IMPROVEMENTS IN DRESS IMPROVERS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Henry Taylor, of Barbican, in the City
of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN DRESS IMPROVERS."
Sealed the 15th June 1875, and dated the 19th December 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Henry Taylor
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 19th December 1874.
I, WILLIAM HENRY TAYLOR, of Barbican, in the City of London, do
3 hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
DRESS IMPROVERS," to be as follows:―
My Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of ladies'
dress improvers, and consists in the employment of a new combination
of materials whereby these articles are rendered more durable, and more
elastic, and are greatly improved in appearance.
According to my Invention I make these dress improvers of a com-
bination of horsehair cloth, with a glazed or other lining, and a covering
of certain kinds of leather, which latter may be dyed of any desired

page_text: color and grained, or otherwise dressed on the surface, as desired, or I
may use imitation leather or American cloth.
The dress improvers are constructed in various ways, but preferably
they consist of a foundation piece consisting of the three materials above
mentioned, attached to a waistband, upon which foundation are sewn
other pieces, also of the same materials, arranged in plates, or corrugated
to give the desired form and elasticity to the dress improver. This row.
of plates or flounces may be provided with goffered edges or trimmed in
any other desired manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Henry Taylor, in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 19th June 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HENRY TAYLOR, of Barbican, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Henry Taylor, Her special
licence that I, the said William Henry Taylor, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Henry
Taylor, 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 DRESS IMPROVERS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Henry Taylor, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one 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 Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Henry Taylor, 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, that is to say :-
My Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of ladies'
dress improvers, and consists in the employment of a new combination
of materials, whereby these articles are rendered more durable and more
elastic, and are greatly improved in appearance.
According to my Invention I make these dress improvers of a com-
bination of horsehair cloth, with a glazed or other lining, and a covering
of leather, which latter may be dyed of any color and grained or other-
wise dressed on the surface, as desired, or I may use imitation leather or
American cloth.
The dress improvers may be constructed in various ways, but preferably
they consist of a foundation piece consisting of tho three materials above
mentioned, attached to a waistband, upon which foundation are sewn
other pieces, also of the same material, arranged in plaits or corrugated
to give the desired form and clasticity to the dress improver. This row
of plaits or flounces may be provided with goffered edges or trimmed in
any other desired manner.
Having described the nature of the Invention and the manner of per-
forming the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be
protected by the hercin-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the
combination of horsehair cloth and leather (or of horsehair cloth and
imitation leather or American cloth), with or without a glazed or other
lining, for the manufacture of ladies' dress improvers, substantially as
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Henry Taylor, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of June, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
fixe
WILLIAM HENRY TAYLOR. (L.S.)