IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HOLDING DOWN TROUSERS
Year: 1847

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
PITT, of Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Ninth day of Sep-
tember, in the eleventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said James Pitt, my exors, admors, and
assigns, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said James Pitt, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said James Pitt, my exors, adñors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HOLDING DOWN TROUSERS ;"
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said James
Pitt, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, to be iurolled in Her said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Pitt, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
The apparatus or instruments heretofore employed for holding down
trousers have heretofore been so arranged as to be attached to the trousers on
either side of the foot of the wearer, the instrument used passing under the
foot, or else attached to the two sides of the boot or shoe. Now the object
of my Invention is, so to construct apparatus that the hinder part of the
trousers may be attached to the hinder part of the boot or shoe. And I
would state, that the instruments or apparatus employed in carrying out my
Invention may be greatly varied. I do not therefore confine myself to the
instruments or apparatus shown and described, so long as the back part of the
trousers are attached to the back part of the boot or shoe, and the trowsers
thereby hold down

page_text: or instruments are made suitable for connecting the hinder part of trousers
with the hinder part or heel of a boot or shoe. And I would have it under-
stood that what I claim is, the so arranging apparatus or instruments as to
connect the hinder parts of trousers with the hinder parts of boots or shoes.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Pitt, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.