IMPROVEMENTS IN CRINOLINE SKIRTS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Coleman Coleman, of 32, Little Moorfields, in the
City of London, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CRINOLINE SKIRTS."
Sealed the 19th July 7, and dated the 23rd January 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Coleman Coleman at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 23rd January 1867.
I, COLEMAN COLEMAN, of 32, Little Moorfields, in the City of London,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CRINOLINE SKIRTS," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to construct a new crinoline skirt of a
number of bands or hoops of steel or other suitable material inserted in
various fabrics in that part of the skirt extending from the ankle to the knee;
the said skirt being suspended from the waistband by means of a number of
straps or tapes of any suitable material; these straps or tapes may be
fastened by sewing or other similar means. This improvement entirely
prevents undue expansion or exposure, and obviates the awkward and
cumbersome appearance of the ordinary crinoline, also giving greater freedom
to the wearer, and a considerable reduction in the weight of the skirt.
The accompanying Drawing represents the improvement above described.

page_text: a, a, fabric of any suitable material forming the skirt; b, b, steel bands or
hoops inserted in the fabric; c, c, straps or tapes for suspending the lower
part of the skirt to the waistband d, d.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Coleman Coleman in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
22nd July 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, COLEMAN
COLEMAN,. of 32, Little Moorfields, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Coleman Coleman, Her special licence that I, the said Coleman
Coleman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Coleman Coleman, 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 "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN CRINOLINE SKIRTS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Coleman Coleman, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Coleman Coleman, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The object of my Invention is to construct a crinoline skirt of a number of
bands or hoops of steel or other suitable material inserted in various fabrics
in that part of the skirt extending from the ankle to the knee; the said skirt
being suspended from the waistband by means of a number of straps or tapes
of any suitable material; these straps or tapes may be fastened by sewing or
other suitable means. This improvement entirely prevents undue expansion

page_text: or exposure, and obviates the awkward and cumbersome appearance of
the ordinary crinoline, also giving greater freedom to the wearer, and a
considerable. reduction in the weight of the skirt.
The accompanying Drawing represents the improvements above described.
a, a, fabric of any suitable material forming the skirt; b, b, steel bands or
hoops inserted in the fabric; c, c, straps or tapes for suspending the lower
part of the skirt to the waistband d, d.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, I wish it to be under-
stood that what I claim as my improvement is, the construction of a crinoline
skirt with a number of bands or hoops inserted in the skirt from the ankle to
the knee, the said skirt being suspended from the waistband by straps or
tapes, as herein-before set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Coleman Coleman, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Twenty-second day of July, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven.
COLEMAN COLEMAN. (LE.)