CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CLASPS FOR STAY BUSKS, BRACES, BELTS, GARTERS, BOOTS, LEGGINGS, GLOVES, AND BANDS."
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Clement Newey, of Witton Road, Bir-
mingham, in the County of Warwick, Machinist, for the Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CLASPS FOR STAY BUSKS,
BRACES, BELTS, GARTERS, BOOTS, LEGGINGS, GLOVES, AND BANDS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Clement Newey
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th November 1866.
I, JAMES CLEMENT NEWEY, of Witton Road, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CLASPS FOR STAY
BUSKS, BRACES, BELTS, GARTERS, BOOTS, LEGGINGS, GLOVES, AND BANDS," to be as
follows:
Instead of stamping, pressing, or cutting clasps such as are now used
out of brass or other sheet metal, I make them of the required shape,
strength,, and thickness of brass or other hard or soft wire, and afterwards
flatten them with, rollers. or an, ordinary stamp or press..

page_text: This method of manufacture will permit the use of machines worked by
steam power, and so a great economization of time, labour, and material
is effected, and a better, stronger, more durable, and highly finished article is
produced at a cheaper rate.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Clement Newey in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 7th May 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
CLEMENT NEWEY, of Witton Road, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Machinist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said James Clement Newey, Her special licence that I, the said
James Clement Newey, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said James, Clement Newey, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CLASPS FOR
STAYS, BRACES, BELTS, BANDS, GARTERS, BOOTS, STRAPS, GLOVES, AND LEGGINGS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Clement
Newey, 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,
bi
.
"NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James "Clement Newey, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention; and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement':
'This Invention consists, -::
:
Firstly, in the application of brass or other. hard or soft wire in the
manufacture of clasps, adapted specially for stay busks, but which are also

page_text: suitable for braces, belts, bands, garters, gloves, boots, and leggings in
lieu of sheet or flat metal, the material out of which such clasps are
ordinarily made.
Secondly, in the application of clasps made of such material to the
purposes named.
Thirdly, in the flattening of such wire clasps, so as to give them the
appearance of sheet or metal clasps.
Fourthly, in the using of the said wire clasps for the ornamentation and
protection of keyholes.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Clement Newey, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
JAMES CLEMENT NEWEY. (LS.)