, and thus secure them to the surface of a table
or other surface. e is a bar turning on a pin e', carried by a collar e³ on the
pin or axis a, and the bar e is connected to the flexible strap or belt f, by
passing it through a hole cut for that purpose; or a buckle may be substituted
for the bar e, or the strap may be connected to the apparatus before described
in any other convenient manner.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not intend to
confine myself to the precise details herein described; but what I claim is,
the combining apparatus for holding straps for sharpening razors, as herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Hayter, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE.
THOMAS HAYTER. (Ls.)