IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOGS AND PATTENS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Susan Walker, of Hersham, in the County of
Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOGS AND
PATTENS."
Sealed the 7th June 1853, and dated the 15th December 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Susan Walker at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with her Petition, on
the 15th December 1852.-
I, SUSAN WALKER, of Hersham, in the County of Surrey, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOGS
AND PATTENS" to be as follows (that is to say):
My Invention consists in covering the irons of clogs or pattens
with an elastic material, whereby the same may be rendered more
durable and more commodious to the wearer, by being protected
against the action of the atmosphere, and rendered less liable to
produce noise or splashing as they strike upon the ground; and the
manner in which I prefer to carry the said Invention into effect is
as follows: I cause a piece of iron-of any ordinary shape, suitable
to form the iron of a clog or patten, to be surrounded with gutta
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page_text: percha, and therewith in a heated state to be subjected to hydraulic
pressure in a mould, so that the said gutta percha may perfectly
adapt itself to the form of the mould, and be brought into rigid
coherence with the iron.
Having thus briefly described the manner in which I prefer to
carry out my said Invention, I would have it understood that I do
not limit myself to the above details, but claim generally as of my
Invention,-
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Firstly, the covering of the irons of clogs or pattens with an
clastic material, for all or any of the purposes described.
Secondly, the process of coating iron with a solution of gutta
percha or similar elastic substance, by means of hydraulic pressure,
so far as the said process may be applied to the purposes described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Susan Walker in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 9th June 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
SUSAN WALKER, of Hersham, in the County of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said Susan Walker, Her special
licence that I, the said Susan Walker, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Susan Walker, my exe-
cutors, 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOGS AND PATTENS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Susan Walker, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and as-

page_text: certain 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Susan Walker, 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 (that is to say):
My improvements, which have for their object the rendering of
clogs or pattens more durable and more commodious to the wearer,
consists in covering or coating the irons of the said clogs or pattens
with gutta percha, india rubber, or any other suitable elastic material,
whereby the surfaces of the said irons may be protected from the
corrosive action of the atmosphere, and also rendered less liable to
produce noise or splashing, by striking against the ground or pave-
ment; and the manner in which I prefer to carry the said improve-
ments into effect is as follows: - I cause a piece of iron of any
ordinary shape suitable to form the iron of a clog or patten to be
surrounded with gutta percha, india rubber, or other suitable elastic
material or materials, and the said piece of iron and the surrounding
material or materials being in a heated state, I cause them altogether
to be subjected to hydraulic pressure in a mould, so that the said
material or materials surrounding the iron may be perfectly adapted
to the form of the mould, and may be brought into rigid coherence
with the iron, whereby the said iron will become coated or covered
in a manner suitable to realize the objects of my said improvements.
Having now fully described the nature of my said improvements,
and the manner in which they are to be carried into effect, I would
have it clearly understood that I by no means confine myself to the
precise details herein-before given, as the same may be varied without
departing from the general principle of my improvements; but that
which I do claim as new, and of my said Invention is,―
Firstly, the covering or coating of the irons of clogs or pattens
with gutta percha, india rubber, or any other suitable elastic
material, for the purposes described and set forth.

page_text: Secondly, the process of coating iron with a solution of gutta
percha, india rubber, or any other elastic material, by incans of
hydraulic pressure, or by running it in a mould for the purposes
described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Susan Walker, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Ninth day of June, A.D. Eighteen hundred
and fifty-three.
SUSAN WALKER. (L.S.)