ELASTIC FASTNINGS FOR THE SHOES, AND ALSO FOR BANDS, GARTERS, OR ORNAMENTS FOR THE KNEES, WASTE, ARMS, NECK, AND HEAD
Year: 1801

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HALL, of the Strand, in the Parish of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, in the
County of Middlesex, Goldsmith, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
in and by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-eighth
day of November, in the forty-second year of His reign, for Himself, His
heirs and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said George Hall, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privi-
lege and authority, that I, the said George Hall, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said George
Hall, 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 of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exer-
cise, and vend, within that part of His said Majesty's said United Kingdom
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
my Invention of "ELASTIC FASTNINGS FOR THE SHOES, AND ALSO FOR BANDS,
GARTERS, OR ORNAMENTS FOR THE KNEES, WASTE, ARMS, NECK, AND HEAD;" in

page_text: which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
George Hall, by an instrument. in writing under my hand and seal, particu-
larly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in
His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next
and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Hall, have hereby above described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be used and applied,
by the Plans or Drawings and descriptions above drawn, set forth, and
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Hall, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-second day of December, in the forty-
second year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by
the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One
thousand night bundnnd and
which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
George Hall, by an instrument. in writing under my hand and seal, particu-
larly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in
His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next
and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Hall, have hereby above described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be used and applied,
by the Plans or Drawings and descriptions above drawn, set forth, and
described.
In witness whercof, I, the said George Hall, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-second day of December, in the forty-
second year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by
the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and one.
GEORGE HALL.
(L.B.)
For fastening plates or frames of any size, form, or shape; with or without
apperture or appertures, in lines, angles, bendies, or curves, in any part of
frame or plate; with or without joints, tongues, spikes, slides, stud, shutting-
spring, ketch, or turn buckle; with or without elasticity in frame or plate; for
broad or narrow bandages or strings; with or without the end or ends of
bandage passing through the fastning plate or rim aforesaid; to be made
secure by looping or hooking on to spikes, studs, barrs, or tongues, and made
of steel, or any other kind of metal, or composition of metals, that may be
chosen; applicable to all the purposes of buckles, with additional use for
narrow bandages or strings where buckles cannot be applyed, or where the
end or ends of bandages or any part of them cannot pass through the rim or
plate, or frame for fastening, especially for ornaments for the shoes, knees,
waste, arms, head, &c.,-and-various-other purposes,_as_are explained by the
Drawings hereunto annexed, numbered, lettered, and fully described.
No. 1, fastening plate or frame, made with plate or wire, or both; to be of
steel or metal, or of any kind or composition of metals of any kind; of any
size, or formi, or shape; with apperture or appertures in any part of frame or
plate, either in straight lines, or in angles, or curves, or bendy lines; angles

page_text: or curves; with or without spikes, tongues, studs, hooks, or bars in the
apperture or appertures at the end or ends of apperture aforesaid; or on the
frame or rim; or at side or sides or ends of frame or rim; or made as Drawing
No. 1, with appertures, as marked A; or as Drawing No. 2, with angular
appertures, as marked B; or as No. 3, with bendy. appertures, marked G; or
as No. 4, with plate and wire appertures, marked H; or as Drawing No. 5,
to open to receive the bandage in any part of plate or frame, or in any form,
as before described, either in one, two, or more parts, to open either by sliding
joint, or turning on pin, or screw, or rivet, or by any means that may be
chosen; or as Drawing No. 5, marked C, turning on a rivet, which shews
Drawing No. 2 when open to receive bandage; or as Drawing of plate 6,
marked K; or Drawing of plate 7, marked L; or as Drawing of plate and
wire, No. 8, marked I, with or without joint, or spring, slider, shutting, or
ketch to fasten the cover or ornament; or as shewn by Drawing No. 9,
marked M; or with plate fastuing with appertures in any part, or in any
direction, as before described, as shewn by Drawing No. 10, marked N. The
above to be attached to cover or ornament, either by soldering, or with joint.
or slider, or turn buckle, ketch, shutting, or spring; or by screwing, pinning.
or rivetting. The above are best adapted for narrow bandages No. 11; for
broad bandages, to be made of plate, or wire, or with both, of any size or
shape, of steel or any other kind of metal or composition of metals, with or
without apperture or appertures, or openings in any part of the plate or wire
frame, in any angle, or curve, or form, with spikes, studs, hooks, bars, or
tails to fix bandage on, placed in any part of rim or frame, or on the out-
side of rim or frame, or on the surface of rim or franie, as may be chosen,
or as Drawing No. 11, marked O, with joint, or any attachment to fix
it to the cover or ornament, with a barr down the middle, as Drawing No.
11, marked P, and with cover, as shewn in said Drawing No. 11, marked
Q; or to be made with or without any cover, as aforesaid; with plate
or wire frame as aforesaid; with appertures as aforesaid; with spikes,
hooks, studs, bar or tail on one side the rim or tail, or barr, and spikes
or tongues to turn on a joint or pin to lay on the other side, and the
frame to fix on the bandage, as Drawing No. 12, marked R, with bar
down the middle to unite the frame or plate; or as Drawing No 13, as
aforesaid, with tongues or spikes to turn to fix on bandage, to rest on frame,
as before described; or as Drawing No. 13, marked T, as before explained;
or as Drawing No. 14, marked S, with barr down the middle, and wire
spikes on each side in any part; or as Drawing No. 15, with or without
cover, as before described, with one apperture or opening for bandage, as

