NEW-INVENTED IMPROVED GAITERS, AND MODES OF FASTENING THE SAME
Year: 1813

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
FISHER, of Mill End, in the County of Bucks, and LAYTON COOKE, of the
Haymarket, in the City of Westminster, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Eleventh day of May, in the
fifty-third year of His reign, give and grant unto us, the said John Fisher and
Layton Cooke, our exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, that we,
the said John Fisher and Layton Cooke, our exors, admors, and assigns,
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, our "NEW-INVENTED IMPROVED GAITERS, AND MODES OF FASTENING
THE SAME;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging
us, the said John Fisher and Layton Cooke, by an instrument in writing under
our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, to cause a
particular description of the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation
being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
John Fisher and Layton Cooke, do hereby declare that our said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described in manner
following, that is to say :-
Our said Improved Gaiters are made of any of the materials commonly
employed in the manufacture of gaiters, as leather, cloth, or linen, but without
the usual appendage of straps, chains, or anything whatever to pass under
the feet, as in the gaiters in common use, which straps, chains, or other
appendage or appendages passing under the shoes are found to be extremely
inconvenient, not only by hindering the proper application of the shoes to the
scraper, and thus compelling the wearer to carry much of the street filth into the
house with him, but also from the wear to which such appendage or appendages
are exposed by getting under the heel or being cut upon the scraper, which
render their renewal frequently necessary. In place of such straps, chains, or
other appendage or appendages as have hitherto been in use for fastening or
keeping the gaiters down to the shoes, we employ at the lower end of the
gaiter, and on each side of the same, a hook and eye, the one attached to the
gaiter and the other to the shoe; or we employ a small button or a stud attached
to the shoe, and a button hole in or attached to the gaiter; or we employ two
hooks, one attached to each side of the gaiter, received into two holes punched
through the leather of the shoe, or through pieces of leather attached to the
shoe; or we employ, in place of the said hooks, two pieces of metal of that
form which workmen call a Tee turned upside down, and received into suitable
holes in the shoe; or we employ clasps similar to those commonly used for
fastening shoes; or we employ for fastening the said gaiters to the shoes two
pieces of metal, one attached to each side of the gaiter at the bottom of the
same, and each having a perpendicular slit, with a round hole at the top of
the said slit to receive a stud of metal attached to each side of the shoe at the
proper places, which studs being introduced into the said holes in the said
perpendicular slits, and then passing to the lower end of the said slits, which
slits are narrower than the diameter of the said studs, but of sufficient width to
receive the stalks or stems of the said studs, they form a very secure fastening,
and at the same time a very convenient fastening, as the said studs can with
great facility be unlatched or disjointed from the said slits; and sometimes we
employ for fastening such catches as are employed to close ladies' bracelets and
similar ornaments, the one part attached to the gaiter, the other to the shoe.
Lastly, whichever of these modes of fastening be adopted, or however each or
any of them may be altered or modified, so as to render unnecessary all straps,
chains, or other appendage or appendages usually attached to gaiters, to pass

page_text: under the shoe, the said fastenings, or the modification thereof, may be used
either with or without springs interposed between the gaiter and the shoe.
In witness whereof, I, the said Layton Cooke, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
Inrolled the Third day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirteen.