A NEW METHOD OF AND APPLIANCES FOR HOLDING THE FLIGHT FEATHERS OF DOMESTIC AND OTHER BIRDS, SO AS TO PREVENT THEIR FLYING OR ESCAPE FROM PENS OR ENCLOSURES
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to May Arnold, Spinster, of Whitethorns, Acton, Middlesex,
and Lanceland Wood, Surrey, for an Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF
AND APPLIANCES FOR HOLDING THE FLIGHT FEATHERS OF DOMESTIC AND
OTHER BIRDS, SO AS TO PREVENT THEIR FLYING OR ESCAPE FROM PENS OR
ENCLOSURES." A communication from abroad by Paul Voitellier, of Mantes,
in the Republic of France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said May Arnold at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th October 1880.
MAY ARNOLD, Spinster, of Whitethorns, Acton, Middlesex, and Lanceland
Wood, Surrey. "A NEW METHOD OF AND APPLIANCES FOR HOLDING THE
FLIGHT FEATHERS OF DOMESTIC AND OTHER BIRDS, SO AS TO PREVENT THEIR
FLYING OR ESCAPE FROM PENS OR ENCLOSURES." [A communication from abroad
by Paul Voitellier, of Mantes, in the Republic of France.]
A loop of any material capable of serving as a ligament is passed carefully up
the first few flight feathers of one wing to the point where they enter the flesh,
and an end which will form a second loop when tied back to the first by the use of
a spring clip or other fastening, which second loop must be of a soft material or
enwrapped in a soft material passed closely round the joint of the wing and turned
under the wing again to meet the first. This arrangement is perfect for its purpose,
quite invisible when worn, does not injure the feathering for ornamental or
exhibition purposes, and is a unique one for these objects, nothing of the nature of
a wingholder, independent of cutting, pulling, or tying down the whole wing to the
body, having ever been attempted before.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said May Arnold in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th April
1881.
MAY ARNOLD, Spinster, of Whitethorns, Acton, Middlesex, and Lanceland
Wood, Surrey. "A NEW METHOD OF AND APPLIANCES FOR HOLDING THE
FLIGHT FEATHERS OF DOMESTIC AND OTHER BIRDS, SO AS TO PREVENT THEIR
FLYING OR ESCAPE FROM PENS OR ENCLOSURES."
A loop of any material capable of serving as a ligament is passed carefully up
the first few flight feathers of one wing to the point where they enter the flesh,
from which proceeds a strip of material forming a second loop when it is held back
to the first by the use of a spring clip or other fastening, which second loop must
be of a soft material, or partly enwrapped in a soft material, passed closely round
the joint of the wing, and turned under the wing again to meet the first loop. This
arrangement is perfect for its purpose, quite invisible when worn, does not injure
the feathering for ornamental or exhibition purposes, and is a unique one for these
objects, nothing of the nature of a wing holder, independent of cutting, pulling, or
tying down the whole wing to the body, having ever been attempted before.
For the better explanation and illustration of the said Invention I refer to the
accompanying Drawing, which exhibits its principle as executed in chain work, and
in which the same letters designate the same parts.
A shews the first loop of the contrivance in question; B, its second loop; C, the
soft material enwrapping the chain at the wing joint; D, the spring clip; E, a set
of several rings serving to fit the contrivance to the size of the wing.
Having now fully described the nature of this Invention, and the means
by which it is to be carried into effect, I wish it to be understood that what I
consider new and therefore secured to me by the above in part recited Letters
Patent is,-
1st. The plan or method of binding the wing to the wing within itself to prevent
flight, instead of as heretofore, the wing to the body.
2nd. The execution of this new plan or method in any material, as it is indifferent,
or nearly so, whether it be worked out in chain work, cord, tape, thong of hide, or
in any material whatsoever of which a ligament can be made.
In witness whereof, I, the said May Arnold, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and eighty one.