A GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CHAPES FOR SHOE AND OTHER BUCKLES WHICH ARE BETTER ADAPTED FOR THE SAME THAN ANY NOW IN USE
Year: 1784

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HALL, of the Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Gold Buckle Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said George Hall, did, by my Petition, humbly represent
unto His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that I had, with
great labour, study, and application, found out and invented "A GREAT
IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CHAPES FOR SHOE AND OTHER BUCKLES
WHICH ARE BETTER ADAPTED FOR THE SAME THAN ANY NOW IN USE;" I did there-
fore most humbly pray his said Majesty to grant unto me, my exors, admors,
and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, for the sole making and vending my said new Invention in that part
of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years,
according to the Statute in that case made and provided, His said Majesty, taking
the said premises into His Royal consideration, and being willing to give
encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be for the public good,
was most graciously pleased to condescend to my said request; and therefore
His said Majesty, by His Royal Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster,
the Twenty-ninth day of November, in the twenty-fifth year of His reign, of
His special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, did give and grant unto

page_text: me,
the said George Hall, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, His special license,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said George Hall, my exors,
admors, and assigns, and every of us, by myself and ourselves, by mine and
our deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said
George Hall, my exors, admors, and assigns, should at any time
with,
agree
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the said
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said George Hall, my exors,
adñiors, or assigns, or any of us, in our discretion should seem meet; and that
I, the said George Hall, my exors, adññors, and assigns, should and lawfully
might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from
time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said
Invention for and during the term of years therein mentioned; to have, hold,
exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages, therein-
before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said George Hall, my
exors, adññiors, and assigns, for and during and until 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 Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that if I, the said George Hall, 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 next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages
whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become
void, anything therein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwith-
standing, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had,
will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Hall, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, in manner and form
following, that is to say :-
First, the chape to be made of iron or any other kind of metal or mixture
of metals of any length or breadth, with a spike or spikes to one side thereof,
a tongue to the opposite side thereof, and a bar to cross from the chape to the

page_text: tongue, either at the end, middle, or any other part of the chape, with a spike
or spikes upon such bar, as is more particularly described in the Drawing
thereof in the margin of these Presents, marked No. 1. This chape, being
fixed by any means to the rim of the buckle, leaves an open space between the
wo sides of the chape, so that with a strap made out of or fixed to the upper
leather of the shoe, and fastened upon the spikes on the bar, the quarters of
the shoe will be kept closer to the heel, the upper leather smooth, and the
buckle itself made stronger and more serviceable.
Secondly, a tongue may be fixed by any means to the chape or rim of the
buckle at one end of the chape to rest on the bar which crosses from the
chape to the tongue, to serve instead of a spike or spikes upon the said bar.
Thirdly, the bar with spike or spikes, which crosses from the tongue to the
chape, as before described, may be converted into a tongue, and held by the
same fastening as the chape or otherwise so as to turn seperately or together,
and such tongue to rest on another bar or rim of buckle.
Fourthly, instead of a bar of any kind to cross from the tongue to the
chape, a buckle with a tongue or spikes at the end withinside thereof, may be
placed between the tongue and the chape, and fixed or fastened, with springs
or without, either to the chape or rim of the buckle, as more particularly
described in the Drawing in the margin of these Presents, marked No. 2.
Fifthly, the tongue and chape may be one piece, and fastened by any means
at one side thereof to the rim of the buckle, so as to turn with a spike or spikes
at the side and at one end of the chape, and a tongue or a spike or spikes to
serve as a tongue on the other side of the chape, and to rest on a bar or the
rim of the buckle, as more particularly described in the Drawing contained in
the margin hereof marked No. 3.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Hall, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-third day of March, in the twenty-fifth
year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, and in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-five.
GEORGE (L.S.) HALL.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stamped) in the presence of
W CLULOW,
Quality Court, Chancery Lane.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of March,
in the year of our Lord 1785, the aforesaid George Hall 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 written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-third day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-five.