VENTILATING WOMEN'S STAYS BY MEANS OF PERFORATION.
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Castle, of No. 10, Tamworth Road, Croydon,
in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "VENTILATING WOMEN'S
STAYS BY MEANS OF PERFORATION.'
Sealed the 20th August 1858, and dated the 10th June 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Castle at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th June 1858.
I, GEORGE CASTLE, of No. 10, Tamworth Road, Croydon, in the County of
Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "VENTILATING
WOMEN'S STAYS BY MEANS OF PERFORATION," to be as follows:-
I purpose to perforate any stay already in use in any or every part now.
presenting an even surface; and this can be done either by holes worked with
silk, cotton, thread, or metallic substance, the object being to allow free per-
spiration, and to equalize the temperature of the body, as it is known to all
women who wear stays that the stay becomes perfectly saturated with wet,
when worn in hot weather or in crowded assemblys; and the result of the
sudden action of cold have been a fruitful cause of fatal results. A perforated
stay would obviate this, as it would offer no resistance to the free issue of
perspiration, and the principle being easily applied to all stays at present in
use, would add very little to the cost, therefore the benefit could be par-

page_text: ticipated in by all classes; it would in no measure detract from the strength
or durability of any article it might be applied to, and might be made highly
ornamental.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Castle in. the Great Seal Patent Office on the
10th December 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
CASTLE, of No. 10, Tamworth Road, Croydon, in the County of Surrey, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said George Castle, Her special licence that I, the said George Castle,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
George Castle, 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 "VENTILATING WOMEN'S
STAYS BY MEANS OF PERFORATION," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said George Castle, 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 George Castle, 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:-
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I propose to perforate any stay already in use in any or every part now
presenting an even surface; and this can. be done, the object being to allow
free perspiration, and to equalize the temperature of the body, as it is known
to all women who wear stays that the stay becomes perfectly saturated with
wet when worn in hot weather or in crowded assemblys; and the result of the

page_text: sudden action of cold have been a fruitful cause of fatal results. A perforated
stay would obviate this, as it would offer no resistance to the free issue of
perspiration, and the principle being easily applied to all stays at present in
use, would add very little to the cost, therefore the benefit could be par-
ticipated in by all classes; it would in no measure detract from the strength
or durability of any article it might be applied to, and might be made highly
ornamental.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Castle, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
GEORGE CASTLE. (L.S.)