AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR ATTACHING AND SECURING WATCH CHAINS AND SIMILAR PROVISIONAL SPFICATION GARMENT
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William James and William Hill, both of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD
OF AND APPARATUS FOR ATTACHING AND SECURING WATCH CHAINS AND SIMILAR
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William James and William
Hill at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 30th September 1867.
We, WILLIAM JAMES and WILLIAM HILL, both of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN INPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR ATTACHING AND SECURING WATCH
CHAINS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES TO VESTS AND OTHER GARMENTS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists of a certain improved method of attaching and
securing watch chains and similar articles to vests and other garinents by
means of a simple apparatus, and whereby the garment is preserved from being
torn or injured.
The apparatus consists of a plate formed of metal or other material
possessing sufficient hardness and rigidity, on one side of which is placed a
hook-like shank; to the other or front side of the plate is attached a ring,
either split or otherwise, to which the chain is appended by means of another

page_text: ring, or through which the bar ordinarily attached to chaius known as "Albert"
chains may be passed. In order to fix this contrivance to the garment a
perforation or eylet hole is made or formed in the latter, through which the
book-like shank of the before-mentioned plate is passed. A plate of metal or
other suitable material is then placed on the other side of the garment, the
hook-like shank being passed through a hole or slot formed in the said last-
mentioned plate, and to which is attached a small bent spring working on a
pin at one end thereof, and which spring when passed under the hook-like
shank securely holds the front plate in the desired position.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William James and William Hill in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 30th March 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
JAMES and WILLIAM HILL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said William James and William Hill, Her special licence that we, the said
William James and William Hill, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said William James and William Hill, our 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, tho Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR ATTACHING AND
SECURING WATCH CHAINS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES TO VESTS AND OTHER GARMENTS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said William Jaunes and
William Hill, our executors, or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said William James and William Hill, do
hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement, reference being had to the annexed Drawings, and
to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say:-
Our said Invention consists of a certain improved method of attaching and
securing watch chains and similar articles to vests and other garments by
means of a simple apparatus, and whereby the garment is preserved. from
being torn or injured, as is the case when the chain is attached to or passed
through a button hole.
The apparatus consists of a plate formed of metal or other material
possessing sufficient bardness and rigidity for the purpose to which it is to be
applied, and on one side of which is placed a hook-like shank. To the other
or front side of the plate is attached a ring, either split or otherwise, to which
the chain is appended by means of another ring, or through which the bar
ordinarily attached to chains commonly known as "Albert" chains may be
passed. In order to fix this contrivance to the garment, a perforation or
eylet hole is made or formed in the latter, through which the hook-like shank
of the before-mentioned plate is passed. A plate of metal or other suitable
material is then placed on the other side of the garment, the hook-like shank
being passed through a hole or slot formed in the said last-mentioned plate,
and to which is attached a small bent spring working on a pin at one end
thereof, and which spring, when passed under the hook-like shank, securely
holds the front plate in the desired position.
The nature of our said Invention will be more clearly understood by
reference to the annexed Drawings.
Figure 1 is a front view of the apparatus, Figure 2 being an edge view
thereof; Figure 3 is a back view of the apparatus, and Figure 4 an edge
view of the back plate with the spring; Figure 5 is an edge view of the
apparatus with the spring inserted in the hook-like shank; Figure 6 shews
the hook-like shank without the spring; Figure 7 is the back plate detached
with the spring, Figure 8 being the front portion of the apparatus with its
ring.
Having thus declared and ascertained the nature of our said Invention,
and the manner in which it is to be performed, we would observe in conclusion
that what we consider novel and original, and therefore claim as constituting
the Invention secured to us by the said herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent is, the method of and apparatus for attaching and securing watch

page_text: chains and similar articles to vests and other garments, substantially as herein-
before set forth and described, or any mere modifications thereof.
In witness whereof, we, the said William James and William Hill,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-eighth day of
March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.
WILLIAM JAMES. (L.S.)
WILLIAM HILL. (L.S.)