IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES AND OTHER WEARING APPAREL, AND IN THE MODE OF ATTACHING THE SAME
Year: 1843

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
MILLS, of Foster Lane, in the City of London, Glove Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Sixteenth day of May, in the sixth year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William
Mills; Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said William Mills, my exors, admñňors, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said William Mills, my exors, adñiors, 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 expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES AND OTHER WEARING
APPAREL, AND IN THE MODE OF ATTACHING THE SAME;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said William Mills, shall cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court

page_text: of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said in 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 Mills, do hereby declare that the, nature of my Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say) :-
My Invention relates to constructing and attaching particularly formed
buttons as fastenings for gloves and other wearing apparel. And in order that
the Invention may be, fully understood and readily carried into effect, I will
proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews an enlarged view, of one of the buttons or fastening, in plan
and section; Figure 2 shews the instrument for attaching the same to a glove
or other wearing apparel; Figure 3 shews the parts put together, having between
them a part of a glove or other wearing apparel a, and a strengthening piece b;
and Figure 4 shews a section of the parts in the act of being pressed together
by suitable dies c and d, which are worked in, suitable screw or other presses;
I prefer such screw presses as are shewn in the other Figures in the Drawing,
Figure 5 being a side view of a screw press, with the dies c and d of a proper
size for gloves; but the size of the dies as well as the fastening will be varied
according to the purpose to which they are to be applied. Figure 6 is a-plan
"of the screw press; and Figure 7 is a side-section of the press and dies c and d.
The buttons and fastenings, Figures 1 and 2, are to be made in brass or other
suitable metal by means of proper dies, as is well understood in raising metal
for other purposes:
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, I would wish it-to
be understood that what I claim as my Invention is, the mode of forming fas-
tenings; and attaching them to gloves and other wearing apparel, as described
in respect to Figures -1, 2, 3, and 4.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Mills, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord, One thousand eight hundred and forty-three.
WILLIAM (L.8.). MILLS.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of November, in
the year of our Lord 1843, the aforesaid William Mills came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
5 written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Sixteenth day of November in the year of our Lord Une
Enrolled the Sixteenth day of November in the year of our Lord Unel
thousand eight hundred and forty-three.