IMPROVEMENTS. IN THE MANUFACTURE OR MAKING-- UP OP TROUSERS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Jones, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster;.
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS. IN THE MANUFACTURE OR MAKING--
UP OP TROUSERS."
Sealed the 9th January 1866, and dated the 10th July 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Jones at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 10th July.
1865.
I, JOHN JONES, of Liverpool,. in the County of Lancaster, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OR MAKING-UP' OF TROUSERS," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is so to make up trousers that they will fit at
all times closely round the waist without "puckerings" or "gatherings," and
at the same time be suitable for wear either with or without braces. I
leave one, two, or more vertical or diagonal slits in the top or waist part;.
two slits, one at each side, will usually be found most convenient. To the
outside of the cloth, on one side of each slit, I attach one end, and, to the
inner side of the cloth, on the other side of said slit, I attach the other end of
piece or pieces, band or bands, of elastic cloth or other material. In this
way the cloth is drawn together at the slits and made to overlap.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th
January 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
JONES, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Jones, Her special licence that I, the said John Jones,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Jones, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OR 'MAKING-UP' OF TROUSERS," upon the condition (amongst
others), that I, the said John Jones, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Jones, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):-
The object of my Invention is so to make up trousers that they will fit at
all times closely round the waist without "puckerings" or "gatherings," and
at the same time be suitable for wear either with or without braces. I leave
one, two, or more vertical or diagonal slits in the top or waist part; two slits,
one at each side, will usually be found most convenient. To the outside of
the cloth, on one side of each slit, I attach one end, and to the inner side of
the cloth, on the other side of said slit, I attach the other end of a piece or
pieces, band or bands, of elastic cloth or other material. In this way the
cloth is drawn together at the slits and made to overlap.
That the manner in which trousers are manufactured or made up according

page_text: to my Invention may be readily seen and understood, I have appended hereto
a Sheet of illustrative Drawings.
Fig. 1 is a view looking down on the top part of trousers with two vertical
slits, one at each side. Sufficient cloth is left or employed that the one, the
front or back, part overlaps the other. denotes the connecting band of
elastic cloth, that is, caoutchouc thread woven into cloth in the ordinary
manner, or other elastio or flexible cloth, leather, or other material; 6 is a
like band at the other side; here, however, there is a second band c attached
to the end of the back part d.
Fig. 2 is a perspective (side) view of part of a pair of trousers, shewing
the connecting bands marked e. All these bands are shewn attached to the
cloth by sewing; buckles, and other like fastenings might be employed, say
such buckles as are ordinarily used for braces.
Having now particularly described and ascertained my said Invention, and
shewn by the Drawings modifications thereof which I have found to answer
well, I would have it understood that what I claim is, making trousers with
slits or openings in the top parts or waistbands thereof, and fitting or
securing bands of an elastic or flexible material to the parts so separated,
substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Jones, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
In the presence of
JOHN T. KING,
Patent Agent,
Liverpool.
JOHN JONES. (L.S.)