AN IMPROVED UNDER GARMENT FOR GENTLEMEN AND LADIES' WEAR
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Henry Harrison, of 16, Park Place,
Highbury, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED UNDER GARMENT FOR GENTLEMEN AND LADIES' WEAR."
Sealed the 15th August 1862, and dated the 15th February 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Henry Harrison
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 15th February 1862.
I, ARTHUR HENRY HARRISON, of 16, Park Place, Highbury, in tho
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED UNDER GARMENT FOR GENTLEMEN AND LADIES' WEAR," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists of an under garment in which are combined in one
article the two garments known as the under vest or "jersey" and the
"drawers." The garment is to be made open down the front, and also
behind upwards as far as the waist, and fastened by buttons or other suitablo
means. The sleeves and legs may be made of half or full length, as desired,
and the garment may be composed of cotton, linen, silk, woollen, or other
material suitable for the use of gentlemen and ladies.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Arthur Henry Harrison in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 15th August 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARTHUR
HENRY HARRISON, of 16, Park Place, Highbury, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Arthur
Henry Harrison, Her special licence that I, the said Arthur Henry Harrison,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such other as I, the said
Arthur Henry Harrison, 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
IMPROVED UNDER GARMENT FOR GENTLEMEN AND LADIES' WEAR," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Arthur Henry Harrison, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, 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 Scal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Arthur Henry Harrison, 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:-
This Invention consists of an under garment, in which are combined in one
article the two garments known as the under vest or "jersey" and tho
" drawers." I make the garment open down the front and also behind
upwards from the fork of the drawers as far as the waist, and I fasten the
same by means of buttons or other fastenings. I make the sleeves and legs
(by preference) of half length, although I make them of full length, if
required, and the garment may be composed of cotton, linen, silk, woollen, or
other material suitable for the use of gentlemen and ladies.
This garment possesses the advantage of being complete in one article

page_text: which renders it more comfortable to the wearer, and it is more easily and
rapidly adjusted for wear than the two separate garments which it represents;
and, morcover, it can be made cheaper than the "jersey" and "drawers" when
made separately from each other.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I would remark in conclusion, that
I do not limit myself to the preciso details herein described, as the same
may obviously be slightly varied or modified without departing from the
principle of my Invention; but what I claim and desire to be secured to mo
by the herein in part recited Letters Patent, is the manufacture of "An
Improved Under Garment for Gentlemen and Ladies' Wear," substantially as
herein specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Henry Harrison, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of August, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
ALEX". PRINCE,
Agent for Patents,
ARTHUR HENRY HARRISON. (L.S.)
4, Trafalgar Square,
Charing Cross.