AN IMPROVED SPRING PETTICOAT
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Augustine Angot, of Paris, 15, Passage des Petites
Ecuries, in the Empire of France, Wife of Felix Angot, of same Address,
for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED SPRING PETTICOAT,"
Sealed the 15th November 1867, and dated the 17th May 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Augustine Angot at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with her Petition, on the 17th
May 1867.
I, AUGUSTINE ANGOT, of Paris, 15, Passage des Petites Ecuries, in the
Empire of France, Wife of Felix Angot, of same address, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED SPRING PETTICOAT," to be
as follows:-
The peculiar property of this petticoat is that of affording in itself the
economy and advantage of three different petticoats.
The break in the steels on each side of the front of this petticoat (as
illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawing forming part of this my
Provisional Specification) is furnished on the exterior with buttons or studs
C, D, serving to widen or contract the petticoat at pleasure, which con-
stitutes the distinctive characteristic of my Invention. Further, by the aid of
this arrangement, the entire amplitude of the dress is carried backwards.
A corresponds with a and B with b.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Augustine Angot in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th November 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AUGUSTINE
ANGOT, of Paris, 15, Passage des Petites Ecuries, in the Empire of France,
Wife of Felix Angot, of the same Address, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Augustine Angot, Her special licence that I, the said Angustine Angot,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Augustine Angot, 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
IMPROVED SPRING PETTICOAT," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Augustine Angot, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Augustine Angot, 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, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of Drawing
forming part of this my Specification, Figure 1 being a side view of my
improved spring petticoat; Figure 2, same extended; and Figure 3, a three-
quarter view of same turned.
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The peculiar property of this petticoat is that by its great utility it permits
compliance with all the variations of fashion, inasmuch that it realizes in itself
the economy and the advantage of three different petticoats.
The break of the steel springs on each side of the front of this petticoat is
furnished with two rows of buttons C, D,.on the exterior serving to extend
or contract the petticoat at pleasure. On the interior eyelet holes are fixed

page_text: upon strips rising to a height of about 4 inches, and are laced together.
corresponds with A, 6 corresponds with B.
b
My improved spring petticoat may also enlarge or contract in the front
only. The trimmings are composed of bands of cashmere of various shades,
scolloped and bound with woollen or silk braid, and are provided with
buttons.
The distinctive characteristic of my Invention is the widening or con-
tracting of the petticoat at pleasure, and the carrying of the amplitude of the
dress backwards by means of divisions and fastenings arranged substantially
as herein-before described and illustrated on the annexed Sheet of Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Augustine Angot, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
AUGUSTINE ANGOT. (L.S.)