IMPROVEMENTS IN TROWSER STRAP FASTENERS
Year: 1852

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
RICHARD CORPE, of Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fourth day of
January (One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two), in the fifteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Alfred Richard Corpe, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Alfred
Richard Corpe, my exors, adññors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Alfred Richard Corpe, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times 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, my
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TROWSER STRAP FASTENERS;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Alfred Richard Corpe,
shall cause a particular description of 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, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Alfred Richard Corpe, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say :-
This Invention consists of improvements in strap fasteners for gentlemen's
trousers and other garments requiring the same.
Figure 1 shows a plan of a strap and fastening instruments according to
my Invention. Figure 2 shows an edge view. Figure 8 a plan of the strap
and the fastening instruments as they appear when the strap is detached.
Figure 4 shows a plan and edge view of the parts of the fastening instruments
which are fastened to the strap. a is a strap which is made of vulcanized
india rubber, but other suitable material may be employed; b, b, are portions
of leather or other suitable substance which embrace the bar c, and enable
it to be fixed to the strap a by rivets and metal plates d, d. The bar or
instrument c is formed into a cross (but this form may be varied), one end of
which is formed with a hook, or might be with a button shaped end to enter
a slot in a plate e fixed by sewing to the trowser or other garment, such slot
having a larger opening at one part than the other, so that the larger portion
of the hook or other formed instruments may pass into it and pass down, so as
not to be able to come through the lesser part of the slot or opening in the
plate.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Richard Corpe, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of July, in the year
ALFRED RICHARD (L.s.) CORPE.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-first day of July,
in the year of our Lord 1852, the aforesaid Alfred Richard Corpe came
before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged
the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and
specified, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was
stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.