A NEW OR IMPROVED ADJUSTER FOR ADJUSTING THE BACKS OF WAISTCOATS AND TROUSERS, WHICH, SAID ADJUSTER MAY ALSO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE FASTENINGS ORDINARILY EMPLOYED FOR FASTENING GLOVES, GARTERS, AND BELTS."
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Alfred Carpenter, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED ADJUSTER FOR ADJUSTING THE BACKS OF WAISTCOATS AND TROUSERS,
WHICH, SAID ADJUSTER MAY ALSO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE FASTENINGS
ORDINARILY EMPLOYED FOR FASTENING GLOVES, GARTERS, AND BELTS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Alfred Carpenter
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th July 1860.
I, SAMUEL ALFRED CARPENTER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW
OR IMPROVED ADJUSTER FOR ADJUSTING THE BACKS OF WAISTCOATS AND TROUSERS,
WHICH SAID ADJUSTER MAY ALSO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE FASTENINGS
ORDINARILY EMPLOYED IN FASTENING GLOVES, GARTERS, AND BELTS," to be as
follows:-
My new or improved adjuster consists of a light rectangular frame, made by
preference of metal, the said frame being somewhat longer than the breadth
of the band to which it is to be applied; across the said frame are three bars
parallel to the longer sides of the frame. Two of the said bars are situated in
the same plane as the sides of the frame, and the third or middle bar is raised
out of the plane in which the other parts are situated, that is to say, the said

page_text: adjuster consists essentially of four parallel and equidistant bars situated in the
same plane, and a fifth or middle bar situated in a different but parallel plane,
all the said bars being secured together at their ends. In using my new or
improved adjuster, one of the waistcoat or other bands carries at its end a loop,
and the other of the bands passes through and is secured to the adjuster in the
following manner :--The last-named band passes under the outer bar and over
the three next bars, then passing under the other outer bar it passes through
the loop carried by the other band, and returning to the adjuster. is secured to
the middle bar. By sliding the adjuster along the band to which it is attached,
the length of the doubled part of the said band may be increased or diminished
at pleasure, and the adjustment of the waistcoat or other article effected; small
flaps may be attached to the sides of the adjuster for the purpose of readily
moving it.
When my new or improved adjuster is to be used on gloves or garters, I
make it smaller than when it is to be used on waistcoats, trousers, and belts ;
but it is used with trousers, gloves, garters, and belts, in the way I have.
described with reference to waistcoats.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Alfred Carpenter in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 23rd January 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
ALFRED CARPENTER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Samuel Alfred Carpenter, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel
Alfred Carpenter, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Samuel Alfred Carpenter, 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED ADJUSTER FOR ADJUSTING THE BACKS OF WAISTCOATS
AND TROUSERS, WHICH SAID ADJUSTER MAY ALSO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE

page_text: FASTENINGS ORDINARILY EMPLOYED FOR FASTENING GLOVES, GARTERS, AND BELTS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Alfred Carpenter,
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 Samuel Alfred Carpenter, do hereby
declare 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 :-
My said Invention consists of the new or improved adjuster constructed in
the manner herein-after described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing
for adjusting the backs of waistcoats and trousers, and also for adjusting gloves,
garters, and belts.
.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in plan my new or
improved adjuster, as applied to the bands of a waistcoat for contracting,
extending, or adjusting the back of the said waistcoat; and Figure 2 represents
an edge view of the same; Figure 3 represents in plan and edge view,
separately, the said adjuster; and Figure 4 represents in plan and edge view,
separately, the loop used with the said adjuster, as herein-after explained. The
same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures.
The said new or improved adjuster, Figure 3, consists of a light rectangular
framé a, made by preference of metal, the said frame being somewhat longer
than the breadth of the band to which it is applied, as shewn in Figure 1..
Across the said frame a are three bars b, c, d, parallel to the longer sides e, f,
of the frame. The bars b, d, are situated in the same plane as, the sides e, f, and
the third or middle bar c is raised out of the plane, in which the other bars aro
situated, as best seen in the edge view of Figure 3, that is to say, the said adjuster
consists essentially of four parallel and equidistant bars e, b, d, and f, situated
in the same plane, and a fifth or middle bar c, in a different but parallel plane,
all the said bars being secured together at their ends. Small tongues g, h, are
made on the sides of the adjuster, to which tongues flaps are fixed for the
purpose of readily moving the said adjuster, as herein-after explained; but the
said flaps are not necessary, and may be dispensed with, and the adjuster
moved by the tongues g, h. When the adjuster is made of metal I prefer to
make it by raising in dies, the tongues g, h, being made in one piece with the
adiuster.

page_text: In using my new or improved adjuster, one of the waistcoat bands i,
Figures 1 and 2, carries at its end a metal loop (shewn separately in
Figure 4) to which loop the end of the band is fastened, and the other band
passes through and is secured to the adjuster in the following manner :-The
free end of the said band is first passed under the outer bar f, and over the
next three bars d, c, and b; and then passing under the other outer bar e, passes
through the loop k, and returning to the adjuster is secured to the middle
bar c.
The course of the band in its passage through the adjuster will be
readily understood by referring to the edge view, Figure 2; there is thus
formed between the fixed band i, carrying the loop k, and the adjuster, a
doubled band, as seen at P, and by sliding the adjuster along the band Z in one
or other direction by means of the flaps m, n, or the tongues g, h, the doubled
part at of the band can be increased or diminished at pleasure, and the
adjustment of the waistcoat effected.
When my new or improved adjuster is to be used on gloves or garters I
make it smaller than when it is to be used on waistcoats, trousers, and belts,
but it is used with trousers, gloves, garters, and belts, essentially in the way I
have described and illustrated with reference to waistcoats.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated, as the same may
be varied without departing from the nature of my Invention; but I claim as
my Invention the new or improved adjuster for adjusting the backs of waist-
coats and trousers; also for gloves, garters, and belts, constructed and applied
essentially in the manner herein-before described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Alfred Carpenter, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
SAMUEL ALFRED CARPENTER. (L.S.)
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw.