AN IMPROVEMENT IN INFANTS' HEAD DRESSES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN INFANTS' HEAD DRESSES."-A communication
from abroad by Louise Elvira Love, of the City, County, and
State of New York, United States of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville Clark
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 23rd December 1871.
I, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN INFANTS' HEAD DRESSES," to be
as follows:
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Jn making infants' caps or head dresses the first requisite is that they
should be delicate and soft so as not to chafe the tender skin of the
wearer, and at the same time light so as not to tire the weak muscles of
the neck. Infants' caps have been made of lace, but this material is
expensive and at the same time harsh, so as to be liable to hurt and
chafe the skin, especially in the neck, where it must necessarily be

page_text: gathered. Infants' caps have also been made of worsted, but caps thus
made are too warm, especially for summer wear.
This Invention has for its object to furnish as an article of manu-
facture infants' caps which shall be delicate, soft, light, and not too
warm, and which at the same time shall be neat and beautiful and not
expensive. In making these caps they are crocheted of silk, and may
be made of different styles, as the taste of the maker may dictate. The
stitch may be varied as desired.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Scal Patent
Office on the 14th February 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Alexander Melville Clark, Her special
licence that I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alexander Melville
Clark, 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
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN INFANTS' HEAD DRESSES," a communication to me from
abroad by Louise Elvira Love, of the City, County, and State of New
York, United States of America, upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 per-
formed, 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 Alexander Melville Clark, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawing, and to the figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
:-
In making infants' caps or head dresses the first requisite is that they
should be delicate and soft so as not to chafe the tender skin of the
wearer, and at the same time light so as not to tire the weak muscles of
the neck. Infants' caps have been made of lace, but this material is
expensive and at the same time harsh, so as to be liable to hurt and
chafe the skin, especially in the neck, where it must necessarily be
gathered. Infants' caps have also been made of worsted, but caps thus
made are too warm, especially for summer wear.
This Invention has for its object to furnish as an article of manu-
facture infants' caps which shall be delicate, soft, light, and not too
warm, and which shall at the same time be neat and beautiful and not
expensive. In making these caps they are crocheted of silk, and may
be made of different styles, as the taste of the maker may dictate.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawing represent two styles of
the improved infants' cap. The stitch may be varied as may be
desired.
I am aware that infants' caps have been crocheted of worsted; this I
do not claim, but what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters
Patent is, an infants' cap of crocheted silk as a new article of manu-
facture.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of February, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.
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Witness,
JAS, O. DEWEY,
53, Chancery Lane,
London.
A. M. CLARK. (L.S.)