page_text: marked V, with spikes fixed to each side the frame, with cover as aforesaid;
or as Drawing No. 16, with one open part or apperture for bandage, and
fixed spikes or tongues on one side, as marked U, in Drawing No. 16, with
tail or barr, with or without spikes, hooks, or studs on the opposite side of
frame; or as Drawing No. 16, or made as Drawing No. 17, with plate or
wire frame, in any form or angle; or as marked W, in Drawing No. 17;
or made as Drawing No. 18, with tongues turning in joint, on pins fixed to
one part of fastning plate, and on the opposite side of plate, or fixed on to
cover or ornament a barr, as marked in Drawing A, with notches in barr or
harbours to receive points of tongues or spikes, with a leaver or turn-buckle or
pass over the points of tongues to hold them down, as marked B in Drawing
No. 18; or made as Drawing No. 19, as before described, with tongues to turn
fixed to plate or cover, and rest for tongues opposite with a barr with harbours
or notches to receive points of tongues to turn out to disengage the fastning,
as shewn in Drawing No. 19, marked C; or made or as No. 20 Drawing, as
before described, with tongues fixed to plate or cover, and barr, with harbours
or openings to draw out, with slider to disengage the points of tongues, as
marked D, in Drawing No. 20, or made as No. 21 Drawing, with the
tongues to slide out of the harbours or notches to disengage, and the barr
with notches or harbours fixed to plate or cover, as marked F in
Drawing No. 21. N.B. The Drawing 22, marked G, is to shew tongues
when drawn out of the harbours or notches in Drawing No. 21, and when
opened or made as Drawing No. 23, with plate as before described, either
with or without aperture or open part of any shape or size, with spike or
spikes on the inside of the plate to fix to the bandage, the plate with spikes
to be fixed by any means to a slider or joint, to open, or slide, or turn off, so
as to leave the spikes open to fix on to the part or bandage, or as in Drawing
No. 23. or 24, marked H & O. All the above fastning plates or frames
included in 'Drawings, or in the above description, of any kind or sort, to be
'made with or without covers or ornaments, to be attached to cover or orna-
ment by sodering, screwing, pinning, springing, ketching, or shutting, or by
any means that may be chosen, or made of any size or shape, or with or
without aperture or apertures-through-the-side_or_sides,_or_ends, in any part
of frame or plate, or made with the apertures in the plates in any direction,
either in straight lines, bendy lines, or in any curve or angle, with or without
spikes or tongues, barrs, or studs, in any part of aperture or apertures in the
plate or plates, and the frames as aforesaid, made of any size or form, and the
spikes, tongues, studs, hooks, tails, or barrs, placed in part or direction that
may be chosen, as exemplified and described by the above Drawings.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, .that the same Twenty-second day of De-
cember, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid George Hall came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Twenty-third day of December, in the year above writen.