AN IMPROVED MODE OF PRESERVING PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION PRESERVING RAILWAY AND OTHER TICKETS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, of
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris,
Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE OF PRESERVING
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Armand le Comte
de Fontaine Moreau at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 5th February 1855.
I, PETER ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, Patent Agent, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE OF PRESERVING
RAILWAY AND OTHER TICKETS" to be as follows:-
The Invention communicated to me consists in constructing a contrivance,
similar to that shewn in the annexed Drawing, for holding railway and other
tickets to be fixed to the button hole of the coat.
Figure 1 is a front view of the contrivance with a ticket inclosed; Figure 2,
a side view of the contrivance alone. It consists of a metallic wire turned to
the form shewn in Figure 1, and so as to have the required spring for holding
fast a ticket when introduced, and surmounted by a chain and hook, to fix it
to the button hole of the coat.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the. conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 2nd August 1855;
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of 4,South Street, Finsbury,
London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, Patent. Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing-date-the-Fifth day of February in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did,, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give, and grant into me,
the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, Her special license
that I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others, as, I, the, said Peter Armand le
Comte de Fontaine Moreau, 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
IMPROVED MODE OF PRESERVING RAILWAY AND OTHER TICKETS," communicated
AN
to me from a foreigner residing abroad, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, 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 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 Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Drawing hereto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that
is to say:-
The Invention communicated to me consists in the construction of a small
and useful apparatus for insuring to railway or other travellers a safe and
commodious means of preserving, securing, and exhibiting their tickets.
.
The apparatus can be attached to the button hole of the coat, or any other
convenient and visible part-of- a garment. It has the further advantage of

page_text: sparing to the traveller the inconvenience of a frequent exhibition of his
ticket to the railway or other officials. The form best adapted for carrying
out the principle of this Invention consists in a stamped or twisted metallic
wire, represented in Figures 1 and 3 of the annexed Drawing, which represents
a front view, and in Figures 2 and 4, side views of the apparatus. In these
Drawings the same letters of reference represent parts which are similar.
The section of the wire is flattened in A, so as to form a triangle at B, the
upper part of the triangle being turned towards the interior of the clasp c,
which at its two extremities is bent outwards. The bent part, acting in con-
junction with the spring of the two arms B, B, maintains the ticket in its
place, and prevents all lateral displacement, while the curved extremities of
the arms B, B, facilitates the easy and rapid introduction and withdrawal
at the required moment. A small chain F, Figures 3 and 4, is inserted in
the twisted part D, and is attached in G to a hook, which serves to suspend
the apparatus to the button hole of a coat, or to any other part of a garment;
a twisted wire, in Figures 1 and 2, bent in H, serves for the same purpose.
The applications of this apparatus extend to every kind of card or ticket
which require to be preserved and exhibited, such as for omnibuses, steam
boats, bazaars, exhibitions, theatres.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that I do
not confine myself to the precise form of the apparatus herein-before described,
as the same may be varied; but what I claim is, the construction of an appa-
ratus or instrument for carrying, securing, and exhibiting tickets, as herein-
before described, and referred to in the Figures of the Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day
of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-five.
L DE FONTAINE MOREAU. (L.S.)