A NEW METAL STUD, TO BE APPLIED TO BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER THE LIKE ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE
Year: 1828

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
JACKSON, late of Red Lion Street, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
Watch Maker, but now of Giltspur Street, in the City of London, Metal Stud
Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by
His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Thirteenth
day of May now last past, did, for Himself, His heirs, and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Jackson, His especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Thomas Jackson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself or them-
selves, or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such
others as I, the said Thomas Jackson, my executors, administrators, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend my Invention of "A NEW METAL
STUD, TO BE APPLIED TO BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER THE LIKE ARTICLES OF
MANUFACTURE," within that part of the said United Kingdom called England,
His said Majesty's Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in
such manner as to me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of
them, should, in my or their discretion, seem meet; and in which Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso, that if I, the said Thomas Jackson, should
not describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my

page_text: hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, that then those Letters Patent, and all liberties
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in
anywise notwithstanding, as in and by such Letters Patent, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in pursuance thereof and in compliance with the
said provisoe, I, the said Thomas Jackson, do hereby declare the nature
of my said Invention to consist of a new metal stud, to be applied to the
soles and heels of boots, shoes, and other the like articles of manufacture
instead instead of the nails and sparrow bills now in use, and in further com-
pliance with the said provisoc I, the said Thomas Jackson, do hereby describe
the manner in which my said Invention is to be performed, by the following
description thereof, reference being had to the Drawing in the margin hereof
and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say:-
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Fig. 1.
DESCRIPTION OF THE SAID DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a perspective elevation of my said' new stud, the part
A marked. A being that part of my said stud which I call the wearing
end of it, and the other part thereof, marked B,.is what I call the
holding end of it.
Figure 2 is a plan of Figure 1. The said stud may be made of
③steel, iron, or any other hardl métal; but I prefer steel. The sides
Fig. 2. of the wearing end of the stud are bouged, and when it is required
to apply the stud to the sole or heel of a lioot, shoe, or other the like article
of manufacture, a hole should be countersunk in the leather of that sole
or hecl, of the diameter only of the upper part or surface of the wearing
end of the stud, and of the exact depth of the said wearing end, the holding
end of the stud being allowed to force its own way into the leather by the
force applied to drive the wearing end of the stud to its place; the effect
of the bouged part of the wearing end of the stud will be like the action
of a wedge in forcing open the countersunk hole whilst the stud is being
driven into the leather, which being elastic, will close in upon the upper part
of the wearing end of the stud when it is driven home, and assist in holding
it in its place. Now, whereas the size shewn in the Drawing is a very
useful one, but the said stud is and may be made of any other size, as may
be deemed expedient, according to the respective thickness of the outer sole
or heel of any boot, shoe, or other the like article of manufacture to which

page_text: it is to be applied, care being taken that in the application of my said Inven-
tion to any of the purposes aforesaid the said stud be never let into and
driven so far through or beyond the outer sole as to cause the holding part
of it to enter further into the inner sole than about one-third of the
thickness of that sole, nor further into the heel than about three-fourths of
the thickness of that heel: And whereas also the wearing part of my said new
stud may be made with three, four, or more sides instead of a circular form,
provided always that the bouged sides be preserved; but I claim as my said
Invention a stud with bouged sides and with a wearing end and holding end,
such as is herein-before described, and to be applied to the purposes aforesaid:
And such, my Invention, being to the best of my knowledge and belief
entirely new and never before used within that part of His said Majesty's
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His said Dominion of
Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be my
Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe this, my said Specifica-
tion, doth comply in all respects fully and without reserve or disguise with
the provisoe in the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained,
wherefore I do hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my
said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Jackson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of November, in the ninth year of
the reign of His said Majesty, and in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
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THOMAS JACKSON. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twelfth day of November,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Jackson came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and everything therein contained, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
b Statute in that case made and provided.