AN IMPROVED BELT FOR LADIES' WEAR
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Goldberg, of Love Lane, in the City of
London, Merchant, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED BELT FOR LADIES'
WEAR."
Sealed the 30th June 1865, and dated the 3rd January 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Goldberg at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd January 1865.
I, LOUIS GOLDBERG, of Love Lane, in the City of London, Merchant, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED BELT FOR
LADIES' WEAR," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is the construction of a substantial, strong, light,
and elastic metallic belt for ladies' wear.
My improved belt consists of a number of metal plates, tablets, or hollow
slabs of any desired shape connected or strung together by cords or bands of
elastic material passed through the edges of the plates, tablets, or slabs, which
edges are bent inward or at right angles or nearly so to the main plane of
the plate, slab, or tablet. The belt so constructed is very elastic, flexible, and
light, but at the same time strong and substantial. Two lengths of elastic

page_text: are sufficient, one through the upper and the other the lower part of the
plates. The plates may be close together, or balls or other ornaments may be
strung on the elastics between the plates. The belt may terminate at either
end in ordinary fastening arrangements. The outer surface may be plain or
ornamented, and gilt or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Louis Goldberg in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd
July 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS
GOLDBERG, of Love Lane, in the City of London, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Louis Goldberg, Her special licence that I, the said Louis Goldberg,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Louis
Goldberg, 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 BELT FOR
LADIES' WEAR," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Louis
Goldberg, 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 Louis Goldberg, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-
lowing statement thereof, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings,
that is to say :-
The object of my Invention is the construction of a substantial, strong, light,
and elastic metallic belt for ladies' wear.
My improved belt consists of a number of metal plates, tablets, or hollow

page_text: slabs of any desired shape, connected or strung together by cords or bands of
elastic material passed through the edges of the plates, tablets, or slabs, which
edges are bent inward or at right angles or nearly so to the main plane of
the plate, slab, or tablet. The belt so constructed is very elastic, flexible, and
light, but at the same time strong and substantial. Two lengths of elastic are
sufficient, one passing through the upper and the other through the lower part
of the plates. The plates may be close together, or balls or other ornaments
may be strung on the elastics between the plates. The belt may. terminate at
the ends in ordinary fastening arrangements. The outer surface may be plain
or ornamental, and gilt or otherwise.
I now proceed, with reference to the accompanying Drawings, to describe
more particularly in what manner the Invention may be carried into effect.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figures 1 and 2 are plans of portions of belts constructed according to my
Invention, showing the front; Figures 3 and 4 are plans showing the back of
the same; Figure 5 is a plan, and Figure 6, longitudinal section of one of
the plates detached; Figure 7 shews another form of plate. Only a portion
of the belt is shown in Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, but sufficient to exemplify the
Invention.
A, A, are metal plates bent at their edges a, a, so that these edges form a
flange to the plate on every side. The plates may be left hollow or may be
filled with mastic, or they may have a back piece. 6, 6, are holes or perfo-
rations formed in the lateral edges a, through which elastic cords c, c are
passed, thereby connecting the plates together. Instead of the two elastic
cords c, c, I sometimes use a single flexible band or strip of leather or other
like material passing through slots in the lateral edges of the plates, as at 6,
Fig. 8. Balls d, d, or other ornaments may, if desirable, be strung on the
elastics or band between the plates, so as to be alternated or otherwise com-
bined therewith, as in Figures 2 and 4. The plates A may be quadrangular,
hexagonal, oval, or of any other desired contour, form, or shape, and they may
be ornamented as desired. D is a fastening for closing the belt. The extremi-
ties of the elastic cords or flexible band are attached to the members or
plates of the fastening. Any convenient form or pattern of fastening may
be used.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same may be performed, I declare that I claim,―
First, the edged and perforated or slotted plate A constructed substantially
as described.

page_text: Second, the improved belt, constructed, arranged, and combined substantially
as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Goldberg, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of June, in the year One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five.
Witness,
S. E. A. NEWSOME.
LOUIS GOLDBERG. (L.S.)