AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR STAYS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Albert Hill; of Cheddar, in the County of Somerset,
Stay Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR
STAYS:"
Sealed the 19th September 1862, and dated the 20th March 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Albert Hill at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 20th March
1862.
I, ALBERT HILL, of Cheddar, in the County of Somerset, Stay Manu-:
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED:
FASTENING FOR STAYS," to be as follows:-
My fastening applies to those stays which are fastened in front,' and 'con-
sists of two parts, one'a stud formed with an enlarged head, that is, a head of
greater. diameter than the shaft which carries it, is fitted to one of the busks
or ends of the. stay.. The other part of the fastening is fixed to the other
busk or other end of the stay, and consists of a button free to revolve úpon
a pin and formed with a metal shell on the under side thereof, formed with:
a circular slot and with an enlarged: aperture at the entrance into the slot.
The 'fastening is effected by passing, the enlarged aperture on the under shell
of the button over the stud, and by then turning the button to bring the
slot over the head thereof, the head being too large to pass through the slot

page_text: is retained in it. To unfasten, turn the button until the enlarged aperture
comes over the stud, when it will escape and the two parts will become
separated.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Albert Hill in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th
September 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALBERT
HILL, of Cheddar, in the County of Somerset, Stay Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Albert Hill, Her special licence that I, the said Albert Hill,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Albert Hill, 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 "AN IMPROVED
FASTENING FOR STAYS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Albert Hill, 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.
• NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Albert Hill, 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
thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to
say:
My fastening applies to those stays which are fastened in front, and consists
of two parts; one a stud formed with an enlarged head, that is, a head of
greater diameter than the shaft which carries it, is fitted to one of the busks
or ends of the stay. The other part of the fastening is fixed to the other

page_text: busk or other end of the stay and consists of a button free to revolve upon a
pin and made with a metal shell on the under side thereof formed with a
circular slot and with an enlarged aperture at the entrance into the slot.
Figure 1, of the accompanying Drawings, is a plan; and Figure 2 is a side
view of one part of this fastening, consisting of a stud formed with an enlarged
head a. Figure 3 shows the same secured to one of the busks in two places,
Figure 4 is a view of the pieces forming the other part of the fastening; 6 is
a button rivetted to and free to move upon the pin c on the plate d, as
shewn at Figure 5; d is an aperture in the plate d through which the head a
of the stud is passed. A circular slot e is formed in the shell of the button b
with an enlarged entrance finto the slot. Figure 6 shows the pieces forming
the second part of the fastening secured to the other busk in two places.
Figure 7 shows the fastening complete. The fastening is effected by passing
the enlarged aperture f on the shell of the button over the stud a which in
so doing passes through the aperture d', and by then turning the button in the
direction indicated by the arrow in Figure 6, the slot e is brought over the
head thereof, which being too large to pass through the slot is retained in it.
To unfasten, turn the button in the reverse direction as indicated by the arrow
in Figure 7 until the enlarged aperture ƒ comes over the stud a, when it will
escape and the two parts will become separated.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the "Improved
Fastening for Stays" herein-before described and represented in the accom-
panying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Albert Hill, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of September, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two.
ALBERT HILL. (L.S.)