IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENING FOR STAYS, CORSETS, AND BANDS."
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Godding, of Ipswich, in the County of
Suffolk, Stay Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
FASTENING FOR STAYS, CORSETS, AND BANDS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Godding at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th
November 1855.
I, THOMAS GODDING, of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, Stay Maker, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
FASTENING FOR STAYS, CORSETS, AND BANDS," to be as follows:-
I annex two busks, one at each side, of stays opening or unlooseing in front
or otherwise. In the under busk I insert one or more moveable or revolving
hooks or metal fastenings (which will turn partly or completely round) with
the hook or fastening part toward the outside of the busk. This hook or
fastening adjoins to the lower busk, and when fastened is usually at the back
of the upper busk, but may also be used with eyelets in front of the same; or
through the same I make one or more eyelet or other kind of hole in tho stays
or busk. When the stays are worn, they are fastened by wrapping the upper
busk over or against the lower busk, and introducing the top part of the hook
into the hole or holes. The hooks are then turned round or reversed, and
thus the stays are securely fastened; and in unloosing the stays the hooks

page_text: have merely to be turned round again, and the stays will slip off with the
greatest ease.
I claim for my Invention, the use of moveable or revolving hooks or
metal fastenings revolving or moving in one of the busks, and fitting into
eyelet or other kind of holes on the opposite side of the stays, corsets, or 5
bands, opening or unloosing in front or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Godding in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
7th May 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
GODDING, of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, Stay Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of November, 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 me, the
said Thomas Godding, Her special license that I, the said Thomas Godding,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Godding, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FASTENING
FOR STAYS, CORSETS, AND BANDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Thomas Godding, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 Godding, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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, that is to say:-
I annex two busks, one at each side, of stays opening or unloosing in front
or otherwise. In the under busk, I insert one or more moveable or revolving
hooks or metal fastenings (which will turn partly or completely round) with
the hook or fastening part toward the outside of the busk. This hook or

page_text: fastening adjoins to the lower busk, and when fastened is usually at the back
of the upper busk, but may also be used with eyelets in front of the same;
or through the same I make one or more eyelet or other kind of hole in
the stays or busk. When the stays are worn, they are fastened by wrapping
the upper busk over or against the lower busk, and introducing the top
part of the hook into the hole or holes. The hooks are then turned round
or reversed, and thus the stays are securely fastened; and in unloosing the
stays, the hooks have merely to be turned round again, and the stays will
slip off with the greatest ease.
I claim for my Invention, the use of moveable or revolving hooks or
metal fastenings revolving or moving in one of the busks, and fitting into
eyelet or other kind of holes on the oppisite side of the stays, corsets, or
bands, opening or unloosing in front or otherwise.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Godding, have heretofore set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
THOMAS GODDING. (L.8.)