A NEW OR AWD DATEED
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Harry Jones, of the Town and County of the
Town of Nottingham, Auctioneer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR
AWD DATEED "
Sealed the 19th July 1872, and dated the 24th January 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Harry Jones at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th January 1872.
I, HARRY JONES, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham,
Auctioneer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A
NEW OR IMPROVED MOUSTACHE PROTECTOR AND TRAINER," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its special object the protection of the moustache
during meals, and principally at the time of taking soup and other
liquids, from which without some guard or protection the moustache
becomes saturated and rendered unpleasant both to the wearer and those
in his immediate company.
This contrivance consists of two pieces of soft leather a, a, or other
suitable material, shown in accompanying Drawings, Fig. 2, which are
fixed upon a light steel spring b, b, which runs through the leather shields,
and on which they easily slide or move. Two pieces of elastic c, c,

page_text: are fixed at the ends of the spring to fit readily on to the ears, as seen
at Fig. 1. The forms of these trainers or protectors could be altered to
suit any requirement. The shields a, a, are curved at the mouth
portion d, d, and can be slid back on the spring to suit any particular
conformation of the upper lip.
The shield or protector could also be used as a moustache trainer if
desired, so that the hair could be made to take the particular form or
direction required, and the mode of any light elastic material that would
be found applicable.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Harry Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 23rd July 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HARRY
JONES, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Auctioneer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Harry Jones, Her special licence that
I, the said Harry Jones, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Harry Jones, 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 MOUSTACHE PROTECTOR AND
TRAINER," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Harry
Jones, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Harry Jones, 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 by the
following statement:-
This Invention has for its special object the protection of the moustache
during meals, and principally at the time of taking soup and other
liquids, from which without some guard or protector the moustache
becomes saturated and rendered unpleasant both to the wearer and those
in his immediate company.
This contrivance consists of two pieces of soft leather a, a, or other
like material, as shewn on accompanying Drawing, Figure 1, which are
fixed upon a light steel spring b, b, which runs through the leather shields,
and on which they easily slide or move. Two pieces of elastic c, c, are
fixed at the end of the spring to fit readily on to the ears, as seen at
Figure 2. The form of these frames or protectors could be altered to
suit any requirement. The shields a, a, are curved at the mouth
portion d, d, and can be slid back on the spring to suit any particular
conformation of the upper lip.
The shield or protector could also be used as a moustache trainer if
desired, so that the hair could be made to take the particular form or
direction required, and be made of any light elastic material that would
be found applicable.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the mode
of carrying the same into effect, now what I claim and desire to be
secured to me by Letters Patent is, the said Invention for a new
or improved moustache protector and trainer, substantially as herein.
described, and as shewn on the accompanying Drawings, or any mere
modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Harry Jones, have hereunto set
my hand and scal, this Twenty-second day of July, in the year of