AN IMPROVED HUSSAR GAITER WITH ELASTIC SPRINGS AND FASTENINGS, AND ALSO ELASTIC SPRINGS AND FASTENINGS FOR PANTA- LOONS AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1816

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
TRIPP; of the City of Bristol, Woollen Draper, 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 Fourteenth day of August, in the
fifty-sixth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Robert Tripp,
my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said Robert Tripp, my exors, admors, and assigns,
should and lawfully might, during the term of years therein mentioned, make.
use,, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED HUSSAR GAITER WITH ELASTIC
SPRINGS AND FASTENINGS, AND ALSO ELASTIC SPRINGS AND FASTENINGS FOR PANTA-
LOONS AND OTHER ARTICLES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso that if I, the said Robert Tripp, shall 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 Chan-
cery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said recited Letters Patent, that then the said recited Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall, utterly cease, deter-
mine, and become void, anything therein contained to the contrary thereof
in anywise notwithstanding, 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, I, the said
Robert Tripp, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained in and by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and the following
references or description thereof, that is to say:-
No. 1 in the Drawings represents an elastic spring gaiter with three flat or
round springs in the small of the leg to draw close and admit the foot easy
through the gaiter, with a flat small spring in a kind of box to draw out, and
lay hold of the fastening in the shoe.
No. 2 is the hussar front, cut in one solid piece of cloth, which may be
applied to gaiters with or without buttons or springs; in the small of the leg,
back, and side of the gaiters an elastic spring in a kind of a slide box, as
before described, with two kinds to take in or out, or plain without knobs.
No. 3 is a gaiter complete, with springs down the sides so as to fit a large
size if required; has links and catches similar to a clasp, four or five in number,
instead of buttons with the hussar front, and a double spring; in a slide box is
a stop so as to prevent ever breaking.
No. 4 is a gaiter, no buttons, front and tongue solid cloth; a small buckle
inside of leg either to draw close to the heel, or let out with steel round spring
fixed in the gaiter and lay hold of the fastening.
No. 5 is the same gaiter, with a buckle at the top on the right side with a
different spring catch, and which has three links; and from the fastening in the
shoe it has a catch to lay hold of either as it may require.
No. 6, the shoe, shows the manner of the fastenings; this fastening has two
sharp points, and is pressed into the side part of the sole of the shoe, with a
small screw that goes down perpendicular into the sole through a small socket,
and on this shoe is an elastic spring which will keep the gaiter down without
any fastening.
No. 7 is the fastening, and the only one that goes into the upper leather;
it has a small point on the top and two sharp points in the sole, as before
described.
No. 8 is two springs linked together, one goes down into the sole, and the
other has two points into the side of the sole, with a small screw which turns
round and confined both together as before described.
No. 9 is a fastening which hangs on a hinge, and plays up and down similar
to the hinge of a door or lock.
No. 10 is one fastening with two small fastenings to the shoe, and plays up
and down on a kind of swivel, with a kind of hook to receive the spring in the
gaiter.

page_text: No. 11 is a flat side spring which passes up and down on a small bit of
thin spring steel; this spring is used in the slide box and without; it has no stop
as the double spring has, but as it can only draw to the bottom of the bar
which pulls the gaiter down, it cannot break; this is received on a kind of
button and loop, with two small points in the sole of the shoe.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Tripp, have hereunto set my