A SPRING OR SPRINGS MADE OF TEMPERED STEEL, EITHER FLAT OR SQUARE, UPON A PRINCIPLE ENTIRELY NEW, WHICH IS THINNER, MORE SUPPLE, AND FITTER TO BE USED FOR GARTERS, BRACELETS, BOOTS, BUCKLES, LASHES, STAYS, AND JUMPS FOR LADIES, SWORD AND OTHER BELTS, BINDERS FOR LET- TERS, AND BANDAGES OF EVERY SORT, ALSO BUCKLES FOR BREECHES AND WAISTBANDS
Year: 1784

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEAN
PHILIPPE, of Rupert Street, in the Parish of Saint James's, Westminster, in
the County of Middlesex, Spring Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by IIis
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twentieth day of July, in the twenty-fourth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Jean Philippe, my exors, adûiors,
and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Jean Philippe, my exors, admñiors, and assigns, and every of them, by
myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy and deputies, servants, or
agents, or such others as I, the said Jean Philippe, my exors, adiñiors, or
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, exercise, and vend, within that part of His Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A SPRING OR SPRINGS MADE OF TEMPERED
STEEL, EITHER FLAT OR SQUARE, UPON A PRINCIPLE ENTIRELY NEW, WHICH IS THINNER,
MORE SUPPLE, AND FITTER TO BE USED FOR GARTERS, BRACELETS, BOOTS, BUCKLES,
LASHES, STAYS, AND JUMPS FOR LADIES, SWORD AND OTHER BELTS, BINDERS FOR LET-
TERS, AND BANDAGES OF EVERY SORT, ALSO BUCKLES FOR BREECHES AND WAISTBANDS,"
as to me, the said Jean Philippe, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, or any of them,
should, in their discretion, seem meet, and that I, the said Jean Philippe,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commo-
dity, and advantage from time to time comeing, growing, and arising by reason

page_text: of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned; to
have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and advan-
tages therein-before granted unto me, the said Jean Philippe, my exors, admors,
and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years
from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and
fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case made
and provided; in which Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said Jean Philippe, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
Jean Philippe, do hereby declare that my said Invention is as described
as follows:
Number 1. This garter goes twice round the thigh, with a flat and hard
steel spring, the blades of which are somewhat down, to render it more smooth
and less thick. It is an inch and a half long, and it ought to lengthen an
inch and a half more when the narrowest part of the garter is drawn which
the spring is tied up to. It is covered with a ribbon fastened by a silver
clasp. There is besides a small double ribbon, which both goes in and through
the said spring, to prevent its breaking when it is too hard pulled. There
is a small buckle at the top of the garter.
Number 2. This garter is intended for those who cannot bear a ligature
round their thighs. It is a spring, like the former, but longer. It is fastened
by a silver plate, as broad and thick as an English crown, and is to be placed
in a pocket purposely made in the waistband of the breeches, where there is a
hole for the spring to go to, and a hook, which ought to fasten to the bottom
in an eylet hole, made with a small silk ribbon. For the ladies' wear, instead
of a silver plate, they make use of a hook which fastens to the bottom of the
stays or jumps; the said spring is covered all over with a skin, to prevent its
being in the least incommodious.
Number 3. This garter is calculated for those who only want it to go once
round their thighs. The springs are like the former, but longer, and covered.
There are at the ends a hook and a clasp.
Number 4. These two springs are made for ladies' stays; they are likewise
of flat and hard steel, the blades of which are open, and the operate by closing
and shortening when the stomach grows thicker. They give way to all move-

page_text: ments of the breath. There is a silver blade, which goes through the bones of
the stays and the two springs, that produces the intended effect.
Number 5. These springs are for ladies' jumps who do not choose to wear
hard incommodious stays. There are four springs, two of which are open and
two closed, which give way and operate by the single motion of the breath,
(viz.), the two open ones by shortening, and the two others by lengthening.
They operate together, and their movements are very easy.
Number 6. These springs are of hard steel, but bigger, wider, and shorter
than the former, and may serve for shoes, stocks, breeches, waistbands, swords,
waist belts, and, finally, all sorts of buckles. The spring is fastened with a
steel chaffe, which goes under the buckle, and both lengthens and shortens as
is required. The spring is directed by two steel blades, which go through
and through. To this end you only need alter the form of the chafe as it
is drawn.
Number 7. This spring is for boots. It is two inches and a half or about
long, with a button at each end; one is inside, 1, and the other outside
the boot. The outside one fastens to the breeches, and the inside one to the
boot, where it goes in a button hole made for the purpose. The spring is
hidden between the two leathers of the boot.
Number 8. This spring's form is like the former's, with a hook and
eye at the ends; it serves for hats, bracelets, bandages, ruptures, letters,
ligatures, &c.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Nine-
teenth day of November, One thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.
JEAN (L.S.) PHILIPPE.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Nineteenth day of November,
in the year of our Lord 1784, the aforesaid Jean Philippe came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Nineteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord One