AN IMPROVEMENT IN HINGES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Watson, of King Street, in the City of
London, Engineer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN HINGES."
Sealed the 11th March 1864, and dated the 16th September 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Watson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th September 1863.
I, ALFRED WATSON, of King Street, in the City of London, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
HINGES," to be as follows:-
My Invention refers to those hinges in which eyes on two separate parts
are traversed and held together by à pin or stud, upon which the said eyes
turn in order that the article to which the hinge is applied may be opened
and closed.
My Invention consists in fixing the pin or stud in one eye, or one set of
eyes, and in forming a slot or elongated aperture in the other eye, or set of
eyes, to enable one part of the article to which the hinge is applied to be
pushed or slidden over or beyond the other part, and that to an extent limited
by the length of the slot in one of the eyes or sets of eyes.

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
16th March 1864.
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 Sixteenth day of September, 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 IMPROVEMENT IN
HINGES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred Watson,
my executor's 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 Alfred Watson, 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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say :-
My Invention refers to those hinges in which oyes on two separate parts
are traversed and held together by a pin or stud, upon which the said eyes
turn in order that the article to which the hinge is applied may be opened
and closed.
My Invention consists in fixing the pin or stud in one eye, or one set of
eyes, and in forming a slot or elongated aperture in the other eye, or set of
eyes, to enable one part of the article to which the binge is applied to be
pushed or slidden over or beyond the other part, and that to an extent limited
by the length of the slot in one of the eyes, or sets of eyes.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a side view of a frame for a bag,

page_text: or other similar article, shewing a hinge constructed according to my Invention,
the frame in this view being closed; Figure 2 is a view of the frame when
open; Figure 3 is a side view on an enlarged scale of one of the hinges, and
part of the frame supposing the frame closed; Figure 4 is an end view of one
of the hinges and part of the frame, shewing the pin at the bottom of the elon-
gated aperture of the eye; Figure 5 is also an end view of one of the hinges,
and part of the frame shewing the pin at the top of the elongated aperture;
and Figures 6, 7, and 8 are views of my improvement applied to hinges
having several eyes. Similar letters refer to similar parts in all the Figures.
a, a, are eyes with elongated apertures attached to or formed on one part
of the frame of the bag, or other similar article; b, b, are the pins fixed in the
circular eyes c, c, on the other part of the frame; d, d, (Figure 2) are hooks
attached to that part of the frame carrying the eyes with the elongated
apertures, and e, e, are catches fixed to the other part of the frame. When
the two parts of the frame are brought together with the pin in the upper
part of the eyes a, a, (as shewn in Figure 5), by pushing or sliding upwards
that part of the frame, on which the. hooks d, d, are placed, the pins b, b, will
be forced to the bottom of the eyes a, a, and the said hooks will engage in the
catches e, e, on the other part of the frame.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, constructing
hinges of the class herein-before referred to in manner herein-before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Watson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of March, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.