AN IMPROVEMENT IN LADIES' DRESS SUSPENDERS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry George Avery, of No. 28, Clifton Road,
Downes Park Road, Hackney, in the County of Middlesex, Corset
and Busk and Bodice Fastening Manufacturer, for the Invention
of
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AN IMPROVEMENT IN LADIES' DRESS SUSPENDERS,'
Sealed the 10th August 1875, and dated the 18th February 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry George Avery at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 18th February 1875.
I, HENRY GEORGE AVERY, of No. 28, Clifton Road, Downes Park
Road, Hackney, in the County of Middlesex, Corset and Busk and
Bodice Fastening Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN LADIES' DRESS SUSPENDERS," to be
as follows:
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page_text: clasps or other fittings. The suspending material has a knot at each
end. The clasps or other fittings are made with a hole to partly receive
the knot, with clips at each side and end of the hole, so that when the
clips are bent down over the suspending material at each end of the
knot it will be impossible for the material to come away from the clasps
or other fittings. I claim also to make the fittings with two, three, or
more holes, so as to pass the suspending material in and out of the holes
and bend the clips over the suspending material between each hole, and
so prevent the suspending material coming away from the fittings.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters, Patent,
filed by the said Henry George Avery in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 17th August 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
GEORGE AVERY, of No. 28, Clifton Road, Downes Park Road, Hackney,
in the County of Middlesex, Corset and Busk and Bodice Fastening
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in
the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry George Avery,
Her special licence, that I, the said Henry George Avery, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry George
Avery, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time.
agree with, and no others, from time to time, and at all times there-
after 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 Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN LADIES' DRESS SUSPENDERS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry George Avery, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or ·
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and

page_text: 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 Henry George Avery, 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, that is to say :—
In the manufacture and construction of the said Invention I attach
or connect an elastic cord or braid, or other suspending material (which
elastic cord or braid, or other suspending material are respectively
intended to be included in the term "the suspending material," wherever
the same is herein-after used) in clasps or other fittings. The suspending
material has a knot or several knots at or near each end. The clasps or
other fittings (which clasps or other fittings are respectively intended to
be included in the term "the fittings," wherever the same is herein-after
used) are made with a hole or several holes to partly receive the knot or
knots, with clips at each side and end of the hole or holes, so that when
the clips are bent.down over the suspending material at each end of the
knot or knots it will be impossible for the suspending material to come
away from the fittings. I also make the fittings with two, three, or
more holes, and pass the suspending material in and out the holes and
bend the clips over the suspending material between each hole, and so
prevent the suspending material coming away from the fittings.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed and carried
into effect, it must be understood that I do not restrict or limit myself
to the precise details herein described, as the same may admit of slight
variation without departing from the principal or nature of my said
Invention, but what I claim is the principle, system, or arrangement of
connecting the suspending material with the fittings either by the use
of a knot or several knots fastened by clips, or by passing the suspend-
ing material through several holes and fastening it by clips without a
knot, in manner and by the means (as to each part of my claim) herein-

page_text: before described, or any mere modification of such principle, system, or
arrangement effecting substantially the same improvements by substan.
tially the same means or in substantially the same way.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry George Avery, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of August,
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
HENRY GEORGE AVERY. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the above-named Henry George
Avery in the
presence of
GEORGE STOCKDALE,
Clerk to William Rogers, Solicitor,
17, Essex Street,
Strand, W.C.