A NEW-CONSTRUCTED SPRING TRUSS, FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS AFFLICTED WITH RUPTURES
Year: 1781

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
SQUIRE, of Wardour Street, in the Parish of Saint James, in the County of
Middlesex, Instrument and Tool Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-third day of April, in the twenty-first year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me His especial licence, full power, sole privi-
lege and authority, that I, the said William Squire, my exors, adñiors, and
assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their
deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said William
Squire, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and
themselves, or by my and their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as I, the said William Squire, my exors, admors," and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, and His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW-CONSTRUCTED SPRING TRUSS,
FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS AFFLICTED WITH RUPTURES," and that I, the said
William Squire, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit,
benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, and

page_text: arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of
years therein
mentioned, to have and to hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
privileges, and advantages herein-before granted or mentioned to be granted
unto me, the said William Squire, my exors, admors, and assigns, for and
during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the
said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat
and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which
said Statute there is contained a provisoe obliging me, the said William
Squire, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a par-
ticular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be enrolled in His. Majestie's High Court of Chancery within four
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
William Squire, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a New-con-
structed Spring Truss is described in manner following; that is to say:-
a cure.
The single truss for a rupture on one side of the groin is one or more piece
or pieces of steel, so tempered as to be perfectly elastic, with a pad fixed at one
end, or a pad that slides at one end till it is exactly on the place where the
rupture came through before it was reduced, which, by clasping round the hips,
keeps the pad properly pressed on that part, so as to assist nature in performing
The double truss is one or more piece or pieces of steel, so tempered
as to be perfectly elastic, with a pad fixed at each end, or a pad sliding at each
end, and is to be applied as a single one. The truss for the navel or any other
part of the body is one or more piece or pieces of steel, so tempered as to be
perfectly elastic, with a pad or pads fixed or sliding on the middle or any
other part, and clasps round the body. The springs are all covered on the
outside, and have a soft lining in the inside. These trusses may be fastened
on with a buckle, and strapt, or any other fastening; but in most cases they
clasp fast enough without a buckle or strap.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-
eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and eighty-one.
VILLIAM
(L.B.) SQUIRE.
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Sealed and delivered, being first duly
stampt, in the presence of
JOHN LAWRENCE.
H. J. ADAMS.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of June, in
the year of our Lord 1781, the aforesaid William Squire came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and
Queen W and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth year of
the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-one.