IMPROVEMENTS IN BELTS FOR CARRYING CARTRIDGES, MILITARY, SPORTING, AND OTHER TRAVELLING ARTICLES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin Thomas Budden, of Wimborne, in the
County of Dorset, Outfitter, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BELTS FOR CARRYING CARTRIDGES, MILITARY, SPORTING, AND OTHER TRAVELLING
ARTICLES
"
Sealed the 12th January 1875, and dated the 30th July 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin Thomas Budden
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 30th July 1874.
I, EDWIN THOMAS BUDDEN, of Wimborne, in the County of Dorset,
Outfitter, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN BELTS FOR CARRYING CARTRIDGES, MILITARY, SPORTING, AND OTHER
TRAVELLING ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to an improved construction of belt to be
called the Grantley Berkeley belt, the said belt to be worn around the waist

page_text: and to be used for carrying cartridges, military and sporting requisites,
provisions, and other travelling articles. It consists of a belt or band
made of canvass, leather, india-rubber, waterproof, or other suitablo
material, which being placed round the waist is fastened or secured by
buttons, buckles, clasps, locks, or otherwise. To this belt or band are
fixed or suspended a series of expanding pouches or pockets made of
metal, canvass, cloth, leather, india-rubber, waterproof, or other suitablo
material, and the lids or covers secured by buttons, buckles, clasps,
hasps, locks, or other suitable fastenings. In these pouches or pockets
the cartridges or other articles are placed or carried. By employing a
scries of pouches or pockets, the weight carried thereby is uniformly
distributed round the waist without distress or inconvenience.
Another advantage in the use of this belt is, that by a simple move-
ment each pouch or pocket is brought successively within casy reach of
the hand without unfastening or removing the belt from the waist.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edwin Thomas Budden in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 29th January 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWIN
THOMAS BUDDEN, of Wimborne, in the County of Dorset, Outfitter,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-eighth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give a
and grant unto me, the said Edwin Thomas Buddeu, Her special license
that I, the said Edwin Thomas Budden, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edwin Thomas Buddon, my
exccutors, administrators, or 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 vond, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,

page_text: the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BELTS FOR CARRYING CARTRIDGES, MILITARY, SPORTING, and OTHER TRAVELLING
ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edwin
Thomas Budden, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain 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 Edwin Thomas Budden, 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, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is. to
say:-
My said Invention relates to an improved construction of belt or band
(which I designate the Grantley Berkeley belt) to be worn around the
waist, and to be used for carrying cartridges, military and sporting
requisites, provisions, letters, despatches, and other travelling articles.
This belt (which may be composed of canvass, leather, or india-rubber,
or other waterproof or suitable material, and be fastened or secured
around the waist by buttons, buckles, clasps, locks, or otherwise,) is
provided with a series of expanding or other pouches or pockets formed
or fixed therein or thereon, or suspended therefrom for the purpose of
containing the articles to be carried, such pouches or pockets being
composed of metal, canvass, cloth, leather, or india-rubber, or other
waterproof. or suitable material, and by preference fitted with lids or
covers, which are secured by buttons, buckles, clasps, hasps, locks, or
other suitable fastenings.
..And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood. I shall
now proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose
shall refer to the several Figures on the annexed Sheet of Drawings,
the same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in all the
Figures.
Figure 1 of my Drawings represents a belt provided with two pouches

page_text: and with a belt or band, to be worn around the waist, of pouches or
pockets, substantially as and for the purposes herein-before described,
and as illustrated by my Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edwin Thomas Budden, have to this
my Specification set my hand and seal, the Nineteenth day of
January, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
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EDWIN THOMAS BUDDEN. (L.s.)