IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OP GARMENTS, OR OF PARTS OF GARMENTS, OR OF APPENDAGES OR APPLIANCES TO GARMENTS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Hackett, of Derby, in the County of Derby,
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OP GARMENTS, OR OF PARTS OF GARMENTS, OR OF APPENDAGES OR APPLIANCES
TO GARMENTS."
Sealed the 2nd February 1855, and dated the 9th August 1854.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Hackett at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th
August 1854.
I, JOHN HACKETT, of Derby, in the County of Derby, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF GARMENTS, OR OF PARTS OF GARMENTS, OR, OF APPENDAGES OR
APPLIANCES TO GARMENTS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in the employment of leather cloth or of artificial
leather, either corrugated or partly corrugated or otherwise, and elasticated
or otherwise, in the manufacture of garments, or of parts of garments, or of
appendages or appliances to garments, such as short gaiters, long gaiters,
and overalls, for the covering of the human legs and thighs, gloves, mittens,

page_text: caps, hats, braces, belts for the waist, garters, covering button moulds, or
articles of a similar character or description, thereby rendering most of those
articles cheaper, warmer, and of greater durability than those now used for
similar purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Hackett in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th February 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HACKETT, of Derby, in the County of Derby, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Hackett, Her special licence that I, the said John Hackett, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Hackett, 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 MANUPAC-
TURE OF GARMENTS, OR OF PARTS OF GARMENTS, OR OF APPENDAGES OR APPLIANCES
TO GARMENTS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John
Hackett, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 filedl
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Hackett, 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
thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in the employment of leather cloth or of artificial
leather, either corrugated or partly corrugated or otherwise, and elasticated or
otherwise, in the manufacture of garments, or of parts of garments, or of

page_text: appendages or appliances to garments, such as short gaiters, long gaiters, and
overalls, for the covering of the human legs and thighs, gloves, mittens, caps,
hats, braces, belts for the waist, garters, covering button moulds, or articles of
a similar character or description, thereby rendering most of those articles
cheaper, warmer, and of greater durability than those now used for similar
purposes.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Hackett, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of February, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
GEO. JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Agent,
Nottingham.
JOHN HACKETT. (L.S.)