AN IMPROVED TAG FOR LACES
Year: 1840

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
UNSWORTH, of Derby, Silk Lace Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Sixteenth day of April, in the third year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William
Unsworth, Her especial licence that I, the said William Unsworth, my exors,
adiñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Unsworth, 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 "AN IMPROVED
TAG FOR LACES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said William Unsworth, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the
the same to be enrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery

page_text: having this appearance inside of the tag, Figure 5,
The effect of this will be that when the tag is threaded with the lace, and the
latter drawn into the tag, thus, Figure 6,
the tooth will catch into the lace, and prevent its being drawn back out of the
tag. When the tag is small the punch may be applied without the maundrill,
after the lace is drawn into the tag, so as to fill it inside. Now though I
have described a triangular tooth, and which I believe to be the best, yet it is
evident that any burr or other projection made in the inside of the tag would
effect the object in some degree, and therefore I claim as my Invention of
"An Improved Tag for Laces," a tag having a tooth or burr, nib, catch, tongue,
or other projection attached to or formed on the inside of the tag, either
before or after the lace is inserted, to prevent the lace being withdrawn from
the tag, at any time, by ordinary use, and to enable the user of the lace to put
on a new tag at any time,
And such my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and belief,
entirely new, and never before used within that part of Her said Majesty's
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, Her said

page_text: Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare
this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe this my
said Specification doth comply in all respects fully, and without reserve or diguise,
with the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent con-
tained, wherefore I do hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege
to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Unsworth, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and forty.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
above-named William Unsworth,
being first duly stamped, in the
W UNSWORTH. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourteenth day of October, in
the year of our Lord 1840, the said William Unsworth 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.