AN IMPROVEMENT IN TROWSERS AND DRAWERS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Gwillim Merrett, of 49, Leadenhall Street,
for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN TROWSERS AND DRAWERS:"
Sealed the 6th May 1856, and dated the 19th February 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Gwillini Merrett ät
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th February 1856.
I, WILLIAM GWILLIM MERRETT, of 49, Leadenhall Street, do hereby declare
the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN TROWSERS AND DRAWERS,"
to be as follows:-
For this
This Invention has for its object an improvement in trowsers and drawers,
with a view to obtain ventilation at and near the seat of the wearer.
purpose, trowsers and drawers are in each case made with an introduced piece
or pieces of leather, or other suitable flexible material, at or near the seat, such
introduced piece or pieces of leather, or other suitable material, being perforated
with numerous small holes.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Gwillim Merrett in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 19th August 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
GWILLIM MERRETT, of 49, Leadenhall Street, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Gwillim Merrett, Her special license that I, the said
William Gwillim Merrett, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said William Gwillim Merrett, 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 AND DRAWERS," upon the condi-
tion (amongst others) that I, the said William Gwillim Merrett, 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 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 William Gwillim Merrett, do hereby
declare the-nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:―
This Invention has for its object an improvement in trowsers and drawers,
with a view to obtain ventilation at and near the seat of the wearer. For this
purpose trowsers and drawers are in each case made with an introduced piece
or pieces of leather or other suitable flexible material at or near the seat, such
introduced piece or pieces of leather or other suitable material being perforated
with numerous small holes.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed to describe
the manner of performing the same.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows an outside view, and Figure 2 an inside view, of part of the
seat of a pair of trowsers, having a piece of perforated leather a, a, introduced.
Other flexible material may be used, but I prefer to employ leather; and the
shape of the introduced perforated piece a, a, may be varied, but the triangular
form is preferred.
Figure 3 shows a piece of strong warp lace or other open fabric, such as is
introduced in making up a pair of drawers. By these means the seat of the
person will be constantly ventilated which will greatly promote the health of
those parts of the person.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Gwillim Merrett, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
C. HASELDEN.
W. G. MERRETT. (L.S.)