NEW-INVENTED BUCKLE CHAPE, OR SHOE FASTENING, ON A NEW CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1784

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by His Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the
Twenty-sixth day of November, in the twenty-fifth year of His reign, did give
and grant unto me, DAVID TAYLOR, of Charles Street, Grosvenor Square, in the
County of Middlesex, Boot and Shoe Maker, His Majesty's special licence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, for me, the said David Taylor, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, and every of us, during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend my
"NEW-INVENTED BUCKLE CHAPE, OR SHOE FASTENING, ON A NEW
CONSTRUCTION," within that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me,
my executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of us, should in our discre-
tion seem meet; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, full power,
sole priviledge and advantage, to me, the said David Taylor, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, for the term of fourteen years from the date of
the said Letters Patent next immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat
and ended, according to the Statute in that case made and provided; in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said David
Taylor, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months from the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters

page_text: Patent, and all liberties and advantages thereby granted, should cease and
become void.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said David Taylor, in pursuance of and in
compliance with the said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, and the
purport and true intent and meaning thereof, and of His Majesty's most
gracious intentions, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention of a
Buckle Chape, or Shoe Fastening, upon a New Construction, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascertained in the Plan
or Drawing hereunto annext, and which is particularly explained in manner
following, that is to say:―
Fig. 1 is a concave or inside view of my buckle chapo, or shoe fastening,
which consists of a double chape or anchor, with one, two, or more spikes or
prongs on each side thereof, as at letters (k, k, k, k, k, k), and which may be made
of iron, steel, gold, silver, or any metal, with or without a joint, and may be
made either square, round, or oval, or any other shape, according to the fancy or
fashion of the buckle rim to which it is to be fixed. This chape may be made
with or without a projection or loop at one end, as at letter (b), and with or
without spikes or prongs, as. at letters (c, c), or with knobs, studs, or catches,
or a plate of solid iron, &c., or otherwise, to which a false strap is or may be
fastened; or said buckle, or shoe fastening, or chape, may be used with only
the straps of the shoe, and may. be fixed to the buckle rim by a pin and screw
as at letter (d; d), or be naild, rivited, or fastened to one or more parts of the
buckle rim. E, E, E, is a middle chape or tongue, which may be made of
iron, steel, or any other metal, and shaped either square,.as at letters (f.ƒ‚ ƒ»ƒ),
or any other form, of one solid plate or otherwise,.which may be nail'd,.screwed,
or brazed, or fastened to the abovesaid. outward chape, or by a joint, as at
letters (a, a, a), or fixed to the rim of the buckle of gold, silver, &c. The said
middle chape or tongue is so jointed to the side or end of the chape.next the
toe, that it may fold or turn back in order to give the buckle rim (9, I, I, I)
(to which the afore-mentioned double chape is fixed) liberty to fall down. in the
fore part of the foot. This.middle chape or tongue has one, two, or more:spikes,
catches, or prongs, on the.end or the side next the instep, as at. letters (h, h),
the use of which is to go into the vanip, upper leather, top, or flap of the shoc.
In order to pull up the said vamp, &c., the middle tongue may pull or keep up
the vamp, &c., of the shoe, by having a peice, bit; or strap of leather, cut, or
slit out, or left on the said vamp of the shoe; or by having a peice, strap,
or bit of leather, linen, silk, stuff, or any other substance or kind whatscever,
sewed, closed, seamed, or stitched to the vamp of the shoe. The said middle
tongue has one, two, or more spikes, as at letters (i, i), or may have knobs,

page_text: studs, or catches, on any part of it, whereon a false strap or top may be
fastened, the use of which is to have the same portion or quantity of leather
above the buckle rim to which said double chape is fixed, whether the said rim
be high or low on the foot.
Fig. 2 is a convex view of the said double chape or anchor without the
buckle rim, having a projection or stop at letters (a, a) to prevent the middle
chape rising too high, and also a screw hole at letter (6) to fasten it to the
said buckle rim, but in all other respects has been described in Figure 1. The
way in which the said buckle chape is fixed on the shoe for use is in the
manner and form following (that is to say):-Place the buckle on the foot
where you intend it to be, whether high or low; force the prong or spikes (h,h),
on the middle tongue, through the flap or top of your shoe; fold the buckle
forward on the foot; bring the strap of the shoe over the middle tongue (which
is already in the top or flap of the shoe); bring the buckle back again to its
proper place; push it up towards the instep, at the same time pulling the strap
of the shoe forward; draw back the strap on the anchor or spikes on each
side; lay the strap (which ought to be thrown down) on the middle tongue,
and put the false strap over them, the same as you would the strap of a
common shoe.
In witness whercof, I, the said David Taylor, have hereunto set my'
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of March, in the year of our
Land One thaneand cavan hundred and sighty five
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-first day of March, in
the year above mentioned, the said David Taylor came before our said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above men-
tioned. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of their Majesties
King William and Queen Mary of England, and so forth.