IMPROVEMENTS IN CLASPS OR FASTENINGS FOR GARMENTS, BELTS, HARNESS, AND LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Jones, of 55, North John Street, Liverpool,
in the County of Lancaster, Tailor and Draper, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CLASPS OR FASTENINGS FOR GARMENTS, BELTS, HARNESS,
AND LIKE ARTICLES."
Sealed the 25th February 1862, and dated the 31st August 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Jones at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 31st August
1861.
I, JOHN JONES, of 55, North John Street, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Tailor and Draper, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CLASPS OR FASTENINGS FOR GARMENTS, BELTS,
HARNESS, AND LIKE ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists principally of two wedge-shaped parts, the one of
which is smaller than, and is made of a form to be easily passed into the other,
to fasten or join together two ends, edges, or sides of articles of wearing
apparel, belts, harness, and other ends, edges, or sides of articles or apparatus
of whatever nature; always provided that the said wedge-shaped parts
or clasps are fastened by sewing or otherwise to the two said ends, edges,
or sides of the articles or materials to be joined together.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th
February 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
JONES, of 55, North John Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Tailor and Draper, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the thirty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord Ono
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her beirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Jones, Ifer special licence that I, the said John Jones,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Jones, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any timo
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
CLASPS OR FASTENINGS FOR GARMENTS, BELTS, HARNESS, AND LIKE ARTICLES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Jones, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or ono
of their hands and seals, 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 Offico
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Jones, do hereby declare the
nature of the 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):-
This Invention consists principally of two wedge-shaped parts, the one
of which is smaller than, and is made of such a form as to be easily passed
into the other, to fasten or join together two ends, edges, or sides of articles
of wearing apparel, belts, harness, and other ends, edges, or sides of articles
or apparatus of whatever nature; always provided that the said wedge-
shaped parts or clasps are fastened, by sewing or otherwise, to the two
said ends, edges, or sides of the articles or materials to be joined together.
That the Invention may be clearly understood, I will now proceed to
describe the Sheet of explanatory Drawings accompanying this, and in doing

page_text: so, will make reference by letters to the various parts. All the views on this
Sheet are illustrative of only one shape of my clasps or fasteners, but such
shape sufficiently shews the principle of construction, to enable manufacturers
to modify the same, both in the material used, and for the various purposes
herein-before mentioned.
Fig. 1 represents a perspective view of both parts closed; Fig. 2, a per-
spective view of both parts open, and fastened near to the edges of two pieces
of cloth; Fig. 3, a front elevation of the female wedge parts; Fig. 4, a back
(or that side when fastened next the cloth or other material) view of the
same; Fig. 5, transverse, and Fig. 6, longitudinal sections of the same
respectively taken through about the middle; Fig. 7 back view of the
male wedge part; Fig. 8, a front (or that side not in contact with the
material to which it is fastened) view of the same, and Fig. 9 transverse, and
Fig. 10 longitudinal sections of the same respectively taken through about
the middle. a shews the flat plate of the female part, with sides 6 and end c
turned up or bent over by dies, hand or otherwise, or cast, as is well known,
and leaving a space for the male part; d, holes or eyelets, by which such
female part is fastened to the cloth e, as shewn in Fig. 2, by sewing thread f,
or to other ends or sides by sewing or other means, such as studs, staples and
washers, or rivets; g, the flat plate of the male wedge with concave corruga-
tion h on its front, or that surfaco which is against the flat plate a of the
female part when they are joined. This form may be given by dies or
otherwise, and is necessary to allow the sewing thread i, or other fastening
through the holes or eyelets j, to slide freely over the fastening of the female
part, without coming in contact with it. After the male and female wedged
parts have been secured to the cloth or other material, say that shewn in
Fig. 2, it is simply necessary to lap the part of the cloth c, to which is secured
the male wedge, over the other part, and pass or slide the one into the other
as shewn in Fig. 1, and a strong and easily detached junction is made, par-
ticularly suitable where hooks and eyes, and buttons and button-holes have
hitherto been used.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Invention,
and the mode of using the same, I would have it distinctly understood that I
do not confine myself to the exact shape herein described, nor to having
corrugations on one part or the other, nor to making such or any shape in
metal or other material, nor to a combination of different materials, as they
may be variously modified, without departing from the leading features of my
Invention, such as having the two parts curved or arched in the same or
different directions; sewing or attaching the male part by the broad end, and

page_text: passing it into the female part, which in that case might be open at one or
both ends only; and having ornamental work attached to the female part
through the cloth or other material exposed to view; but what I claim as my
Invention is, clasps or fasteners for garments, belts, harness, and other articles,
wherein one wedge-shaped part is so formed that it can easily be passed
into, and held by, or withdrawn, and separated from another wedge-shaped
part, substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Jones, havo hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
In the presence of
JOHN THOMSON KING, Patent Agent,
4, Clayton Square, Liverpool.
JOHN JONES. (L.S.)