CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN PATTEN AND CLOG TIES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OR FASTENINGS OF DRESS
Year: 1841

page_text: STOCKER & HEELEY'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ALEXANDER
SOUTHWOOD STOCKER and CLEMENT HEELEY, both of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturers, 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 Twenty-seventh day of May, in the fourth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and sucessors, give and grant unto us, the said Alexander
Southwood Stocker and Clement Heeley, Her especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that we, the said Alexander Southwood Stocker, and
Clement Heeley, our exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Alexander Southwood Stocker and Clement Heeley, our 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, our Invention of CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN PATTEN
AND CLOG TIES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OR FASTENINGS OF DRESS;" in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that we, the said Alexander
Southwood Stocker and Clement Heeley, or one of us, shall cause a particular
description of the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, 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 there-
unto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we; the said
Alexander Southwood Stocker and Clement Heeley, do hereby declare, that

page_text: the nature of our Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be
performed, are fully described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment thereof, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to
the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say:-
Our Invention relates,-
First, to improvements in pattern and clog tics. And,
Secondly, to improvements in that description of articles or fastenings called
hooks for fastening parts of dresses.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood, and readily carried
into effect, we will describe the Drawing hereunto annexed, and the means
pursued by us in making the improved articles above mentioned.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
The first improvement in ties for pattens and clogs consists of making the
same of plates of steel, iron, or brass, preferring steel, whereby they will be.
found more lasting and generally more convenient in use. Figure 1 represents
a portion of thin metal plate cut to the desired form by a fly press and suitable
tools, or by other convenient means, these plates being perforated for the strings
and for the nails by which they are attached to clogs or pattens. The metal
plates are then covered with leather or other suitable material, as is shewn at
Figure 2, where a complete tie for one side of a patten or clog is shewn, a
being the hole for the string, which, it will be seen, has a metal eyelet hole fixed
within it; the parts Figures 3 and 4, shewing the means we consider best for
applying a metal eyelet hole to ties for pattens and clogs. b, b, Figure 2, shews
the holes for affixing the metal ties to clogs or pattens.
The second part of our Invention relates, as above stated, to improvements
in the construction of hooks, which, in conjunction with eyes, are for fastening
parts of dresses, and consists in a mode of forming such articles out of sheet
metal, and in such manner that by pressing or sinking of part of the plate of
the hook, a stop is formed to prevent the eye coming from the hook, excepting
by means of sufficient force to bend the hook, the hook being sufficiently
elastic to allow of the eye being removed, and the elasticity of the hook will
return it immediately to its proper figure. We would remark, that we are
aware that hooks have been before made of plate metal. We do not therefore
claim the same, this part of our Invention simply consisting in pressing out
a stop or stops by means of a punch and die, which stop or stops rising above
the surface of the plate or part by which the hook is attached, offers a means
of stopping the eye from coming out of the hook without considerable pressure.
Figure 5 shews a blank of thin sheet metal, which we prefer to be of brass,

page_text: the hook is attached,
Figures 9, 10, and 11
each other but varying
Each of these plates
but do not confine ourselves thereto. This blank is cut out by dies by a suit-
able press, as is well understood when cutting sheet metal for various purposes,
and forms no part of our Invention. Figure 6 shews an edge view and plan of
the same blank after it has had the parts c, c, pressed out, so as to project from
the face of the plate in a convex form, as is shewn. d is the hook which is.
bent over, so that the end comes between the two projecting stops, the end of
the hook being slightly turned up to facilitate the entry of the eye into the
hook or the hook into the eye, as is shewn at Figure 7 in plan and edge view, e
being the plate by which the hook is attached by sewing. "Figure 8 shews an
edge view and plan of another hook similar in all respects to that just described,
but differing slightly in the form of the plate by which
as will be readily seen by examining the Drawing.
shew plans and edge views of three hooks d similar to
in the shape of the plate e, by which they are attached.
has only one stop c, which comes under the point or end of the hook d, as is
shewn, the hook d turning up slightly to facilitate its fastening in an eye, and
the spring of the hook will allow of the eye being forced between the hook
be
and the stop c, and the stop c will retain the eye within the hook. And it may
remarked, that owing to pursuing the mode of obtaining the stops c by sinking
them in the plates e, e, as described, they will even allow of the pressure of
mangling the dresses to which they are affixed without being injured.
would remark, that we are aware that spring stops have been used in hooks, and
it has been proposed so to bend the hook or the stem of a hook made of wire
as to form a projection, which, in some respect, would have a similar effect to
those above described; and we mention these classes of stops as being before
applied to hooks in order more clearly to point out that this part of our
Invention is confined to the mode of obtaining the stops c above described by
sinking them in the metal plate, as is clearly shewn in the Drawing at the
various Figures.
We
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, we would have it under-
stood, that what we claim as the first part of our Invention is the mode of
manufacturing ties for pattens and clogs by applying metal plates thereto; and,
secondly, we claim the mode of manufacturing hooks for fastening dresses as
above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Clement Heeley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and forty-one.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of October,
in the year of our Lord 1841, the aforesaid Clement. Heeley came before
our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation 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.
Inrolled the Twenty-seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-one.