AN IMPROVED METHOD OF FASTENING THE BUTTON BOOT WITHOUT THE USE OF BUTTON HOLES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Layzell Scowen, of Allen Road, South
Hornsey, in the Parish of Hornsey, in the County of Middlesex,
for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF FASTENING THE BUTTON
BOOT WITHOUT THE USE OF BUTTON HOLES."
Sealed the 17th October 1868, and dated the 22nd April 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Layzell Scowen
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 22nd April 1868.
I, THOMAS LAYZELL SCOWEN, of Allen Road, South Hornsey, in the
Parish of Hornsey, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF FASTENING THE
BUTTON BOOT WITHOUT THE USE OF BUTTON HOLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the dispensing with the button
holes in the ordinary button boots, and affording greater facility in
fastening, and also in giving ease to the wearer without altering the
general fitting appearance of the boot.

page_text: This Invention consists in placing a row of hook buttons* or suitable
studs, buttons, or hooks on the button hole piece in lieu of button
holes and a corresponding row placed a little lower than where the
buttons usually are, the button piece is then drawn down close to
the side of boot by means of a cord or other suitable article hooked
or intwined alternately on the two rows of hook buttons or suitable
studs, buttons, or hooks, and then drawn to any degree of tightness
required or loosened for ease without altering the general fitting ap-
pearance of the boot, which effect is not obtained in the ordinary button
boots.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Layzell Scowen in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 21st October 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
LAYZELL SCOWEN, of Allen Road, South Hornscy, in the Parish of
Hornsey, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Layzell Scowen, Her special
licence that I, the said Thomas Layzell Scowen, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Layzell
Scowen, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times, there-
after 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 METHOD OF FASTENING THE BUTTON BOOT WITHOUT THE USE
OF BUTTON HOLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Thomas Layzell Scowen, 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

page_text: 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 Thomas Layzell Scowen, 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 the dispensing with the button
holes in the ordinary button boots, and affording greater facility in
fastening, and also in giving ease to the wearer without altering the
general fitting appearance of the boot.
This Invention consists in placing a row of hook buttons or suitable
studs, buttons, or hooks on the button hole piece in lieu of button
holes and a corresponding row placed a little lower than where the
buttons usually are, the button piece is then drawn down close to the
side of boot by means of a cord or other suitable article hooked or
entwined alternately on the two rows of hook buttons or suitable studs,
buttons, or hooks and then drawn to any degree of tightness required
or loosened for ease without altering the general fitting appearance
of the boot, which effect is not obtained in the ordinary button boots.
The Drawing hereunto annexed shows the manner of arranging the
fastenings on the shaped boot known as the ordinary buttoned boot,
and which arrangement on the ordinary shaped buttoned boot I claim
as my Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Layzell Scowen, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of October,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.
Witness,
THOS. HOLTON.
THOMAS LAYZELL SCOWEN. (L.S.)