IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STAYS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Langridge, of the firm of George
Langridge and Company, of Bristol, in the County of Somerset,
Stay Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF STAYS."
Sealed the 19th February 1853, and dated the 17th December 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Langridge
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 17th December 1852.
I, JAMES LANGRIDGE, of the firm of George Langridge and
Company, of Bristol, in the County of Somerset, Stay Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STAYS " to be as follows:-
I make the foundation of contil, jean, or other woven fabric, and
weave into the front part of the stay, at the desired parts, strips of
silk, leaving a space between the foundation and such strips of silk
for the insertion of the busk and bones. In some cases I vary the
stay, by having two thicknesses of contil or other woven fabric,
for the busk and bones, and weaving the silk between the strips of
double contil. The whole face of the stay will then be of silk, with

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said James Langridge in the Great Scal
Patent Office on the 16th June 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JAMES LANGRIDGE, of the firm of George Langridge and Company,
of Bristol, in the County of Somerset, Stay Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two,
in the sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said James Langridge, Her
special licence that I, the said James Langridge, my executors, ad-
ministrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James
Langridge, 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
night make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STAYS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Langridge, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should par-
ticularly 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 James Langridge, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and as-
certained in and by the following statement (that is to say):
My Invention consists in manufacturing stays and stay fabrics

page_text: in the following manner :-I make the foundation of contil, jean, or
other woven fabric of sufficient strength, and weave into the front
part of the stays at the desired parts strips of silk, leaving a space
between the foundation and such strips of silk for the insertion of
the busk and bones.
The weaving of stays and stay fabrics, with spaces therein between
two thicknesses of the woven material for the reception of the busk
and bones, being well understood by practical weavers, it will not
be necessary for me to describe the same here; as a weaver will
readily see, from the foregoing description, how my Invention is
carried into effect, and he will arrange his warps for the foundation
and for the strips of silk according to the position and size of the
spaces to be left for the insertion of the busk and bones.
I am aware that it has been proposed for ornamenting stays, to
weave into the same at different parts threads, or strips of silk; but
such threads and strips formed part of the foundation or body of
the stays, and were not employed for forming the spaces to receive
the busk and bones. I do not, therefore, claim inserting strips of
silk, except when spaces are left between such strips and the
foundation of the stays as aforesaid; neither do I claim the weaving
of stays with spaces therein for the busk and bones. But what I
do claim is,-
The manufacture of stays, with strips of silk woven into the front
parts thereof, with spaces left between the foundation and such strips
of silk for the insertion of the busk and bones, as hercin-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Langridge, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Fourteenth day of June, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
JAMES LANGRIDGE. (L.s.)