IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Edwards, of 29, Basinghall Street, in the City
of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Edwards at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 21st
May 1864.
I, JOHN EDWARDS, of 29, Basinghall Street, in the City of London, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF FASTENINGS FOR ARTICLES OF DRESS AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be
as follows:-
1st. My Invention relates to the making of hooks for fastening articles of
dress and other purposes. I form a hook something like the letter S, making
one point to touch the upper bow of the hook, this point enters the article to
be fastened and saves the trouble of sewing on; sometimes I form a loop at the
upper part of the hook and make the point to catch into this loop when the
hook is fastened; sometimes I turn one point inward, and then this hook can be
sewn on and is not required to be cut off. When the article requires washing
sometimes I form a hook like the letter O, the ends overlapping and turned
outwards to catch into a loop on the article to be fastened.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Edwards in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st November 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
EDWARDS, of 29, Basinghall Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said John Edwards, Her special licence that I, the said John
Edwards, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Edwards, 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
MANUFACTURE OF FASTENINGS FOR ARTICLES OF DRESS AND OTHER PURPOSES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Edwards, my execu-
tors 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. John Edwards, 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 the following
statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to say:—-
My. Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of fastenings for
articles, of dress and other purposes known as hooks, which hooks are also
applicable, to the suspending of curtains and other articles. I form a hook of
any suitable size; something like the letter S, making one point to project
beyond the bow, as shewn in Fig. 1, which point is made to enter the article
to be fastened or suspended; the other point enters a suitably formed eye,
made on the article, to be fastened, or enters an eye fixed on a ring, when a
curtain or other article is to be suspended. When it is needful to detach a
hook, it can be done by drawing the point out of the article as a pin is drawn.
I also form a hook as before described, but leave one end shorter, which end

page_text: I turn in towards the body of the hook, as Fig. 2. This hook has to be
sewn on in the usual way, and does not require to be cut off when the article
requires washing. Also I form a hook as before described, but turning one
end inwards, thereby forming a loop by which to sew the hook on, as Fig. 3.
This hook can be sewn on in the usual way, and does not require to be cut off
when the article requires washing.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Edwards, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
JOHN EDWARDS. (L.B.)