AN IMPROVED FASTENING
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Watson, of King Street, in the City of
London, Engineer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED FASTENING."
Sealed the 21st December 1868, and dated the 25th June 1868:
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Watson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 25th
June 1868..
I, ALFRED WATSON, of King Street, in the City of London, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED FASTENING,"
to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing an improved fastening, composed of
a box or case fitted at the lower part with a spring, and of a hasp or catch
which fits into and fastens inside and against the upper part of the front of the
case or into a stud fixed to it. The hasp is pressed against the box by the
spring to keep the fastening closed, while to open it the hasp is depressed and
drawn out of the case.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Watson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th December 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
WATSON, of King Street, in the City of London, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Alfred Watson, Her special licence that I, the said
Alfred Watson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Alfred Watson, 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 FASTENING," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Alfred Watson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should parti-
cularly 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 Alfred Watson, 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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say:-
. My Invention consists in constructing an improved fastening, composed of a
box or case fitted at the lower part with a spring, and of a hasp or catch which
fits into and fastens inside and against the upper part of the front of the case
or into a stud fixed to it. The hasp is pressed against the box by the spring
to keep the fastening closed, while to open it the hasp is depressed and drawn
out of the case.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a face view.
and Figure 8, a back view, of the box or case detached.
view. Figure 5, a section, and Figure-6, a back view, of
Figure 2, a section,
Figure 4 is a face
the hasp or catch,

page_text: and a plate which carries it. Figure 7 is a face view, and Figure 8, a section,
shewing the fastening closed.
The box or case a is fitted with a spring 6; the catch c fits into and fastens
inside a shoulder d, and against the front of the case a, as shown. The spring b
presses the case to keep the fastening closed; to open the fastening the catch
is depressed by pressing on the plate e, and drawn out of the case.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Watson, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of December One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three.
ALFRED WATSON.
(L.B.).