IMPROVEMENTS IN TROWSERS' AS PART OF MALE ATTIRE
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Whitehead, of Bury, in the County of Lan-
caster, Tailor and Draper, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
TROWSERS' AS PART OF MALE ATTIRE."
Sealed the 16th March 1858, and dated the 18th September 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Whitehead at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 18th
September 1857.
I, SAMUEL WHITEHEAD, of Bury, in the County of Lancaster, Tailor and
Draper, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN TROWSERS' AS A PART OF MALE ATTIRE," to be as follows:-
My improvement consists in so measuring for and cutting out trowsers that
each leg shall have a suitable form and size, instead of both being cut of
similar dimensions, or nearly so. The trowsers are to be measured and cut at
the waist and front about two or three inches wider in one side or thereabouts,
according to the proportion of the "dress" of the wearer, whether it be upon
the right or left leg, which peculiar novelty in cutting trowsers will cause
them to sit much better, and the "pull." be straight up and down instead of
across the garment, usually pulling the side seams awry, which in case of*
striped cloth is very unseemly, but unavoidable as "trowsers" have hitherto
been made...
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Whitehead in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th March 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
WHITEHEAD, of Bury, in the County of Lancaster, Tailor and Draper, send
greeting.
المذلة
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Samuel Whitehead, Her especial license that I, the said
Samuel Whitehead, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Samuel Whitehead, 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 TROWSERS AS A PART OF MALE ATTIRE," upon
the condition, amongst others, that I, the said Samuel Whitehead, 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 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 Samuel Whitehead, 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 and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
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My improvement consists in so measuring for and cutting out "trowsers'
that each leg shall have a suitable form and size, instead of both being cut
alike of similar dimensions, or nearly so. The trowsers are to be measured
and cut at the waist and front about two or three inches wider on one side or
thereabouts, according to the "dress" of the wearer, whether it be upon the
right or
or left leg, which peculiar novelty in cutting trowsers will cause them to
set much better, and the "pull" be straight up and down instead of across the
garment, usually pulling the side seams away, which in case of striped cloth is
very unseemly, but unavoidably as trowsers have hitherto been made. In
order that the improvement may be more clearly understood and practically

page_text: illustrated I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a
diagram shewing the pattern to which the cloth must be cut or shaped for
the formation of the improved shaped trowsers; the inner and outer lines
serve to shew the difference of measurement in the two legs, the inner lines
a, a, being the pattern to which one leg is to be cut, and the outer lines b, b,
shew the proportion allowed for "dress" in cutting out the shape of the
other leg, the dotted line shewing the shape or pattern for the ordinary
method of cutting out trowsers, that is, when both legs are cut alike, or
nearly so.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Whitehead, have hereunto set
my hand and seal this Sixteenth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
SAMUEL WHITEHEAD. (L.S.)