AN IM- PROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BELTS, BANDS, BRACES, AND OTHER. SIMILAR ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTER
run, or Manchester, in
Lancaster, Leather Manufacturer, and Alexander. Forrest, of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Gentleman, for the Invention of "AN IM-
PROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BELTS, BANDS, BRACES, AND OTHER.
SIMILAR ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL."
Sealed the 10th June 1856, and dated the 14th December 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Haworth and
Alexander Forrest at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 14th December 1855..
We, PETER HAWORTII, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Patent
Leather Manufacturer, and ALEXANDER FORREST, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BELTS, BANDS, BRACES,
AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL," to be as follows:--
Our Invention consists in the novel application and use of a portion of elastic
webbing or other elastic material in connection with leather or other non-elastic
belts, bands, braces, &c., and thereby imparting to them similar advantages
to entirely elastic belts, &c. The leather or non-elastic belt is made in two
parts; the one part, being the buckle or hook end of the belt, has an elastic
loop, and is attached to a link permanently fastened on to the larger or main
part of the belt; the other end or the smaller part of the belt is also furnished
with a short piece of elastic webbing, which is permanently attached to the
main or longer portion of the belt.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Haworth and Alexander Forrest in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 13th June 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, PETER
HAWORTH, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Leather Manufacturer,
and ALEXANDER FORREST, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Gentle-
man, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Peter Haworth and Alexander Forrest, Her especial license. that we, the
said Peter Haworth and. Alexander Forrest, our executors, administrators; and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Peter Haworth and Alexander Forrest,
our 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 THE MANUFAC
TURE OF BELTS, BANDS, BRACES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL,"
upon the condition. (amongst others) that we, the said Peter Haworth and
Alexander Forrest, or one of us, by an instrument in writing under our hands
and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, 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 Peter Haworth, do hereby declare the
nature of our said Invention, and in what, manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in, and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
Our Invention consists in the novel application and use of a portion of elastic
webbing or other elastic material in connection with leather or other non-
elastic, belts, bands, braces, &c., and thereby imparting to them the similar
advantages to the entirely elastic belts, &c. The leather or non-elastic belt is
made in two parts; the one part, being the buckle or hook end of the belt, has
an elastic loop, and is attached to a link permanently fastened on to the larger
or main part of the belt; the other end, or smaller part of the belt, &c., is

page_text: also furnished with a short piece of elastic webbing which is permanently
attached to the main or longer portion of the belt.
In order that this Invention may be the better understood and explained in
detail, I have attached to these Presents a Sheet of Drawing, having similar
letters of reference marked upon corresponding parts of the belt in both
Figures. Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the improved belt, shewn as an
example of the combination of elastic and non-elastic materials, and drawn in
perspective, to illustrate the arrangement and positions of the several parts;
Fig. 2 is a plan of the said belt, shewing more clearly the situation of the
metal loop to which the long end of the belt is attached, and also the course
of the shorter end through the same.
This Invention will be readily understood by referring to the following de-
scription of the Drawings:-a, a, is a piece of elastic webbing, or other suitable
equivalent, forming, when attached to the loop 6, a continuation of the long
part of the belt c, and thus completing the connection of the belt from end to
end; but in order to equalize the strain upon this elastic piece, and also give a
more uniform appearance to the belt, by concealing the elastic web a, a, I attach
a shorter piece of leather d to the buckle, which passes over or outside the elastic
webbing, thence through the metal loop 6, and terminates in a second piece of
elastic webbing or other elastic substance e, e, which is secured to the inside
surface of the longer leather c. By this arrangement, when a stretch or disten-
tion is given to the belt, the two elastic pieces, marked respectively a, a, and
e, e, will yield to the strain; thus the belt will have all the advantages of an
entirely elastic belt, but still retain the appearance and durability of an
ordinary non-elastic leather belt.
Having now described the nature of this Invention, and also the manner
in which the same may be carried into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that we claim the novel application and use of the two elastic pieces
a and e, in combination with the long and short pieces of leather marked c and
d, constituting the general arrangement and construction of belt, band, or
brace, as herein-before particularly described and set forth, and fully illustrated
in the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Haworth, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
PETER HAWORTH. (L.S.)